Author: Ryan Sholin
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Keep the frontier wild
This month’s Carnival of Journalism question, posed by Doug Fisher, asks — more or less — what the law can do for journalism. My answer? As little as possible. Keep the frontier wild. Photo by Ushlambad on Flickr. One of the more striking parts of the Media Law class I took a surprisingly long time…
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Vegan Recipes :: Soup is On!
Post Punk Kitchen recipes, from the authors of Veganomicon. Vegan Recipes :: Soup is On!
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Generation gap
So I’ve been reading this book my Dad sent me a few weeks ago. It’s not that impressive so far (about 100 pages in). The mentions in the title of MySpace and YouTube seem to have been tacked on in order to sell books, fittingly enough, and the authors make their political alignments clear from…
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Standalones
Steve Yelvington, on the consequences of removing copy editors from the newspaper equation: “The dirty little secret of newspaper journalists is that a lot of them can’t write very well. That’s by no means universally true, but it’s true enough.” … Zac Echola, on his vision of a distributed and loosely joined newsroom: “The Internet…
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Red Elephants » MySQL-Python and Apple OSX 10.5 (Leopard)
via @nicksergeant Red Elephants » MySQL-Python and Apple OSX 10.5 (Leopard)
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Transatlantic passenger ships
Mindy McAdams offers 10 simple facts about the survival of journalism. Number 5: “Newspapers were a nice business. Publishers could make the product insanely cheap (remember the penny press), and the advertising would cover the expenses, plus generate fantastic profits. However, this is clearly over. It’s done. It worked for a long time, but now,…