Ryan Sholin

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  • Savannah 2.0

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    I remember Savannah as a gray place on a dreary day after Christmas in 1992, but then again, that’s what riding a Greyhound bus for 25 hours will get you: unlimited views of rundown downtowns. Advice to Greyhound: move your stations to shiny suburban malls. Here’s a far more colorful vision of Savannah: That’s the…

  • Learning Flash, vol. 1

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    First attempt, apologies to RSS readers, try not to get dizzy, all photos copyright me, etc….

  • Get more email from me

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    You can now subscribe to this blog by email, if you’re into that sort of thing. All of you glued-to-your-inbox types can shift your gaze over to the sidebar, enter your address, and off you go. RSS readers are more than welcome to switch over to the new version of my feed, which might do…

  • Mercury News Photo becomes a blog. Cool.

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    MercuryNewsPhoto.com redesigned while I wasn’t looking, and what popped out is a nice modern WordPress blog. Cool. What that means, first things first, is that I (and you) can now subscribe to an RSS feed from the site. Cool. Second things second, you can leave comments on all the slideshows, video essays, and Flash presentations…

  • Note to newspaper companies: Keep your print layout off my screen

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    Hey guys, let’s make a deal: You stop trying to paste an old media model (print layout) on a new medium (e-paper, UMPC, tabletPC), and I’ll keep reading the stories I want to read, when I want to read them, either via RSS feeds from your paper, or when a blog I trust links to…

  • My potential thesis has reared its bloggy head

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    Regular readers (both of you) might have noticed slow posting here lately, but really regular readers will recall that this happens at the end of every semester as I ramp up the whole term-paper-writing thing. This semester, I’m plugging away at what will become the literature review for my thesis. It’s all about blogging-at-newspapers. I’m…

  • New York Times on e-paper

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    “One Day Soon, Straphangers May Turn Pages With a Button” The New York Times reports on the move some newspapers are already making to e-paper: “This is only one test of new e-paper devices competing to become the iPod of the newspaper business. Other e-paper trials are being undertaken by the paper Les Echos, which…

  • Salam Pax audio is online

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    One of the Salam Pax talks in San Jose last month is now online as a Commonwealth Club podcast here. It looks like the audio will also be on KQED (88.5 FM in the Bay Area). You can find the story I wrote for the Daily on his talk at SJSU here. An excerpt from…

  • Northwestern J-School dean takes the long view

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    In this Q & A, John Lavine lays out “Medill 2020,” a plan to develop the Medill J-School at Northwestern University. Medill seems to be doing all the right things: Planning to get students out of their silos and into classes that teach them storytelling, ethics, and basic journalistic principles, regardless of their medium of…

  • Bob Cauthorn on how to organize information at your online edition

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    Will Sullivan, interactive projects editor at the Palm Beach Post, reports at his Journerdism blog on a webcast of a talk Bob Cauthorn gave at UC Berkeley in March. Cauthorn is a former VP for digital media at the SF Chronicle. A quick search on his name will throw gobs of good articles, lectures and…