Invisible Inkling

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

All About linking-behavior

The good stuff is over there –>

February 24, 2008 – 10:05 pm

If you prefer my tweets and shared reader bits and delicious links to the infrequent and sometimes long-winded content here at what passes for a blog, click on through from that reader of yours and take a look at the right side of your screen. (Actually, let me check that in a few browsers first… [...]

Watch out for secondary characters with more interesting stories than your protagonist

December 22, 2007 – 9:45 pm

That’s good advice up there in the title of this post. I got it from a screenwriting teacher, and it’s been a running joke around our house for the last week based on a couple movies we’ve watched lately.
And it’s also good advice for narrative journalists.
But that’s not what this post is about.
This post [...]

Five things you might not know about me, but now I’ll tell you and ruin the opportunity to tell you these stories properly later

December 23, 2006 – 8:35 am

Okay. First things first, I don’t usually play the blog-tag game, and calling these things “memes” always makes me, Saussure, and Debord throw up a little in our mouths, as the saying goes.
Does that count as the first thing? No?
Fine. Here goes:

I spent my 21st birthday in Central Booking in Manhattan. [...]

Newspapers ready to start aggregating the competition

July 30, 2006 – 7:57 pm

The New York Times reports that the Washington Post and other newspapers are linking up with Inform.com to display links to related stories from other news sources — not just from blogs, but from newspapers, too.
Let the aggregation begin.
From the NYT story:
“This lets us be a search engine,” said Kelly Dyer Fry, director of multimedia [...]