Ryan Sholin

Category: Technology

  • Incoming search phrase of the week

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    This one came from Google.  Drumroll please… “ideas for baseball handshakes” Actually, that’s not a bad idea. I was never much of a forearm-smash kind of guy myself.

  • A few notes on web design

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    I’ve been carving up some code lately working on a couple projects, and I’ve realized that I just have no idea how to hack things correctly for IE. In fact, I noticed yesterday that my blog header is broken in IE, and I’m retracing my steps to try and figure out what it was I…

  • Search query of the day

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    Wherein I start a new feature, in which, on a daily basis, I bring you the most inspiring search query which pops up in my referrer logs: “journalism school easier than law school” Hmm.

  • The difference between writing for this blog and that newspaper

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    I don’t get to see the freaking traffic data at the newspaper. Where’s my stats page? I want to hit refresh every 45 seconds. At least at the Daily I had access to that. (Subtle note to self: get hired by the online part of a newspaper just so you can know how many people…

  • Dave and Steve are trying to take all the fun out of my job

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    I’m reluctant to even address the meme for fear it might spread, but to any sort of reporter, the e-mail interview, or worse, sending questions in advance and quoting from a blogged response, is a horrible, horrible thing. They teach us in j-school to get people on the phone whenever possible, and frankly, they’re right.…

  • Newspapers ready to start aggregating the competition

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    The New York Times reports that the Washington Post and other newspapers are linking up with Inform.com to display links to related stories from other news sources — not just from blogs, but from newspapers, too. Let the aggregation begin. From the NYT story: “This lets us be a search engine,” said Kelly Dyer Fry,…

  • It was the best of MyTimes…

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    I haven’t seen it for myself yet, apparently not being one of the chosen 5,000 beta testers, but the New York Times aggregator/personalized news page called MyTimes is live. Reviews, analysis, and gripes are up at TechCrunch and PaidContent, including screenshots for the curious. It looks like a flawed but good effort from what I…

  • World gets flatter, film at 11

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    Scoble quits Microsoft, moves back to Valley, goes to work at podcasting start-up. Sounds like a great move, whether or not PodTech.net becomes one of the New New Networks or not. Why? Something I learned working retail: As soon as your boss calls you “indispensable,” it’s probably time to quit, because if they can’t replace…

  • New little camera is impressive

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    New camera = Canon Powershot A530. It’s a humble little point & shoot, but it kicks the crap out of our old one. Then = slow shutter, barely in focus shots, low resolution, nothing sharp, lots of time in between frames. Now… …that’s what I’m talkin’ about. Canon A530. Under $200. Google it, shop around,…

  • San Jose Blogger Meetup

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    San Jose Blogger Meetup – Tuesday June 27th, 6pm. I won’t make it this time, but this sounds like a great idea to me. Everyone’s welcome, from SJSU students to A-Listers, and everyone in between, not to mention above or below. Yeah, so I’ll probably be, um, eating pizza that night, but in Sicily.