Ryan Sholin

Tag: The News Business

  • TechCrunch gets eaten alive at the ONA

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    Apparently, I missed all the fun when I decided to skip the Online News Association conference in DC last week. TechCrunch author/editor/owner Mike Arrington showed up for a panel talk with Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine, Mike Davidson of Newsvine, and Adam Yamaguchi of Current. Sounds like a good plan, right? A tech blogger, a media…

  • Why it’s good that I didn’t go to DC this week

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    The annual Online News Association conference is going on in Washington, D.C. at the moment. I didn’t make plans to get across the country to be there in person, which turns out to be convenient given the fact that I’ve been out of the house most of the week while it gets tented for termites.…

  • 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…

  • Spicy Breakfast Links

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    I can’t promise this will be a new feature or anything, after all, I can only handle so much spice in my granola, but here’s a couple…wait for it…hot links. The Wall Street Journal is all over the rumored/upcoming/already-happened/to-be-announced-at-9am-pacific-time/only-a-rumor sale of Knight Ridder. Its report offers some new information: there’s a massive bonus coming to…