Invisible Inkling

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

All About conferences

See you in Vegas?

September 5, 2008 – 8:17 am

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 [...]

Chicago tomorrow

July 21, 2008 – 9:18 am

Later tonight, I’ll be on my way to Chicago for a Knight Foundation meeting ahead of the UNITY 2008 conference.
I’m psyched to see the News Challenge posse, but of course if you’re in town for UNITY and want to cross paths on Tuesday, drop me a line or better yet, DM me on Twitter.
So far, [...]

Cambridge, MA is full of really, really smart people, yes?

June 12, 2008 – 9:22 am

The Stata Center at MIT.
Highlights so far from the first evening and night at the Center for Future Civic Media:

As usual when I show up for these things, putting dozens of online “friends” into the friend-met category.  People like Amy Gahran, JD Lasica, Ethan Zuckerman, Brian and Ryan from Rich Gordon’s teach-programmers-journalism project at Northwestern, [...]

Hello, Boston!

June 11, 2008 – 5:30 pm

I’m at the MIT Center of Future Civic Media today and tomorrow meeting with fellow Knight News Challenge winners, Knight Foundation staff, and rock stars from the MIT media lab who are building all kinds of crazy stuff.
Seriously, there are lots of cool kids here, few of whom I’ve met in person before.
Say hello if [...]

A few last notes on the Networked Journalism Summit

October 10, 2007 – 11:20 pm

Thanks to everyone who took a few minutes to talk with me yesterday. The whole putting-faces-with-names bit is really underrated. In no order (I’ll give chronological half a chance), with no hope of remembering everyone, here are a few notes to folks I met in person for the first time at the summit:

Scott [...]