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Ryan Sholin

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  • Laptop Riot

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    CNN reports: Panic Ensues In Rush For Cheap Laptops. from CNN.com (AP/Richmond Times-Dispatch) Okay folks, this is pretty good proof that people want technology to be more affordable. The next time a school system sells its used laptops off ($50/iBook), PLEASE CONTACT ME so I can research what the people DO with the darn things.…

  • What Is RSS To You?

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    I’m working on a “What Is RSS?” page for a Web site that’s introducing RSS feeds shortly. Here’s an excerpt: Why should I use a news reader? A news reader helps you get more of what you want. As you start to gather a variety of RSS feeds from your favorite information sources in one…

  • Word for Blogger

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    This is smooth. I assume this is what Scoble was doing at Google today, and what he was waiting for Google to announce. You can now post to your Blogger/Blogspot blog from Microsoft Word. Word Up, indeed. Okay, I want one for WordPress and I want it now. Heh. [tags]Blogger, WordPress, Word, Microsoft[/tags]

  • Bored By The Bayosphere

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    I signed up for Dan Gillmor’s Bayosphere real quick (apparently I’m user #99), even though I was a little put off by the idea of a “Bay”-osphere and not a “Whole Damn World”-osphere. I thought it was pretty lame to confine the boundaries of the thing to the Bay Area, but I watched and waited.…

  • Thank Goodness For AEJMC Bloggers

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    Whew! For a second I was afraid the AEJMC Convention, which starts tomorrow, was going to be something I heard about months later, but a quick Technorati search shows that there are, in fact, bloggers in San Antonio doing their thing. Thanks, y’all. I’ll be there next year in San Francisco. [tags]aejmc[/tags]

  • Free Like Freedom

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    Today finds me too vacation-dazed to really want to make sense of anything but SJSU bureaucracy (don’t ask), but after paring down the list of feeds in my aggregator to a workable 206, here’s an attempt to connect the dots: Jimbo Wales, the Wikipedia guy, Lessig’s guest-blogger at the moment, is running down a list…

  • IMHOPML

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    Dave Winer has released his OPML thingie. It outlines, it blogs, it slices cucumbers, it dices chocolate, and it’s pleasant. I’m playing with it here. It’s cool so far, and an awfully fast way to blog. Low on bandwidth-sucking bells and whistles, high on content. No FTP necessary. Little assembly required. Side effects may include…

  • Spike Lee Podcast

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    Back in film school, we all heard Spike Lee speak at least once or twice. I believe he was on his way to a Yankees or Knicks game most of the time, but Spike still managed to pass along plenty of good advice. Check out the first of four podcasts shadowing/interviewing Spike while he works…

  • Robert MacMillan Responds: “What Isn’t A Blog Nowadays?”

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    [BACKGROUND: Yesterday, Robert MacMillan’s Random Access column in the Washington Post covered the sordid tale of Michael Gee, an ex-Boston Herald writer who taught exactly one day of a class at Boston University, following it up by posting his drooling analysis of the “hot bod” of one his female students. Gee’s post was on this…

  • The Washington Post Doesn’t Know A Blog From A Message Board

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    [UPDATE: I’ve been corresponding via email with Robert MacMillan, the writer of the Washington Post story I mention here. As soon as I have his permission, I’ll post his response. OK – the email exchange is here.] SO – A journalist teaching a class at Boston University does something stupid, it bounces around a corner…