I’ll be participating in a group blog at the Newspaper Association of Ameria’s CONNECTIONS confab starting this weekend in Orlando. See the blog here. There’s a group of 29 foks that volunteered to blog at the show – heck, that’s...

Wow, what an impressive sounding album from a pair of sisters and brothers from Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. I got their new album, Forerunner , a few days ago and it’s really nice. And it’s the band’s third....

Two good tales of “getting the story” from over the weekend. Terry Morrow tells in his blog how he got to talk to local-boy-turned-superstar-country-singer Kenny Chesney – and no other media did – during his low-profile show show at a...

Hardly! There is a lot of concern – read opposition in many corners – to a plan by AOL and Yahoo to charge marketers who send bulk emails, be it special offers from L.L. Bean, Target or Buy.com that you...

I recently bought a couple R.L. Burnside CDs: “Burnside on Burnside” and “Wish I was in Heaven Sitting Down.” Of the two, I like “Burnside on Burnside” the best. It’s a live concert recorded in January 2001 in San Francisco...

Updated my Gallery photo album organizer from 1.5.0 to 2.0.2 on Friday. There were a few hiccups (the 2.x version is a major rewrite), but I worked through it. I like this piece of software – and it’s free. Find...

Looks like he’s still drilling and painting the inside walls this bitter, nasty weekend, but Jay Small’s redesigned SI is looking good: understated, clean and utilitarian See it while the paint’s still wet: https://smallinitiatives.com/

Everybody’s looking for next the innovation, be it an online product or the latest in dried pulp. That’s why I loved David Hornik’s poston on his son’s fledgling concept. Yeah, it’s cute, but I also noticed:

That bux-maddened Mock Tech has blown my low-profile cover with a photo. He caught me, of course, in the midst of a dangerous mission. It was the New Media assimilation of a self-described “Vice President of Old Media” from New...

I thought this was interesting. Knoxville is in the Top 10 as a “value travel” destination, according to a Hotwire index. Well, it’s even in the Top 5. 1. Denver, CO 2. Greenville-Spartanburg, SC 3. Raleigh-Durham, NC 4. Knoxville, TN...