Invisible Inkling

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

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Twitter take-up Tuesday brought me Clarence

December 11, 2007 – 8:27 pm

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 [...]

The word Kindle makes me think of burning books

November 18, 2007 – 8:29 pm

All branding aside, the oncoming launch of Amazon’s e-paper device essentially begins the practical discussion about e-paper in earnest.
Books are a neat trick, but I’m pretty exclusively thinking in terms of the future of newspapers here.
Things to pay attention to:

EVDO: This device has ubiquitous Internet access when in cell range. That’s good. [...]

Obligatory Twitterquake post

October 31, 2007 – 6:33 am

So last night, around 8 p.m. California time, a rather large truck was idling in front of our building.
That was what it felt like at first, then the wife and I looked at each other and said the magic word: “Earthquake.”
Whoa.
We scrambled for a few seconds, made some moves to grab the kid and get [...]

The first rule about AT&T services

September 30, 2007 – 8:22 pm

Via Journerdism, BoingBoing, and Slashdot, in that order, comes this excerpt from AT&T Terms of Service on a bellsouth site:
“5.1 Suspension/Termination. Your Service may be suspended or terminated if your payment is past due and such condition continues un-remedied for thirty (30) days. In addition, AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion [...]

Upgrade in progress; mind the gap

September 25, 2007 – 6:58 am

I’m in the middle of an upgrade to WordPress 2.3, but I’m getting pulled away to other duties before I finish straightening out importing old UTW tags to the new 2.3 built-in tagging hotness.
So a few things, like tags, are broken at the moment. I’ll update later (tonight?) when I fix them.
But, hey, wouldn’t [...]