The departure of Jim O’Shea from the L.A. Times shouldn’t be construed as fighting the gallant battle for journalism. It was the battle for status quo and business as usual. What’s needed is creative thinking, new approaches and a reassessment...

I took an exercise holiday over the Christmas/New Year’s period (not a good idea), but I’m trying to get back in the routine.  The chart below has last week’s results. I also looked at last year and was surprised by...

One thing I like about Mashable (despite Louis Gray’s problems with it) are the list posts of resources, you know 10,000 PhotoShop links or Endless Firefox add-ons.  They’re great. But now comes Journerdism with a multimedia McGuyver toolset. A treat!...

I am so definitely not an email ninja. Does anybody really do this stuff?

If you need a sound track for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, try Mavis Staples’ “We’ll Never Turn Back.” The YouTube video is one of the tracks, “Eyes on the Prize.”

Stewart Brand recaps a talk by futurist Paul Saffo, a Stanford University professor who has spent more than 20 years looking at technological change and it practical impacts. Saffe spoke at a Jan. 11, 2008, seminar put on by The...

I’ve been reading about flickr and the Library of Congress’ Commons Project and decided to take a look and see if there were any photos from Tennessee. There are. The photo above was taken in June 1942 at Douglas Dam...

From a SearchEngineLand take on the 2008 Digital Future survey from the Center For The Digital Future at Southern Cal: Would You Miss the Print Edition of Your Newspaper? -- In a new question, respondents who read print editions of...

Why journalists should use Twitter (Nico Luchsinger) If you haven’t “gotten” Twitter yet as a journalist, this might help. But I’ve found only using it for awhile really explains it. It’s that game-changing. If you don’t know,  at knoxnews, we...

Free WiFi at Knoxville’s airport, which is under consideration, would be a great idea. I said in November it would be a leading edge idea and it looks like I’m not the only one who thinks that. (Updated: WelcomeInstapundit readers!...