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    This website’s homepage had become a bit of a jumbled mix of unstructured posts and outdated navigation, so I spent about 40 minutes today updating it to the WordPress Twenty Twenty Four theme and doing some minor customization.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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The economics of letting your audience blog somewhere else

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    Spotted isolated bits of chatter over the weekend about this piece from Nate Silver, who used the available public data from Quantcast and elsewhere to make some assessments of the Huffington Post’s business model when it comes to unpaid contributors and their blogs. Here’s Nate’s thesis: “Although The Huffington Post does not pay those who…

  • WordPress › JSON API « WordPress Plugins

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    It’s a plugin that turns your WP content into a JSON API, making it easy to integrate it in other places, instead of turning other places into WP themes. WordPress › JSON API « WordPress Plugins

  • Can you gentrify the local web?

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    Susan Mernit relays a question from one community member in Oakland. According to the available data, the answer appears to be a resounding “no.” Can you gentrify the local web?

  • How Web Writers Get Held Responsible for the Lawyers, the Sales Guys and Even the Coffeemaker

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    Christopher Conklin provides a relatively clear introduction to the math involved in CPM-based online advertising sales, in the context of trying to settle an argument between Henry Blodget and Felix Salmon. How Web Writers Get Held Responsible for the Lawyers, the Sales Guys and Even the Coffeemaker

  • Five

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    When I started this blog, in my first week as a Mass Communications graduate student at San Jose State, it was hosted at Blogspot, and it was anonymous. That lasted for about a month. Pretty quickly, I signed up for a free WordPress instance at Blogsome, where I enjoyed a bit more freedom to learn…

  • There is no newspapers

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    I’ve been saying those words in person to people a lot lately: “There is no newspapers.” What’s it mean? It means that if you’re in the business of publishing pronouncements, predictions, prayers, analysis, criticism, or full on takedowns related to the current state of the newspaper industry, please understand that despite the convenience it would…

  • On IdeaLab: Reporter-turned-blogger covers the island of Alameda

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    Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I interviewed Michele Ellson, editor and publisher at The Island, a local news site devoted to covering the city of Alameda, which sits to the west of Oakland in San Francisco Bay. (Yes, it’s an island.) Michele left newspapers in 2007 and launched The Island in early 2008, continuing…