Month: June 2008

  • Even boring lives can have action streams

    I started experimenting over the weekend with an “action stream,” a way of viewing one’s activities on various social networking sites in an updating stream, a link blog of life. There is a relatively new plugin for the Movable Type blog platform that implements this. After battling my own brainlessness for quite awhile, I got…

  • Great campaign tool

    Dave Mastio, whom I’ve gotten to know working on the BlogNetNews powered Knoxville Blog Network, announced a new tool yesterday for elections. It’s incredibly cool. Here’s what the North Carolina section looks like, for instance. It organizes blogging coverage of candidates in a way that tempers a search engine-type query with an editor who takes…

  • ‘Roo bound

    Three-time Bonnaroo survivor (see 2007, 2006, 2005 coverage) and online producer Lauren Spuhler is getting in the ‘Roo mood with previews of Knoxville bands scheduled to play at Bonnaroo in Tennessee. Spuhler will be Manchester-bound mid-week with music writer Wayne Bledsoe. Follow her blog reports, which will include photo and vidoes, as well as on…