Journalism, Technology, History

A critical election issue

Co-worker Lauren Spuhler says someecards has to win the humor category of the Webby Awards -- if you vote for it.

Creating news that finds its audience

An insider who’s now an outsider has insider advice on outsiders for insiders running news sites. Now I’ve got you as confused as Lou Costello in “Who’s on First”? Well, as Bud Abbott said: “I say Who’s on first, What’s...

A novel idea: Just throw red light tickets in the trash

Red Light cameras from a company called Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. are a hot topic in Knoxville, even a hot target. But in St. Louis, Alderman Freeman Bosley recently said about camera tickets: “If you threw it in the trash,...

The deadly seven ...

If you are reading this blog, I’m sure you are suffering from one of these.

The 'Golden Age' of Web news

(WelcomeInstapundit readers. Consider subscribing to this site.) I think we’re in what we will be remembered as a “golden age” of Web news. A golden age amid the rubble of declining revenues for newspapers and local TV stations? A golden...

Fast, reliable and cheap is always in fashion

“We focus our strategies on delivering fundamental services better than anyone else. Technology changes. Competitors change. But 10 years from now, nobody’s going to say to us, We love what you do, but it’s too fast.’ Or It’s too reliable,’...

The trouble with print journalists

Paul Conley made me laugh. A commenter wrote: “I’m going to forward it to people who will get angry about it :)” Conley wrote: But the worse news for print-based journalists is that much of the Web journalism world wants...

Quotable: It makes money, right?

There really is a lesson here, no matter how much journalists don’t want to hear it. A business model needs to support good journalism, but good journalism is not a business model.

Newspapers have another 10 to 20, new Lail poll says

Nearly half the 75 people who took the Lail poll asking “Newspapers will print on paper for …” (years) said it is most likely newspapers will be printing on paper for another 10-to-20 years. (Click the pie chart to get...

Honored to be an EPpy finalist times three

Knoxnews/GoVolsXtra today were named finalists in three categories in the 2008 EPpy™ Awards for the Best Media-Affiliated Internet Services. The winners will be announced at the Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at the Rio...
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