Ryan Sholin

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  • Twenty Twenty Four

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    This website’s homepage had become a bit of a jumbled mix of unstructured posts and outdated navigation, so I spent about 40 minutes today updating it to the WordPress Twenty Twenty Four theme and doing some minor customization. That post list at the bottom reminds me of Khoi Vinh’s old Subtraction theme, which I used…

  • Today is the 152nd day of the year 2021

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    Seems like a good day for a blog post! One Song Everyday Building (healthy) habits is not something that comes easily to me, so I always find “do this one thing every day of the year” projects appealing. A few years ago I made a “one second everyday” #1se video and surprised my family with…

  • Days twenty-nine, thirty, and thirty-one: Reflections on trying to blog every day for a month

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    I didn’t blog every day for a month. I didn’t miss by much, but it’s definitely easier to be disciplined about it at home than it is on the road. I thought it would be a good experiment, writing slightly longer, compared to a tweet, and it often felt satisfying to mash the publish button.…

  • Remember blogging?

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    Cracks me up. Every time. Not sure how it started, but my top skill of “Top Skills” on LinkedIn is Blogging. Remember blogging? Every now and then someone tells that joke. The one that goes “Remember blogs?” Ha. Ha ha. It’s funny, because the blogs won, and most of the websites/apps/screenthings we use on a…

  • This is a linkdump

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    At the risk of doing what I’m best at — overstating the obvious — you might have noticed that I don’t use this blog much anymore. Actually, I do use it, maybe once a year or so, to communicate the fact that I don’t write many blog posts these days, and you should just follow…

  • The snark of working in public

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    The art of working in public: In which Robin Sloan writes a great blog post about other people writing great blog posts. “I have two exemplary pieces of 21st-century writing that I want to share with you. Neither is hot off the CMSes; they’ve both aged just a little in their tabbed casks. They have…

  • A brief history of January

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    With all the blogging I’ve been doing so far this month, a few of you have given me strange looks or short notes to the effect of “Hey, didn’t know you were still writing on that thing, ha ha.” Right. Well. Don’t get too excited. Just before I completely corrupted the data by importing more…

  • Blog posts I have written and not written this year

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    Hey, would ya look at that, the year’s almost over. And while I’m not the biggest fan of arbitrary divisions of time, I sure do like making lists. Year-end lists are little nuggets of candy that fall from the sky like sweet, sweet hail, and every now and then, it’s the end of a decade,…

  • The avatar problem

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    I’ll be at ONA09 for the next few days, where I’ll meet, probably, a few hundred people I know from the Internet. But they don’t know me. I mean, they know what I say and write and produce online, but most of them know my avatar better. That’s the one.  I’m sitting outside at a…

  • October Carnival of Journalism: How to move the needle in your newsroom today

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    Journerdist-In-Chief Will Sullivan hosts this month’s resurgent Carnival of Journalism, asking the following: “What are small, incremental steps one can make to fuel change in their media organization?” I’ve mentioned some incremental steps you take to grow a little revenue at a time recently, and there’s a list of free or cheap tools for online…