Journalism, Technology, History

Envious in the newsroom

The technology Ron Sylvester utilized in covering a trial in Kansas may made the special agents of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation envious. If you work at newspaper, you should be, too. Not because he had the fanciest and most...

Meanwhile in Nashville ...

There is a battle going on, did you know that? It’s about the right to know. You might think all this stuff is small potatoes or think it doesn’t affect you, but it does.

Getting a fair trial amidst a blogosphere feeding frenzy

Have blog postings – many of them filled with inaccurate accounts – so inflamed a community that it is impossible for a man charged in connection with a brutal murder case to get a fair trial? That’s a legal argument...

Getting face time on Facebook

Inspired by how easy Greg Sterling made it look, I created a simple business presence on Facebook for the Knoxville News Sentinel. Click the link and add it to your “stores.” (Stores has to be another in a long line...

Quotable: Glenn Reynolds in the act of blogging

Blackfive.net on Glenn Reynolds’ prodigious blogging in action: … it has long been surmised that he chains law students to banks of computers like galley slaves and then blends up puppy smoothies to power his superhuman output capacity. Not true,...

Editorial Comment: I'm My Wife's Grandpa

I had to post this one cause it’s about the home state candidate and it’s just dang innovative for stodgy old opinion writers. And it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in awhile. The Wichita Eagle opinion staff has created a...
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