Author: Ryan Sholin
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CoPress launches hosted WordPress sites for student media
First, a bit of history: The first time I fiddled with a newspaper Web site, it was thespartandaily.com, after I walked into an adviser’s office at San Jose State’s School of Journalism & Mass Communications and asked something like “hey, any way to get an RSS feed off that thing?” There was, and we did,…
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Wired Journalists in 2008: Were you in it to win?
Howard “yes, he’s my boss” Owens follows up on the December 2007 post that spawned Wired Journalists with an update as the year grinds to a burly, overwhelming close. (Well, it’s been that way the last couple weeks for me, at least.) Howard asks how wired you’ve become in 2008: The post stirred a lot…
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Krunchd: Another URL Shortener… with an Interesting Twist – ReadWriteWeb
Good RWW write-up of http://krunchd.com, a URL shortener that allows you to save multiple links as a “collection” with one short URL. Very newstangly. Krunchd: Another URL Shortener… with an Interesting Twist – ReadWriteWeb
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Carnival of Journalism: Five positive predictions for new media in 2009
For this month’s Carnival of Journalism, Dave Cohn is asking for positive (if possible) predictions for the new media world of 2009. How about 5? Mobile video streaming goes mainstream: Probably tied to disaster/breaking news reporting from non-professionals, a la 9/11 blogs, the YouTube tsunami of 2004, Flickr bombings of 2005, and the livetweeted siege…
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The Vegan Dad Cookbook
$10 for the PDF on Lulu. We’ll try one more of his recipes and then probably pick this up. The Vegan Dad Cookbook
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6 Amazing Vegan Holiday Baking Projects
Yum. We have a serious gingerbread man agenda in my house at the moment. 6 Amazing Vegan Holiday Baking Projects
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Is this the democratization of media or a Media Republic?
A massive new report from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University takes on some of the most important questions about change in the world of journalism — and to be more precise, change in the world of information distribution, consumption, and participation. I talked with project leader Persephone Miel during a…
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Minor redesign of this here blog
I’ve been whittling away at this at random hours in between 642 other small projects, so feel free to click through and have a look at my handiwork. Major goals of this minor redesign included: Play with the header graphic. (Done.) Fix the FriendFeed stream and make it useful. (Done.) Clean things up, remove some…
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What your news organization can learn from the Crunchberry project
First, two items for the glossary so I can make sorted references to mixed berries in this post: Crunchberry.org = The virtual home of the Medill J-School’s Knight News Challenge grantee programmer/journalists. Newsmixer.us = The demo of the community conversation application the Crunchberry team built for the Cedar Rapids Gazette, a newspaper in Iowa which…
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The Next Future of the Internet – Pew Internet & American Life Project Commentary
Pew study (looks like a survey of influentials/”experts”) with some relevant findings: Future of Intarwebs = mobile, and will not save the world for you. The Next Future of the Internet – Pew Internet & American Life Project Commentary