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Elephants can’t find peanuts; may go hungry
A much needed and fascinating discussion about hyperlocal news keyed off an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Washington Post’s LoudounExtra and also of Scott Karp’s analysis of how the Washington Post covered a thunderstorm. Something tells me the Washington Post is not ready to do local. And there is a bit of…
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The mystery of “the couch” in KnoxVegas
The New York Times features a look at a weekend in Knoxville. I must hang with the wrong crowd, or at least with the people writer Allison Glock knows. I have never heard Knoxville referred to as the “the couch.” KnoxVegas, K-Town, Knoxpatch, yes. But “the couch,” no, never. The accompanying slide show to the…
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Blogging is a cause of most everything
Just when I was all convinced I could blame blogging on weight gain, sleep disorders and other maladies of my unhealthful living, Rex Hammock points to an article in the June issue of Scientific American that says blogging may actually have therapeutic value for serious ailments. “Whatever the underlying causes may be, people coping with…