Author: Jack Lail

  • 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…

  • An election year indicator to watch

    One of my friends, Robin Raskin, and Steven Edelson are winding up again electionwatches.com, a Web e-commerce site for presidential election years with a line of “waving” candidate watches. Yeah, that’s right, “waving” watches. “If the Interent were a country, Obama would win.Visit www.electionwatches.com and check out my every four year pastime,” Raskin writes. Of…