Ryan Sholin

Tag: writing

  • Channel switching

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    Not sure how much I have to say these days, as most of my media-thinking-and-writing happens in the office and not on this or any blog, but I’m going to make a run at switching back to WordPress from the Tumblr I’ve been barely touching. We’ll see. No promises.

  • The snark of working in public

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    The art of working in public: In which Robin Sloan writes a great blog post about other people writing great blog posts. “I have two exemplary pieces of 21st-century writing that I want to share with you. Neither is hot off the CMSes; they’ve both aged just a little in their tabbed casks. They have…

  • Where we write, where we blog, where we share

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    Yes, this is going to be one of the posts where the person writing says something along the lines of: “Gee, I don’t really blog much anymore. You should follow me on Twitter.” Sorry about that in advance. At the beginning of this year, I resolved to “write more, but not here,” where “here” equalled…

  • 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…

  • If Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski

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    Full script included. If Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski

  • About that resolution

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    Funny thing about writing is that it used to be much easier. Somewhere around 1991, I became one of those kids who didn’t have their textbook with them in class, but always had a spiral-bound notebook with all sorts of strange numbers and notations on the covers, and nothing but my guts spilled inside, in…

  • Items that recently have caught my attention

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    Reading The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2009 Published at Foreign Policy on December 14, 2009. Global warming, international relations, Iraq, Chechnya, and more — but not the headlines you were expecting. An important year-end list from Foreign Policy magazine, spotted via kottke.org. From a naval alliance that could shift the military balance of…

  • What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders

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    Merlin Mann, via @jkottke. Includes: “4. Good blog posts are made of paragraphs. Blog posts are written, not defecated. They show some level of craft, thinking, and continuity beyond the word count mandated by the Owner of Your Plantation.” What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders

  • Innovation is messy

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    Michele McLellan has been doing some liveblogging of the Knight Digital Media Center’s Leadership Conference this week. Check out her notes from Krisztina Holly’s talk about innovation.  Holly mentioned seven myths about innovation; I’m going to flip the proverbial script and turn them into Seven Reasons Innovation is Messy: Focusing your vision on the core…

  • Standalones

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    Steve Yelvington, on the consequences of removing copy editors from the newspaper equation: “The dirty little secret of newspaper journalists is that a lot of them can’t write very well. That’s by no means universally true, but it’s true enough.” … Zac Echola, on his vision of a distributed and loosely joined newsroom: “The Internet…