Journalism, Technology, History

Speculation: Scripps' cable networks in play

I wonder what the Knoxville impact of this would be: With a little more than one week of trading as a separate company under its belt, Scripps Networks Interactive  is once again the topic of merger speculation, with some analysts...

Radio Silence

Doing talk radio this afternoon  at 1 with Michael Silence and George Korda. Glenn Reynolds is the guest at noon. It’s streamed from here.

Done in by reform

Doug Fisher proposed another attempt for the vagabonds bloggers in the Carnival of Journalism to tackle a single issue for the July stop in our Carnival. He asked if we might write upon this theme: What changes will need to...

Crowdsourcing was hip last century

Crowdsourcing is soooo 20th century. Instead, we need one-to-one conversation with a mass, or something like that. I am not a part of a crowd, says Dave Winer.

Quotable: On coffee ...

Coffee22 situation: can’t get outta bed till I have coffee…can’t make coffee till I get outta bed.

Nip/Tuck for newsrooms

BuzzMachine Jeff Jarvis proposes how he would reallocate resources in a newsroom with a staff of a 100 with a 30 percent cut to a staff of 70. I found this more than mildly interesting since I work in a...

A perscription for stellar rankings

Tennessee ranks No.1 in morphine and codeine use, No. 2 in hydrocodone, No. 3 in oxvcodone, No. 4 in meperidine, and No. 6 in fentanvl, according to this info-packed, but easy to understand map from the Rob Curley crew at...

Front Page Follies coming up

University of Tennessee journalism professor Jim Stovall says in an email that an especially good show is coming together for the East Tennessee SPJ’s Front Page Follies on July 19, a fast-approaching Saturday night. Stovall says: There has been plenty...

Pass it on: Voicemail is dead

Now, here’s something to get viral over. Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it. -- Michael Arrington
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