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Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • [JtB] 1.0: Chuck Olsen

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    Chuck Olsen thought digital video might put the power to make media into the hands of the masses. But there was something missing: interconnection.

  • First Impressions of the Joining the Blogosphere [JtB] Event

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    A quick note now – much more coming later. The panel was diverse enough to touch on issues of journalism, politics, and technology – I thought it was a good (not great) introduction to what blogging can do. I would have liked someone to be plugged into a projector with their laptop, though, so at…

  • Joining the Blogosphere Event In A Bit

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    Getting my ideas together for the Joining the Blogosphere shindig here briefly… Some questions I have going in: What does Jude Barry see as the political potential of blogs? Will every candidate start using them as a way to get their unmediated authentic voice out? Or is it enough to use the Howard Dean methodology…

  • Meet the new Pope…same as the old Pope…or not.

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    Uh, so, I’m not Catholic, but what does it say to the world when the leaders of the Church elect the most conservative candidate? Well, honestly, it says “Hey, we’re the Church, man, what did you expect? ” The fact that Pope Benedict XVI (nee Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) is 78 years old makes it seem…

  • DennisKucinich.us feed watch…

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    Regular readers of this blog (I’m talking to you, Mom) might recall that 12 days ago I checked out the shiny new web presence for one of my favorite politicians, Dennis Kucinich. Dennis had no feeds. I asked his volunteers/web monkeys to Feed Me. They said they were working on it. 12 days later, still…

  • Prof. Richard Craig in the paper

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    (hey Mullenweg, where’s that “recover post” button…eh…guess I’ll just write it again and save frequently.) SJSU’s own Prof. Craig weighed in on the “Now who exactly is it that’s a journalist?” question in an op-ed piece in today’s San Jose Mercury news. Prof. Craig, who teaches the grad class I’m taking this semester (full disclosure:…

  • Off The Map

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    I promise this will be the last time I plug this movie, but I finally saw Off The Map this weekend at the Del Mar in Santa Cruz. Hey Campbell Scott: good job! When we were making this movie (which Campbell directed), I never thought it would be as funny as it turned out. That’s…

  • More on the Commonwealth Club event at SJSU

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    It seems like they really are serious about running through the whole “Blogging as Journalism” schtick. One of the organizers stopped by our class and showed a bit of video to pump us up about the whole horizontal communication thing. The coolest thing about the event, especially given Jay Rosen’s recent post about how boring…

  • Another Blogger Talk at SJSU

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    Next Tuesday night, April 19th, at the MLK Library: Dan Gillmor (grassroots media guru), David Pescovitz (co-editor of BoingBoing), and Jude Barry (ex political-PR type) will be talking about…well heck, it’s being billed by the organizers as “Joining the Blogosphere” and sounds like an “Are Blogs Journalism” mixer — but with reps from Media, Technology,…

  • Let the assimilation begin

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    UPDATE: I am the Universal Oppressor (white american male). Riverbend is a Woman. With a book out. Over at Baghdad Burning, my favorite Iraqi blogger has a post up about the American media content pushing its way onto the airwaves: Al-Hurra, the purported channel of freedom, is the American gift to the Arab world. What…