Invisible Inkling

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

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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 [...]

Obligatory post explaining the redesign of this site

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

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 [...]

New feature: View all comments by a reader

Just turned on this WordPress plugin and I like it. Find a post with comments, then look for the “View all posts by so-and-so” link.
Inspired by Jonathan Snook.
[UPDATE: Months later, this post is getting traffic from a Related Posts link right now, so I'll point out that I turned this plugin off pretty quickly, [...]

Unexpected browser/resolution combinations

I’ve been tweaking the design of this site, doing less and less testing in IE6, but yesterday I saw something I hadn’t thought of. Wish I had a picture, but you’ll have to imagine it for now:
Some editors and page designers keep their monitors oriented vertically, instead of horizontally. Combine that with IE6, [...]