Ryan Sholin

Tag: Technology

  • Reinvent one thing at a time

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    I’ve had an exciting week. Talking to profs and students at the AEJMC convention really lit the proverbial fire under my ass, and I’ve been able to get started on a database (Okay, so it’s just a spreadsheet at the moment.) that will be the kernel of my thesis data. Meanwhile, I put together a…

  • Making the inconvenient accessible

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    We finally made it out to see An Inconvenient Truth last night. Remind me again why Al Gore isn’t running for President in 2008? Sorry, but I haven’t heard a good enough reason. Personally, I’d like to see him grow his beard back, put on a flannel shirt and a pair of jeans, and go…

  • 10 things I heard at the AEJMC convention today

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    Let me tell you about my first time … at the AEJMC convention. Seriously, I had never been to a conference or convention that was about my own field before today. I mean, I’ve hung out with the physicists and the photographers and maybe even the real estate data information professionals back when I was…

  • Conference call

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    I’ll be at AEJMC today in San Francisco, probably in the ethics and citizen journalism panel in the early morning and then the newspapers and journalism education panel at midday. Where will I be in between? Hanging out in the hallway, talking to you. But watch out – I’m working on a story, so I…

  • Search drives serendipity, a continuing conversation

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    [Ed. note: This is the text of an e-mail I sent in reply to a comment a J-School professor from the University of Florida left on a post from a couple months ago regarding Serendipity on the Web. Part of his reply is posted at the end of this post.] Hi Prof. McKeen – Thanks…

  • Will the real newspaper video model please stand up

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    What kind of video do you want in your online newspaper? Broadcast-style stand-ups? Afternoon reports from the newsroom? Snarky into the camera videoblogs from your columnists? Straight news packages? Mindy McAdams at Teaching Online Journalism has been talking about this all month, drilling down on things like the fancy new HD cameras that will let…

  • Blog research at the AEJMC convention

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    For next week’s trick, I’ll be both a reporter and a student at the AEJMC convention. I’m planning on showing up Thursday morning to the citizen journalism session and later in the day for the “What’s Next for Newspapers and for Journalism Education? – A Continuing Discussion” session. Of course, I might want to duck…

  • BlogHer and the media, meaning me in this case

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    The odd thing about being both a blogger and a journalist — on this particular day — is reading a story in the newspaper that I wrote about BlogHer, in which I try to play reality against what the big bad mainstream media (which is now apparently me) would have us believe is the stereotypical…

  • A framework for networked journalism

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    Jay Rosen lays all his cards on the table, posting his plans for NewAssignment.net, a to-be-constructed site where reporters and The People Formerly Known As The Audience can party together. And by “party together,” I mean the masses can use all their social bookmarking/tagging/networking power to point to the stories they want to see covered…

  • Career paths of glory

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    (Just thinking out loud here…) There’s the multimedia producer version, where I keep learning Flash and web design until I can get myself a job putting together interactive graphics and training others to do it. Extra points here for my video editing skills and general understanding of visual style. Those four years of film school…