MEDIALIFE has a nice, short piece on the “hotbeds of experimentation” in the newspaper industry and some of the interesting things going on. Here’s a graph:
Tennessee shapes up as a key battleground state again this year with control of the Senate in the balance. A Tennessee seat is in play because Senate Major Leader Bill Frist said he wouldn’t seek re-election when he ran for...
I wrote about the Cottars in February and I got an email today that says they are breaking up in November. Dang! Thanks to David Ogilvie for the heads up.
LifeHacker did a very positive post on KeePass. I’ve been using this password database program for awhile and I really like it as well – and it’s free. Try it! I notice there is a slghtly new version available.Think I’ll...
My brother Brent Lail discovers visitors have arrived at his new house in North Asheboro. (Click photo to see larger version.) Here Brent and his mom are hanging by his pool. He has a pool table as well. (Click photo...
Since an Apple store just opened in Knoxville, I guess someone can now write the Great American novel there or at least their resume – or maybe just look for work like Isobella Jadeco. Jadeco is a short girl (5’2”)...
You get used to NASCAR drivers mentioning sponsors in interviews, but usually they only dish fellow competitors, not competing products to their sponsors. But it happened twice last night after the Daytona race. First, No Fear’s Boris Said, the pole...
Morris DigitalWorks has reborn FanaticZone.com (once in another incarnation a site we were involved in with the GoVols.com Web site) as a Digg.com-like sports metasite. It’s certainly not the FanaticZone of yore. As Morris’ Steve Yelvington says: “Times change. Ideas...
I have always thought the only good purpose of the red “message waiting” light is as a night light for the phone so I particularly enjoyed Gina Trapani’s little post on “The inefficiency of voicemail.” The Guardian’s Charles Arthur got...
Seems fashionable to dish “old” newspapers as an ongoing enterprise. One of the latest came just last week when New Yorker columnist Malcolm Gladwell, on a panel as part of the celebration of Slate’s 10th anniversary bash, said newspapers were...