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Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • links for 2006-01-10

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    The Digital Media Jobs Blog: PaidContent.org Subscribed. (tags: jobs online+journalism media) Om Malik on Broadband : » Paris Mayor: Free Internet For All We’ll always have Paris. And free internet access. (tags: access muniwifi) Joe Grimm’s News Jobs Café: Ask the recruiter: Getting off the night shift? Note to self: working afternoons/nights is okay while…

  • We’re not living through information

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    “We’re not living through information” was my Dad’s response this morning to the usual barrage of difficult questions from a doctor evaluating how soon he might be ready to move to a unit that involves three hours a day of physical therapy. Dad at the ranch What’s your full name, what year is it, and…

  • Deliver 2.0

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    I’ve learned far too much about hospitals, nursing, and insurance companies in the last few weeks, but Deliver 2.0 is still one of the strangest things I’ve come across during this experience. Okay, there’s nothing weird about it really, it’s just a standard vanilla milkshake sort of vitamin drink that the nurses have been piping…

  • Your passion, their potential to censor you

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    Anyone remember that term paper I wrote last month on how American tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco) were helping the Chinese government filter the Internet? No? That’s okay, I remember it well enough to see these moves on MSN Spaces (via Rebecca MacKinnon) as something new, but not surprising. The obligatory Scoble posts on…

  • What is your dangerous idea?

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    The Edge World Question for 2006 asks a truckload of current thinkers to share a dangerous idea: What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true? As for me, I’ll throw the…

  • In Venezuela

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    New Year’s Eve in Caracas … finally. Feliz Ano Nuevo everyone, and best wishes for a happy, healthy, prosperous 2006. The view of Caracas today: by Ryan Sholin More photos here.

  • Change in plans

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    I’m not where I expected to be for the holidays, so don’t expect any Flickr stream of images of Venezuela and the like. Friends can feel free to write for more info, but the wife and I are in Los Angeles tending to family. Thanks, Ryan.

  • links for 2005-12-17

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    Daily Telegraph appoints first podcast editor – Digital Bulletin – Digital news by Email – Brand Republic Yep. Podcast editor. Sounds like my kind of job. (tags: newspapers journalism new+media podcasting)

  • That said, Wikipedia is the way to find information online

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    That said, Steve Rubel is right when he says “Wikipedia is the next Google.” When I want to know where to find a place to get my oil changed in San Jose, I use Google. If I want to know more about the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (who doesn’t?), I go straight to Wikipedia. Wikipedia…

  • A word on Wikipedia

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    Ladies and gentlemen, Wikipedia is great… …but not for everything. Here’s what I use Wikipedia for: background research. For example, I used it this semester to find the context and narrative of law cases I was briefing, then I went back to the cases having some idea of which elements were important. DO NOT use…