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Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • links for 2005-11-23

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    MercuryNews.com | 11/22/2005 | Manuel Chacón, 88, was revered patriarch Excellent profile-style obit on a man who worked 20 years in SJSU’s cafeteria. (tags: obituary sjsu writing) Buy Nothing Day : Adbusters Don’t forget, the Friday after Thanksgiving is BUY NOTHING DAY. Take a stand against our consumer culture by taking the busiest shopping day…

  • Welcome to the Marketplace of Ideas

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    I’m working on a term paper for my Media Law class. The paper is all about attempts to regulate speech on the Internet, from the CDA and its little brothers COPA and CIPA, down to FEC Advisory Opinion 2005-16, with lots and lots of case law, starting with Holmes’ dissent in Abrams v. US in…

  • A visit from the Scobleizer…

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    I just got out of a meeting with some of the JMC faculty and Robert Scoble. I was glad to see most of the right people there, asking all of the right questions. Here are the important takeaways, in my opinion: Context-based advertising is a real live source of revenue. Google, and others to a…

  • Closing the digital divide – the $100 laptop

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    It’s been a busy week in Tunisia. During the lead-up to the World Summit on the Information Society, the UN and the European Union both expressed interest in making the governance of the Internet more of an international affair, especially decisions about top-level domains currently tweaked by California-based nonprofit ICANN. This call was quickly picked…

  • Bigger.

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    I do plan on switching themes and redesigning this site when I have time (think July), but for now, I’ve increased the font size. It’s bigger. [UPDATE: But if you aren’t reading this in an RSS reader, why not?]

  • Copyright Presentation

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    I’m doing a presentation tonight in my Media Law class on Copyright/Copyfight. Here’s some links to things I’ll be referencing, plus some additional stuff if you’re interested: Creative Commons Housing Maps Google Maps Mania the Public Library of Science the Pizzaright Principle A Lawrence Lessig presentation on Free Culture that I’m clearly borrowing from… Bonus…

  • So how do we teach this stuff?

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    I haven’t taken a class in any sort of computer language since my first semester of college at NYU. It was something like “Intro to Principles of Programming,” and a noble fellow tried to teach us PASCAL at about 730am. It did not go well; I learned little, but earned that one class worth of…

  • Podcasting – content or sidebar?

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    Podcasting has gone, in just over a year, from a tiny medium with a few participants to a 50-foot-tall woman that every big and small player in mass media wants to date, screw, or attack with F-14s, King Kong style. Frankly, I’m always impressed at the broad range of podcasts out there — everything from…

  • Corel Painter Essentials 3

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    Shameless plug follows… Corel Painter Essentials 3 shipped a couple weeks ago – it’s an entry-level photo painting tool on par with Photoshop Elements as far as features and price go. And that’s my Mom‘s artwork on the cover. Check out the Digital Painting Forum, too. [tags]Corel Painter, photography, painting, software[/tags]

  • Um, I think you’ve got that backwards, guys

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    Steve Rubel always gets me to click on something — maybe he links to things I think matter, or maybe he just wields his credibility wisely. Either way, I was more than happy to check out the page for some sort of RSS Summit in Boston next year. Something in the back of my head…