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Flickr: The Knight News Challenge Pool

May 22, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

If you squint, there’s a photo of me standing on stage behind Tim Berners-Lee. Flickr: The Knight News Challenge Pool

The Carnival of Journalism is coming to this here town

May 22, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

In some alternate universe back in January, I thought this would be a cool weekend to host the Carnival of Journalism. That’s just crazy talk, but nevertheless, I hope to serve you well as ringmaster this Memorial Day weekend. The party gets started Saturday and Sunday. Check out last month’s carnival, hosted by Yoni Greenbaum,…

5 important things that happened in the last 10 days

May 21, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Technology

In no particular order, with little commentary, and limited accuracy on that whole “10 days” concept: Google Friend Connect: Just the tip of the iceberg. YouTube Citizen News: Aggregate, aggregate, aggregate. Disqus + Seesmic Video Comments: Say it, don’t spray it? MySpace and Facebook data availability: Bring your profile to the party. 3G iPhone coming…

Caught on tape by Digidave

May 20, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

David Cohn, fellow Knight News Challenge winner for his crowdfunding project, Spot.Us, turned his point & shoot on me last week in the hallway in Vegas. Here’s the results: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPRStOGRds[/youtube]

The World’s Largest Lolcat, An Invisible Bike Mural – Laughing Squid

May 19, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Internet meme invades concrete world… How long before “Invisible bike cat can haz a posse?” stencils start showing up in SF? The World’s Largest Lolcat, An Invisible Bike Mural – Laughing Squid

Printcasting.com

May 16, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

A Ning network for Dan Pacheco’s Knight News Challenge project to push RSS to PDF for print and e-mail distribution. Printcasting.com

2000 strong at Wired Journalists

May 15, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

So many milestones this week… Here’s another one: Wired Journalists now has more than 2000 members. The Ning-powered social network that Howard Owens, Zac Echola, and I created back in January has exceeded our expectations, in terms of numbers, interaction, community, and the learning/teaching that’s going on there. Plus, it’s really bringing some people out…

journalisted.com

May 14, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Interesting Media Standards Trust project collecting data on journalists, topics, publications. Related to Tim Berners-Lee’s News Challenge project. journalisted.com

The Challenge

May 14, 2008

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

I’m proud to announce that ReportingOn won a Knight News Challenge grant. I’m in Las Vegas at the E&P Interactive Media Conference for the announcement of all the winners. Yesterday, Brein McNamara, another News Challenge winner, said more or less that we’re all in over our heads to some extent. That’s the right idea. We’re…