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Ryan Sholin

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  • The creative impulse

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    I’ve been talking with too many photographers lately, and as expected, they all think I should take more pictures.  Funny how that works.  All I can say is that in 1-5 weeks I will have a very good reason for taking many pictures for a long time.  I’ll try to give the cameras a better…

  • Five doing something right

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    After my little dust-up this morning and a busy day at work, I’m in no mood for negativity, or even handwringing, so without further mealymouthedness, here are five doing something right: Lawrence Journal-World redesigns: From the heartland of Django and grid design comes something clean and bright, as it should be. All Things D: From…

  • Inspiration overload

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    It’s great that everyone in the online journalism/multimedia/interactivity/data layered network of posses (myself included) shares all the cool stuff they find

  • Mad props where mad props are due

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    Sorry, I don’t hand out ‘kudos’ or ‘credit’ or ‘congrats’ or ‘Pulitzer Prizes,’ I hand out Mad Props, a turn of the phrase which at once reveals the extent of my whiteness and revels in it. Mad Props to: Roanoke.com for multimedia coverage of the school shootings in their backyard today. The first time I…

  • After New York, every other American city is just an empty shell

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    I’m going to do something karmically dangerous here.  This will surely ruin the rest of my day, get me stuck on the BART, make me step in dog crap, who knows what, but I just can’t hold back any longer. Every time I walk around in San Francisco — mind you, I’m usually either in…

  • Keep your code of conduct out of my communication medium, thank you kindly

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    Let’s be clear, here: There are trolls everywhere. On the letters to the editor pages of our newspapers, on every daytime television talk show, not to mention most hours of cable news, at the table next to us at the coffee shop, the halls of Congress, and yes, in the blogosphere.

  • Pleasure reading, fiction and otherwise

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    In an effort to take a break from instructional books of all species for at least a portion of the day, I’ve picked up a couple lighter reads this week. First, there’s Pete Dexter’s Paper Trails. This just barely counts as ‘not work’ since he’s a newspaper columnist and I heard about the book at…

  • Irresistable breakfast links

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    Because I couldn’t stop myself from clicking: Next generation iMacs to get a facelift, 17-inch model on the way out. Should we snag a cheap 17er now or wait for a snazzier 20-inch model? “The most authoritative newsletter covering the newspaper industry issued a gloomy prognosis for the business today and then, tellingly, went out…

  • An informal poll on what I should learn next

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    Here’s what I don’t know, no matter what it says on my resume: How to work in SQL and PHP from scratch, javascript, Django, Ruby, Flash, Illustrator, how to use maps APIs to code my own mashups, how to present databases online.

  • Don’t get wrapped up in the ‘so-called pajama media’

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    In this wide-ranging interview with Bryan Murley of Innovation in College Media, Gatehouse Media’s Howard Owens points out what I battle through in conversations with both journalism school faculty and students over and over again: ICM: Which leads a little bit into my next question … The online media universe has been changing dramatically over…