Journalism, Technology, History

From serial killers to race and IQ

I’m glad to see author and New Yorker magazine writer Malcolm Gladwell blogging a little more regularly. Lately he’s written on race and IQ, Kenyan runners and serial killers.

I googled you and found ...

The quick headline of a Pew Internet and American Life Project study released Sunday afternoon is close to half (47 percent) of people have googled themselves, up from just over one in five (22 percent) in a similar study five...

The “Don’t Taze Me, Bro” Christmas Meme

I had requests for Christmas pictures. Well, to be truthful, I had one, but then the Newscoma started this with a double-dog dare. So a double-dog combo to go, photos and a blog meme. Rules for the game include: Link...

Suntan lotion not needed

An update on what’s being said about reforming Tennessee’s Sunshine Laws:

A new Frontdoor to the HGTV house

Scripps Networks’ new Frontdoor is getting quite a bit of attention. The News Sentinel’s Carly Harrington did a piece. We want to give people the insight about what it’s like to live in a community before they move there. We...

Someone's choking on buttered popcorn

Knoxville native Philip John Clapp, aka Johnny Knoxville, has a new movie that is a ground breaking (and potentially game changing) experiment by a movie studio to bypass theater release and go straight to the Web. The third “Jackass” movie,...

Google sometimes reminds me ...

I don’t have any particular angst about Google. In fact, i love the company’s products and am a heavy user. Among my favs are Google search, Google Reader, Google Docs, Picasa, GrandCentral, Google tools for Webmasters, Google Analytics, and Google...
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