Invisible Inkling

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

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ReportingOn 0.2: Connect with Twitter

January 14, 2008 – 8:01 pm

From the message I sent to members of the What Are You Reporting On? Facebook group yesterday:
The initial, humble little piece of integration with Twitter is live now at www.reportingon.com.
If you look at the right side of the page there, you’ll see a list of all the recent tweets sent to @reportingon. If you [...]

ReportingOn.com

January 4, 2008 – 9:21 pm

Thanks to everyone who noticed the pillow-soft launch of ReportingOn.com in the only link in my Resolutions post, and especially to those of you who commented, e-mailed, tweeted, or blogged about the project.
At the moment, it’s just an URL, an idea, and a comment thread, but it’s building momentum, and that’s pleasant.
A few thoughts:

I’m not [...]

Resolutions

January 1, 2008 – 2:22 pm

Might as well, eh?
In no particular order…

Play guitar at least once a week. I picked it up today, and a simple three-chord tune was seriously taxing my fingertips. That just ain’t right. And I haven’t had the ‘I bartend and cut acidic fruit all day’ excuse for more than two years now.
Start [...]

The sky is not falling

June 4, 2007 – 9:41 pm

From the Columbia Journalism Review comes a short note taking “A Long View on Layoffs.”
For those looking for some comfort in numbers, rest assured that there appear to be plenty of working journalists left around here somewhere. The CJR piece runs down some long-term employment statistics and then turns loose some of Wilson Lowrey’s ideas.
I [...]

Newspaper blogs appear to be hitting the takeoff point, if they haven’t already

January 17, 2007 – 9:31 pm

It appears to be time for me to get back to doing some preliminary data gathering for my thesis in my spare time:
Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec.-study (via Reuters)
“Blog pages accounted for 13 percent of overall visits to newspaper sites in [December 2006], up from 4 percent a year earlier. Total visitors to [...]