Author: Ryan Sholin
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Expand your media blogosphere today
Like many readers of blogs about the news business, I started big. As in, with the big guys, the heavy hitters, the bloggers who showed up in Romenesko and were hard to ignore. The Jays and Jeffs and Dans of the media blog world. I’ve dramatically expanded my reading list since then, but meeting journalists…
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I spent last week in the midsection of the country
(Flickr photo originally uploaded by David!!!!!!) Here are the highlights, in no particular order, from my trip to Missouri and Kansas: Talking shop with Will Sullivan and Kurt Greenbaum from STLToday.com. Getting much better at making my presentation on the mysterious world of Web-first publishing. Watching reporters get excited about pothole maps and point &…
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Server shuffle
I’ve moved this here blog and most everything else at ryansholin.com, reportingon.com, and a domain to be named later off to WebFaction ‘s servers. So far, so good. WebFaction support is already impressive, hitting me up with detailed instructions on how to easily import my WordPress database using ssh. (Yes, I used the command line. …
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David Weinberger on Fame – Rocketboom: Thursday, May 1, 2008
“Blogging is all about taking off the makeup…” David Weinberger on Fame – Rocketboom: Thursday, May 1, 2008
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Building a local news site from scratch
[If you’re reading this in late April 2008, I’ve managed to post something on time for this month’s Carnival of Journalism, hosted by Yoni Greenbaum this time around.] Lately, when failing revenues and/or an ill-fated JOA results in a newspaper closing up shop, there’s talk of “what if” they continued publishing online, but I have…
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Looking from the outside in – Melissa Worden
Melissa’s notes on how she consumes news now that she doesn’t work at a paper. Looking from the outside in – Melissa Worden
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Painless Drupal revision control with CVS and Subversion on a shared host. – Nick Sergeant
Nick’s bits on Subversion are the crucial part of this for me. Gotta get started with that as soon as I switch web hosts. Painless Drupal revision control with CVS and Subversion on a shared host. – Nick Sergeant
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Manu Chao – Politik Kills
Appropriately chaotic site for a Manu Chao remix EP. It’s WordPress. Manu Chao – Politik Kills
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Small Newspapers Can Lead the Way – Readership Institute
A good rundown of how “small” newspapers are innovating online, with more than the usual suspects. Every newspaper I deal with is smaller than these. Small Newspapers Can Lead the Way – Readership Institute