Journalism, Technology, History

That's why we have elections

A post election message from 1988 and Patti Smith: “People have the Power.” (via Ethan Kaplan)

Live from the newsroom

Online Editor Jigsha Desai tested, debugged and planned live streaming in the Knoxville News Sentinel newsroom Tuesday night as part of our election coverage on knoxnews.com. Not quite MSNBC or even the movie The Front Page, but reaction has been...

The election win in home pages

Michael Wender has done a neat collage of news Web site home pages on the Obama victory. Instead of newspaper front pages, it’s Web site home pages! I still don’t know how someone will hold up a Dewey beats Truman...

This is what political conversation looks like on Twitter

In an email today, William Beutler, Innovation Manager at New Media Strategies, pointed to a new site that launched on election day: “Created by my team at New Media Strategies and powered by our long-time clients Tropicana/PepsiCo, we’re calling it...

The person who wins the election is America's president

Now that the histrionics of presidential election cycle are hopefully winding down, some good advice from Knoxville blogger Glenn Reynolds in a Forbes column: We don’t have to agree on issues, or on leaders. But if we can’t agree that...

The attention is apt

The Knoxville News Sentinel / knoxnews and E.W. Scripps were getting some coverage over the weekend on the rollout of the Yahoo APT ad platform and new approaches of selling online advertising in local markets.. New York Times: Scripps Tries...

Stylin' a beard for a buck

atto, three people “in a wee studio in Belfast,” have started a viral campaign whereby they donate a dollar to one of my favorite projects Kiva.org just for pasting a beard on your face. Cool idea. See the site where...

The best of times

The economy is tough and the news business in particular is brutal. The operative word seems to be “retrenchment” at many mainstream media companies. In this environment, PaidContent.org’s Rafat Ali says: “This is probably the best time in history to...

What would Mark Andreessen do?

Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and now hanging out at Ning.com, in the November issue of Portfolio: If you were running the New York Times, what would you do? Shut off the print edition right now. You’ve got to play...
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