Blogging grows up and tries to survive being a business. And Michael Arrington sees an opportunity.
When times get tough, companies like to hunker down like a tortoise in its shell. When the rough times pass, they’ll come out of our shell again. But in the media business today hunkering down and focusing on the core...
Which Tennessee men’s basketball team will be in the Final Four and play for the championship? One educated guess is Belmont. Inside Higher Ed did a NCAA men’s basketball bracket based the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate with the NCAA’s Graduation...
In what could only be viewed as a perverse and often baffling development, author and New Yorker magazine writer Malcolm Gladwell said last week a story he told in an early February segment of public radio’s “This American Life” is,...
Friend Feed, a service that aggregates social network information, is having its “Twitter Moment,” according to Michael Arrington. After the buzz wears off, is it here to stay? In the meantime, I’m here. **Updated: **Louis Gray says A-lister bloggers are...
A trio of posts over the weekend had me musing about the new roles journalists find themselves in, roles far beyond what journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken (pictured at right) probably envisioned. Beyond reporting and writing, they are becoming community...
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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)....
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...
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...