Invisible Inkling

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

All About san-francisco

I like San Francisco signage

The last time I was in San Francisco, I battled with a bout of nostalgia as I missed the real City.
But hanging out in North Beach yesterday, I remembered the thing about San Francisco I noticed a few years back: The signage hasn’t been updated in 20 years or so.

Check out the old-school logos. [...]

After New York, every other American city is just an empty shell

I’m going to do something karmically dangerous here.  This will surely ruin the rest of my day, get me stuck on the BART, make me step in dog crap, who knows what, but I just can’t hold back any longer.
Every time I walk around in San Francisco — mind you, I’m usually either in the [...]

10 things I heard at the AEJMC convention today

Let me tell you about my first time … at the AEJMC convention.
Seriously, I had never been to a conference or convention that was about my own field before today. I mean, I’ve hung out with the physicists and the photographers and maybe even the real estate data information professionals back when I was [...]

Blog research at the AEJMC convention

For next week’s trick, I’ll be both a reporter and a student at the AEJMC convention. I’m planning on showing up Thursday morning to the citizen journalism session and later in the day for the “What’s Next for Newspapers and for Journalism Education? - A Continuing Discussion” session.
Of course, I might want to duck into [...]

Sailing

San Francisco Bay, aboard Voyager.
I still feel like I’m on the boat.
In other news, you should really go see that Pirate movie that’s in theatres now. It was awesome. I hear Part 3 is going to be…. Rated Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!