Invisible Inkling

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

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Is your newspaper.com is a big ball of mud?

Is your newspaper site a clean-looking, uniform grid of semantic (and validated!) code? Or is it a ‘big ball of mud,’ with includes (scotch tape) and javascript (bubble gum) holding together a jumble of disparate hunks of content?
If you answered ‘YES’ to the first question, congratulations, you work at the New York Times, or [...]

How’s that whole melting MacBook thing going?

A lazyweb inquiry:
Does the current run of MacBooks (not the Pros) still have any sort of serious overheating problem?

We’re pretty close to replacing a certain laptop in our stable (not mine) and the question keeps coming up.
So what’s the deal? Did this problem every get solved? Do we have months of scorched desks in [...]

Why I love the Internet

Because shortly before our daughter arrived, I ordered a webcam from Amazon. It was here when we got back from the hospital, and it took about 15 minutes of setup to start streaming video via Skype to four grandparents spread across North and South America.
The only hard part? Not scratching myself wrong in the [...]

I’m in ur FTP clientz putting ur clothez back on

It’s not midnight here yet, or I’d be fast asleep (partying UCSC student neighbors have no effect on me when the head hits the pillow), but it’s late enough to flick the stylesheet back on.
Thanks to everyone who got naked with me.
And everyone who made amusing remarks about it on Twitter.
And to the guy who [...]

Get naked for the day

It’s CSS Naked Day.
Strip off those stylesheets and show the world the clean, semantic HTML you’ve been hiding deep inside, in your inner being, under all those layers and background images.
Oh, but could someone please remind me to turn the styles back on tomorrow morning?
Thanks.