Ryan Sholin

Tag: innovation

  • Knight Foundation expands into investment with an Enterprise Fund

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    Knight Foundation expands into investment with an Enterprise Fund: I missed this while on vacation last week, but as a sort of expansion of the Knight News Challenge, there’s now a 10 million dollar Knight Foundation fund to invest in for-profit companies. I continue to think this is a good idea.

  • Beyond Comment Threads

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    Beyond Comment Threads: A Mozilla journalism challenge on building better community conversations around the news. So far, nothing terrifyingly new. Paragraph-level commenting, Slashdot-style threading, collapsing, and moderation. And if I could figure out how to register for the site, with or without OpenID, I might be able to comment on the entries. (via PBS IdeaLab)

  • Carnival of Journalism: An open email to Michael Maness, because no one writes letters anymore

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    This post is but one burning twig in the roaring campfire that is the rekindled Carnival of Journalism. This month’s two options both provide the carnibloggers an opportunity to give advice to organizations with a mandate to give away money and other resources for the sake of improving journalism. I’ve chosen the option that involves…

  • Philadelphia and the pace of innovation

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    Exactly a year ago today, I worked my last day in corporate at a newspaper company and walked out the door to three days of technical unemployment before I started my new job at a startup on a Monday. Of course, those three days of unemployment were highlighted by a Saturday spent in Philadelphia at…

  • IdeaLab: Q&A 2.0

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    Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I wrote something earlier this week about what I think of as Q&A 2.0, the recent string of modern, general purpose question & answer sites exploring different ways to gather, filter, and deliver information. And that’s the right way to think about it: Gather, filter, and deliver information. That’s…

  • Innovation is easy: Hand the camera to the stuntman

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    So the wife and I were watching Bourne Ultimatum this weekend on DVD. (Yes, yes, I know, a few of you still know me as the former film student who was inspired to make movies because I knew I could do better than Lethal Weapon 2, but I still like a good action flick, OK?)…

  • Quick interview for BCNIPhilly

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    Sean Blanda hit me up today for a quick attendee interview for BCNIPhilly — that’s BarCamp NewsInnovation for the uninitiated, and you should show up to tell everyone about that cool project you’ve been busting your butt on for the last N days, weeks, or months. Here’s the tough last question from Sean: “Final question,…

  • Notes on getting serious about staffing for online news

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    Mark Potts on what it takes to shift a news organization’s focus from print to Web: “How many newspapers have a sizable staff responsible for managing print circulation? All of them of course. Now, how many have even one staff member responsible for managing online distribution via RSS, e-mail or Facebook? Damn few. How many…

  • BarCamp: NewsInnovation

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    Jason Kristufek has opened up a wiki for BarCamp / NewsInnovation: “The idea is to get energetic, tech-savvy, open-minded individuals who embrace the chaos in the media industry because the ability to do really cool things still exist. We also need find those people outside of our industry who love to consume news and information…

  • Let’s go BARcamp on the API CEO meetup

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    Know what Foo Camp is?  Know what BarCamp is? OK, now that we have that out of the way, Jason Kristufek is calling for a “summit” of future-of-news hotshots/thinkers as a counterpoint to the recent American Press Institute mostly-executives meeting of the minds. Sounds like a BarCamp to me.  Like Jason, I’m not entirely sure…