All you need to know about news judgment is last news first? Dave Winer: I think every newspaper on the web should at least offer the reader a choice of a reverse-chronological view of the news. I think they would...

Journalism.co.uk recently started doing a series where it is asking journalists across the globe about social media and how they see it changing their industry. I was game to give it try. I think I asked more questions than I...

I wonder if my headline is direct enough? If you have a minute, join the new Facebook group that co-worker Lauren Spuhler created called “Songs of Appalachia.” She describes it: “Songs of Appalachia” is a monthly video series featuring musicians...

Mary Farrell, one of my favorite potters, says in her email newsletter: Those of you who’ll be tuned in to the “John Adams” miniseries, which begins on HBO this coming Sunday, may notice some familiar pottery!  For the filming of...

In covering the snowstorm that hit everywhere in Tennessee but Knoxville on Saturday (OK, there was a little on the ground if you didn’t blink), I noticed that WKRN in Nashville totally rocked with user submitted photos. When I surfed...

There’s a point here: There’s so much opportunity on the web – it’s just a matter of seizing it. So how can the web make LESS work for journalists rather than more? Which weekend assignment would you have rather had?...

And your excuse would be?

Enjoyed learning a bit about transforming XML documents with XSLT in doing some homicide mashup maps for a series of stories reporter Matt Lakin is doing. He had complied homicide cases since 2000 into two OpenOffice Calc (Excel compatible) spreadsheets....

DanTraveling (Dan McCoig) has been back in East Tennessee, this time to Townsend.

(Via Scott Karp, see full comic here)