Month: April 2008

  • Craigslist now doing to blogging what it did to classifieds

    Did you know Craigslist had a blog? You can find out more about this spaceship for sale and how that weird Oregon case shows Craigslist is not a hideout for criminals. “Criminals take a giant risk when they use craigslist in conjunction with illegal activity, since an electronic trail is created that law enforcement officers…

  • Banking on good ideas with $1.5 million

    Noticed Eleanor Cippel, Knoxville-based director of innovation for E.W. Scripps, got some pub in an AP story today at the Newspaper Association of America’s trade show in Washington. Eleanor Cippel, director of innovation for Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps, said her company started a $1.5 million “entrepreneurial fund,” similar to a venture capital fund, more than a…

  • The domain name says it all

    We have a lot of domains registered at knoxnews. Usually, someone will say we’ve got to register some-really-lame-URL.com because someone else will snatch it up. These are parked safely under lock and key and are unlikely ever to see the address bar of a browser. Consider it a  public service. And the snatch-it-up part does…