Invisible Inkling

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

All About conferences

Innovation is easy.

Here’s a PDF of the short presentation I made at SND in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago.

It’s remarkably simple.  I think I waved my arms a lot to fill up my five minutes.
This presentation goes well with the list of mostly free online news tools I posted a couple weeks ago, as well.  That [...]

My obstacles to innovation question, abandoned and rediscovered

From my living room at the crack of dawn on Sunday, getting ready to catch my flight to SNDVegas, it seemed like a good idea to give myself a reporting assignment.
I said that I would ask lots of people a question, on video, and post their replies.
Well, fail.  Epic fail.  Why?  Because, frankly, I was [...]

Check out my online news toolbox

I finally finished a basic Tools page to start a list of some of the basic, mostly-free, mostly-embeddable applications that I recommend for quick and simple Web production.
It’s not intended to be all-encompassing; it’s just a short list of things I find useful.  You might find them useful, too.
But if you have any suggestions for [...]

The question I’m going to ask everyone at SND and APME

I’m off in a few minutes to the airport to SND and APME in Las Vegas for a few nights.
Here’s the plan I’m cooking up for a little video interview project:

Carry my point & shoot camera.
Ask lots of people I meet to answer one question on video.
Post all the answers.
Edit together the best into a [...]

See you in Vegas?

I can’t believe it’s Friday already, which means I’m just a couple days away from hopping a flight to Las Vegas for the massive SND/APME conference.
Check out the schedule of speakers at SND for starters and drool: DeVigal. Curley. Veen.
The “Young Voices” panel I’m on (yes, yes, they know I have a gray hair or [...]