Two of my News Sentinel co-workers are doing an interesting and historically significant project called “Songs of Appalachia.” It is being done by online producer Lauren Spuhler and writer Morgan Simmons. They’re capturing the sounds and songs of the region...

Last week an argument that won’t seem to go away bubbled up again - save Big J journalism and newspapers with government aid, or at the very least some form of indirect relief. Sort of clues you in on the...

My Sunday afternoon jogging music was a good one from 2004, “Films About Ghosts (The Best Of Counting Crows).” I notice the band is offering a free “Digital 45” on its Web site. The MP3s are time stamped Jan. 11....

I guess you’d better throw away those photos of the White House and the Washington Monument and maybe Mount Rushmore just to be safe. Here’s an experience of a Knoxville photographer taking photos at the John J. Duncan building downtown::...

One of the delightful things about innovation and technology changes is seeing the unintended impacts. While delightful to find, they are vexing to predict. This is not a particularly new one, but I noticed it in an article today at...

We’re trying some new things on knoxnews for the Tennessee primary on Feb. 5. You can sign up for text messages for election results or follow the results on our Twitter page (log into Twitter and click “follow” on our...

Journalism pundit/pioneer/heavyweight Jeff Jarvis is having fun at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with Pure Digital’s FlipVideo cameras as well as a Rueters Mojo toolkit, which is centered around a Nokia N95 cell phone. We’ve been using FlipVideo...

Nashville ex-patriate and pioneering Tennessee blogger Brittney Gilbert’s new work gig blog “Eye on Blogs” officially launched Thursday at KPIX in San Francisco. She got some pub in the trade press earlier in the week. “If the concept can drive...

Ethan Kaplan and Chris Brogan have done some blog posts on thoughts on newspapers and traditional media. Kaplan pulls some thoughts he had years ago and Brogan’s were cultivated from a recent panel discussion. It is interesting Kaplan’s thoughts from...

Good tips on emergency planning for freelancers from Thursday Bram. These would be applicable to bloggers as well who aren’t writing, doing photography or doing other freelance work for others. I think I have some planning to do.