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Ryan Sholin

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  • Vendor sports, SJSU style

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    I’ve now written stories for the Spartan Daily about Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Is Yahoo next? Thankfully, no. But I’ll keep an eye out, so I can hit the superfecta. For the record, every single student who has talked to me about the iTunes U story has said something to the effect of “So we…

  • Listen to your readers

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    Last night at SJSU’s King Library, former Knight Ridder chief news executive Jerry Ceppos made a few points that brought together a few things I’ve been rambling on about lately: Newspapers need to jump into the online world with both feet. Take the governor off the engine and start devoting a larger percentage of your…

  • Knight Ridder sold

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    The New York Times and others are reporting that Knight Ridder has sold to McClatchy. Just a note from my Internet-focused brain:  Every article I read that says something like “with the future of print newspapers in question” or “with declining print circulation” grossly overlooks the fact that Knight Ridder Digital, the online section of…

  • Look Ma, I got my pictures in the paper

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    So there was this ice storm, right? Well, sleet, slush, whatever you want to call it. I had just finished class, saw it starting, changed the dead batteries in the point-and-shoot, and starting fooling around. By the time I was done shooting useless video with my little ugly camera, one of our editors had spotted…

  • Blue Plate Special: Editor Blogs

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    Over at the Blue Plate Special, which still has that “new blog” smell, Jay Rosen and some of his students are breaking down the details on newspapers that blog. Here’s a great post on John Robinson, editor of the blog-happy Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina. Briana Mowrey, a grad student in NYU’s j-school,…

  • The editors are blogging – and they have opinions. Should they?

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    The Santa Cruz Sentinel is running a pair of blogs. (Full disclosure: I live in Santa Cruz, and rarely purchase a print edition of any of the three papers I can easily find at the corner store.) One of the blogs is an “Editors’ Notebook” written by Editor Tom Honig and Managing Editor Don Miller.…

  • Want more traffic? Restructure your content.

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    Over at the Online Journalism Review, Robert Niles has posted a must-read for any online news editor or webmaster. If you’ve never read anything about how search engines work, and you’re responsible for structuring your publication’s Web presence, check out what Niles says about categorizing your stories in a way that allows readers to find…

  • Jeff Jarvis shows old media the Digg effect

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    In his column in the Guardian, Jeff Jarvis does his “scary blogboy dance” (his words, not mine – but I do identify) for the CUNY J-School faculty, including a number on Digg, the social bookmarking site that makes Slashdot look like a quaint relic dug up from the vaults of Usenet. Jarvis says: The concept…

  • Copy editing question of the day

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    So what’s this thing you’re reading? Spartan Daily style says it’s either a “blog” or a “Web blog.” “Web blog” seems redundant to me, since blog is short for “weblog” or “Web log,” depending on who you ask and how pedantic a mood one’s in. The 2004 AP Stylebook says “blog” is jargon for “Web…

  • WANTED: podcasting rig suggestions

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    I’ve surfed the forums, I’ve listened to podcasts about podcasting, and I’ve read what there is to read, but it all gets so outdated so quickly. So, faithful readers (both of you), who has suggestions for a podcasting rig? I need to it to come in under $400 (not my money, don’t worry), preferably under…