Invisible Inkling

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

All About digg

I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing

August 15, 2007 – 6:05 am

Scott Karp and friends (and those are some pretty smart friends) are up to something interesting, but I sure as heck can’t tell what it is based on a rambling post at the new publish2.com.
It sounds like something that’s supposed to clean up all the doubling and overlapping of social networks the media blogger scene [...]

Digg the New York Times

December 11, 2006 – 7:15 am

A few familiar social bookmarking icons can now be spotted on stories at NYTimes.com. Just look for the Share heading in the Article Tools box. Click on it, and Digg, Facebook, and Newsvine buttons drop down, along with an all-important Permalink option that issues a linkrot-proof way to blog about the story in [...]

How would you create an online community at SJSU?

December 3, 2006 – 7:37 pm

Daniel Sato, online editor of the Spartan Daily student newspaper at San Jose State University, is trying to come up with a way to let readers vote their own stories up the charts, to tackle the twin problems of there being little sense of community at SJSU (online OR off, in my opinion) and organizations [...]

How to juggle multimedia and Digg interactivity

November 17, 2006 – 9:35 am

In two back-channel online news discussions this week, folks have been debating how newspapers should be gathering video and how they should handle comment moderation.
The video discussion among Howard Owens, Mindy McAdams, and others, is notable because the question is no longer IF newspapers should be running video online (Yes) or HOW they should be [...]

Jeff Jarvis shows old media the Digg effect

February 27, 2006 – 6:00 pm

In his column in the Guardian, Jeff Jarvis does his “scary blogboy dance” (his words, not mine - but I do identify) for the CUNY J-School faculty, including a number on Digg, the social bookmarking site that makes Slashdot look like a quaint relic dug up from the vaults of Usenet.
Jarvis says:
The concept behind Digg [...]