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Ryan Sholin

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  • The difference between writing for this blog and that newspaper

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    I don’t get to see the freaking traffic data at the newspaper. Where’s my stats page? I want to hit refresh every 45 seconds. At least at the Daily I had access to that. (Subtle note to self: get hired by the online part of a newspaper just so you can know how many people…

  • Dave and Steve are trying to take all the fun out of my job

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    I’m reluctant to even address the meme for fear it might spread, but to any sort of reporter, the e-mail interview, or worse, sending questions in advance and quoting from a blogged response, is a horrible, horrible thing. They teach us in j-school to get people on the phone whenever possible, and frankly, they’re right.…

  • Newspapers ready to start aggregating the competition

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    The New York Times reports that the Washington Post and other newspapers are linking up with Inform.com to display links to related stories from other news sources — not just from blogs, but from newspapers, too. Let the aggregation begin. From the NYT story: “This lets us be a search engine,” said Kelly Dyer Fry,…

  • Will the real newspaper video model please stand up

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    What kind of video do you want in your online newspaper? Broadcast-style stand-ups? Afternoon reports from the newsroom? Snarky into the camera videoblogs from your columnists? Straight news packages? Mindy McAdams at Teaching Online Journalism has been talking about this all month, drilling down on things like the fancy new HD cameras that will let…

  • BlogHer and the media, meaning me in this case

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    The odd thing about being both a blogger and a journalist — on this particular day — is reading a story in the newspaper that I wrote about BlogHer, in which I try to play reality against what the big bad mainstream media (which is now apparently me) would have us believe is the stereotypical…

  • A framework for networked journalism

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    Jay Rosen lays all his cards on the table, posting his plans for NewAssignment.net, a to-be-constructed site where reporters and The People Formerly Known As The Audience can party together. And by “party together,” I mean the masses can use all their social bookmarking/tagging/networking power to point to the stories they want to see covered…

  • It was the best of MyTimes…

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    I haven’t seen it for myself yet, apparently not being one of the chosen 5,000 beta testers, but the New York Times aggregator/personalized news page called MyTimes is live. Reviews, analysis, and gripes are up at TechCrunch and PaidContent, including screenshots for the curious. It looks like a flawed but good effort from what I…

  • World gets flatter, film at 11

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    Scoble quits Microsoft, moves back to Valley, goes to work at podcasting start-up. Sounds like a great move, whether or not PodTech.net becomes one of the New New Networks or not. Why? Something I learned working retail: As soon as your boss calls you “indispensable,” it’s probably time to quit, because if they can’t replace…

  • Geeks for journalism or journalism for geeks?

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    Lex Alexander, Greensboro News-Record citizen-journalism guru, in a post about a community meetup to talk about the paper’s online CJ section: “We frequently get asked why we don’t do X, or whether we have ever thought about doing Y. Regarding Y, the answer is “probably.” But the N&R’s news department has an appetite for doing…

  • Don’t fear the user-created content?

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    Do online news sites need to reinvent uploading and editing tools to gather user-created content? Steve Outing says no, making the case that YouTube, Google Video, and myriad third place finishers do the heavy lifting, hosting the video and spitting out the little block of code that a user can paste into a post in…