Journalism, Technology, History

The view is better from here

It’s almost funny – a lot of people outside the newspaper business are a lot of more positive on its prospects than those inside. Here on a Podtech segement posted by Tina Magnergard Bjers and called “How Will Web 2.0...

He's got me beat by a notebook

Now this is a desk, I can relate too. It’s Al Gore’s office. (via Rex Hammock, who doesn’t have the same reaction as I do) Tags: Al Gore GTD paperless office

Riddle me this Batman

. . . I think news is a unique opportunity still. But what is happening is that everyone is cutting back individual news operations rather than partnering to ramp up. Consumers dont need more brands, they need more indepth reporting...

Mary Farrell paints her pots

I was testing out my video camera, a Panasonic SDR-S150, and shot this video of one of my favorite potters, Mary Farrell. She was kind enough to be my test subject. Mary and her husband, David, are marking their 30th...

Charlie Daniels should be ashamed

The double-murder of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian that occurred in early January in Knoxville was an extremely heinous crime by any definition and has attracted international attention. Unfortunately, it has been adopted by white groups as the poster child...

I've pulled myself away to write this

The just launched today flickrvision and the earlier twittervision are utterly and endlessly fascinating. You have a real time (or less than a minute ago) sense of the ever-changing teeming ecosystem of the Internet to wax National Geographic. Flipping from...

Comcast and E911

In the sales pitch, Comcast says E911 works on its VOIP service, but it does it? Anybody had any experience with it in the Knoxville area? I’ve been generally pleased with the cable phone service. Tags: Comcast E911

Another week

Wow, what a nice weekend from Saturday afteroon through Sunday. Here’s what last week looked like:    SessionsCalories burned Time exercising Miles jogged/Eliptical **  Actual** 4 2409 3:20 14.06  Target 4 2000 3:15 No advice   The month-to-date miles is...

Quotable: Dead interest

… lots of folks are writing off (print) newspapers. But at this moment of their seeming weakness, relationships with them are paradoxically in very high demand among the Internet bellwethers.

Tennessee women bloggers

With help from Tracy Sharp and Michael Silence, I did a list of women bloggers in Tennessee. It’s not billed a complete list, but just a selection of women bloggers in the state that shows varied interests and views of...
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