Ryan Sholin

Tag: fragmentation

  • Show off your front pages

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    David Weinberger describes the unbundling of media in clear terms: “I’ve been saying for a while, and I think in Everything Is Miscellaneous, that the new front page is distributed across our day and our network. Much of it comes through our inbox. It consists of people we know and people we don’t know recommending…

  • The local follies: Finding the horizontal bonds in geographic communities

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    [Ed. note: Yeah, so that post title sounds like a clever research paper title, which it could certainly be, if I had the time and the inclination.] The Knight Foundation is giving away $25 million over five years to people like you with hyperlocal community news site ideas. Now that I have your attention… Online…

  • Serendipity on the Web

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    Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You, makes an effort to do away with the vicious rumor that the Internet, Web, RSS, blogs, etc. have killed serendipity. For the uninitiated, or those who merely like words such as “ephemeral” or “paradigm” but try not to get bogged down in definitions, serendipity is…