Invisible Inkling

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

All About twitter

Twitter take-up Tuesday brought me Clarence

December 11, 2007 – 8:27 pm

I’m not going to go into much detail or analysis of what happened to Twitter today, other to point out that this blog post by Jeremiah Owyang started it and became a hub for at least 300 people to connect to each other, and thus to each other’s networks.
“Quite simply, my whole hustle is that,
‘I [...]

Notes on breaking news

November 25, 2007 – 5:59 pm

Last June in the most popular post ever on this blog, I said this:
“You ignore new delivery systems at your own peril. RSS, SMS, iPhone, e-paper, Blackberry, widgets, podcasts, vlogs, Facebook, Twitter — these aren’t the competition, these are your new carriers. Learn how to deliver your content across every new technology that comes into [...]

Obligatory Twitterquake post

October 31, 2007 – 6:33 am

So last night, around 8 p.m. California time, a rather large truck was idling in front of our building.
That was what it felt like at first, then the wife and I looked at each other and said the magic word: “Earthquake.”
Whoa.
We scrambled for a few seconds, made some moves to grab the kid and get [...]

I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing

August 15, 2007 – 6:05 am

Scott Karp and friends (and those are some pretty smart friends) are up to something interesting, but I sure as heck can’t tell what it is based on a rambling post at the new publish2.com.
It sounds like something that’s supposed to clean up all the doubling and overlapping of social networks the media blogger scene [...]