Ryan Sholin

Tag: Knight News Challenge

  • You have 17 nights left to Challenge yourself.

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    I remember where I was the first time I read about the Knight News Challenge and was inspired enough to blog about it. A tire shop.  This one: (Photo yanked from Google Maps Street View.) Seriously, it was late in September 2006 and I was sitting with my huge beast of a laptop in the…

  • IdeaLab: One week of ReportingOn, international style

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    Yes, yes, I know I haven’t written much here lately, but my reading and blogging time is mostly getting happily occupied with development on ReportingOn, which has been open for a week now in a public beta. The most noticeable thing about ReportingOn so far is the strong Spanish- and Portugeuse-speaking turnout.  Seriously, North America,…

  • IdeaLab: DIY Django development at ReportingOn

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    Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted a bit of background on why I ended up building ReportingOn in Django instead of Drupal.  Frankly, to the users of the site, it shouldn’t matter which platform I chose, but to me, and to the future of the project as an open source basis for news organizations, I think…

  • Launching ReportingOn 1.0

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    This is an experiment. I launched what I’ll call ReportingOn 1.0 this afternoon, as an unfinished application to help journalists of all stripes make connections based on their beat. It’s the word “unfinished” that’s the most experimental part of this right now. I guess it’s my translation of “iterative.” The premise is this:  Launch what…

  • My obstacles to innovation question, abandoned and rediscovered

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    From my living room at the crack of dawn on Sunday, getting ready to catch my flight to SNDVegas, it seemed like a good idea to give myself a reporting assignment. I said that I would ask lots of people a question, on video, and post their replies. Well, fail.  Epic fail.  Why?  Because, frankly,…

  • Chicago tomorrow

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    Later tonight, I’ll be on my way to Chicago for a Knight Foundation meeting ahead of the UNITY 2008 conference. I’m psyched to see the News Challenge posse, but of course if you’re in town for UNITY and want to cross paths on Tuesday, drop me a line or better yet, DM me on Twitter.…

  • I happen to know some people with ideas.

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    If you’re not already subscribed to the PBS IdeaLab blog, the forum for Knight News Challenge winners to talk about their projects, spout off on related topics, and generally try to change the world, now would be a good time. Here’s a few recent posts over there that I’m still thinking about: Amy Gahran on…

  • Hello, Boston!

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    I’m at the MIT Center of Future Civic Media today and tomorrow meeting with fellow Knight News Challenge winners, Knight Foundation staff, and rock stars from the MIT media lab who are building all kinds of crazy stuff. Seriously, there are lots of cool kids here, few of whom I’ve met in person before. Say…

  • Caught on tape by Digidave

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    David Cohn, fellow Knight News Challenge winner for his crowdfunding project, Spot.Us, turned his point & shoot on me last week in the hallway in Vegas. Here’s the results: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPRStOGRds[/youtube]

  • Migration and alternate reads

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    I’ve been a little busy for the last week or so moving across the country, although going weeks between posts isn’t really anything new here, eh? As always, I’m posting to Twitter far more often than I could hope to blog here. While I’m slammed with life and work busy-ness, please check out the following…