Invisible Inkling

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

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Next Newspaper

February 26, 2008 – 10:31 pm

Funny thing about the newspaper business.
If you’re interested in innovation, you find yourself constantly trying to demonstrate the present to people with their feet (and desks, workflow, and hierarchy) planted firmly in the past.
And while The Future of Newspapers mostly gets ink for being bleak, the future of news does not blink, or miss a [...]

The word Kindle makes me think of burning books

November 18, 2007 – 8:29 pm

All branding aside, the oncoming launch of Amazon’s e-paper device essentially begins the practical discussion about e-paper in earnest.
Books are a neat trick, but I’m pretty exclusively thinking in terms of the future of newspapers here.
Things to pay attention to:

EVDO: This device has ubiquitous Internet access when in cell range. That’s good. [...]

Why I love the Internet

May 20, 2007 – 6:21 pm

Because shortly before our daughter arrived, I ordered a webcam from Amazon. It was here when we got back from the hospital, and it took about 15 minutes of setup to start streaming video via Skype to four grandparents spread across North and South America.
The only hard part? Not scratching myself wrong in the [...]

Yes, that, the future, right there

January 9, 2007 – 9:08 pm

What was it I was just saying about the future? That newspapers need to keep pace with the Web lest they get leap-frogged and left for dead?
Well, a little slice of the future was unveiled today. That’s one of the most impressive retail *things* I’ve ever seen.
And of course, I want one, but [...]

$100 million for e-paper firm - maybe you should start thinking about the future

January 8, 2007 – 9:19 pm

Red Herring reports a British e-paper company locked up $100 million in venture capital.
“The company plans to build the plant, with an initial capacity of a million displays a year, in the eastern Germany city of Dresden and start production in 2008. The company said demand for electronic readers is expected to climb to 41.6 [...]