Invisible Inkling

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

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Expand your media blogosphere today

May 9, 2008 – 8:22 am

Like many readers of blogs about the news business, I started big. As in, with the big guys, the heavy hitters, the bloggers who showed up in Romenesko and were hard to ignore. The Jays and Jeffs and Dans of the media blog world.
I’ve dramatically expanded my reading list since then, but meeting [...]

Alltop is Popurls for everything

March 10, 2008 – 6:45 am

Guy Kawasaki and his friends at Alltop have been building a series of cute little aggregators a la popurls that are full of headlines from a set of hand-picked blogs submitted by people who pay attention to Guy and friends in places like Twitter.
Myself included.
And so, you’ll find Invisible Inkling listed now at both socialmedia.alltop.com [...]

I like it when you’re angry

March 10, 2008 – 6:17 am

So I’m the last person in the world to blog about AngryJournalist.com, a good (albeit a little twisted) deed done by Kiyoshi Martinez to give folks a place to vent in public, anonymously.
While I would certainly prefer that you do something potentially productive with your time other than whine about how little of it you [...]

Work with us, people

March 3, 2008 – 7:40 pm

GateHouse Media is hiring two reporters. Here’s the important bit from Boss Owens’ post on the matter:
The ideal candidate:

A recent college graduate (or graduating this spring)
At least six months experience blogging
Capable of shooting and editing his or her own video
Ready to do more than sit in an office and make [...]

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Inventing journalism

February 17, 2008 – 11:13 am

I’ve been reading Guns, Germs & Steel for months now.
(I take these bound paper items you people call ‘books’ slowly sometimes.)
There’s a number of striking stories about technology, innovation, and invention in the chapter I’m in the middle of right now. One of those stories is about the QWERTY keyboard layout, which was actually [...]