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Ryan Sholin

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  • On IdeaLab: ReportingOn, rephrased in the form of a question

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    Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, where I write about the development of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project, I just posted something that starts to get into what Phase 2 of the “back channel for your beat” is going to look like. Well, not what it’s going to *look* like exactly, but how it’s…

  • Innovation is easy: Hand the camera to the stuntman

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    So the wife and I were watching Bourne Ultimatum this weekend on DVD. (Yes, yes, I know, a few of you still know me as the former film student who was inspired to make movies because I knew I could do better than Lethal Weapon 2, but I still like a good action flick, OK?)…

  • Thanks, Howard.

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    As you may or may not have heard by now, my boss at the office, Howard Owens, has moved on. I just want to take a moment to publicly say thanks to Howard here, and more than obviously, to wish him the best in whatever endeavor other people might call his “job” next. Personally, I…

  • Minor redesign of this here blog

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    I’ve been whittling away at this at random hours in between 642 other small projects, so feel free to click through and have a look at my handiwork. Major goals of this minor redesign included: Play with the header graphic. (Done.) Fix the FriendFeed stream and make it useful. (Done.) Clean things up, remove some…

  • On IdeaLab: DIY development, design, community management, and marketing isn’t for me (this year)

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    Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted an update on what’s going on with ReportingOn, which is to say, there’s not much going on with ReportingOn.  For now. My Knight News Challenge-funded project to connect journalists on the same topical beat with their peers launched on October 1.  I continued development work on it through the month…

  • Notes from Sergey Brin and Chris Anderson on building participatory systems to scale

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    Chris Anderson takes notes on the Long Tail at a Sergey Brin talk that turns to participation and scale.  It turns out, Brin through no one would show up to populate Wikipedia with articles: “But he was wrong, he says, because he–even he!–had underestimated the way scale can change the game. Sure, the experts say…

  • On IdeaLab: Stack Overflow is your premium question answer tool

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    I’m trying to get into the habit of posting a few medium-length items over at IdeaLab every week.  here’s a start: Stack Overflow Sets an Example for News Commenting Systems The premise?  Stack Overflow, a new-ish site for programmers to answer each other’s questions, has a great voting system for comments, which are really just…

  • Why I’m voting for Barack Obama

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    [Let’s get the usual disclaimer out of the way, first things first.] For those of you who haven’t noticed that I have a political point of view, forgive the intrusion, but this is my Election Day editorial, and for that matter, it’s my name on the masthead, so I pretty much get to say what…

  • You have 17 nights left to Challenge yourself.

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    I remember where I was the first time I read about the Knight News Challenge and was inspired enough to blog about it. A tire shop.  This one: (Photo yanked from Google Maps Street View.) Seriously, it was late in September 2006 and I was sitting with my huge beast of a laptop in the…

  • IdeaLab: One week of ReportingOn, international style

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    Yes, yes, I know I haven’t written much here lately, but my reading and blogging time is mostly getting happily occupied with development on ReportingOn, which has been open for a week now in a public beta. The most noticeable thing about ReportingOn so far is the strong Spanish- and Portugeuse-speaking turnout.  Seriously, North America,…