Influential tech site TechCrunch takes a look at Knoxville-based Scripps Networks’ soft-launched Food.com, a beta search engine recipe site that TechCrunch heralds as the Kayak.com for recipes. I didn’t know Kayak.com was so ubiquitous to reach benchmark comparison status, but,...
Seth Godin says his 2006 talk, “Everything is Broken,” still rings true for the most part. I think most of us would agree if business is getting smarter, they’re not sharing. Which let me to muse about what’s still “broken”...
Jay Small has a smart take on the similarity of Twitter’s audience retention woes and those of local news sites: The consumer value of a social-status service like Twitter resembles the value of “news” as a service. It is incidentally...
Anil Dash of Six Apart has a funny new site with a semi-serious purpose: Last Year’s Model. Dash says with all the coverage of what’s new, soon to be in released and cutting edge, existing technologies that are less expensive...
A Q&A with John Temple, who has started up his own blog as he moves on from the death of the Rocky.
“If what you’re doing in your biz doesn’t put butterflies in your stomach sometimes, then you’re not playing BIG enough.”
-- Jennifer Haubein of Houston, Texas.
Michael Wolff, founder of Newser and author of several books, gives newspapers, oh, about 18 months. “About 18 months from now, 80 percent of newspapers will be gone. The Washington Post is supported by Kaplan’s testing business. The testing business...
Concession stand sign at baseball tournament in Ooltewah, Tennessee.