Journalism, Technology, History

Get in gear for the game

“But if you haven’t spent time trying to turn gears in the belly of the beast, it can be like trying to coach without ever having played the game. “

On the other side of the mountains ...

Seth Gitner of Roanoke talks about the “editor ad.” Pay attention to his commitment to trying and failing. “Those failings will take you to your successes.” The clip isn’t really about the process of innovating, it’s about how the project...

Cable love

Steve Safran at Lost Remote is just another guy feeling totalliy Comcastic these days. My co-worker Lauren could relate to his tale. My only issue is whether they’ll bury the cable they left in my yard months ago before mowing...

Thanks for sharing

CitJ guy Dan Gillmor drew my attention to this Raleigh site. Gillmor thinks it’s smart. I think it’s cool! It’s drupal based. Kudos to all involved. Tags: newspapers online media community journalism

A Who jumped from Where and What was driving When

I keep a Google News Alert query set to “News Sentinel” (without hyphen) just to see what shows up about the paper I work at. A few days ago this classic lede popped up in Gmail from Layla Bohm, a...

Beet.TV on the Beta

Really good story at Beet.TV about the AP Online Video Network beta that we’re participating in at Knoxville News Sentinel along with a number of other papers. Give the piece a read (and watch the video above). It’s the best...

Missed my goal

Fatbloging update. Yeah, I sucked. For the week stats: Actual Target Sessions: 2 4 Calories burned: 1,640 2,000 Time exercising: 1:48 3:15 Miles jogged: 9 No advice I did better last week. Tags: jogging fatbloggers jason calacanis

Just got this card

My cousin, Eddie Sudduth in North Carolina, emailed today this Christmas card of my grandparents, Hobert (1897-1973) and Emma (1903-1991) Edwards.I don’t know when this card was done, but it’s certainly more than three decades ago. Thanks for sharing!

Free air conditioning here

Great NYT piece on how having public WiFi, but charging for it is the Web-age version of the “coin-operated locks on bathroom stalls.” Starbucks and McDonalds fit this mold. The article notes that DFW is even charging airline passengers caught...
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