Ryan Sholin

Category: Technology

  • Best of Web 2.0

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    “What’s Web 2.0?” you ask. “We’re still working on Web 1.0,” you say. Okay, whatever, check out this easy-to-read, plain-language list of useful tools you can find on the Internet these days. If you haven’t used Flickr or Delicious, now’s the time. If you’ve never seen a Google Map, check it out. These are tools…

  • Now this is more like it

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    I’m at a tiny little diner/coffee shop in San Francisco, and there’s nine open networks and about ten closed ones. Thanks “default,” whoever you are… I’m around the corner from SixApart, and I have no idea how many other companies/bloggers/a-listers that flash across my aggregator.  Palo Alto definitely looked like VC country, and this definitely…

  • 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…

  • In Palo Alto, San Francisco today

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    I’m working my way up the 280 to the San Francisco financial district today. Is there something cool I should do? Someone I should meet? A conference I should crash? Let me know… [UPDATE: Or not… looks like I’ll hit SF tomorrow…] For the record, as I update this a little later in the day,…

  • 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surfed the forums, I’ve listened to podcasts about podcasting, and I’ve read what there is to read, but it all gets so outdated so quickly.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…

  • Redesign continues

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    Still working on the site – I’m trying out Ultimate Tag Warrior, a heavyweight plugin that should let me lay a bunch of tags on my posts and call them up in a tag cloud in my sidebar. You’ll also be able to click on tags at the bottom of each post to see more…

  • Blog templates, online newspaper layout, server issues

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    Jeff Jarvis laments the lack of creativity in blog templates. It sounds like he’s looking for a front page with different categories, or a taste of different pages on the front page. I certainly like the idea – I know not everyone reading what I write about the JMC department or the Daily is necessarily…

  • William Safire, goofy grammarian

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    Of course, I’m not a big fan of Safire’s politics, but his language column in the NY Times Magazine on Sundays used to hold my interest for some portion of the 30 seconds it took me to flip past the stories to the crossword. And now, this, a weird take on the vocabulary of the…

  • An interview with John McManus of Grade the News

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    As promised, loyal readers (both of you), I tracked down John McManus, director of Grade the News, to follow up on a report in the Palo Alto Weekly that the five-year-old media watchdog group was in danger of losing its funding, and thus, its life. Truth be told, McManus isn’t that hard to find. He…

  • Save Grade the News

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    Palo Alto Weekly is reporting that Grade the News, currently headquartered in Dwight Bentel Hall in a room just outside the photo studio/student lounge,  is out of cash, and about to be out on the street. The article in the Weekly says that the content analysis watchdog group needs $180,000 — its annual budget —…