Invisible Inkling

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

All About news-design

The fundamentals of structured data

September 6, 2006 – 2:26 pm

Still wondering how to cram all these cool new Web-based tools and toys into your newspaper’s content management system? What, you mean it didn’t come with a database to manage all those user-submitted photos you’re getting through your MySpace page?
Even if you’re not quite that friendly with the social-networking set yet, chances are you’ve [...]

Search drives serendipity, a continuing conversation

July 31, 2006 – 8:19 pm

[Ed. note: This is the text of an e-mail I sent in reply to a comment a J-School professor from the University of Florida left on a post from a couple months ago regarding Serendipity on the Web. Part of his reply is posted at the end of this post.]
Hi Prof. McKeen -
Thanks for your [...]

Sending you away so you’ll come back later

May 31, 2006 – 2:05 pm

Well folks, I’m pretty much all blogged out on the whole New Newspapers thing for now. I’ve started to feel like a broken record playing a recording of a broken record where lots of people tell each other why they need to change how they run their businesses. I’m still reading plenty of [...]

Pizzacasting for answers

May 24, 2006 – 8:11 am

I had an interesting time last night at the Pizzacast session. It was a small group with a wide range of interests (journalism, public relations, computer science, theater, business, aggregators), and the conversation ranged wildly from the on-topic question of what to teach in the upcoming New Media class at SJSU’s j-school, to some [...]

New Orleans hospital drama at Atlanta Journal-Constitution

May 10, 2006 – 7:37 pm

There’s a huge 22-episode package running in print and online down at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution right now, and it takes the reader inside New Orleans hospitals during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
From the introduction to the piece:
To report this story, staff writer Jane O. Hansen interviewed more than 50 people over six months, beginning two [...]