Ryan Sholin

Category: Education

  • October is internship season

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    Yes, I know, it seems a bit early to be applying for next summer’s internships, but a lot of the applications are due on November 1st, and you really don’t want to start digging through old binders for that one great clip on Halloween while you’re trying to put your zombie makeup on. Or maybe…

  • Reinventing, rebranded and reloaded

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    Bryan Murley of College Media Advisers and the Reinventing College Media crew have, um, re-invented themselves as the Center for Innovation in College Media. From the send-off post at the old site: “This new Center will serve as a resource to college journalists and their advisers by sharing information freely online and by providing practical…

  • SJSU Skype meeting tonight, in person and, um, on Skype

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    [2nd UPDATE: Skype lives at SJSU for now. Details at Skype Journal.] [UPDATE: Yeah, I totally didn’t tune in due to a scheduling conflict, but the word on the street is that SJSU will allow Skype usage. I’m wondering if we’re now a beta tester for Skype for Enterprise…] There’s an open forum on the…

  • The questions I want answered about the proposed Skype ban at SJSU

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    San Jose State University is throwing around the idea of banning Skype from its network, due to concerns over Skype’s grid computing model. In Internet layman’s terms, that means Skype uses everybody’s bandwidth to ship packets around instead of some big central server of epic proportions. The folks behind Skype are the same people who…

  • I just checked in to see what condition my condition was in

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    My thesis proposal was conditionally approved yesterday, which means I can go ahead and start navigating the murky waters of the human subjects paperwork required by IRB. Once that’s in motion, I’ll make the expected changes that the committee wants, and submit the updates to my primary advisor. Meanwhile, the Sloan/McCune New Media class and…

  • More on student media server options

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    Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media provides a roadmap of server/hosting options for student papers, including those looking to stray from the College Publisher herd. There are pros and cons to each choice, and Bryan does a great job of laying out what you’ll need to know, who you’ll need to trust, and what you’ll…

  • The Spartan Daily is blogging

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    Meanwhile, back at the Spartan Daily, SJSU’s student newspaper, Daniel Sato and Neal Waters (I’m guessing they both had a hand in this) appear to have taken a few days off from their redesign of the online edition of the Daily to set up a WordPress blog for the paper. Sports Editor Andrew Torrez live-blogged…

  • The missing link for student newspapers: Software to support a continuous news desk

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    When the Spartan Daily made the transition to College Publisher in January, I was struck by just how driven by a daily print cycle an online publishing CMS could be. Why should it be that way? Why make online production dependent on your print stories being ready for publication? Why wait until after the print…

  • Vanderbilt student media site opens up to the community

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    In Nashville, Vanderbilt University‘s student newspaper has completely retooled and reimagined what a college media Web site should look like and what its purpose should be in the university community. InsideVandy.com is the result. Straight news and blogs written by the staff mingle with reader photos, stories, and blogs. The site is run with Drupal,…

  • Deadline Day, v1.0

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    Today I turn in 12, count ’em, 12 copies of my 33-page thesis proposal. (The first draft was longer, believe it or not.) I finished it up last night shortly before 1am, but it’s safe to assume I’ll get it back in September with conditional approval (I hope) and notes on mechanical changes, plus a…