Blog entries in the Knoxville Blog Network about the Tea Parties.
(Video by Lauren Spuhler)
I found this TechCrunch piece fascinating in how technology rapidly morphs itself. While people get all 1984 Orwellian about the implications of location-based services that utilize the GPS in a cell phone to beam out your location, here someone uses...
Maybe newspapers need tea parties or pamphleteer meetups (with bloggers). Where all politics becomes local, the need for national leaders is less important and issues of great importance do not become a personification of them. I might add that the...
This is welcome news:
A Knox County judge this afternoon issued an order refusing to require local media to shut down anonymous commentary allowed on their Web sites.
There’s a weird journalism law case going on Detroit that bears watching. Pulitzer Prize-winning Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter has been ordered to divulge his source for a story about a former federal prosecutor. The former prosecutor, Richard Convertino, claims...
Paul Chenoweth coins a type of social media person, The Collectors. Collectors seem to be obsessed with acquiring the most friends/followers or network connections (depending upon the terminology within a particular online site). I know many of these individuals from...
Quick definition: “He said, she said” journalism means… There’s a public dispute. The dispute makes news. No real attempt is made to assess clashing truth claims in the story, even though they are in some sense the reason for the...
Baseball bats in the Bearden dugout on Friday, April 10. Despite the storms, game got played.
Vivian Schiller, CEO and president at NPR and the former head of NYTimes.com on paid news content. So I’m a little bit of a contrarian with some of those in the news industry who are saying it was a big...
AP needs to take a gun safety course before they start using their big guns; they’ve shot themselves in the foot again, again, again, again, again. (Damn, I’ve run out agains already).
Way to hang in there Frank Strovel.