Marsha Mercer, Media General’s Washington Bureau chief, has a nice piece on a “mug quest” to one of the places I grew up in – and like to return to often. Apparently, it drew her back, too, for it wasn’t...

Eric Thomas, who created theL-Soft listserver software that’s called LISTSERV, noted on the LISTSERV list owners’ forumthat today is the software’s 20th anniversary and his 40th birthday. A history of the ubiquitous software is here. If you subscribe to many...

Dave Morgan of Tacoda tells newspapers to wake up:

The number one thing that newspapers have is that a newspaper throws away more content in a day than Yahoo makes in a year.

The interactive arm of E.W. Scripps’ newspaper division (which is housed here in Knoxville) is experimenting with a new band-and-bar scene site called knoxville520. In my internal shorthand, I call it an “Innosite,” a play on the name of the...

I think the new Netscape (beta.netscape.com for now) is a good move for the portal site owned by AOL. It’s combination of user-submitted story links and human editors playing the good stuff on section fronts is effective to me. It...

Tags: Journalist Tom Chester Newspapers Knoxville SPJ Media One of the finest journalists in the business was honored Saturday night at the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists’ Front Page Follies. Tom Chester, a co-worker at the Knoxville News Sentinel...

Tags: Bonnaroo Photos Music Wow, we have some terrific Bonnaroo coverage with our KnoxNews team on the scene …

Tags: Newspapers Media Advertising Peter Krasilovksy, Jay Small, and Steve Yelvington had some thoughtful comments late this week about when online ad revenues will intersect with print ad revenues. Whether it’s five years, 10, 12 or more, it’s interesting that...

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