Ryan Sholin

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  • SPJ’s News Gems blog to close?

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    Jon Marshall’s News Gems blog at SPJ.org has been a quiet, consistent resource, chronicling high-quality reporting for more than three years. Marshall is moving on to other endeavors: “As we reach the end of 2008, I wish I could say that things have gotten easier for journalists. Of course they haven’t. But after producing this…

  • Who’s hiring? Blogs.

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    Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo on plans for 2009: “So January will usher in a new Democratic Ascendancy in Washington. And here at TPM we believe we are uniquely qualified to chronicle it. So to that end we are hiring two new reporter-bloggers to be based in Washington, DC, one assigned to the White…

  • Bought out? Laid off? TypePad has your bailout.

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    The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program: Recently bought out, laid off, or otherwise relieved of your daily newspapering duties?  SixApart’s TypePad blog service is offering a free account that usualy costs money, advertising services, and promotion at Blogs.com. “Your blog can act as a clip file for your best pieces, whether you’re looking for freelance work…

  • Placeblogger: More human than ever

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    Check out the redesigned Placeblogger a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner. The aggregation-by-location niche seems to be blowing up lately, especially as startups try to hitch their maps to the iPhone’s wagon, but Placeblogger feels like real live humans are writing blog posts in real live places.  I like that. via the Knight Foundation Blog.…

  • A short manifesto on local linkblogging

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    Brittney Gilbert blogs for a TV station in the Bay Area.  I’ve mentioned her before, and even though I’ve moved geographically far from her coverage area, I keep up with her tweets and various postings. Today she writes: I am not a journalist. While I disagree (the curator is a journalist and the journalist is…

  • djangoscope

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    Hasn’t been updated since before 1.0 was released, but a useful reference nonetheless. djangoscope

  • The Lyceum Project

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    A different way to host multiple (i.e. hundreds of) WordPress blogs. The Lyceum Project

  • What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders

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    Merlin Mann, via @jkottke. Includes: “4. Good blog posts are made of paragraphs. Blog posts are written, not defecated. They show some level of craft, thinking, and continuity beyond the word count mandated by the Owner of Your Plantation.” What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders

  • FEC elates strange bedfellows with political blogging ruling – ars technica

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    I’ve been following this thread for a few years now. The FEC has been getting this right for some time now, correctly positing that free speech is free speech, even when it’s political, and that speech doesn’t count as a political contribution. That seems pretty clear, but this ruling confirms it yet again. via @journerdism…

  • Dealing with the elephant: Incremental change

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    This is the second post in a short series I’m going to write about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual divisive blathering about how to avoid bureaucracy and feed trolls.  The starting point, the givens in the equation, are listed here.  Suggest what I should tackle next using…