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Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • Print vs. Online – A Question of Class?

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    Here’s what we need to truly democratize information: 1. Free broadband internet access in the poorest parts of the country/world. 2. Inexpensive/subsidized/donated/free computers and a tiny bit of training for the same poorest parts of the country/world.

  • Library Study Time

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    Spending the afternoon, as usual, at the library in full-on-study/clearly-not-addicted-to-my-feeds-via-bloglines mode. I usually glance around at what people are reading/studying/clearly-not-studying around me, and the glaring amusements today = a girl with her highlighter out and textbook open, unabashedly watching a full episode of Smallville on her laptop + the guy about 4 feet away from…

  • Part 2 – Convergence in J-School

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    “convergence” is the new “synergy”

  • Convergence In J-School

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    The Professor who teaches my grad class is about to give a presentation on Convergence – he attended a seminar a few weeks ago at the Poynter Institute and came back full of ideas. What’s convergence? Here’s what Larry Pryor from the USC Annenberg School of Communication adapted from the talk he gave at the…

  • Start at the beginning…

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    [UPDATE: Yes, I wrote this quite awhile ago, and have updated very little I’m in the process of updating it in September 2005 I updated it in September 2005, then touched it up in March of 2006, then again in September 2007, and yet again way out here in March 2009, but man, things move…

  • Scoble at SJSU

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    Here’s what Scoble had to say about his visit to SJSU.

  • I’ve Been Scobleized!

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    Robert Scoble, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, spoke today at San Jose State University, where I am a graduate student in the Journalism & Mass Communications Department. Scoble was apparently a student there in the early 1990s and was kind enough to speak first to a gathering of Journalism students in the offices of the school newspaper,…

  • Al Sharpton vs. KFC

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    Al Sharpton is a great, great man. Although the New York Times (reg. req.) doesn’t develop the parallels between human rights and animal rights, you can find The Dreaded Comparison easily enough. Peta’s press release on Sharpton joining the KFC campaign here.

  • The Nastiest Possible Message

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    Mark Morford at the San Francisco Chronicle writes a bitter op-ed piece today that summarizes the baseline non-cheerleading stance on the Iraq election: “The ends do not justify the means. A barely democratic Iraq is fine and good, but you well know that if Bush had mumbled to the nation three years and $300 billion…

  • Elephant Tramples Trainer

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    At least Justice has no prejudice against any species. More on circus animal abuse here.