Ryan Sholin

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  • Digg the New York Times

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    A few familiar social bookmarking icons can now be spotted on stories at NYTimes.com. Just look for the Share heading in the Article Tools box. Click on it, and Digg, Facebook, and Newsvine buttons drop down, along with an all-important Permalink option that issues a linkrot-proof way to blog about the story in question, no…

  • Still wondering which online journalism skills to learn first? Glad you asked.

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    Wow. A great study by Northwestern master’s student C. Max Magee surveys Online News Association members and other online journalists to find out which skills are most important for aspiring Web-native producers and managers. Some of the findings are pretty standard: Attention to detail, multitasking ability, and communication skills are high on the list. That…

  • Job: Develop WordPress blogs for the New York Times

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    [Ed. note: I normally stuff interesting job postings into the del.icio.us feed that runs down the right rail of this blog, or in your feed reader, but this one is too interesting not to point to from here.] The New York Times is hiring a WordPress developer. The job is posted on the PaidContent new…

  • It was the best of MyTimes…

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    I haven’t seen it for myself yet, apparently not being one of the chosen 5,000 beta testers, but the New York Times aggregator/personalized news page called MyTimes is live. Reviews, analysis, and gripes are up at TechCrunch and PaidContent, including screenshots for the curious. It looks like a flawed but good effort from what I…

  • I’ll have to get back to Africa on my own dime

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    Looks like I won’t be spending any quality time with Nick Kristof anytime soon. Casey Parks, a j-school grad student at the University of Missouri, won the trip to Africa with the New York Times columnist to report/blog/videoblog for NYT and MTV. Read her essay and the musings of the other 12 finalists.

  • New York Times on e-paper

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    “One Day Soon, Straphangers May Turn Pages With a Button” The New York Times reports on the move some newspapers are already making to e-paper: “This is only one test of new e-paper devices competing to become the iPod of the newspaper business. Other e-paper trials are being undertaken by the paper Les Echos, which…

  • This boring headline is full of keywords

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    I’m having fun reading the headlines on all the blog posts that refer to a New York Times story from a few days ago. The story, which sported the headline “This Boring Headline Is Written For Google,” sort of half-explained the fact that online editors are now writing their headlines to specifically appeal to a…

  • Redesign round-up: The New York Times

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    The New York Times launched a redesigned home page yesterday, with Multimedia and Video high enough on the page to make me happy, and a cute little “Most Popular” tabbed box that includes the stories getting e-mailed and blogged the most, as well as the top search terms on the site. It gets better. Click…

  • Who Needs Ink? A panel discussion on the Future of Newspapers

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    Commonwealth Club event at San Jose City Hall: Who Needs Ink? Who’s here? Ex-Mercury News tech writer Dan Gillmor, currently of various citizen journalism initiatives Jerry Ceppos, ex-Knight Ridder news executive (and Merc alum) Peter Appert, a Goldman Sachs analyst Joan Walsh, Salon‘s editor-in-chief Jim Bettinger, communications prof from Stanford (and Merc alum) is moderating…

  • Travel the world, meet interesting people, blog for the New York Times

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    Win a trip to the developing world with Nick Kristof. What? And you won’t just be watching. I want you to report as well – probably in a Web log or video blog on the New York Times Web site, maybe in some other way. I’m open to other ideas as well, but I want…