Invisible Inkling

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

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Unscheduled downtime

“Sometimes, you eat the bar. And sometimes, the bar eats you.”
And sometimes, something blows up at a data center in Houston and your cool new Web host has all its servers shut down for 36 hours while fires are quite literally put out and power is restored.
I imagine things might be up and down [...]

5 important things that happened in the last 10 days

In no particular order, with little commentary, and limited accuracy on that whole “10 days” concept:

Google Friend Connect: Just the tip of the iceberg.
YouTube Citizen News: Aggregate, aggregate, aggregate.
Disqus + Seesmic Video Comments: Say it, don’t spray it?
MySpace and Facebook data availability: Bring your profile to the party.
3G iPhone coming in June at $199: Guaranteed [...]

Server shuffle

I’ve moved this here blog and most everything else at ryansholin.com, reportingon.com, and a domain to be named later off to WebFaction ’s servers.
So far, so good. WebFaction support is already impressive, hitting me up with detailed instructions on how to easily import my WordPress database using ssh.  (Yes, I used the command line.  Be [...]

The difference between Facebook friends and Twitter friends

I’ll add you as a Facebook friend just because we went to elementary school together, even if we don’t really have anything to talk about anymore.
I’ll add you as a Twitter friend just because we have something to talk about, even if I have no idea where you went to elementary school.

Twitter take-up Tuesday brought me Clarence

I’m not going to go into much detail or analysis of what happened to Twitter today, other to point out that this blog post by Jeremiah Owyang started it and became a hub for at least 300 people to connect to each other, and thus to each other’s networks.
“Quite simply, my whole hustle is that,
‘I [...]