Invisible Inkling

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

All About mercury-news

Mercury falling

March 5, 2008 – 9:52 am

[NOTE: What follows is a view of the last two years of trouble at the San Jose Mercury News from my personal point of view, as a graduate student in the neighborhood, a reporter (and later as an editor) working for the same parent company, and even as a reader. I don't pretend to [...]

Rethink carefully.

November 16, 2007 – 8:33 pm

I’m posting the following as a comment on the Mercury News Rethink blog in response to Jay Rosen’s call for input as to how a Merc beatblogger on green technology could have covered the “Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins” story this week.
I’m going to throw a monkeywrench at the Rethink works here, just to air [...]

Seven notes, six links

November 1, 2007 – 9:51 pm

Hypothesis:
Dooce is (still) one of the best things on the Interweb.
Plea:
Jay Rosen has the beatblogging with a social network thing worked up pretty clearly at this point, but if the project doesn’t leave behind tools (a WordPress theme, a Drupal module, a useful set of forms — something more tangible than good ideas that [...]

The full effect: Shooting, packaging and telling a multimedia story

February 25, 2007 – 10:33 am

I believe one of the goals multimedia storytelling should be to communicate in a web-native format, using stills, audio, video, graphics, and interactivity to draw readers into a story they wouldn’t have read if it were just printed text on a page — or a screen.
Would I have any interest in this train story in [...]

Mercury News Photo becomes a blog. Cool.

May 18, 2006 – 8:23 pm

MercuryNewsPhoto.com redesigned while I wasn’t looking, and what popped out is a nice modern WordPress blog. Cool.
What that means, first things first, is that I (and you) can now subscribe to an RSS feed from the site. Cool.
Second things second, you can leave comments on all the slideshows, video essays, and Flash presentations [...]