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Ryan Sholin

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  • Geeks for journalism or journalism for geeks?

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    Lex Alexander, Greensboro News-Record citizen-journalism guru, in a post about a community meetup to talk about the paper’s online CJ section: “We frequently get asked why we don’t do X, or whether we have ever thought about doing Y. Regarding Y, the answer is “probably.” But the N&R’s news department has an appetite for doing…

  • Computer assisted reporting 2.0

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    Now that the SJSU J-School is cooking up a New Media class for next semester, which I’ve suggested should be mostly a practical lab for future online editors, it’s time to start thinking about the next step in revising the curriculum. Which, of course, it’s not my job to do, but I haven’t let that…

  • Don’t fear the user-created content?

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    Do online news sites need to reinvent uploading and editing tools to gather user-created content? Steve Outing says no, making the case that YouTube, Google Video, and myriad third place finishers do the heavy lifting, hosting the video and spitting out the little block of code that a user can paste into a post in…

  • IBISEYE.com – Your Hurricane Information Center

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    From the Sarasota Herald Tribune, an awesome maps mashup of hurricane damage and data, from the 1850s to today. This is a great example of how to use data and graphics to provide readers with information the might actually want. IBISEYE.com – Your Hurricane Information Center

  • Sending you away so you’ll come back later

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    Well folks, I’m pretty much all blogged out on the whole New Newspapers thing for now. I’ve started to feel like a broken record playing a recording of a broken record where lots of people tell each other why they need to change how they run their businesses. I’m still reading plenty of on-topic stuff,…

  • Savannah 2.0

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    I remember Savannah as a gray place on a dreary day after Christmas in 1992, but then again, that’s what riding a Greyhound bus for 25 hours will get you: unlimited views of rundown downtowns. Advice to Greyhound: move your stations to shiny suburban malls. Here’s a far more colorful vision of Savannah: That’s the…

  • Digital Media Musings: Today at the Multimedia Reporting Seminar

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    A discussion about different ways to present multimedia content online, including different kinds of “story shells.” Digital Media Musings: Today at the Multimedia Reporting Seminar

  • Pizzacasting for answers

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    I had an interesting time last night at the Pizzacast session. It was a small group with a wide range of interests (journalism, public relations, computer science, theater, business, aggregators), and the conversation ranged wildly from the on-topic question of what to teach in the upcoming New Media class at SJSU’s j-school, to some pleasantly…

  • Building a community with newspaper blogs

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    John Robinson, editor of the blog-and-citizen-journalism-happy Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina, points to Robin Roger’s UNC-Chapel Hill master’s thesis on “Creating community and gaining readers through newspaper blogs.” [The full thesis as a PDF is here.] Robinson on the broad strokes of community-building: “We use the blogs to help us add information, context…

  • The Mechanic & the Muse: To Be Continued…On iTunes

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    “If serial narrative pioneers Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac were writing today, we’d be eagerly uploading their novel installments onto our iPods.” The Mechanic & the Muse: To Be Continued…On iTunes