He works for a company, Gatehouse Media, where the stock has gone from more than $20 to 7 cents — yes, that 7 cents.

Sholin should spend more time working for Gatehouse and less on his promoting his thoughts and pontifications.

What a bunch of sycophants. Everyone loves everyone else and gives all their buddies an “attaboy.”

None of the stuff you’re making such a fuss about is anything but a techie toy. None of these will make newspapers a nickel and I would bet you don’t even have a business plan for any of these playthings.

I suspect not one reporter at any of the Gatehouse papers has ANY time to worry about finding background or comparing notes with another reporter.

When there is only one or two reporters, are there even beats or is it just run the handouts and the items supplied by the walkins?

Of course in the Gatehouse model, it’s pie suppers and knitting groups or the weekend staple of street fairs with lots of dog and kid pictures. The New York Times or Wall Street Journal, Gatehouse reporters aint.

This is my last post here — Oliver Luft keep deleting those comments. That’s the way a true journalism site should work. Let no one speak unless they agree with you or your selected.

Just owning a domain name and having some server time doesn’t make you, Oliver, a journalist.

And Ryan, I hope all your homeboys and homegirls at your site continue to sing Kum Ba Yah and hold hands as they watch real reporters lose their jobs.

On the Internet you can be anything you want to be. Ryan you have proven it. You imagined yourself a newspaper guru and now all your sycophants tell you that you are.

The three inaccuracies in the second to last graf of your last comment prove that you haven’t even bothered reading the first paragraph of the post you’re commenting on.

Good job, ace.

I’ll invite you a second time to show up at my blog, ryansholin.com, and make a comment like you do in this quiet corner.

I’m not going to edit your anonymous comments for accuracy, logic, or sanity, but thanks for playing.

Show up at my blog sometime and try the same game.

Um, that’s a pretty bizarre comment to leave here.

Feel free to do a little reporting on who I am and what I do, and you’ll find that I’m far from an ‘academic seeking a job.’

I’ve been working full-time in new media for longer than I was taking classes in graduate school, and although I might go back to school to get a Ph.D. someday, that’s not on the agenda for the next 10 years or so.

Check in with me in 2018; maybe your description of me will fit the bill then.

You’re just another academic trying to find a way to parlay others thoughts into your own research and a chance for a college/university teaching post by making the clueless professors and department heads think you know about new media.

Nothing new about you. Just the new academic seeking a job.