Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • IMHOPML

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    Dave Winer has released his OPML thingie. It outlines, it blogs, it slices cucumbers, it dices chocolate, and it’s pleasant. I’m playing with it here. It’s cool so far, and an awfully fast way to blog. Low on bandwidth-sucking bells and whistles, high on content. No FTP necessary. Little assembly required. Side effects may include…

  • Spike Lee Podcast

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    Back in film school, we all heard Spike Lee speak at least once or twice. I believe he was on his way to a Yankees or Knicks game most of the time, but Spike still managed to pass along plenty of good advice. Check out the first of four podcasts shadowing/interviewing Spike while he works…

  • The Washington Post Doesn’t Know A Blog From A Message Board

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    [UPDATE: I’ve been corresponding via email with Robert MacMillan, the writer of the Washington Post story I mention here. As soon as I have his permission, I’ll post his response. OK – the email exchange is here.] SO – A journalist teaching a class at Boston University does something stupid, it bounces around a corner…

  • Lester Rodney and Disruptive Journalism

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    Lester Rodney, at the time a sports writer for the Daily Worker, a Communist newspaper published in New York, was pushing for the desegregation of baseball long before Jackie Robinson pulled on a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story on Sunday about the now-retired Rodney, and their Back Story Podcast has…

  • Cass “The Daily Me” Sunstein Standing In For Lessig This Week

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    Sunstein is sitting in at Larry Lessig&#39s blog this week, and the conversation has begun. I&#39m excited to see someone so entrenched as a counterpoint in recent New Media theory taste-testing the Aggregation-flavored Kool-Aid. Follow the thread, see where it goes.

  • How To Succeed In Blogness Without Really Trying

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    Darren Rowse made between $10,000 and $20,000 via Google Adsense advertising on his blogs in the month of May. So, yeah, some people make money directly from advertising on their blogs. How droll. Dave Winer boils down the alternative point of view: “The opportunities to make money from podcasting are misunderstood, much in the way…

  • New Frontier Thesis

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    In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner presented a paper called “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” at a meeting of the American Historical Association coinciding with the World’s Fair in Chicago. The fair was commemorating the Columbian spirit of exploration. (It was 1893, and no one was really into commemorating the spirit of conquest…

  • Credibility Issues – BoingBoing

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    [UPDATE: If you’re coming from a Wikinews discussion page, please note that there’s no video here, just a link posted in the comments to this post by “Jeremy Southeby”.] Hey Mark Frauenfelder, I’m having a bit of a problem with this BoingBoing post. It’s a story pulled from a super-tight-tinfoil-hat September 11th conspiracy sort of…

  • Watching Scott McClellan Squirm

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    If you enjoy watching White House Press Secretaries squirm, today’s gaggle is for you. Video at Crooks and Liars, transcript at… the White House. I once read a Howard Kurtz book called Spin Cycle about the Clinton era Press Secretaries and how they dealt with scandals. As long as the president wasn’t lying to them,…

  • Summertime Rolls – Recent Photography

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    Yesterday we headed north a good solid ten minutes to Davenport. When I talk about what I liked about living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I always tell people that you could drive ten minutes out of town in any direction and be in the middle of nowhere. In Santa Cruz, there’s three directions to choose…