Journalism, Technology, History

Free Beer -- In Knoxville!

Now we’re talking Creative Commons. Free Beer points out Free Beer version 3.3 is available in Knoxville. Copyshop Knoxville and Everything Mushrooms get the credit for bottled “FREE BEER version 3.3.”. Photo from The Art Gallery of Knoxville (vis Underoak...

The curse of Barbara Bain's dog

Jimmy Guterman, editorial director of O’Reilly’s Radar group and the editor of O’Reilly’s Release 2.0, is parting company with the printed edition of the New York Times. What finally made me give in to the inevitable was realizing, one barely-dawn...

Life measured in bytes

The running total of my ever-growing digital footprint … ReadWriteWeb explains it.

Humming along with Count Basie

Blogger, consultant and inveterate Twitterer Stowe Boyd says hopes of a newspaper return to better, happier days are but melodic dreams of the Benny Goodman era. He finds the pessimism in a David Carr piece on the industry in the...

There will be reporters for at least 60 years

Steve Boriss writing at Pajamas Media says reporters are a dying breed and that’s a good thing. They are mere “unnecessary recyclers of news.” The downfall of the reporter it seems, it that she turns out to be human, “the...

All feeds; All Knoxville

Casey Peters and Patrick Beeson have launched a Knoxville news aggregator, Knox’d. Beeson is a project manager for E.W. Scripps’ Interactive Newspaper Group.and Peters is soon to be one. A bit like Alltop. Give it a look.

The Zen of Flip

Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) points to a David Pogue piece on the New York Times Web site that says the little, unassuming Flip Camera has captured 13 percent of the camcorder market. It’s secret: simplicity that works, or as Pogue suggests...

I'm sure I backed it up somewhere

I signed up and have been trying JungleDisk. I’m thinking it’s a pretty nice (and safe) service for keeping your digital life backed up somewhere in the Cloud. Sort of sounds like the Matrix, but it’s really off-site backup, stuff...

Shared Google Reader links

I’ve started sharing links to posts I find interesting (or share-worthy) in Google Reader. You can subscribe to it if you like.

Behind the entries

Beth Lawton of the Newspaper Association of American highlights the knoxnews Digital Edge entry.
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