Author: Jack Lail

  • NewsTechZilla, where journalists discover tech is a friendly monster

    A couple of Tennessee bloggers have something new to start off 2009, NewsTechZilla, which aims to help journalists get a handle on tech to do better journalism. Journalists are often ridiculously tech phobic. A digital camera is like a  device from the Space Shuttle. They’ve spent days walking around the building looking for the Word…

  • Feel more productive by the time you finish this post

    It’s that resolutions for the new year time of season. Here’s a couple: Friend this blog. It’s easy with Google’s Friend Connect. Subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed. Again, real easy. Now, don’t you feel better. Two resolutions already accomplished and the new year is just getting here. My, you’re organized.

  • A feeble attempt at “pundintry”

    I don’t really want to wade into Paul Mulshine’s debate on whether an army of blogging “pundints” are killing newspapers; it’s deeper than the muck at the TVA coal plant. Besides Michael Silence caught me snarky. But the letters published last night by the Wall Street Journal in response to the column show that quite…