Invisible Inkling

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

All About Technology

A progress report on the patient

April 4, 2007 – 9:11 pm

The laptop, that is.

Resist the urge to buy that refurbished laptop

March 21, 2007 – 9:04 pm

Especially that blue Toshiba model that you see for around $1,000 when that’s exactly what you can afford to spend.
Back in December 2004, I did my research, I comparison shopped, and I bought a lemon.  A refurbished lemon with a 90-days-only warranty at that.
I’m not going to get into model numbers and vendors here, but [...]

Is your newspaper Twittering?

March 17, 2007 – 1:57 pm

I’ve been playing with Twitter all week.  Feel free to play along.
It’s an interesting little social tool that’s blown up in the last few months, with SXSW standing out as a take-up point for early adopters.
Dave Winer has even been toying around with feeding it rivers of news from some sources, which once again raises [...]

Obligatory post explaining the redesign of this site

March 7, 2007 – 10:27 pm

For those of you keeping score at home, this is the sixth different design I’ve used, if we start keeping track back at Blogspot in 2005.

im in ur filez, redezning ur websitez

February 27, 2007 – 9:47 pm

I’m starting to peel back the layers of plugins and turn on some new stuff, so don’t be alarmed, dear readers (both of you), if things break around here for parts of tonight and tomorrow.
So, why not go look at some cute cats instead of reading the usual hand-wringing, eh?
(Five minutes later…)
…Well that wasn’t that [...]