Journalism, Technology, History

Golf Tournament

Golf Tournament The Bearden High School baseball team had their annual fundraising golf tournament at Dead Horse Lake on Sunday. Click on the photo to see more than 50 photos from the event. Tags: Bearden High School baseball Bearden baseball...

Dollars in Dallas

Looks like Wes Jackson, Belo Interactive Vice President / General Manager and one-time Scripps homie, has Belo hitting on all cylinders as navigates its way to “compete effectively in an increasingly Internet-centric marketplace.”

On the other side of the notebook

An East Tennessee blogger spent a day at the News Sentinel recently and has posted “A Blogger Visits the MSM. Part 1: The Fourth Estate Goes Commercial.” It looks like he plans seven parts. Are we that interesting? I doubt...

The Big Dog's Bark

The Randoms launched an audio “Big Dog” alert today on knoxnews. See and hear it on the home page. Lauren Spuhler and Erin Chapin had been testing the format and process for a few days and last week we invited...

Google Reader vs Bloglines

I think I’m making the switch from Bloglines to Google Reader for RSS feeds. Been using the Google one for a few days and I like it. It was pretty much a snap to export my Bloglines list of blogs...

The War of Words

Oh, this is just too wonderfully funny. Steve Yelvington’s blog drew my attention to “The War of the Words, The Story of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders,” a Ken Burns style parody of the role of bloggers in the War on...

Lucky Sevens

Bob Stepno says knoxnews is 77th on “Top 100 U.S. newspaper web sites” at newsknife.com, but we’re not sure what that means as he discovers some weirdness with the list. Interestingly, the 77th rank is about the same as 76th...

On the hook at UT

The Knoxville News Sentinel (where I work) and sportswriter Dave Hooker are making news this week in a flap with the University of Tennessee over the suspension of his credentials for acting like a reporter. See:

A Cameo appearance

Even apple varieties have their own Web sites. I bought a bag of Cameos at the Erwin Apple Festival; grocery stores, even the mega-behemoths seem to carry just a few varieties, Red Delicious, Yellow Delicious, Granny Smith and a couple...
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