Journalism, Technology, History

An angel in Robert Langford

A nice story about one of the News Sentinel’s carriers, the folks in the wee hours of the morning delivering newspapers. From Sunday’s Letters to the Editor. Woman in need received help In this day and age, we don’t often...

Scrolls WERE better

This one is bound to go viral … Medieval Tech Support. (via Tim O’Reilly) Tags: help desk tech support

Paperwork

I ought to do something like this at home and work. Have you ever seen my desk? All the secrets of Narnia are there and more. Back to Twitter. Tags: organization organizing clutter

Digging into all this . . .

The Digg Revolt is fascinating: It’s stage-setting. Revolts are good for traffic. It’s not the mob that’s the problem, it’s anonymous individuals. It’s much bigger than we realize. And who has the upper hand? Finally, the delicious irony of it...

UMe -- The University of Me

Matt Waite has the right idea. Train yourself for the newsroom roles in demand. Could it get any easier than it is today? Call it career sweat equity. If you get training opps, make the most of them – and...

Watching video

One of favorite blog sites, NewTeeVee, has an interesting take on online video.

Sucessful night out at the ballpark

Delana Elmore photo The Bearden Junior Varsity Baseball team won the 2007 Oak Ridge Junior Varsity Tournament on Tuesday night. The Bearden team beat the Farragut Junior Varsity team 12-9 in the semifinals and beat the Farragut Freshman team 2-0...

Community run amok or Viva La Revolution?

There are lessons to be learned here. It would be interesting to see an analysis of whether the “mass revolt” involved the small percentage of Digg users that consistently push stories to the front page or a wave of dissatisfaction....

Clematis in early morning

Thought I’d share these early morning photos of the Clematis growing up our back porch. Tags: Clematis | flower photography
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