Journalism, Technology, History

Snoop Dog does Google

From Images on Gizoogle… Lauren passed this one along as a fun site … and it is: www.gizoogle.com (language warning). Course it was created by a guy – John Beatty – who’s from the hinterlands of York, Pa., not exactly...

Baseball season is here

The Knox Sox were in a tournament in Farragut this weekend. Friday, there were snow flurries and a cold game. Satruday was a much better day: sunny, mild and two wins. (click on the photo to see a larger version)...

Google SMS rocks

I was playing with Google’s SMS feature. You can search yellow pages, residential listings, weather, movie times and definitions simply by entering some text and sending a text message to 46645. It works really fast – and well. It found...

Send a plate flying

Fixed some brain errors that hosed the Post Card program that sends “plate cards.” Send a photo of one of these beautiful Westmoore Pottery plates to someone! Send one now.

And the celebrating continues

The Lady Vols beat No. 1-ranked LSU to win their first SEC title in five years. Here’s what Coach Pat Head Summitt said:

Beautiful Saturday

A very beautiful March Saturday in Knoxville. Sunny, 60 or so breezy. Jogging (I call it jogging … a fast walker could pass me, no doubt) at Lakeshore, I could hear: The yells from the soccer fields. The ping of...

Newsroom managers

This photo of newsroom managers was taken by photographer Saul Young for associate editor Georgiana Vines, who retired last week. George came to the News Sentinel in 1968 and only left for a couple of years to edit the Scripps...

Disintermediation in the 500 channel world

Noticed an item about BrightCove on John Battelle’s blog. TV over the Internet? Jeremy Allaire (who brought us Cold Fusion) thinks so and he’s got $5.5 million in VC money to burn. Allaire envisions a future where:

Yahoo turns 10!

Yahoo is a decade old tomorrow, March 2. Hard to believe, revenues of $3.57 billion, net income of $834 million, a market cap of $44.41 billion. … Hey, maybe there is real money in this Internet thing. In the early...

Will Sudduth (2/27/1925-2/23/2005)

I went to my Uncle Will’s funeral Saturday in Hickory, N.C. (William Sudduth, 2/25/1995 - 2/23/2005, a native of Coila, Miss., who lived nearly all his adult life on Snow Creek Road in Hickory in a house I spent many...
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