Jack D. Lail

This blog won “Best Blog” not affiliated with a news organization from the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists in awards announced Friday night. Lots of great regional journalism was honored; read through the list.

Success is not one of the stereotypes of Appalachia or its people. If you watch TV, the images are of the violence and drugs of "Justified," moonshiners like Popcorn Sutton, the crazy dancing outlaw Jesico White of West Virginia and...

Gawker Media mastermind Nick Denton said Sunday at South by Southwest Interactive that he plans to institute a new commenting system on his family of sites within the next six weeks; one that still allows anonymous comments, but which makes...

Andy Plesser of Beet.TV interviews Rob Malda, CmdrTaco, co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Slashdot, on his new gig with the WaPo Labs.

A touch screen app for the visually impaired. That’s ingenious Georgia Tech. The info: A team from Georgia Tech, led by Post Doctorate Fellow Mario Romero (School of Interactive Computing) has designed BrailleTouch for touchscreen mobile devices. The prototype app...

… And we learn the wolf wasn’t all that bad, the pigs weren’t all that little, and it’s all part of a larger problem anyway, anong other story narratives. If fairy tales were news stories, they’d be a whole lot...

Connected Tennessee is doing a “crowdsourcing” experiment to gather information on boradband availability in Tennessee. Use this map to verify what’s available in your neighborhood. If it needs correcting, use this form. The good news: 95 percent of Tennessee hosueholds...