Author: Ryan Sholin
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New at IdeaLab: An interview with Baghdad Brian
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve interviewed Baghdad Brian, who I met in October 2007 at the first Networked Journalism summit Jeff Jarvis threw at CUNY. At the time, Brian was raising money to keep Alive in Baghdad going, and we did everything but pass a hat around the room to try to back him up. The…
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Highlights from four days with my head in a blender full of wildly intelligent people
What follows is intended as a brief personal braindump from the four days I spent in Cambridge, Ma. last week, most of it deeply entrenched in the guts of #KNCMIT, a conference hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media featuring Knight News Challenge winners from 2007-2009, and the announcement of this year’s winners.…
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MoFuse – Create a Mobile Website, Mobile Site Builder, Make Your Existing Site Mobile Friendly
MoFuse – Create a Mobile Website, Mobile Site Builder, Make Your Existing Site Mobile Friendly
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Why We Link: Your answers to why news organizations should tie the Web together
Last week, I asked for some on tips on why news organizations should link to external sources. I wanted your best reasons, and you happily provided them. Six of you answered via the Publish Tip Form I embedded in that blog post, and seven of you replied on Twitter. You can find my favorite answers…
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Upcoming proof of my physical existence: Boston and Pittsburgh
I’ll be showing up in person in at least two different places outside the lush springtime confines of Western New York over the next few weeks, believe it or not. The rough details Next week, I’ll be in Cambridge, Ma. at MIT for the Future of News and Civic Media Conference, including the announcements of…
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The A Word: Information and Activism – MediaShift Idea Lab
Christopher Csikszentmihályi from MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media talks about co-teaching a class on building mobile tools for social change. (The applications mentioned in this post are probably the most innovative work going on in the field today. If want to get a good solid idea of what the future of journalism and activism…
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BackType Connect Plugin for WordPress — BackType
Want to import Tweets, FriendFeed posts, Diggs, etc. that link to your post as comments in WordPress? Done. BackType Connect Plugin for WordPress — BackType
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21 Stylish CSS/jQuery Solutions To Beautify Your Web Designs @ SmashingApps
Can you believe we used to use Flash for this? 21 Stylish CSS/jQuery Solutions To Beautify Your Web Designs @ SmashingApps
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At IdeaLab: Paul Bradshaw on crowdsourcing investigative journalism
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve been way past deadline for a post, after (again) making all sorts of promises about helping out more over there. Until now. After playing the modern equivalent of phone tag (Twitter DMs and e-mail across two operating systems and one ocean) for a week or so, Paul Bradshaw and I landed…