Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • Journalistic Heresy

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    Here’s what I see: bias in American media does not run strictly Left and Right; media bias is either pro-establishment or anti-establishment, regardless of who sleeps in the White House.

  • A Globe, Clothing Itself With A Brain*

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    *Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? This morning, I was listening to the pReboot podcast of Robert Scoble being interviewed by Nicole Simon. (mp3) It’s been fun playing the “keeping up with Scoble” game since he spoke at SJSU last February…yeah, yeah, I got Scobleized. The best part is listening to his schtick ideas evolve over time…

  • Art, disintermediated

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    Unofficial audio guides for the MoMA in NYC. Awesome – it’s mp3s of discussions about individual artworks – load ’em on the listening device of your choice, kick it over to the Museum, and hear real live human beings talk about the paintings, without the stuffy museum-ness of paying for the headphones/listening to the same…

  • All Your iPod Are Belong To Us

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    So I have been the proud owner of a cute little iPod thingie for a couple weeks now, and I must make a confession: it’s half-full with music that my friends make. Yeah, I’m listening to a few podcasts, too, and some necessary and crucial items (Grey Album, live Ween and Wilco shows) — but…

  • Coyote

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    Hiking today in Castle Rock State Park, we saw a coyote. Maybe he saw us first – we heard a rustle in some bushes and were expecting either a human or a deer, when a grey/brown coyote stepped out and looked right at us. I’ve seen non-deer in the wild before: elk, bison, beavers, dolphins,…

  • A Manifesto for Emerging Technology in Higher Education

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    Steve Sloan, SJSU Tech on a Mission, is starting to brew up A Manifesto for Emerging Technology in Higher Education (my phraseology, not his – but please feel free to use those words). In a post titled On taking back redefining the university, Steve is getting excited about horizontal communication within the University, excited about…

  • Alexandra Samuel on Democratic Engagement

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    The You’re It blog is a clearinghouse for all things taxonomic (tagging, tags, tagsonomy, taxonomy, etc.) If you haven’t tried tagging yet – type the word “delicious” in your browser’s URL bar… If that doesn’t work go for del.icio.us. Check it out. Delicious, Technorati, and Flickr are all super-tag-happy. Alexandra Samuel writes in her self-intro…

  • Citizen Journalism Ground Rules

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    Here’s a tough question from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits Column: Someone goes on a murder/suicide kick on Tuesday morning. Five dead including the killer. A newspaper starts covering the story online. The police haven’t released the suspect’s name yet, so the paper doesn’t print it. A reader thinks she has figured out who the killer is,…

  • Good Ol’ Boys

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    To all those who have asked me the question, re: blogging, “Is anyone making money at this?” I am not getting paid $100,000 to blog about the Dukes of Hazzard for a year…but Christopher Nelson is. Check out CNN/Money on the subject, as well as Steve Rubel’s post. Couldn’t they just have hired some marketing…

  • World Photo Day

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    World Photo Day ended at 5pm Pacific (midnight GMT), but you can still upload an image you captured anytime on June 1st. I pocketed my digital Point & Shoot on the way to the Santa Cruz Farmers’ Market (I fully believe that apostrophe belongs there) and grabbed a few images. I ended up posting this…