Invisible Inkling

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

All About Media

Giving your sources blogs cuts out the middleman

September 20, 2007 – 8:36 am

A few days ago, Dave Winer wrote:
“I’ve said it many times before, it’s worth raising again. Any newspaper or radio or TV station with a good reputation in its community could embrace the fresh ideas of the bloggers in their community by offering free blogs to members of the community, who may be new to [...]

Two Google News workarounds

September 20, 2007 – 8:09 am

Rob comments at Lost Remote:
“I try to work around the Google News situation by posting almost all of our video content to YouTube. So far that’s one place where our content hasn’t been usurped by AP. We also are trying to blog breaking news - and sending automated updates to Technorati in the process - [...]

A few basics of newspaper.com design

September 7, 2007 – 7:27 am

I’m about 1/5th of the way through my latest run of Preliminary Data Gathering (cue ominous music as if the villain just walked into the bar) for my thesis, which involves staring at newspaper.coms just long enough to figure out where they hide the blogs.
As I work my way down an alphabetical list of the [...]

All I’m going to say about the Google/AP thing

September 4, 2007 – 9:52 am

Google News now links to wire stories from the original source (AP, AFP, etc.), hosted by Google, in addition to the 5,137 versions of each wire story posted at individual news sites.
Three reasons why this is good for newspapers:

Newspaper.coms no longer have to spend time, money, and resources on trying to build the best semantic, [...]

Mine, mine, it’s all mine!

August 30, 2007 – 9:54 pm

I want to save my favorite stories, right here, at your newspaper.com. Because really, what’s the sense in Digging a story about my neighborhood?