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Ryan Sholin

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  • TechCrunch gets eaten alive at the ONA

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    Apparently, I missed all the fun when I decided to skip the Online News Association conference in DC last week. TechCrunch author/editor/owner Mike Arrington showed up for a panel talk with Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine, Mike Davidson of Newsvine, and Adam Yamaguchi of Current. Sounds like a good plan, right? A tech blogger, a media…

  • Why it’s good that I didn’t go to DC this week

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    The annual Online News Association conference is going on in Washington, D.C. at the moment. I didn’t make plans to get across the country to be there in person, which turns out to be convenient given the fact that I’ve been out of the house most of the week while it gets tented for termites.…

  • A slice of newspaper blog life

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    Danny Sanchez at Journalistopia reports on a newspaper blog panel at the National Writers’ Workshop in Fort Lauderdale. His takeaways are a small sample of what reporters-who-blog think about what they do, and how they do it. My favorite: “Don’t take the writing on your blog for granted. Streeter once got 90 comments from rabid…

  • Newspapers: Make money online, minus the news

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    Who knows more about Santa Cruz, California than the Santa Cruz Sentinel? Well, that’s debatable, but let’s put it another way: Who’s bothered to put together a modern, readable Santa Cruz site for tourists? That’s right, the Santa Cruz Sentinel. DestinationSantaCruz.com is live, and it looks like a damn good idea. Build a site that…

  • My left armpit business model

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    [Ed. note: This post takes care of my smart-ass quota for the month.] In the middle of an uninteresting handwringer where nothing new is written about the future/death/rebirth/downfall of newspapers (pointing out the existence of craigslist is so 2005), Michael Kinsley writes at Time.com: “But there is room between the New York Times and myleftarmpit.com…

  • Job: Develop WordPress blogs for the New York Times

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    [Ed. note: I normally stuff interesting job postings into the del.icio.us feed that runs down the right rail of this blog, or in your feed reader, but this one is too interesting not to point to from here.] The New York Times is hiring a WordPress developer. The job is posted on the PaidContent new…

  • The truth about online community building at newspapers

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    Let’s get something out of the way here. From an idealistic, do-gooder, journalistic point-of-view, building a community around/at/affiliated with your newspaper’s Web site is all about giving people a place to talk to each other, find like-minded individuals, debate, discuss, share, and participate in local and far-flung news. That’s great. In fact, it’s so great…

  • The fundamentals of structured data

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    Still wondering how to cram all these cool new Web-based tools and toys into your newspaper’s content management system? What, you mean it didn’t come with a database to manage all those user-submitted photos you’re getting through your MySpace page? Even if you’re not quite that friendly with the social-networking set yet, chances are you’ve…

  • Katie, Katie, Katie

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    For the record, I just saw Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News for the first time, and she said the words “roadside bombing” like no one else ever has. I feel better about roadside bombings already.

  • A little something I’ve been working on for six weeks

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    Stories here, here, and here.