Oh, wow, this book doesn’t come out until February, but it looks like it’d be great. And the “How-to-tell-an-asshole” rule on author Bob Sutton’s blog Work Matters is classic (even if he found it elsewhere):

Local blogger Rich Hailey is back in our newsroom observing and live blogging our coverage of the election. See it here. It’s sort of reminds me of a mirror within a mirror; he’s covering how we’re covering what we’re covering...

Interesting take on the Google-newspaper ad deal.

Some election eve frivolous fun. If she’s reading the New York Times, she’s probably a Democrat. If he’s reading the Wall Street Journal, he’s probably a Republican. That’s the upshot of a Neilsen//Netratings report on site traffic by party affiliation...

Nice seeing former ECU quarterback David Garrard getting some starts at Jacksonville – and winning. He’s lead the Jags to two victories subbing for injured Bryon Leftwich, including today’s 37-7 win over the Titans. “I’m glad I’m not the coach,”...

Gannett’s announcement of plans to rename newsrooms “information centers,” realign editorial newspaper operations along seven radically different “desks” and to embrace ‘crowdsourcing” should strike fear in anyone who works in a newsroom and believes their job is to “put out...

This looked to me like Knoxville feels this morning after the loss Saturday night to LSU. This was taken around 7 a.m. from my front porch. Tags: cloud photos Knoxville

Nice article from the The Commercial Apeal’s Jim Masilak on the East Carolina Pirates, who had a huge win last week (Oct. 28) against Southern Mississippi. Don’t know if it’ll last, but it’s good to be leading the division this...

I made the big switch yesterday from landline POTS telephone to cable digital phone service yesterday. Comcast was cheaper than MCI, which I used for local and long distance, and both offer basically the same set of phone features: Caller...

Some good news on News Sentinel photographer Cathy Clarke is here. Tags: Cathy Clarke Knoxville News Sentinel