Invisible Inkling

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

All About work

Working with developers and designers

June 30, 2008 – 9:53 pm

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 [...]

May Carnival of Journalism

May 23, 2008 – 2:47 pm

I’m jumping the gun on putting up this post to serve as the center ring for the May Carnival of Journalism.
Earlier today, I asked the list of carnivalers to consider answering this question at the core of driving innovation at mainstream news organizations:
What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for [...]

I spent last week in the midsection of the country

May 6, 2008 – 7:12 am

(Flickr photo originally uploaded by David!!!!!!)
Here are the highlights, in no particular order, from my trip to Missouri and Kansas:

Talking shop with Will Sullivan and Kurt Greenbaum from STLToday.com.
Getting much better at making my presentation on the mysterious world of Web-first publishing.
Watching reporters get excited about pothole maps and point & shoot video.
Pizza and pitchers [...]

Your real competition

January 11, 2008 – 6:27 am

You *think* your competition is the guy at the TV station who always rip-and-reads your stories, or the reporter on your beat at the major metro from the big city 12 miles away, or that alt-weekly with the nasty cartoonist, don’t you?
Sorry, but that’s simply not the case.
Oh, sure, your ad reps and their [...]

A career move

September 27, 2007 – 8:15 am

I’m happy to announce that on Monday I’ll be showing up for my first day of work at Gatehouse Media in Fairport, New York.

I’ll be working with Howard Owens, Bill Blevins, an awesome team of developers and designers, and many more talented folks. (Yes, I will try to pull that remembering-all-your-names on the first [...]