• About
  • Contact
  • Speaking
  • Work

Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

Summer vacation

August 22, 2008

I’m headed down to Venezuela for a break, leaving the laptop behind with plans to build some sandcastles with my girls.

Stay out of trouble, people.  On second thought, start some.

Last time I was in Caracas:

Lights of Caracas

    This post was all about

  • vacation, Venezuela and Ideas
  • Previously

    • What I spent time thinking about yesterday while you were at work
    • And we’re back
    • In Venezuela
Tweet this post with Bit.ly
  • Recent Posts

    • When all I have left is my Fun folder, I win
    • Back to the Internet’s Future
    • Epistemology and sources
    • Five
    • A Newsstand for the Tablet that might work
    • Don’t do this
    • Notes on the Cleverness Economy
    • IdeaLab: Q&A 2.0
    • Street by street, block by block
    • We are all technologists now
  • You might also be interested in

    10 random links you should mash.

    • SND Update
    • Angela Grant
    • David Cohn
    • Susan Mernit
    • VentureBeat
    • Stephanie Romanski
    • Nick Sergeant
    • Richard Koci Hernandez
    • Mark Luckie
    • Shaminder Dulai
  • What I'm Reading

    • VIDEO: Lady Gaga Telephone
      YouTube | March 15, 2010
      Pomplamoose video cover of Lady Gaga is perfect. Would love to know how their videos are affecting record sales, shows.
    • VIDEO: Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv #1
      YouTube | March 11, 2010
      Wow. Just, wow.
    • C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web
      The New York Times | March 15, 2010
      What will you do with your 160,000 hours of free C-Span?
    • Music Monday: "Telephone" Killed the Video Star
      Mother Jones | March 15, 2010
      Pop star releases music video. Music video television network bans music video. In 1981 or so, you edit the video, milk the publicity, and move on, Duran Duran style. But in 2010, your audience on YouTube is bigger anyway, so nothing has to change.
    • Kitsune tries Chatroulette
      HiLoBrow | March 15, 2010
      Psychoanalysis and literary tricksters from HiLoBrow. With video interludes that somehow include Logan's Run. All of this reminds me of college.
    • Chatroulette Map knows where you live (almost)
      Houston Chronicle TechBlog | March 11, 2010
      Dwight Silverman tries out a worrisome Chatroulette mashup that maps users and an image from their webcam. Yikes.
    • Kinda Sorta Media - Who
      Kinda Sorta Media | March 11, 2010
      Rex Sorgatz and friends have formed what sounds like a merry band of mercenary media types, roaming the streets of New York picking up gigs and staffing contracts with subsets of their network.
    • A Brief Inventory of "Competitor Collaborations" in the News
      jcstearns.posterous.com | March 11, 2010
      Josh Stearns notes the trend of inter-news-organization collaboration, most notably at newspapers in places like Ohio, Maine, Florida, and Texas, including mentions of a few projects powered by Publish2.
    • The case for context: my opening statement for SXSW
      Newsless | March 10, 2010
      Matt Thompson draws a bright line between the episodic distribution of information as it stands today, and emerging methods to put those episodes in context.
    • Intro to Final Cut Tutorials
      Photojournalism from a Student's Eye | March 11, 2010
      Daniel Sato shares a set of Final Cut tutorial videos he made for the newsroom in Garden City, Kansas.

    Powered by Publish2

  • I’m easy to find

    • Twitter
    • FriendFeed
    • Delicious
    • Flickr
    • ReportingOn
    • Wired Journalists
    • Publish2
    • IdeaLab
    • LinkedIn
  • Greatest Hits

    • 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head
    • Five Keys to Authenticity
    • 10 little white lies you hear about the future of newspapers
    • 10 blogs your newspaper needs to rip off
    • Further notes on the new journalism skillset
    • Online News Tools
  • Archives

  • RSS Feeds

    • Posts
    • Comments

© 2005-2010 Ryan Sholin under a Creative Commons license except where otherwise attributed.

Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8)