Ryan Sholin

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  • MIT Blogger Survey

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    MIT has a quick survey up. Check it out if you are a blogger. Hard to tell what they’re up to, but it looks like good stuff. Wait a minute: if I quote from whatever research is published from this survey, do I have to disclose that I was a participant? [UPDATE: BoingBoing explains all.]

  • RSS hearts MS: What will happen when Microsoft takes subscription Mainstream?

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    Longhorn hearts RSS. Geeks in a frenzy, hashing out the technicalities and business models and possibilities, but what does it mean for the incredibly large number of people that don’t know now and won’t care later whether it stands for “Really Simple Syndication” or “Renew Subscription, Sonny” ? (HINT: Wouldn’t “Really Simple Subscription” be more…

  • Spelling Test

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    For all the geeks blogging about Gnomedex now that you’re out of the convention hall where the wi-fi didn’t work because every single one of you attempted to use it: The surname of the brothers Dan and Steve is spelled G-I-L-L-M-O-R. There is no E. I’ve never seen so many people get it wrong in…

  • Sniffing the Gluetrain

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    Of course, if 95 is your preferred number of things in a list, check out the Gluetrain Manifesto, circa 1999. 15. In just a few more years, the current homogenized “voice” of business—the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of Internet manifestos. via Cluetrain co-author Chris Locke,…

  • Chinese Democracy and Other Corporate American Friendliness

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    On the continuing issue of How American Technology Corporations Should Treat Not-Very-Nice Governments: The Online Journalism Review holds a roundtable discussion on the issue of Chinese censorship and regulation of weblogs. Mark Glaser writes: A recent report on China’s filtering efforts by the OpenNet Initiative called the government’s scheme the most sophisticated one in the…

  • Bisy Backson

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    Today, on the first full day of Summer, I played the Bisy Backson, jogging to catch the bus this morning, dizzying myself by reading feeds and email on the bus, picking up forms at Student Services to drop and add Summer classes, calling professors, getting forms signed at offices, finishing the reading for today’s Anthrolpology…

  • Er, make that History & Anthropology

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    This is an update of this post, reposted here for the benefit of those of you not reading this in an RSS feed. For those of you playing along with the home game, this Summer I’m taking two classes: Technology & Civilization History of California since 1900 , and Emerging Global Cultures. They’re both undergraduate…

  • Self-Correcting Editorial?

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    I can’t help but shake my head. The LA Times made a valiant attempt to wiki-fy their editorial page, starting with one story, allowing online readers to link it, comment on it, revise it, improve it, alter it, edit it…but apparently the experiment went down in flames as some people thought it would be amusing…

  • Self-Correcting Blog

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    After a little tweaking of the wrapper and content widths, this blog is now far more pleasant if you’re using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Microsoft Internet Explorer users. Any Safari users out there still seeing anything strange? Firefox is my browser of choice, and the blog looks alright in that.

  • Self-Correcting Blogosphere

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    Scoble comes clean: “In the face of overwhelming evidence, I admit I’m wrong. Trying to justify the Chinese MSN word blocker is one of the more boneheaded things I’ve done.” Check out the comments on his post to see more of the discussion. [Background]: Chinese Democracy, Chinese Democracy Continued