Journalism, Technology, History

Let's be trusted Twitter friends

Some newspapers have been experimenting with Twitter since its early days (you know, two years ago) and the number of newspaper-affiliated accounts continues to grow, according to Erica Smith’s stats. It’s up to 303. That sounds great. Newspapers innovating with...

Quotable: Godin on patience

I discovered a lucky secret the hard way about thirty years ago: you can outlast the other guys if you try. If you stick at stuff that bores them, it accrues. Drip, drip, drip you win. It still takes ten...

NASCAR should be an Olympic sport

Well, maybe not. Campers in the infield of Olympic track sites would never work. But I was playing around with Google’s new “Insights for Search” tool today a bit. Looked at the top searches in the sports category in Tennessee...

Quotable: Losing hold by holding on

“What’s long held back the newspaper industry and gotten it in the current mess has been holding back online innovation that might impact the legacy product (print). The kind of serious innovation that might have avoided the turmoil we’re now...

Serenity

Another HDR shot.

Plant life

One of several photos of flowers I took around my parents house at Badin Lake, NC, and at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. This one is an HDR photo. More here.

Glimpse of the future

In her farewell knoxvilletalks post, Katie Allison Granju foresees a new media landscape.
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