We’re off to London for a week. It should be an adventure!

The center of the Blogosphere is in Nashville this weekend for BlogNashville. A few Knoxville bloggers are there and the newspaper has two folks taking in the scene. Read Michael Silence’s posting. We posted the AP account with a link...

Please pardon this disintermediation … we’re just changing all the rules. Does the venerable Associated Press get disintermediation in its core business? A couple E.W. Scripps executives I work with think not and made some provocative arguments in OJR last...

We launched a redesigned knoxnews.com last Thursday. Long days, little sleep, lots of coffee = looks great. The designers and programmers that made it happen on the corporate side did a great job. It’s a radical departure from what we...

I’ve created a blog site for the Stanley Family Reunion in October. My cousin Richard has already posted a [ on the initial entry.

Disruptive technologies have a funny way of being disrupted themselves. Digital cameras disrupted the business for film for still photos and now finds itself disrupted by cell phone manufacturers. This item from “om malik on broadband:”

There seem to a spate of articles about the future of news and newspaper – most of them filled with dire predictions. One of the most thought-provoking I’ve seen appeared this week: Merrill Brown’s “Abandoning the News” report for the...

Ole Venob had a call from someone who said a copy of the News Sentinel Pat Summitt edition was selling for 41 bucks. Yep, sure thing. Here’s the link. Another seller has same paper up to $15.

Nora Paul has some good reading at OJR with ‘New News’ retrospective: Is online news reaching its potential?. Yes, 10 years ago – and even recently – the selling point was “Web as bottomless newshole” which turns out to be...

Online Publisher Ken Sands in Spokane has good good points in this Online News post that the indefatigable Susan Mernit posted to her blog.