Invisible Inkling

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

All About video

5 important things that happened in the last 10 days

May 21, 2008 – 9:22 pm

In no particular order, with little commentary, and limited accuracy on that whole “10 days” concept:

Google Friend Connect: Just the tip of the iceberg.
YouTube Citizen News: Aggregate, aggregate, aggregate.
Disqus + Seesmic Video Comments: Say it, don’t spray it?
MySpace and Facebook data availability: Bring your profile to the party.
3G iPhone coming in June at $199: Guaranteed [...]

Caught on tape by Digidave

May 20, 2008 – 7:06 am

David Cohn, fellow Knight News Challenge winner for his crowdfunding project, Spot.Us, turned his point & shoot on me last week in the hallway in Vegas.
Here’s the results:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPRStOGRds

Five ways to innovate today

November 28, 2007 – 6:29 am

A colleague looking for a few new ways to integrate free Web services into his newsroom asked me to chip in with a list of five, so here they are. A note to student journalists: These are all free and easy ways to get something new and different online, and they probably serve a [...]

Two Google News workarounds

September 20, 2007 – 8:09 am

Rob comments at Lost Remote:
“I try to work around the Google News situation by posting almost all of our video content to YouTube. So far that’s one place where our content hasn’t been usurped by AP. We also are trying to blog breaking news - and sending automated updates to Technorati in the process - [...]

Bits and pieces of what I’ve been up to at work

February 25, 2007 – 4:16 pm

As pointed out elsewhere, it’s no fair critiquing other people’s work without throwing some of my own out there, so here’s the short tour of what I’ve been working on:

Wild Life: The subject of the story shot the photos, the reporter recorded the audio, I produced the html/css page and the series of one-slide Soundslides.  [...]