Invisible Inkling

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

All About aggregators

Alltop is Popurls for everything

March 10, 2008 – 6:45 am

Guy Kawasaki and his friends at Alltop have been building a series of cute little aggregators a la popurls that are full of headlines from a set of hand-picked blogs submitted by people who pay attention to Guy and friends in places like Twitter.
Myself included.
And so, you’ll find Invisible Inkling listed now at both socialmedia.alltop.com [...]

Scobleization plus three years

February 12, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Three years and two days ago, I got Scobleized.
The highlight of Robert’s informal talk was when he plugged his tablet into the projector in a packed room at the SJSU/MLK library and showed us his aggregator.
It was Bloglines at the time, not that it mattered.
I was blown away by the amount of information — and [...]

Show off your front pages

October 3, 2007 – 4:30 am

David Weinberger describes the unbundling of media in clear terms:
“I’ve been saying for a while, and I think in Everything Is Miscellaneous, that the new front page is distributed across our day and our network. Much of it comes through our inbox. It consists of people we know and people we don’t know recommending items [...]

Using RSS to track the politicians you cover

February 3, 2007 – 11:21 am

Megan Taylor, an online journalism student at the University of Florida*, has been reviewing RSS feeds from newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post this week.
She points out a feature I hadn’t seen yet in the Post’s Congressional voting database: RSS feeds on every member of Congress full of their votes. (Thanks Adrian!)
Here’s [...]

Google Reader > NewsGator

November 4, 2006 – 1:05 pm

Switching aggregators again.
I always feel compelled to explain myself when I do this, as if all the people I talk to about RSS are looking over my shoulder while I read my feeds.
NewsGator Online has been slow on and off, well, forever, and a couple weeks ago, when I saw them testing AdSense in my [...]