Invisible Inkling

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

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Scobleization plus three years

February 12, 2008 – 10:07 pm

Three years and two days ago, I got Scobleized.
The highlight of Robert’s informal talk was when he plugged his tablet into the projector in a packed room at the SJSU/MLK library and showed us his aggregator.
It was Bloglines at the time, not that it mattered.
I was blown away by the amount of information — and [...]

The messy beginnings of an online portfolio

September 14, 2007 – 7:25 am

It’s not organized as well as I’d like, and it’s neither finished nor comprehensive, but if you can’t help but be interested in the sort of stories I wrote as a reporter (way back in 2006, mind you), there are now a few clips from the Spartan Daily and Oakland Tribune posted on my Work [...]

More advice from Rob Curley

January 14, 2007 – 12:54 pm

If you’re an aspiring young (or not) journalist and you don’t have the good sense to pay attention to what Rob Curley says, I sort of feel sorry for you. That’s the truth, harsh as it may seem. Whenever guys like Curley or Holovaty or anyone else speaks up who has taken online [...]

Which newspaper will drop its print edition first?

December 30, 2006 – 9:26 am

Wired News prediction for 2007: “A major newspaper gives up printing on paper to publish exclusively online.”
Howard Owens doesn’t think so: “Ain’t happening. There’s still too much revenue tied up in print and not enough online. A major newspaper — I’m taking this to mean a major metro — couldn’t support it’s current news [...]

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 [...]