Journalism, Technology, History

Sunsetting Sunshine

Russ McBee sees some rays of hope in the dimming Sunshine law “reform” that’s coming out of Nashville. My view? Best thing that could happen now is to leave the totally ineffectual,  weak Tennessee Open Meetings law as is cause...

Maybe they just have the model backwards

Is Citizen Journalism and U ser G enerated C ontent simply an overrated fad? Leah McBride Mensching smugly declares: The fad journalism model is being brought down by poorly written and poorly presented content that is greatly inferior to content...

It's a roller coaster out there

Barry “Inn of the Last Home” Wallace emails that his college roommate Gary and his brother, Phillip, have put together a website about amusement parks: RexandTheBeast.com.   They will be doing reviews and reports of new rides.

Separating the audience from the customer

White nationalist Hal Turner, who has found more to hate in this life than nearly everybody, has this message posted on his show’s Web site about going to a subscription site on Nov. 28:     .

Waiting for the tide

This picture of increased time spent on the Internet and this picture of time spent on news Web sites are not what we call the picture of the rising tide lifts all. It’s more like why is the sand castle...

Free WiFi at McGhee Tyson would be a leading-edge idea

In the wonder-why-we-don’t-have-it-here department. While most large airports have Wi-Fi in their terminals, it is smaller airports — those serving 500,000 to 2 million passengers annually — that have full Wi-Fi access, and many of those airports offer it for...

New toys for Propeller heads

I gave up on Netscape when it morphed into Propeller, but Muhammad Saleen’s sneak peek and review has me considering going back: wow. it took me a while to calm down before i could start writing anything. i got a...

In aisle five

Attention Christmas shoppers: Chris Pirillo shares tech buying tips.

Run for your life!

This could put a damper on exercise just as the holiday gorging season beings. I’ve used lesser excuses.  

Just watching

J ust like watching the detectives. Don’t get cute!” It’s just like watching the detectives. I get so angry when the teardrops start, but he can’t be wounded ‘cause he’s got no heart. Watching the detectives. It’s just like watching...
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