Invisible Inkling

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

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Unscheduled downtime

June 2, 2008 – 6:53 am

“Sometimes, you eat the bar. And sometimes, the bar eats you.”
And sometimes, something blows up at a data center in Houston and your cool new Web host has all its servers shut down for 36 hours while fires are quite literally put out and power is restored.
I imagine things might be up and down [...]

Server shuffle

May 3, 2008 – 9:00 pm

I’ve moved this here blog and most everything else at ryansholin.com, reportingon.com, and a domain to be named later off to WebFaction ’s servers.
So far, so good. WebFaction support is already impressive, hitting me up with detailed instructions on how to easily import my WordPress database using ssh.  (Yes, I used the command line.  Be [...]

The good stuff is over there –>

February 24, 2008 – 10:05 pm

If you prefer my tweets and shared reader bits and delicious links to the infrequent and sometimes long-winded content here at what passes for a blog, click on through from that reader of yours and take a look at the right side of your screen. (Actually, let me check that in a few browsers first… [...]

Working hard…

December 6, 2007 – 9:11 am

So I’m not writing too much here right now, but I’m still reading.
Check out my linkblog here or subscribe to the feed here.
A few recent headlines from the linkblog:

Reports of Maverick’s biggest wave
You may have heard that NBC has revived the American Gladiators franchise for primetime.
Justin Beck on Podcasting
Shit we’re diggin: Dorm room Tetris (heck, [...]

Reader poll redux: Who are you?

November 18, 2007 – 4:33 pm

survey software - Take Our Poll
Let’s try this again, as the folks at PollDaddy say the lolcats have cleared out of the servers now.
Jump in and check a box to rough up some unscientific numbers on who is reading this blog.
Are you a pro journalist, a j-school student, a for-the-love-of-it blogger, a programmer, [...]