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Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • Launching ReportingOn 1.0

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    This is an experiment. I launched what I’ll call ReportingOn 1.0 this afternoon, as an unfinished application to help journalists of all stripes make connections based on their beat. It’s the word “unfinished” that’s the most experimental part of this right now. I guess it’s my translation of “iterative.” The premise is this:  Launch what…

  • Innovation is easy.

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    Here’s a PDF of the short presentation I made at SND in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago. It’s remarkably simple.  I think I waved my arms a lot to fill up my five minutes. This presentation goes well with the list of mostly free online news tools I posted a couple weeks ago, as…

  • My obstacles to innovation question, abandoned and rediscovered

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    From my living room at the crack of dawn on Sunday, getting ready to catch my flight to SNDVegas, it seemed like a good idea to give myself a reporting assignment. I said that I would ask lots of people a question, on video, and post their replies. Well, fail.  Epic fail.  Why?  Because, frankly,…

  • Things to do…

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    Now that I’m back from vacation, here’s what’s on my to-do list for, uh, the foreseeable future: Finish developing the pre-alpha version of ReportingOn and launch it.  Like, really, really soon. Go to SND/APME next week, speak on Sunday, go to some awesome sessions and pimp ReportingOn to every editor I meet. Write the first…

  • Summer vacation

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    I’m headed down to Venezuela for a break, leaving the laptop behind with plans to build some sandcastles with my girls. Stay out of trouble, people.  On second thought, start some. Last time I was in Caracas:

  • Chicago today

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    Sitting in a Starbuck’s after a good walk around the neighborhood, plotting to blog from my phone today if this fancy new WordPress app is up to the task. I’ll be in the Knight Foundation sessions all day — lunchtime seems like a good time to meet up with anyone at UNITY but not in…

  • Chicago tomorrow

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    Later tonight, I’ll be on my way to Chicago for a Knight Foundation meeting ahead of the UNITY 2008 conference. I’m psyched to see the News Challenge posse, but of course if you’re in town for UNITY and want to cross paths on Tuesday, drop me a line or better yet, DM me on Twitter.…

  • ReportingOn FAQ

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    Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about ReportingOn. Like this: Q: So what am I supposed to say about the story I’m working on? A: As much or little as you want. Maybe you just want to mention something general about your story and tag your…

  • Generation gap

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    So I’ve been reading this book my Dad sent me a few weeks ago. It’s not that impressive so far (about 100 pages in).  The mentions in the title of MySpace and YouTube seem to have been tacked on in order to sell books, fittingly enough, and the authors make their political alignments clear from…

  • Stay sane

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    Well, for a laid-back holiday weekend, that sure was a lot of hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing over the future of newspapers, eh? Now that it’s Monday and we’re all back to, y’know, working to save newspapers (or just put them out every day), here’s how I’ve been staying sane lately: Indexed: Most weekdays, a comical graph/chart…