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Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • Hurricane Katrina People Finder – Volunteers Needed

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    Already gave your money? Give some time by turning bunches of bulletin board posts spread all over the Internet into a searchable database to help people find their friends and family. Start here. Sit on your couch, relax, and help people with a little data entry. [tags]Katrina, help, peoplefinder[/tags]

  • SJSU takes in students displaced by Hurricane Katrina

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    On Friday, the San Jose Business Journal reported that the CSU system is throwing open the doors to any students from Gulf Coast states displaced by Hurricane Katrina, and to California students who had planned on attending schools in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama. SJSU President Don Kassing sent out this message late Friday. [tags]SJSU[/tags]

  • SJSU 35 – Eastern Washington 24

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    I am now officially enrolled at a university with a winning college football team. I can’t wait to go to a game. Check out Journalism dept. undergrad Jason Fithian’s photos and commentary from Saturday’s 35-24 win over Eastern Washington. [tags]SJSU[/tags]

  • Give It Away, Part 2

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    We went ahead and made a donation to the Red Cross, but we also gave to Best Friends Animal Society. Best Friends runs a huge animal sanctuary in Utah and works hard to educate people about spaying and neutering their pets. Now they’re on the ground in New Orleans, helping to rescue animals off the…

  • Give it away

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    Given what I’ve written today about the media’s framing of different disasters and the importance of keeping events in perspective as they relate to each other, I want to go ahead and say that I’m closely following the real and ongoing human disaster in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast. If this…

  • I Heart The BBC & A POV Roundup

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    KQED radio (88.5 FM) out of San Francisco is my public radio station on the San Jose side of “the hill.” Two nights a week now, I drive home to Santa Cruz late enough to catch the BBC World Service report – it’s all international news, all the time. I love it. Not only because…

  • Trickle-Down Technology

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    In discussions about international communication, I often hear the argument that neither this “blogging” thing in specific nor the internet in general are not on the radar in places like Africa, where they “don’t even have phones, much less internet access” (or so goes the myth). The people who expound on this sort of angle…

  • Semiotics 101

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    Does it matter what we call things? Does it matter what words mean? Does it matter if it’s a “War” or a “Conflict” or a “Conflagration” or a “Military Event”? Does it matter if it’s a “newspaper” or a “magazine,” a “blog” or a “message board?” From my grandmother’s point of view, my blog is…

  • No time to busy, too talk.

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    First day of classes and I’ve got lots to do. Check out the newly redesigned Spartan Daily website to see what I’ve been up to these days.

  • Another J-School Prof Wondering What To Teach Us

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    Denny Wilkins writes at Editor & Publisher: “I teach journalism for a living to college students now. So I think a great deal about the newsrooms and the journalistic life my students will eventually enter. Should I teach them how disheartening it became for me at the end? Or should I teach them about, as…