Invisible Inkling

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

All About social-media

On IdeaLab: The Pitch mashes up journalists, bloggers, and social media types in Seattle

Over at IdeaLab, an IM interview with Jason Preston of Eat Sleep Publish about a series of events he’s organizing called “The Pitch.”
The premise?  Put together some of the smartest, most engaged, passionate thinkers about the changing media landscape in a room, buy them a few drinks, and let the conversation flow.
Jason:
“And I think that [...]

It’s high time to send our pigeons out into the diaspora

Jeremy Wagstaff on the outdated definition of ‘news’:
“We journalists have been schooled in a kind of journalism that goes back to the days when a German called Paul Julius Reuter was delivering it by pigeon. His problem was a simple one: getting new information quickly from A to B. It could be stock prices; it [...]

Provide your readers with somewhere to talk about the news — before someone else does

Topix.net becomes a dot-com, re-aligns to spotlight human editors in geographical and, um, topical communities.
As with Digg or Fark or any other news aggregator that allows readers to comment on the stories (from your newspaper) people post to them, the conversation that belongs with the story on your own site, with your branding at the [...]

I dreamt I was in a social media class…

…and the textbook was the Henry Jenkins book which has been sitting relatively uncracked on my bedside shelf for a couple months now.
Does that mean I’m supposed to read it, or that the Mass Communications program at school should have a social media class?
Luckily, I don’t have time to think about that. I have [...]