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How I feel having my social media invaded by #ONA12

by sdulai on Sep 22, 2012 • No Comments

Over the last couple of days I’ve been seeing all my friends posting about one cool or interesting thing after another that’s happening at ONA, and I just find myself wishing I could be a part of it. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to join them in San Francisco so instead I’m making memes. Be...

SnapDap: Drew Angerer’s Clinton surprise

by sdulai on May 14, 2012 • No Comments

Welcome to the latest installment of SnapDap, a series of posts where we give props to a single image, story or project and the photographers behind them. If there’s something inspiring your eye and you;d like to see it featured in a future installment, please let us know in the comments below! A couple weeks...

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Introducing VidScribe, an open source #MozNewsLab project

by sdulai on Aug 8, 2011 • 3 Comments

Online news video does a poor job of making itself available to viewers and thinking about how they access it. In order to build audiences and grow their business, newsrooms need a better way of structuring video to serve the public, because viewers need trusted, reliable and accurate information from news gatherers in a timely...

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The Million Dollar Road Show

by sdulai on Jul 4, 2011 • No Comments

My latest endeavor, a show about finding homegrown entrepreneurs along America’s roadways, kicked off nearly a month ago in Chicago. For the last couple weeks I’ve been traveling cross country in an Airstream with a pair of brothers and producing a documentary travel show about finding homegrown heroes along America’s roadways. Right now we have...

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My how times have changed

by sdulai on Jan 25, 2009 • No Comments

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my short lifetime and in my even shorter professional life, it’s that everything changes. No matter what you think can’t be changed, will in all probability, change. Just thinking back at some of the things I used to believe, some examples of which I’m sure you can find...

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I finally get Twitter! I believe! I believe!

by sdulai on May 12, 2008 • No Comments

I was an early adopter of Twitter, signing up for it in the wake of the buzz it created at South by Southwest 2007, but I didn’t write anything for a couple weeks, unsure of what I could use it for or even who would care what I had to say. At the time I...

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$12, 12 hours, 12 musicians

by sdulai on Mar 6, 2008 • No Comments

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the 48 Hour Film Fest and a few of you may have heard of 24 House Comic Day, but I’m pretty sure not to many have heard of the inaugural Crate Digger Deathmatch, a 12 hour contest that challenges contestants to spend $12 on supplies and produce an album...

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Organizing photos goes all Philip K. Dick

by sdulai on Nov 9, 2007 • No Comments

I don’t write about technology often, I know, this coming from the guy that posts about video-hosting websites, new cameras, RAW processing and Microsoft’s table computer thing, but honest I don’t do it often, check! Anywho I was looking at the Natchway speech from the TED awards again, and I saw this other video on...

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Newspaper’s biggest failure and for some reason we continue to ignore it

by sdulai on Oct 17, 2007 • No Comments

The biggest failure of the newspaper industry has been failing to change and adapt with its audience. We all say that readership is down and that newspapers are dying (a moment of silence for our brothers and sisters at the Dallas Morning News) and frankly subscribers are dying (old age) and we aren’t getting new...

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Mercury News Photo gets a new look

by sdulai on Sep 7, 2007 • No Comments

Yet another redesign over at the merc, there’s something to this whole self-taught thing that I have yet to learn. I was feeling a little something for home and decided to check out the local news, wowza, someone’s been busy! While there take a look at SF Fashion Week (there’s a really awesome shot at...

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How is news changing? Ask some experts!

by sdulai on Aug 23, 2007 • No Comments

I spend a lot of time talking about and thinking about new media and how it is going to change the news business and what we need to do to make sure we change with it. There’s been more than a few posts here on SLR and talks in person to anyone willing to listen....

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Ike bien en German spam

by sdulai on Aug 18, 2007 • No Comments

So it seems that my last post was converted to German and posted on a weird blog, which I can only assume is spam. 3 things come to mind: 1. WTF 2. How do you find these things Ryan? 3. What can I do to make sure this happens again. It’s a bold new frontier...

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Yup, once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn. The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt. This month I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a letter. As it’s the end of the year, it felt like the right time to look inward. Plus we spend so much time looking outside of ourselves at the industry/government/tech trends/government that self-reflection becomes that icky no-no that we seldom tackle. I know it’s scary, but come’on, let’s do this thing! Why? Because YOLO? “Write a letter to your younger self.” Dear Me, I’m writing to you from 2013, a little wiser, a little slower and probably still confused about why more people don’t do the right thing, but don’t let that stop you from trying. We’ve always been stubborn. I’m packing for a trip to India right now as I write this– don’t worry, you’re not married and yup, you’ll eventually leave California and actually get to fly in a plane– it’s been a wild couple of days. The last 10 or […]

Posted: December 20th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
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Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt

Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end of 2013, it’s a natural time for reflection and in that spirit I think I’ve come up with what I hope will be an enjoyable and perhaps even cathartic prompt: “What would you write if you could send a letter to your fifteen-year-old self?” For December I would like you all to write a letter to your younger self. You can write about anything, no rules, no apologies. You may like to share with yourself advice, things to look out for, things you wished you did differently, regrets, hopes, what you’ve learned, about your life, choices… or just about anything that is on your mind. Ideally these are deeply personal to you and I hope it’ll be enlightening to others in its universality to the human condition. More often than not, if it’s important to you, it’s important to others. And who knows, maybe you’ll […]

Posted: November 11th, 2013 ˑ 7 Comments
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