I go out of town for a couple of days and return to the surreal. Liberal Randy Neal and conservative Brian Hornback united in defending a blogger for the News Sentinel, a media company neither has been shy about calling...
Shaketool.com, a new site from a veteran group of Knoxville online entreprenuers, is going into wider beta testing. What is Shaketool? It’s a Web-driven system for reaching agreement and, along the way, increasing mutual understanding. Is it for you? Beats...
Seth Resler found the newspaper itself a barrier to advertising. And the sad truth is, he could repeat experience in many cities. A tale of #fail.
SPJ news release from this morning: INDIANAPOLIS - The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to honor pioneering Tennessee journalist Robert Churchwell with the Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement. Churchwell, who died Feb. 1, 2009, was the first black...
In case you missed this from earlier in the week, the McCormick Foundation funded three proposals from new media women entrepreneurs at $10,000 each so they can launch within a year. Here are the three plans:: ChickRx - Harvard MBA...
Just when the summer sultry heat convinces you the future of media is the bleakest of deserts along comes something or someone that says otherwise. There’s Michael Van Popel, who at 17 started the Twitter breaking news service Breaking News...
The two biggest surprises from the just-ended legislative session were the unprecedented high number of bills affecting open records and meetings, public notices, and an assortment of other First Amendment issues and the failure in the Senate to close gun...
The Knoxville News Sentinel finds itself in the middle of a semantic veg-a-mantic between Us. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., and MSNBC’s news personality Rachel Maddow. Maddow picked up on a Michael Collins piece in the News Sentinel/knoxnews on the Washington...
Much of the Internet is simply counter-intuitive. I think that’s one of the first thing you have understand to figure it out. The largest Web site on earth, Google, gets its traffic, for instance, by sending users away. There are...
Glenn Reynolds thinks health care delivery might get easily entwined in politics as a result of a large government presence in health care reform. “I don’t want someone looking to see who I have donated campaign money to before they...