Journalism, Technology, History

New Frontier Awards

Got some great news on Tuesday. From an Inland Press Association news release: Winners of second newspaper Web contest chosen The Globe Gazette, News Sentinel receive best in circulation size The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, and the Knoxville (Tenn.)...

Conversation worth noting

Journalist/blogger and all-around Knoxville wired maven Katie Alison Granju hears a conversation with the power to change in the Knoxville blogosphere. This conversation extends beyond bloggers themselves, and even past the thousands of people who now read local blogs every...

Knoxville in just six words

OK, I’m stealing this one honest from Tommy’s Table. I’m a sucker for stuff like this anyway.

Boss Hogg couldn't survive bloggers buzz

On dark days I feel like starting a Keith Olbermann countdown to the demise of newspapers and journalism as we know it - or knew it. Perhaps the end of journalism as I knew it when I got into this...

Intrepids decloak

All the details except where the name came from. Adventures await!

Who sucks worse: Newspapers or TV Stations?

Commenting on a Broadcasting & Cable piece on the Web and TV stations, Angela Grant says: It seems like the attitude of TV stations towards the web, according to the article, is the same type of attitude that has sunk...

Turn it up

Former WCPO-TV online manager Liz Foreman, a highly respected journalist who has been focused on online for years, gives a revealing glimpse of the differences between newspapers and TV stations in a Lost Remote posting yesterday. Now, director of multimedia...

Free my office apps!

Following up on my mini-rant Sunday about Microsoft Office, is the Microsoft-Yahoo deal really about free software, or to use the buzz phrase, “zero-dollar” software?

The paperless office is at home

Forget the paperless office, think paperless home. The New York Times in a Sunday piece trots out high tech heavies Brewster Kahle and Brad Templeton on a piece on the paperless home. Brewster Kahle is the founder and director of...

New for the reporter's tool belt

Gee, where I have been, asleep or something? A Steve Rubel twitter drove me to his Web site where he’s trying out a new Google Docs feature that allows users to create Web forms and collect the data in a...
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