Author: Ryan Sholin
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Links that redefine news
Wednesday night, I’ll be speaking with Steve Sloan’s New Media class at San Jose State University. I’m planning to show off some of the best of your work. Yes, you. I’m looking for online news sites and projects that stray from the traditional definition of news. I’m assuming these journalism students get enough Gloom &…
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6 tips for comments on stories and j-blogs – Teaching Online Journalism
These are great basic guidelines for comments on news sites: registration + e-mail confirmation on first comment + pool rules. 6 tips for comments on stories and j-blogs – Teaching Online Journalism
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Inventing journalism
I’ve been reading Guns, Germs & Steel for months now. (I take these bound paper items you people call ‘books’ slowly sometimes.) There’s a number of striking stories about technology, innovation, and invention in the chapter I’m in the middle of right now. One of those stories is about the QWERTY keyboard layout, which was…
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How to Build a Twitter Agent – Dominiek.com
Useful geeky explanation of how to build a little platform on top of Jabber and Twitter. How to Build a Twitter Agent – Dominiek.com
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BIL Conference – Minds Set Free.
A free companion/alternative to TED, as BarCamp is to Foo. Monterey March 1-2. BIL Conference – Minds Set Free.
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5min – Life Videopedia
Many How To videos, under five minutes. Why not create evergreen newspaper video like this? Imagine the Mercury News FAQ about Silicon Valley in unlimited 1-minute video chunks. 5min – Life Videopedia
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Community Audio Recording Project; Bringing Northampton To Life Online – Northamptonist
Call the phone number, say where you are, leave a message and it gets mapped here. Love this as a relatively easy way to get community audio online – an audio guestbook, really. Community Audio Recording Project; Bringing Northampton To Life Online – Northamptonist
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Scobleization plus three years
Three years and two days ago, I got Scobleized. The highlight of Robert’s informal talk was when he plugged his tablet into the projector in a packed room at the SJSU/MLK library and showed us his aggregator. It was Bloglines at the time, not that it mattered. I was blown away by the amount of…
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From HTML mockup to a full Drupal site: a tutorial – Part II: Site Setup, Content and Modules. – Nick Sergeant
Nick’s Drupal tutorial is really useful – especially the bits about prettying up the permalinks and using the Views module. From HTML mockup to a full Drupal site: a tutorial – Part II: Site Setup, Content and Modules. – Nick Sergeant