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Ryan Sholin

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  • Spelling Test

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    For all the geeks blogging about Gnomedex now that you’re out of the convention hall where the wi-fi didn’t work because every single one of you attempted to use it: The surname of the brothers Dan and Steve is spelled G-I-L-L-M-O-R. There is no E. I’ve never seen so many people get it wrong in…

  • 100 Piece Puzzle

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    If you’re still stumbling around the blogosphere in the dark, tripping from link to link, but not sure how everything fits together, check out the AO/Technorati Open Media 100. It’s not just another blogroll or ranking system – it’s a list of Pioneers like Doc Searls, Trendsetters like Mary Hodder, Practitioners like Mark Cuban, Toolsmiths…

  • Chinese Democracy and Other Corporate American Friendliness

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    On the continuing issue of How American Technology Corporations Should Treat Not-Very-Nice Governments: The Online Journalism Review holds a roundtable discussion on the issue of Chinese censorship and regulation of weblogs. Mark Glaser writes: A recent report on China’s filtering efforts by the OpenNet Initiative called the government’s scheme the most sophisticated one in the…

  • Self-Correcting Editorial?

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    I can’t help but shake my head. The LA Times made a valiant attempt to wiki-fy their editorial page, starting with one story, allowing online readers to link it, comment on it, revise it, improve it, alter it, edit it…but apparently the experiment went down in flames as some people thought it would be amusing…

  • Self-Correcting Blogosphere

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    Scoble comes clean: “In the face of overwhelming evidence, I admit I’m wrong. Trying to justify the Chinese MSN word blocker is one of the more boneheaded things I’ve done.” Check out the comments on his post to see more of the discussion. [Background]: Chinese Democracy, Chinese Democracy Continued

  • Chinese Democracy Continued…

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    Let me know when companies that sell newsprint start telling newspapers what they can call themselves.

  • Tsunami Warning System

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    Last night, my Tsunami Warning System consisted of one piece of technology: ForecastFox, a Firefox extension that puts a few little live icons showing current weather conditions on my bookmarks toolbar, right there in the browser where I can see it. It updates periodically, and a little rectangular pop-up fades in and out unobtrusively (unless…

  • Chinese Democracy

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    Sales pitch to China: Hey, have some Capitalism – yeah it’s good stuff, Free Market it up baby, yeah, you can be our most-favored trading partner, alright? How’s that sound? Great, terrific, maybe we can buy a few of your companies as soon as they get big enough to be useful to competitive with us,…

  • How Politicians Should Treat The Press, and Vice Versa

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    There’s just one thing: all of this advice could (and should) easily be flipped on its head and delivered to the Press.

  • Journalistic Heresy

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    Here’s what I see: bias in American media does not run strictly Left and Right; media bias is either pro-establishment or anti-establishment, regardless of who sleeps in the White House.