A Christmas present. a couple of pieces of pottery made at J.B. Cole Pottery. This was once the largest of the Seagrove, N.C., potteries, but has been closed for many years.

Blackberry Creek Confections

Much to my chagrin, I’ve been noticing Examiner.com versions of stories we’re covering show up prominently in Google search results while our original journalism on knoxnews or govolsxtra is buried. It happening a lot and not just to the sites...

In prepared testimony, University of Tennessee law professor and blogger Glenn Reynolds argues that an open Internet has allowed for the creation of new journalism models that harken to the pamphleteers of the Founding Fathers’ age.  Reynolds’ remarks were prepared...

Story posted at 6:54 a.m. Google e-mail alert mentioning said story at 7:02 a.m.

Newspaper companies abandoned by “savvy investors” as dinosaur stocks have been beating the Dow over the past 12 months – handily:  Those beating the Dow were: New York Times (+25%), AH Belo (+126%), Gatehouse (+350%), Lee Enterprises (+763%), McClatchy (+296%),...

I recently was on a panel at a University of Tennessee journalism class with Knoxville blogger Randy Neal and Chattanooga Times Free Press Executive Editor Tom Griscom. One of the students, Beth Maynard, wrote a piece that has been posted...

The four largest newspapers in Tennessee are expanding content sharing to collaborative coverage in the Tennessee gubernatorial race. The first result of that is a piece on the finances of the GOP candidates from the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Tom Humphrey...

An HDR photo of snow on the trees and our Christmas decorations. The star is a Moravian star. Taken Dec. 5, 2009.