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Ryan Sholin

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  • I spent last week in the midsection of the country

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    (Flickr photo originally uploaded by David!!!!!!) Here are the highlights, in no particular order, from my trip to Missouri and Kansas: Talking shop with Will Sullivan and Kurt Greenbaum from STLToday.com. Getting much better at making my presentation on the mysterious world of Web-first publishing. Watching reporters get excited about pothole maps and point &…

  • Migration and alternate reads

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    I’ve been a little busy for the last week or so moving across the country, although going weeks between posts isn’t really anything new here, eh? As always, I’m posting to Twitter far more often than I could hope to blog here. While I’m slammed with life and work busy-ness, please check out the following…

  • Help a reporter out

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    Peter Shankman launched something really, really interesting to me today at HelpAReporter.com. The premise: He works in PR and has a list of reliable and credible sources a mile long; his reporter friends are constantly asking him who they should call about [your story topic here]. Check it out, sign up, and maybe you can…

  • Alltop is Popurls for everything

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    Guy Kawasaki and his friends at Alltop have been building a series of cute little aggregators a la popurls that are full of headlines from a set of hand-picked blogs submitted by people who pay attention to Guy and friends in places like Twitter. Myself included. And so, you’ll find Invisible Inkling listed now at…

  • Next Newspaper

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    Funny thing about the newspaper business. If you’re interested in innovation, you find yourself constantly trying to demonstrate the present to people with their feet (and desks, workflow, and hierarchy) planted firmly in the past. And while The Future of Newspapers mostly gets ink for being bleak, the future of news does not blink, or…

  • The good stuff is over there –>

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    If you prefer my tweets and shared reader bits and delicious links to the infrequent and sometimes long-winded content here at what passes for a blog, click on through from that reader of yours and take a look at the right side of your screen. (Actually, let me check that in a few browsers first……

  • Scobleization plus three years

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    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…

  • ReportingOn prototype mockup

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    Just a glance of the mockup I built tonight.* Click to enlarge… This might give you an idea of how I’ve been imagining (and diagramming in mindmaps/on napkins) the structure of the site. *(…in Coda, not Photoshop. HTML and CSS that I can build into a Drupal theme.)

  • Six questions about ReportingOn

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    Journalism.co.uk asked six questions about ReportingOn. I answered them. “4) Why are you doing this? I saw a need to connect reporters to each other. So much local news lacks context, lacks a clear idea of where a local event fits into a larger trend, whether we’re talking about drunken driving or school funding or…

  • Introducing WiredJournalists.com

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    At the end of 2007, Howard Owens* published a blog post outlining a year-long program he called 2008 objectives for today’s non-wired journalist. A few of the objectives: Howard soon started fielding e-mails and requests for guidance from reporters looking to take him up on his offer of a $100 Amazon gift certificate for the…