Muhammad Saleem says Yahoo! Buzz is brilliant.
It would be nice to be able to post knoxnews links into it, but it looks to be a small list of publishers in the beta. Hmmmm.
See it here.
We sure got beat on this one about “Tennessee Helpless Against New Basement Tornadoes:” “Some people lost their entire basements,” said Knoxville-area relief worker Dan Weiss, who personally observed a dozen rec rooms that were completely destroyed, and a half-dozen...
I’m thinking they were over-caffeinated.
The National Rifle Association is getting blogger savvy. I’ve heard the politically powerful group has been reaching out to “gun bloggers” in a serious way and this year they’ll be able to ‘cover” the national convention in Louisville, Ky. A...
Knoxnews won three Digital Edge Awards on Monday from the Newspaper Association of America. The Digital Edge Awards are part of the NAA’s larger Media Innovation Awards. Winning was good! The Digital Edge Awards, or Edgies, are one of the...
The corporate developers have quietly rolled out mobile versions of knoxnews and govolsxtra.
See m.knoxnews.com and m.govolsxtra.com.
Let me know if you experience any issues.
The next time you see one of those big TV remote trucks with the dishes on top, think about this: CNN does much the same that the truck does with a 65-pound backpack of electronics. That was one of the...
It’s one of my theories that mainstream media needs to operate a lot more like startups: nimble, flexible, quick, resourceful and hungry. We need to particularly be doing this when we create our own internal “startups.” So it was nice...
On Friday afternoon at “A Symposium on Computation & Journalism” (a sort of geeks and journos mashup at Ga. Tech), Shawn MacIntosh, director of culture and change at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, gave an update on the upheaval at the AJC...
A wearable computer. Not a new concept, but today was the first time I had ever met anyone using one. Ga. Tech professor Thad Stamer, who’s been building these gizmos since the early 1990s, was explaining the technology. He can...