A lot of Tennessee bloggers – well, and bloggers everywhere – have been locked out of their blogger.com blogs after flagged as possible spam blogs. But there’s good news, Google says they are on it: We’ve noticed that a number...
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John Battelle with a good post on the Bonnaroo festival in Middle Tennesse that segues into a new site he’s involved in called CrowdFire. Of Bonnaroo, where he had backstage access, he says: I came to realize I was watching...
Interesting take on two people dealt with adversity: Yesterday morning, two miles away from my house, a man named Jim Adkisson burst into a church and started shooting people. Today we found out that Mr. Adkisson has not been able to find a...
This chart, posted on the Twitter blog, shows trending of the use of the word “earthquake “ following the earthquake in Southern California on Tuesday. The two headlines are from a San Diego TV station and, nine minutes after the...
One of my photos (on left in image at right) of Craigmiller Castle got included in the “newly released fifth edition of our Schmap Edinburgh Guide.” The screen shot at right shows how it looks in an iPhone/iTouch and here...
In the wake of a hateful crime, a blogger asks the Knoxville community to reach out to the church where the Sunday morning shootings occurred.
(via KnoxvilleTalks.com)
Meredith Veto at d/visible has written anexcellent piece on one of my favorite potters, Ben Owen III, who lives down the road from Seagrove, NC, in Moore County. Pictured at right is one of his pieces that I bought in,...
More from the “on being there” department. Video from inexpensive Flip video cameras rules again in Tennessee church shooting.
My publisher sent me several emails over the weekend about complaints about hateful, invective, acidic and just generally mean-spirited reader comments on our newspaper Web sites. And the comments in question met all those tests - and then some. They...