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Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • I happen to know some people with ideas.

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    If you’re not already subscribed to the PBS IdeaLab blog, the forum for Knight News Challenge winners to talk about their projects, spout off on related topics, and generally try to change the world, now would be a good time. Here’s a few recent posts over there that I’m still thinking about: Amy Gahran on…

  • Muxtape as a model for an anti-recommendation engine

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    Muxtape has my attention. It’s not terribly social. It’s not much of a network. In fact, it’s so devoid of features, there’s little to distract you from listening to music, which is what you showed up to do. The front page of the site is dead simple: A colorful list of mixtapes to listen to,…

  • Working with developers and designers

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    I wrote a post for IdeaLab earlier today.  It’s a short update on ReportingOn development, framed as a weighing of the pros and cons of a few different development platforms. It occurred to me near the end of it that I should treat this project as if the developer was someone other than myself.  (Yes,…

  • WiredJournalists.com welcomes BeatBlogging.org

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    After a round-robin series of conversations between Jay Rosen, David Cohn, Pat Thornton, and myself along with Howard Owens and Zac Echola, I’m happy to announce that WiredJournalists.com and BeatBlogging.org are joining forces to bring attention to the unsung beat reporters gathering their sources around the bonfire of a blog to better fulfill the mission…

  • Cambridge, MA is full of really, really smart people, yes?

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    The Stata Center at MIT. Highlights so far from the first evening and night at the Center for Future Civic Media: As usual when I show up for these things, putting dozens of online “friends” into the friend-met category.  People like Amy Gahran, JD Lasica, Ethan Zuckerman, Brian and Ryan from Rich Gordon’s teach-programmers-journalism project…

  • Hello, Boston!

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    I’m at the MIT Center of Future Civic Media today and tomorrow meeting with fellow Knight News Challenge winners, Knight Foundation staff, and rock stars from the MIT media lab who are building all kinds of crazy stuff. Seriously, there are lots of cool kids here, few of whom I’ve met in person before. Say…

  • ReportingOn 0.3

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    There’s a new site up at ReportingOn.com, where you’ll find a blog, a bit more detailed information on the About page, links to ReportingOn on Facebook and Twitter, and the @reportingon Twitter stream, always in flux. Check it out…

  • Caught on tape by Digidave

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    David Cohn, fellow Knight News Challenge winner for his crowdfunding project, Spot.Us, turned his point & shoot on me last week in the hallway in Vegas. Here’s the results: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPRStOGRds[/youtube]

  • 2000 strong at Wired Journalists

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    So many milestones this week… Here’s another one:  Wired Journalists now has more than 2000 members. The Ning-powered social network that Howard Owens, Zac Echola, and I created back in January has exceeded our expectations, in terms of numbers, interaction, community, and the learning/teaching that’s going on there. Plus, it’s really bringing some people out…

  • The Challenge

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    I’m proud to announce that ReportingOn won a Knight News Challenge grant. I’m in Las Vegas at the E&P Interactive Media Conference for the announcement of all the winners. Yesterday, Brein McNamara, another News Challenge winner, said more or less that we’re all in over our heads to some extent. That’s the right idea. We’re…