Ideas – Page 49 – Ryan Sholin

Luck of the Irish Pub Concept

Apr 29, 2005

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Rosie McCann’s Irish Pub & Restaurant (my now former employer – more on that in a moment) has won Best Bar in the annual Santa Cruz Good Times Best Of issue. The GT is an alternative weekly…well, less alternative than the Metro, which isn’t that alternative to begin with. The point is – we won.…

Blog Theory

Apr 29, 2005

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Ryan Sholin

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Doc Searls delivered a keynote this week at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, and has posted his slides. Doc says: “Blogging is about writing.” Somehow I feel vindicated, yet guilty. More writing coming…

School Is Hell: Lesson 19

Apr 26, 2005

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Ryan Sholin

in Education, Ideas

Found this old Matt Groening cartoon while researching an article I’m writing on a certain local cartoonist.

[JtB] Another angle

Apr 25, 2005

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Ryan Sholin

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Daniel Sato, an SJSU photojournalism student, talks about what his expectations were for the event and what he would have liked to hear more about: “How can blogging be best used in education? In public relations? In empowering freelance writers/photographers? How can future readers avoid taking pr spin and propaganda as truth?” For more on…

ExxonMobil Fears Reality-Based Community

Apr 24, 2005

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Ryan Sholin

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I came home today to a fresh issue of Mother Jones, including a look at global warming from several angles. Here’s Bill McKibben in the introduction to the report on how the energy industry (read ExxonMobil) has worked to denigrate actual science for years: The strategy turned out to be simple: Cloud the issue as…

[JtB] Shocking

Apr 22, 2005

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Ryan Sholin

in Education, Ideas

This is why I will never be a photojournalist. Just like I would never go to grad school. Dan Gillmor, Jude Barry, David Satterfield, Richard Craig, and Dennis Dunleavy after the Joining the Blogosphere event last Tuesday at SJSU. Feel free to write your own caption…

Following the Hughtrain

Apr 21, 2005

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Ryan Sholin

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Over at gapingvoid, Hugh MacLeod is saying something about Technorati, but I’m not really paying attention as I’m too busy cracking up.

[JtB] 4.0: Dan Gillmor

Apr 21, 2005

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Ryan Sholin

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How will we know who is credible? Dan mentioned “new tools being developed” which will help people learn what to trust.

[JtB] 3.0: David Pescovitz

Apr 20, 2005

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Ryan Sholin

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I’m posting my revised notes from last night’s Joining The Blogosphere event at San Jose State University. This is the third of four panel members. My input is in italics. David Pescovitz ran down a brief history of BoingBoing, the single most read blog around. In the 1980s, the diffusion of the PC lead to…