Journalism, Technology, History

The sad state of stats

Go get ‘em IAB. I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to...

Thumbs up to the CNN/YouTube Debates

Woohoo! Jackie Broyles and Dunlap did wonders for Tennessee stereotypes during the CNN/YouTube debate on Monday night. They were funny, but my, oh my, they’re the image Tennessee wants to project about itself? They’ve got a lot of other videos...

@johnedwards

It is interesting that Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards seems to be the only candidate attempting to use Twitter as way of communicating with voters. The Twitter blog says Edwards will answer Twitters during a live Webcast following the Monday...

Jogging to Yelp

On track this week. For my Sunday jog, I listened to Gregory Galant do a 49-minute interview with Yelp co-founder and president Jeremy Stoppelman. Galant is on a binge of PayPal ex-pats, but, hey, several of them went off with...

Reality check

Too funny. Faith Hill gets a makeover, Photoshop style, for Redbook. There’s a by-the-numbers description of what was done here. Via Bob Stepno. who says:

Multiple Views

Knoxville’s Randy Neal has spun up a new site, BlountViews.com, (named for the county, not the blogging … or maybe both). Its mission is to be a hyper-local community web space for liberal/progressive citizens of Blount County to meet, organize,...

Less ka-ching

This looks to be a very good page on getting a deal on a hotel room. Tags: cheap hotel rates
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