Invisible Inkling

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

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On IdeaLab: Stack Overflow is your premium question answer tool

I’m trying to get into the habit of posting a few medium-length items over at IdeaLab every week.  here’s a start:
Stack Overflow Sets an Example for News Commenting Systems

The premise?  Stack Overflow, a new-ish site for programmers to answer each other’s questions, has a great voting system for comments, which are really just the answers [...]

The best newspaper webcast I’ve seen yet: Ledger Live

Remember that time when I spent two hours out of every day, five days a week, writing, shooting, and editing a daily newspaper webcast?
It stunk. It was no fun, a waste of time, and a poor way to engage online readers with video.
No one — and I mean no one — wants to watch you [...]

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 [...]

Brainstorms, in no particular order

Ideas bubbling to the surface on a sunny Saturday…

Has Joe Weiss ever thought about building a hosted Soundslides service, where users could upload their publish-to-web folder and get a friendly piece of embed code spit back out at them? Plus, of course, anyone could browse through any uploaded Soundslides show, and embed it on their [...]

Mine, mine, it’s all mine!

I want to save my favorite stories, right here, at your newspaper.com. Because really, what’s the sense in Digging a story about my neighborhood?