Invisible Inkling

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

All About unbundled-media

10 blogs your newspaper needs to rip off

March 12, 2008 – 8:40 am

I’m making a short list of frequently updated news blogs published by mainstream news organizations that post breaking news and link out to other sources.
If you run a newspaper.com and you don’t have a blog like this to put together links and short updates, ask yourself why not.
These are all great examples of blogs that [...]

Alltop is Popurls for everything

March 10, 2008 – 6:45 am

Guy Kawasaki and his friends at Alltop have been building a series of cute little aggregators a la popurls that are full of headlines from a set of hand-picked blogs submitted by people who pay attention to Guy and friends in places like Twitter.
Myself included.
And so, you’ll find Invisible Inkling listed now at both socialmedia.alltop.com [...]

Next Newspaper

February 26, 2008 – 10:31 pm

Funny thing about the newspaper business.
If you’re interested in innovation, you find yourself constantly trying to demonstrate the present to people with their feet (and desks, workflow, and hierarchy) planted firmly in the past.
And while The Future of Newspapers mostly gets ink for being bleak, the future of news does not blink, or miss a [...]

What’s this new Twitter thing I keep hearing about?

December 28, 2007 – 6:02 pm

It’s the Friday between Christmas and New Year’s in newsrooms all over the world, and apparently, everyone’s reading Romenesko, clicking through on the link to a post by Howard Owens (full disclosure, y’all: he’s my boss), and jamming on his link tagging me as a Twit-vangelist.
So, here are a few places to start if you [...]

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re an editor

October 19, 2007 – 8:14 am

Try as you might to control the home page of a news site, to set the agenda, to drive readers to the stories you think are most important, readers can find what they want on the Web without your help.