Invisible Inkling

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

All About work

Remember when I asked you what I should learn next?

September 11, 2007 – 10:00 am

A refresher for those of you who weren’t taking notes: An informal poll on what I should learn next (March 10, 2007).
Apparently, that was six months ago. Yikes.
So after everyone weighed in, multimedia storytellers voting for Flash, programmers voting for programming, and executives voting for business-sense, more or less, I said I would learn [...]

Well that was an interesting week

June 8, 2007 – 8:48 pm

It has been a long time since I’ve been this happy to see a Friday night.  It’s the end of my first full week back at work since the birth of our daughter.  It’s the end of a week that started with a blog post that was intended to get approximately the amount of attention [...]

What I’ve been working on all week

April 22, 2007 – 7:29 am

I’ve been working with a reporter for the last couple months to help him put together a set of multimedia projects to run with his centerpiece in today’s paper.
Here’s the proverbial fruits of our labor: two audio slideshows, a video, and a podcast, all complementing his print stories by taking us behind the numbers (standardized [...]

Inspiration overload

April 18, 2007 – 6:04 am

It’s great that everyone in the online journalism/multimedia/interactivity/data layered network of posses (myself included) shares all the cool stuff they find

I dreamt I was in a social media class…

January 2, 2007 – 6:54 am

…and the textbook was the Henry Jenkins book which has been sitting relatively uncracked on my bedside shelf for a couple months now.
Does that mean I’m supposed to read it, or that the Mass Communications program at school should have a social media class?
Luckily, I don’t have time to think about that. I have [...]