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Re: What is the real-time web? (Scripting News)

gort581 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:08:58 -0000

Exactly.

Re: Content Doesn’t Matter Without the Package

gort581 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:55:44 -0000

@Patrick I took the liberty of talking about packages over here: http://ryansholin.com/x/4 -- I'm coming at it from the angle of "what packages are people already paying for online today?" So, RSS readers (circa 2005-6), Twitter clients (circa 2008-9), and ?

Re: Do you have a cloud-enabled feed? (Scripting News)

gort581 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:42:16 -0000

I've got RSSCloud running over at ryansholin.com, but of course that's *precisely* the feed I update the least. :P

Re: Joey Joining the NewsTrust Team

gort581 — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:48:08 -0000

Awesome internship! Congrats to you and to NewsTrust, too.

Re: College Publisher's response

gort581 — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:55:11 -0000

[I just wrote this long comment in Google Reader ( you can find it on FriendFeed here: http://ff.im/2uYki ) and then realized it belongs here on CICM post.]

I'm glad to see CICM giving College Publisher a chance to respond to criticism, but frankly, my opinion (having developed, designed, and managed content with CP, WordPress, and other systems) is that while a hosted solution like College Publisher is fine if your students are content to simply produce content, in order to learn anything about Web development or design in student media, you need to have your hands deep in the guts of an open source system with a community that can support your exploration.

College Publisher isn't that. It's a proprietary publishing system, not an educational tool.

-- Ryan Sholin

[Full disclosure: I'm on the board of directors at CoPress.]

Re: The Next Killer App is to Twitter as 1-2-3 was to Visicalc (Scripting News)

gort581 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:38:16 -0000

And there's the Prologue theme for WordPress: http://tr.im/jCZ5 -- which (with plugins) could easily take care of everything except #4, depending on how #1 shakes out. (WordPress is free -- you can host it anywhere; WordPress.com is free, they host it for you, but some of the other list items here either cost $ or become more difficult.)

Re: The Next Killer App is to Twitter as 1-2-3 was to Visicalc (Scripting News)

gort581 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:35:04 -0000

Sounds great. So there's a few people trying to do #1, right? Yammer, Shout'Em, Twingr, who else? And in a way, Tumblr does 1-3, doesn't it? I'd put it this way: We need a Ning for twitters. Right?

Re: Journalists need to learn about bootstraps (Scripting News)

gort581 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:33:47 -0000

Right, OK, http://scripting.com/rss.xml certainly does that job. (Obvious, yes. Intuitive? Eh...)

Re: Journalists need to learn about bootstraps (Scripting News)

gort581 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:05:08 -0000

Dave, I know this question seems incredibly obvious and appropriate, but is there an RSS feed for the podcasts you've been doing lately? Does the old Morning Coffee Notes feed have these in it? If I could subscribe in (yes) iTunes, I'd be hearing every one. Seeing a link to an mp3 in my browser or Twitter client doesn't get the job done.

Thanks!

Re: ReportingOn.com - Twitter For Journalists | Visit reportingo

gort581 — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:27:26 -0000

Hi all --

Ryan Sholin here, founder of ReportingOn, which is a small project funded by the Knight News Challenge.

Thanks for the post here, and the votes up! While "Twitter for journalists" has been the easy tag on the current version of the site, those of you that are familiar with Stack Overflow will be interested in the changes we'll roll out at RO in the next few weeks. Expect a much heavier emphasis on questions & answers in the next iteration, with the goal of making it easy for journalists at any organization -- whether it's a neighborhood blog or the Washington Post -- to find each other and help each other out.

Thanks again,
Ryan

Re: Student media covering the inauguration

gort581 — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:38:04 -0000

I've gotta throw some more love at San Jose State University, which has a team of student journalists working their way up to DC via a route through civil rights landmarks: http://sjsuinauguration.wordpress.com/

Re: Measuring Feedburner's latency (Scripting News)

gort581 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:35:53 -0000

At a glance, I've got a post in Google Reader from someone else's Feedburner feed -- FB published it at 2:50 p.m.; it showed up in gReader at 4:25 p.m.

Re: Measuring Feedburner's latency (Scripting News)

gort581 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:27:22 -0000

So if Feedburner's not the problem, maybe it's Google Reader being slow to index it? I've seen my own posts take their sweet time hitting my reader from a feedburner feed lately.

Re: Game designer Richard Garriott blasts into space on a private rocket

gort581 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:11:24 -0000

There was a great story in Wired a couple months back about Garriott and other civilians training in Star City: http://bit.ly/34I8ff

Re: Mayhill Fowler and “citizen journalism”

gort581 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:30:32 -0000

I think we're on the right track, with Mayhills out in the crowd covering what the pro-press can't (or won't) cover, but I'm not sure these two examples are really what we want to be holding up as examples of a movement to We Media.

In both cases, the result is very much a "gotcha" sound bite with little-to-no long-term value or importance. Did the first episode frame Obama as someone different than we thought he was? Maybe, maybe not. Did it matter, or will it in the long-term? I doubt it.

Was it hot breaking news that Bill Clinton has a grudge against a reporter or two, and doesn't appreciate getting kicked around in the press? Um, no.

So, just sayin', I'm not exactly proud of Mayhill as some sort of shining example of capital C capital J Citizen Journalism. Seems like both bits of Mayhill Media have served as fodder for cable news first, and topics of valuable conversation a distant second.

Re: I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing

gort581 — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:25:03 -0000

Here's a nested reply.

Re: I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing

gort581 — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:24:33 -0000

Testing out the new layout I'm putting together for reportingon.com.

Re: Craigslist fires legal cannon at blogger

gort581 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:51:01 -0000

It might be bad PR, but if you don't try to protect your trademark, you lose it, more or less, yes? You occasionally hear Kevin Rose say something like "we hate doing this, but we have to" when Digg tries to shut down any site with d-i-g-g in the domain name. IANAL, etc.

Re: What are you ReportingOn?

gort581 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:55:39 -0000

The first little tiny piece of reportingon.com is live in the sidebar on the right. If you send a tweet to @reportingon, it will show up here after a 'few' minutes. Eventually, I'll get this built in a much more solid way using the Twitter API. Right now that's just the search results from Terraminds.com being fed through SimplePie to show up here.

Re: What are you ReportingOn?

gort581 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:30:10 -0000

Hi everyone. Thanks for checking out the site. This is one of several places where discussions are going on about what exactly ReportingOn should be like.

Most of the feedback I've heard from professional journalists at this point goes along the lines of "I'm not sure reporters will be willing to share what sort of stories they're on, for fear of getting scooped."

What do you think? Would you be willing to post something in a public forum for your beat to get feedback from peers at another paper in another town?