Journalism, Technology, History

AP's inline player

We’re part of a small group of online newspapers that began deploying this week an inline player on our site for the AP Online Video Network.

Mad Jack

I wasn’t really mad, but it looks that way. It looks bizarre! I was testing the camera on the Nokia n800 Internet tablet. It created a 640 pixel wide image.

Testing a Nokia n800

I’m testing my ability to post to my blog with this tiny Nokia n800 Internet tablet and a Bluetooth keyboard. It actually does seem to work! Although it took a little trial and error. Steve Yelvington inspired me to try...

Music to your ears

Radio personality Frank Murphy has the scoop on a freebie bloggers. And there’s a deadline involved. It’s an interesting trend you’re seeing more of: “Press passes” for bloggers; review units of smartphones from Nokia, cameras from Nikon. The power of...

Covering Boomsday

Boomsday to those that don’t live here is one of the biggest events in Knoxville. People love it. It’s always Labor Day weekend. This year it was Sunday night. Yeah, it was covered by the mainstream media, but how did...

The 140 character campaign

Everybody knows John Edwards Twitters, but I just figured out soon-to-be-official prez candidate Fred Thompson does as well. Well, his staff touts him in Tweets for him. Confirming just now that Fred will make a call-in appearance at tomorrow night’s...

Knoxville blog aggregator

We’re rolling out an area blog aggregator on knoxnews.com at blognetwork.knoxnews.com. Take a look and let us know what you think.

The news on AP news on Google

I’ve been updating react to Google-AP deal and now have a pretty good set of links to my original Friday night posting.

Fat and happy in Tennessee

You may have seen this story last week; it hit the wires last Monday (Aug. 27, 2007). Trust for America’s Health released its “F as in Fat” report on obesity rates by state and Tennessee climbed to fifth, tied with...
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