Ryan Sholin

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  • Randomer than you

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    In the process of making some sort of point about “random story” buttons on news sites this morning, I added one to this blog. It’s up top in the nav for now. Look for the obviously labeled link that says “Random Post.” Or just click on this thing: But let’s be honest. This isn’t a…

  • Five

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    When I started this blog, in my first week as a Mass Communications graduate student at San Jose State, it was hosted at Blogspot, and it was anonymous. That lasted for about a month. Pretty quickly, I signed up for a free WordPress instance at Blogsome, where I enjoyed a bit more freedom to learn…

  • Blog posts I have written and not written this year

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    Hey, would ya look at that, the year’s almost over. And while I’m not the biggest fan of arbitrary divisions of time, I sure do like making lists. Year-end lists are little nuggets of candy that fall from the sky like sweet, sweet hail, and every now and then, it’s the end of a decade,…

  • Sometimes, I show up in person and talk about journalism

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    Just a quick programming note: If you’ve ever seen me in person, perhaps giving a short presentation and talking about journalism, blogs, social media, innovation at newspapers, or my own projects, you can now find related notes, slides, and links on my Speaking page. I’ll keep that updated.

  • How I share: A tour of my personal linking behavior

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    Things you may have noticed about me in recent days, weeks, months, or years: I don’t write blog posts as often as I used to. I share links all over the place, and I have for a long time now. I have a new job that involves a lot of thinking about best practices for…

  • If I had the time, I would write about Digital Sunlight, Bring a Professor Night, and BarCamp NewsInnovation

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    Publish2 begins a Digital Sunlight campaign, encouraging citizen journalists to contribute information about stimulus spending to a pool of coverage. Next Sunday is “Bring A Professor Night” at CollegeJourn, a new-ish weekly live chat about the state of student media and j-school. BarCamp NewsInnovation is growing quickly, and about as distributed as can be expected,…

  • Minor redesign of this here blog

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    I’ve been whittling away at this at random hours in between 642 other small projects, so feel free to click through and have a look at my handiwork. Major goals of this minor redesign included: Play with the header graphic. (Done.) Fix the FriendFeed stream and make it useful. (Done.) Clean things up, remove some…

  • Things to do…

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    Now that I’m back from vacation, here’s what’s on my to-do list for, uh, the foreseeable future: Finish developing the pre-alpha version of ReportingOn and launch it.  Like, really, really soon. Go to SND/APME next week, speak on Sunday, go to some awesome sessions and pimp ReportingOn to every editor I meet. Write the first…

  • Unscheduled downtime

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    “Sometimes, you eat the bar. And sometimes, the bar eats you.” And sometimes, something blows up at a data center in Houston and your cool new Web host has all its servers shut down for 36 hours while fires are quite literally put out and power is restored. I imagine things might be up and…

  • Server shuffle

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    I’ve moved this here blog and most everything else at ryansholin.com, reportingon.com, and a domain to be named later off to WebFaction ‘s servers. So far, so good. WebFaction support is already impressive, hitting me up with detailed instructions on how to easily import my WordPress database using ssh.  (Yes, I used the command line. …