Author: Jack Lail

  • A follow the money story from MTV

    Since I first wrote about him in December (here and here), I’ve been keeping up a bit with MTV’s Tennessee Street Teamer Dustin Ogdin, a Nashville based filmmaker. Ogdin is part of MTV’s Choose or Lose Street Team ’08 (chooseorlose.com). Part 1 of a two-part report moved last week on the AP Online Video Network,…

  • Twitter does a “Rainy Night in Georgia”

    Wow, this is how Twitter users covered the storm that damaged the Georgia Dome during the Alabama-Mississippi State game. This is a Twittersearch result set for “georgia dome.” Noticed some people were talking about the weather without using this exact search terms o I’ve far from caught all the relevant Twitters, but you get the…

  • High profile Tennessee political blog shuttered in budget cutting move

    It was very sad to hear of the layoff of A.C. Kleinheider, the writer of VolunteerVoters, today by Nashville TV station WKRN. The media business is a tough business these days. Hard decisions are made. I don’t envy the ones making them.  It’s sad to see VolunteerVoters go after a year, 11 months and 13…