Invisible Inkling

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

All About sjsu-bloggers

How would you create an online community at SJSU?

December 3, 2006 – 7:37 pm

Daniel Sato, online editor of the Spartan Daily student newspaper at San Jose State University, is trying to come up with a way to let readers vote their own stories up the charts, to tackle the twin problems of there being little sense of community at SJSU (online OR off, in my opinion) and organizations [...]

Ten WordPress plugins that make this look easy

September 24, 2006 – 10:06 pm

In honor of Daniel’s Blogger break-up, here are 10 WordPress plugins I use and recommend:

Ultimate Tag Warrior: Does a lot more than build that ugly/hot/buzzwordy tag cloud over on the right, it gives search engines a leg up on knowing what you’re writing about, which makes it easier for people to find you. [...]

Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.

July 5, 2006 – 8:11 pm

Daniel got roped into a bullshit internship program in Nepal, but instead of turning back, he just ditched said bullshitters and improvised himself some work.
In Kathmandu.
It does not appear to have been an easy or pleasant experience, but now he’s shooting for an NGO and making the best of his time there.
Word.
Follow Daniel’s photography at [...]

San Jose Blogger Meetup

June 6, 2006 – 12:53 pm

San Jose Blogger Meetup - Tuesday June 27th, 6pm.
I won’t make it this time, but this sounds like a great idea to me. Everyone’s welcome, from SJSU students to A-Listers, and everyone in between, not to mention above or below.
Yeah, so I’ll probably be, um, eating pizza that night, but in Sicily.

More talk about new media classes

June 6, 2006 – 12:28 pm

Steve Sloan has posted the second half of the Pizzacast, a discussion about a New Media class to be offered next semester in SJSU’s J-School.
I’m going to stand by my idea that this class should be a training ground for Online Editors going on to student media, in the way that the 133 Copy Editing [...]