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Ryan Sholin

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  • Best Google Maps Mashup Ever

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    Google Maps + U.S. Census data from 2000 = awesome tool. Find out what your neighborhood (or the neighborhood you report on) is like, street by street, block by block. via Poynter E-Media Tidbits

  • Journalist turns Blogger turns J-School Prof

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    The New York Times (reg. req’d) reports that the City University of New York has hired blogger and New Media guru Jeff Jarvis to head up a New Media program at the new CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Hey Jeff, please be sure to blog the curriculum so we can play along at home. In…

  • One Man Gang: Kevin Sites to report for Yahoo

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    It’s happening. There’s been “convergence” talk about local news networks or newspaper websites switching to “one man band” models. The idea is this: send out a reporter with a digital video camera, a wireless-happy laptop, and a cell phone. *poof* Instant cost-cutting lack of a satellite truck and (d’oh!) cameraman. (Full disclosure: I don’t belong…

  • Hurricane Katrina People Finder – Volunteers Needed

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    Already gave your money? Give some time by turning bunches of bulletin board posts spread all over the Internet into a searchable database to help people find their friends and family. Start here. Sit on your couch, relax, and help people with a little data entry. [tags]Katrina, help, peoplefinder[/tags]

  • I Heart The BBC & A POV Roundup

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    KQED radio (88.5 FM) out of San Francisco is my public radio station on the San Jose side of “the hill.” Two nights a week now, I drive home to Santa Cruz late enough to catch the BBC World Service report – it’s all international news, all the time. I love it. Not only because…

  • Really Good Technology

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    I’m quoted in Mansi Bhatia’s article in this semester’s Washington Square, a publication of the SJSU office of Communications and Public Affairs. I assume the magazine goes out to alumni, and is not to be confused with Access, the Journalism & Mass Communications department’s student-produced magazine, which is available all over campus. The Washington Square…

  • Trickle-Down Technology

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    In discussions about international communication, I often hear the argument that neither this “blogging” thing in specific nor the internet in general are not on the radar in places like Africa, where they “don’t even have phones, much less internet access” (or so goes the myth). The people who expound on this sort of angle…

  • Hi Everyone

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    Welcome, WashingtonPost.com and Dan Gillmor readers… I’ve been staring at code and textbooks all day instead of reading blogs and googling myself, so I didn’t notice all the traffic until Dan’s trackback hit my email a few minutes ago. I’m sure I’ll jump into the conversation…but at the moment I have seven minutes before my…

  • No time to busy, too talk.

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    First day of classes and I’ve got lots to do. Check out the newly redesigned Spartan Daily website to see what I’ve been up to these days.

  • Required Reading

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    If you have any interest at all in what’s going on in online journalism, new media technology, citizen journalism, or any of the other theoretical neighborhood hangouts near the intersection of Journalism and the Internet, Poynter Online’s E-Media Tidbits is a necessary daily read. Here’s the feed to drop straight into your favorite news reader,…