Author: Jack Lail

  • What every iPhone needs

    Cell Journalist, the vendor for our photo/video sharing site, launched a free iPhone app to upload photos into im.knoxnews.com. It started showing up in the App store of iTunes on Sunday. Learn more.

  • Five Ws from the Barack Obama campaign

    There’s been a lot written about the lessons of President-elect Barack Obama’s “Triple O” Internet campaign for marketers, but little on lessons for media and journalists. But that’s about to change because the Carnival of Journalism is rolling into November with that topic in its big tent. All of this month’s carnival posts are linked…

  • Newspaper execs: This is not a fire drill

    Industry execs convene to discuss crisis. Some suggestions offered to the attendees: Act like an entrepreneur; stop thinking first about why a new approach won’t work. Create a portfolio of initiatives; recognize that some will fail and kill those quickly. Don’t wait for every data point before taking action. “Ready, fire, aim” should be the…