Invisible Inkling

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

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Redesign

I’ve been quietly working up a redesign for this blog at random moments a few minutes at a time. I was due to make a change — the last iteration lasted more than eight months.
You’ll find the usual bells and whistles and links down low, past a few recent posts.
Differences and details:

Bluer. Cleaner. Typographical. [...]

Upgrade in progress; mind the gap

I’m in the middle of an upgrade to WordPress 2.3, but I’m getting pulled away to other duties before I finish straightening out importing old UTW tags to the new 2.3 built-in tagging hotness.
So a few things, like tags, are broken at the moment. I’ll update later (tonight?) when I fix them.
But, hey, wouldn’t [...]

The messy beginnings of an online portfolio

It’s not organized as well as I’d like, and it’s neither finished nor comprehensive, but if you can’t help but be interested in the sort of stories I wrote as a reporter (way back in 2006, mind you), there are now a few clips from the Spartan Daily and Oakland Tribune posted on my Work [...]

Meta notes: Where to find my microchunks

If you get the feeling I haven’t been writing here as much lately, you’re right.
But I’m still out here, reading everything I can get my hands on and throwing up links left and right.  They’re just not always where you’re expecting them, eh?
So then, if the meager postings to Delicious you find on the right [...]

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 [...]