Invisible Inkling

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

All About linking-behavior

The good stuff is over there –>

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

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

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

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 [...]