Invisible Inkling

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

All About Theory

Everybody’s Talking Heads

December 13, 2007 – 2:33 pm

I’ve seen David Byrne’s blog post about a visit to the New York Times in too many places today to figure out where I saw it first.
Here’s my favorite graf:
“At present, it is mostly the ads in the Style section, and the glossy Sunday and T magazines that pay for a disproportionate amount of the [...]

I dreamt I was in a social media class…

January 2, 2007 – 6:54 am

…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 [...]

Your newspaper isn’t MySpace. Should it be?

December 18, 2006 – 12:11 pm

I’ve often heard conversations about launching a social networking site at a newspaper start with the words “Not that we’re trying to be the next MySpace, but…”
And it always begs the question, well, should we? Should a newspaper-hosted site be the social networking spot for your geographical area?
Here’s a few variations on an answer:
Lucas [...]

Comment trouble at the Arizona Daily Star

December 13, 2006 – 9:14 pm

Danny Sanchez points out an explainer from the Executive Editor of the Arizona Daily Star on why comments were deleted from some stories:
“While we created the reader comments feature to give readers a place to talk, StarNet is still our house. And our editors and staff simply do not want guests [...]

I was in Boston all weekend, cut me some slack

December 3, 2006 – 7:07 pm

I was in Boston all weekend. First time really walking around in the city. It felt a lot like New York, except that people in Red Sox hats kept popping up everywhere. Where do these people think they are? Is that guy wearing a Patriots shirt? WTF?
Every time I go [...]