Ryan Sholin

Tag: Technology

  • I dreamt I was in a social media class…

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    …and the textbook was the Henry Jenkins book which has been sitting relatively uncracked on my bedside shelf for a couple months now. Does that mean I’m supposed to read it, or that the Mass Communications program at school should have a social media class? Luckily, I don’t have time to think about that. I…

  • Your newspaper isn’t MySpace. Should it be?

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    I’ve often heard conversations about launching a social networking site at a newspaper start with the words “Not that we’re trying to be the next MySpace, but…” And it always begs the question, well, should we? Should a newspaper-hosted site be the social networking spot for your geographical area? Here’s a few variations on an…

  • Comment trouble at the Arizona Daily Star

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    Danny Sanchez points out an explainer from the Executive Editor of the Arizona Daily Star on why comments were deleted from some stories: “While we created the reader comments feature to give readers a place to talk, StarNet is still our house. And our editors and staff simply do not want guests who make vulgar,…

  • 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…

  • My first Soundslides BBQ

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    I had a lot of help on this, so don’t give me too much credit/blame. What I could use is some feedback. Check it out here.

  • I was in Boston all weekend, cut me some slack

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    I was in Boston all weekend. First time really walking around in the city. It felt a lot like New York, except that people in Red Sox hats kept popping up everywhere. Where do these people think they are? Is that guy wearing a Patriots shirt? WTF? Every time I go to a new vegetarian…

  • Spartan Daily online redesign

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    That said, the Spartan Daily just launched a redesign on its College Publisher site. Daniel Sato and Neal Waters started this project over the summer, and from the sound of things, getting an original design implemented on top of a CP template was more difficult this time around, compared to the pretty conventional design I…

  • Blogging is a community strategy, not a publishing platform

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    Kevin Anderson, blog editor at the super-blog-happy Guardian newspaper across the pond, writes: “Newspaper publishers and broadcasters often fall into the trap of trying to understand new media behaviour through old media paradigms. Podcasting becomes another distribution channel, and blogging becomes another publishing platform. Adding comments to the bottom of stories or columns is a…

  • How your newspaper can monetize citizen journalism

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    The traditional way: Content, community and local search build brand loyalty and page view traffic to sell your standard leaderboards, skyscrapers, squares and tiles. Some fresher ideas pointed out by the NAA Presstime magazine: Charge a little less for small businesses looking to advertise on your locally-targeted pages. Let the community (i.e. the Little League)…

  • More on the online skills study that made me say Wow

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    Rich Cameron at the JACC blog reacts to the finding that college experience with CMS tools, HTML and Photoshop will help j-school students get jobs in online news: “Those papers that post PDF only or use non-content management systems are cheating their students. College Publisher is the cheapest, but not only content management system available.…