Journalism, Technology, History

Apple Festival

There were tons of people in Erwin today for the Apple Festival. Lots of “country crafts” and you can basically eat your way from one end of town to the other. I recommend the fired apple pies. The festival continues...

Well-deserved accolades for Tim O'Brien

Congrats to Tim O’Brien for winning to the Male Vocalist of the Year” and “Song of the Year” from the International Bluegrass Music Association on Thursday. O’Brien won “Song of the Year” for “Look Down That Lonesome Road” from Fiddler’s...

It's about what to do Next

I’m sure the American Press Institute Newspaper Next study will be a blueprint for something, but Susan Mernit, a former online newspaper pioneer now with Yahoo Personals, takes the newspaper industry to task for continually redrawing the drawings and says...

Cathy Clarke

One of The News Sentinel’s photographers was seriously injured in an automobile accident Sunday evening. We’re thinking about her and her family. A blog has been created for updates.

Drinking in a little family history

I have discovered my great-grandfather was once the town policeman for Rock Creek, a tiny, incorporated town in Unicoi County, Tennessee, with an interesting, but brief history. My mother found somewhere recently a book called “Erwin, Tennessee, A Pictorial History,...

My birthday was all wet

Mark and I went rafting on the French Broad River in North Carolina for my birthday. We’re the two in the front. We went with French Broad Rafting Expeditions just outside Marshall, NC. We took an afternoon five-mile trip. It...

(Tennessee) Rivers of News

UT journalism prof Bob Stepno points to an interesting mobile/PDA project from Johnny Dobbins. Wow, pretty cool. It’s a PDA/mobile news aggregator of news from traditional media outlets in Tennessee (mostly East Tennessee) and bloggers in the Rocky Top Brigade....

It's called Blufr: True or False?

Powered by Answers.com: free online dictionary and more — Very addictive trivia site. It asks true false question and keeps a running score. You can save your score, but there’s no registration. Besides the actual travia quiz, the site is...

One in four do it

Psst … here’s how Charlene Li of Forrester Research says you can reach the elusive 18-26 market.

Saving time ...

I saw a reference to this site on Friday and found it to be just what I needed because I hate typing into my address book on my cell phone. Zyb.com, a service based in Denmark, lets you do all...
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