Ryan Sholin

Category: Technology

  • Online college newspapers hooked up to social bookmarking sites

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    Forgive me if some of this is a little inside baseball, but I think this is pretty smart: The company that hosts the online edition of the Spartan Daily , along with 100+ other college newspapers, has added links to the bottom of each story to make it easier to post our articles to Digg,…

  • Google hosts Gmail accounts for SJCC

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    Yes, you read that right. After all of, well, a day of speculation that Google was going to be involved in some sort of domain hosting for someone, somewhere, San Jose City College is the first organization that they’ve signed up. Uh, can we be next? Please? Considering that I’m willing to bet the LARGE…

  • That’s better

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    I’d like to apologize to anyone reading this via RSS today. Sorry. I’m writing this from inside Dave Winer’s OPML editor, and it’s all nicely done. Now to add the categories…

  • Or not.

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    Well that could have worked better.  The problem, apparently a common one among folks like me, is that it can be so intimidating to look at this big dramatic backend and post a title on something and publish it.  Okay, so it’s not that hard, and certainly not that dramatic, but it’s a committment to…

  • Deepest Sender Firefox Extension

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    Testing out Deepest Sender, an extension for Firefox that is letting me blog from a handy little window.  We’ll see how quick and easy it is.  I’m tempted to just pay more attention to what <a href=”http://scripting.com”>Dave</a> is up to with the OPML editor and WordPress, but I can’t pretend to have time for that…

  • Coming soon: the self-annotated New York Times

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    The New York Times bought Blogrunner, the company behind the Annotated New York Times. Bottom line?  Expect to see the NYT linking to bloggers writing about its stories, pronto, a la WashingtonPost.com’s use of Technorati links. Good move on the part of the Times.  Maybe someone over there has been listening to the Gillmor Gang.…

  • Oh and by the way

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    This blog is broken in IE7. Oh, and when I downloaded IE7, it wiped out my copy of IE6 (duh), and thus I have no way to test other pages I’m working on in IE6.  Now where were those instructions on installing multiple versions of IE?

  • The thing about beta software

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    …is that it’s beta software. After installing IE7 yesterday, no problem, later last night I go to check my Yahoo mail and find out it’s my turn to get into the beta version of the new mail client, supposedly all buzzword-compliant and slick. Okay guys — either this doesn’t work in Firefox or I need…

  • IE7 beta released to public

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    Go download it here, Windows users. RSS is rather nicely supported — I’d like the orange icon to be inside the address bar the way it is on Safari and Firefox though.  Other than that, the RSS stuff is intuitive and logical and easy to understand.  There’s no code in the user’s face — gotta…

  • Children of a Lesser Evil…or…Googling Democracy

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    Thanks to Google, I have to rewrite my International Communications term paper from last semester. Seriously, Sergey, Larry, do you have any idea how hard I work at getting this stuff straight? First you stand out as being downright *good* by specifically NOT planting any servers in China, signing any pledges, or editing any search…