Journalism, Technology, History

Good week

Walked instead of jogging more last week than I normally do. Good week.  

12 Bones

He’s sold me on this place.

David Byrne's crossing America

Loved Talking Heads founder David Bryne’s descriptions of visiting Dollywood and Knoxville and heading to Memphis. The road leading to Pigeon Forge is also the approach to Great Smokey Mountains National Park, and as there are no vendors allowed in...

If we could just get the bloggers out of the newspaper?

I was already thinking about newspaper blogs today from Edward B. Driscoll Jr.’s slap that newspaper blogs were just dull,  but now along comes that fuzzy iconoclast Jeff Jarvis who says the problem with newspaper blogs is that they’re on...

Tweet, tweet to the music

Last night was bloggers night at the Symphony. The symphony in a gambit, I persume, to generate buzz gave bloggers free tickets to the opening night concert at the Tennessee Theatre in downtown Knoxville and they got to go to...

The Parliament of Clocks can't keep time

A piece of by Edward B. Driscoll Jr. about how bloggers expanded the news agenda is getting a good bit of attention in, well, naturally, the blogosphere. He traces the rise corporate of mass media, pointing to the 1970s as...

If you can trust me ...

Bloggers are more trustworthy than the media, but even that’s not saying much.
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