This is getting some buzz, but it deserves a lot more. Congress has sent to the president a bill this week that substantially reforms the federal government’s Freedom of Information Act process by calling the game on some common stonewalling...

Scandal fatigue or just maybe people don’t care about local government? Those are two theories from a couple of Knoxville area bloggers who usually only agree that they are both passionate about news and politics. They are reacting to radio...

Last week was better than the week before!  I’m sure I will new found incentives  when this holiday season ends to get  back  into  it with vigor. Happy Holidays!

An interesting Twitter idea from Kurt Greenbaum and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And (just for Paul Bradshaw) that’s not Twitter shovelware.

Tuesday evening Forbes magazine published its second  “Web Celebs 25.” What’s a Web Celeb? Forbes says its a person famous primarily for creating or appearing in Internet-based content, and for being highly recognizable to a Web-based audience. At No. 21...

The Newspaper Association of America announced its Digital Edge Award finalists this afternoon and knoxnews is a finalist in three categories! Most Innovative Visitor Participation Circ. 75,000 – 250,000 KnoxNews.com: School Matters (Knoxnews.com/Knoxville News Sentinel) Oklahoma World War II Stories...

The headline on Yoni Greenbaum’s post about innovation at newspaper Web sites got me thinking about NASCAR. NASCAR and innovation at newspaper Web sites? Bizarre, admittedly. Well, OK, his headline is “Don’t let your website get lapped.” That happens in...

The New Media is beginning to look a lot like the Old Media, even down to the need for ink-stained wretches. “It’s no longer enough to take stories from The New York Times, and add a dash of snark. Gawker...

Katie Allison Granju and WBIR are up to something new. From the About Us: KnoxvilleTalks.com offers lively and opinionated conversation for East Tennessee’s lively and opinionated blogging community. Hosted by WBIR, KnoxvilleTalks is managed and edited by WBIR.com Online Producer...

It’s hard to see this as “cyclical:” In a historic first, online media companies collectively will sell more ads in local markets this year than such individual hometown media as newspapers, broadcasters and yellow pages, says an independent research firm....