Ryan Sholin

Whoa. These guys were a footnote to a Spartan Daily story I wrote in 2006. Fourth round of funding?! - Ryan Sholin

Regina McCombs doesn't believe the anti-video hype. Here's her Poynter rundown of what's driving traffic at local news sites running regular online video. - Ryan Sholin

Well isn't this just an advertisement for mediocrity. - Ryan Sholin

This should be a great tool for tons of news organizations without a method in place for gathering video from their community. Also worth noting: It's incredibly disruptive to the few companies that already do this for news orgs. With YouTube's brand behind it, this should take off quickly. - Ryan Sholin

Like Wordle? Check out this improvement on the concept, comparing two speeches, or two stories, and mapping the common vocabulary in each. This was done with Processing. (Spotted via infosthetics.com) - Ryan Sholin

Most Twitter apps along these lines feel like toys to me, rather than genuine measurement tools, but a quick way to find "the most influential Twitter users" on a given topic feels useful for the average reporter just getting into social media. - Ryan Sholin

Sigh. - Ryan Sholin from Bookmarklet

You've seen these videos. Now they have a name. - Ryan Sholin

Maybe this is why due dates finally got added to to-dos in Basecamp, eh? - Ryan Sholin

This almost makes me want to play this sort of video game. - Ryan Sholin

Yes. - Ryan Sholin

Ahem. Don't quite know where to start on this one... - Ryan Sholin

Fantastic tutorial using Python, Beautiful Soup, and a few other free ingredients to cook up a visually attractive map. - Ryan Sholin

Some ideas about a common problem with register / login forms on the Web. I used to consistently screw this up at Twitter.com, where I would enter my credentials and then click the biggest shiniest button around, which apparently said "JOIN TODAY." - Ryan Sholin

Stunning visualizations and analysis of how the narrative options in Choose Your Own Adventure books changed over time. (Spotted via Snarkmarket.) - Ryan Sholin

As a parent with a budget decidedly under the Maclaren minimum, I have to cackle wildly at this news. But I hope everybody's fingers are OK. - Ryan Sholin

Is Mario Garcia redesigning the Inquirer? Or did he already, and I haven't been paying attention? - Ryan Sholin

Spotted via a @dsato share. Gotta be a little scary to skate this and see a tentacle coming at you, though, right? - Ryan Sholin from Bookmarklet

Best thing ever, or awesomest thing ever? - Ryan Sholin

Fantastic New York Times graphic detailing every batter Mariano Rivera has ever faced in the postseason. - Ryan Sholin

These people are awesome. - Ryan Sholin