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Ryan Sholin

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  • Laptop Riot

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    CNN reports: Panic Ensues In Rush For Cheap Laptops. from CNN.com (AP/Richmond Times-Dispatch) Okay folks, this is pretty good proof that people want technology to be more affordable. The next time a school system sells its used laptops off ($50/iBook), PLEASE CONTACT ME so I can research what the people DO with the darn things.…

  • More Journalistic Heresy: Jay Rosen’s List of Things He Doesn’t Teach Anymore

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    Jay Rosen of PressThink has posted his list of “Things I Used To Teach That I No Longer Believe”. Jay writes: “I used to teach that the ethics of journalism, American-style, could be found in the codes, practices and rule-governed behavior that our press lived by. Now I think you have to start further back,…

  • Necessary Navel-Gazing In The Venezuelan Press

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    In the current Columbia Journalism Review, John Dinges runs down the recent history of a derailed free press in Venezuela, but offers some signs of hope that a healthy dose of self-analysis is curing the problems of bias and inaccuracy when it comes to reporting on the government. Dinges writes: Many journalists in Venezuela, where…

  • Bored By The Bayosphere

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    I signed up for Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere real quick (apparently I’m user #99), even though I was a little put off by the idea of a “Bay”-osphere and not a “Whole Damn World”-osphere. I thought it was pretty lame to confine the boundaries of the thing to the Bay Area, but I watched and waited.…

  • Panorama Trail Masthead

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    The new masthead photo is from the Panorama Trail in Yosemite last week. The Masthead Story is always on the sidebar.

  • Free Like Freedom

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    Today finds me too vacation-dazed to really want to make sense of anything but SJSU bureaucracy (don’t ask), but after paring down the list of feeds in my aggregator to a workable 206, here’s an attempt to connect the dots: Jimbo Wales, the Wikipedia guy, Lessig’s guest-blogger at the moment, is running down a list…

  • What I Did On My Summer Vacation

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    Vernal Falls, Yosemite I started writing a post about our vacation that read like your Uncle Maurice’s slideshow about the recent RV tour he and Aunt Mable took of America’s National Parks. I have abandoned the slideshow post, and offer in its stead the following clear and concise unordered list of questions and answers: Is…

  • All We Ever Wanted

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    Vacation starts tomorrow. We’ll be gone for the week in Yosemite and points East, South, and West. For a vague idea of what we’re seeing, check out the Flickr tag for Yosemite. We’ll be bringing back photos (digital and film) and possibly some video. Check back here in a week for that. Have fun, and…

  • That’s My Name, Don’t Wear It Out

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    I know I’m not the only Sholin around, but there aren’t many of us. Discounting for the moment the various English spellings of Shaolin, as far as I know, there’s two brands of Sholin in the U.S. – one from the old Baltic parts of the Soviet Union, and one from Sweden. (Think “Sjölin”). Until…

  • Pay No Attention To The Genocide Behind The Curtain

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    Salma Ghanem, chair of the University of Texas-Pan American communications department, writes in the Dallas Morning News: “Let’s hope journalism students aren’t learning from example.” She asks students in her introductory journalism class to define “newsworthy” and then delineates several “news values,” wondering aloud which values, if any, some of today’s most sensationalized stories are…