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BarCamp NewsInnovation – Philadelphia

Dec 14, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

Will you be there?

On IdeaLab: DIY development, design, community management, and marketing isn’t for me (this year)

Dec 12, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted an update on what’s going on with ReportingOn, which is to say, there’s not much going on with ReportingOn. For now. My Knight News Challenge-funded project to connect journalists on the same topical beat with their peers launched on October 1. I continued development work on it through the month…

TABLEIZER! — Spreadsheets to HTML Tables Tool

Dec 10, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Danny Sanchez built this handsome little tool for those of us that occassionally need to turn spreadsheet data into HTML tables. (Because tabular data still requires tables, folks.) TABLEIZER! — Spreadsheets to HTML Tables Tool

Thoughts on the Tribune bankruptcy

Dec 9, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

I came back to an office in the suburbs of Chicago yesterday from a lunch with colleagues to the news that The Tribune Company had filed for bankruptcy. (A journalist told me. Pretty sure it was the NYTimes Dealbook blog I spotted on her screen.) Thoughts: This has little to do with Sam Zell’s abrasive…

I forget useful code, but Snipt remembers.

Dec 8, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Technology

If you’re anything like me, you’re not really a Web developer by trade, but you push around a little bit of code on an extremely regular basis. And often, it’s the same little bits of code over and over again. And every time you need to use it, you go flipping through text files, Google…

Vegetarians in Paradise/Vegan Hannukkah/Vegetarian Hannukah Dinner/Hanukkah Vegan Recipes

Dec 7, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

A couple good things here, notably a decent looking mock chopped liver and solid borscht instructions. Vegetarians in Paradise/Vegan Hannukkah/Vegetarian Hannukah Dinner/Hanukkah Vegan Recipes

New at Wired Journalists: WJ Tutorials

Dec 5, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

One of the original visions for Wired Journalists was that the “already-wired” would write tutorials about new media, new tools, and getting around the busier corners of the Web, for the benefit of the “non-wired” and everyone in the community. It’s happened in fits and starts, but Pat Thornton of BeatBlogging.org is taking on a…

Best of CSS Design 2008

Dec 5, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Best of CSS Design 2008

Howard Weaver’s exit interview

Dec 4, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

I was struck by a few things in Howard Weaver’s post announcing that he’s leaving McClatchy — and journalism — at the end of the year. For one thing, Howard’s a damn fine writer. I haven’t agreed with everything he’s said or done as I’ve followed his blog for the last couple years, but I…