Ryan Sholin

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  • The local follies: Finding the horizontal bonds in geographic communities

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    [Ed. note: Yeah, so that post title sounds like a clever research paper title, which it could certainly be, if I had the time and the inclination.] The Knight Foundation is giving away $25 million over five years to people like you with hyperlocal community news site ideas. Now that I have your attention… Online…

  • Newspapers: Make money online, minus the news

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    Who knows more about Santa Cruz, California than the Santa Cruz Sentinel? Well, that’s debatable, but let’s put it another way: Who’s bothered to put together a modern, readable Santa Cruz site for tourists? That’s right, the Santa Cruz Sentinel. DestinationSantaCruz.com is live, and it looks like a damn good idea. Build a site that…

  • SJSU Skype meeting tonight, in person and, um, on Skype

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    [2nd UPDATE: Skype lives at SJSU for now. Details at Skype Journal.] [UPDATE: Yeah, I totally didn’t tune in due to a scheduling conflict, but the word on the street is that SJSU will allow Skype usage. I’m wondering if we’re now a beta tester for Skype for Enterprise…] There’s an open forum on the…

  • My left armpit business model

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    [Ed. note: This post takes care of my smart-ass quota for the month.] In the middle of an uninteresting handwringer where nothing new is written about the future/death/rebirth/downfall of newspapers (pointing out the existence of craigslist is so 2005), Michael Kinsley writes at Time.com: “But there is room between the New York Times and myleftarmpit.com…

  • The questions I want answered about the proposed Skype ban at SJSU

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    San Jose State University is throwing around the idea of banning Skype from its network, due to concerns over Skype’s grid computing model. In Internet layman’s terms, that means Skype uses everybody’s bandwidth to ship packets around instead of some big central server of epic proportions. The folks behind Skype are the same people who…

  • 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…

  • For the record…

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    …I am not a spy from HP.

  • The truth about online community building at newspapers

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    Let’s get something out of the way here. From an idealistic, do-gooder, journalistic point-of-view, building a community around/at/affiliated with your newspaper’s Web site is all about giving people a place to talk to each other, find like-minded individuals, debate, discuss, share, and participate in local and far-flung news. That’s great. In fact, it’s so great…

  • I just checked in to see what condition my condition was in

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    My thesis proposal was conditionally approved yesterday, which means I can go ahead and start navigating the murky waters of the human subjects paperwork required by IRB. Once that’s in motion, I’ll make the expected changes that the committee wants, and submit the updates to my primary advisor. Meanwhile, the Sloan/McCune New Media class and…

  • More on student media server options

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    Bryan Murley at Reinventing College Media provides a roadmap of server/hosting options for student papers, including those looking to stray from the College Publisher herd. There are pros and cons to each choice, and Bryan does a great job of laying out what you’ll need to know, who you’ll need to trust, and what you’ll…