Invisible Inkling

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

All About web development

Dealing with the elephant: Build the software you need, then sell it.

This is the fourth post in a short series I’m pretty much done with about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual routine of pointing out the obvious to people wearing dark glasses.  The starting point, the givens in the equation, are listed here.  Suggest which windmill I should [...]

Working with developers and designers

I wrote a post for IdeaLab earlier today.  It’s a short update on ReportingOn development, framed as a weighing of the pros and cons of a few different development platforms.
It occurred to me near the end of it that I should treat this project as if the developer was someone other than myself.  (Yes, at [...]