Invisible Inkling

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

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Meta notes: Where to find my microchunks

August 3, 2007 – 10:20 am

If you get the feeling I haven’t been writing here as much lately, you’re right.
But I’m still out here, reading everything I can get my hands on and throwing up links left and right.  They’re just not always where you’re expecting them, eh?
So then, if the meager postings to Delicious you find on the right [...]

Notes on migrating three quarters of a mile

July 4, 2007 – 9:32 pm

So we moved. And by “moved,” I mean we loaded our stuff into a truck and drove less than a mile to an apartment with more space, less drunk people throwing up next to our bedroom window (so far), and far more sanity all around us.
The state of our new living room as of a [...]

I like San Francisco signage

June 17, 2007 – 7:09 am

The last time I was in San Francisco, I battled with a bout of nostalgia as I missed the real City.
But hanging out in North Beach yesterday, I remembered the thing about San Francisco I noticed a few years back: The signage hasn’t been updated in 20 years or so.

Check out the old-school logos. [...]

Well that was an interesting week

June 8, 2007 – 8:48 pm

It has been a long time since I’ve been this happy to see a Friday night.  It’s the end of my first full week back at work since the birth of our daughter.  It’s the end of a week that started with a blog post that was intended to get approximately the amount of attention [...]

The journalism program we’ve all been waiting for

May 24, 2007 – 8:27 pm

The Knight Foundation handed out some money today, notably to Henry Jenkins and company at MIT and Mr. Holovaty, who is getting plenty of press for his jump from WaPo to startup.
But just a little lower on the list, you’ll find the future in the form of a grant to the Medill J-School at Northwestern [...]