Journalism, Technology, History

Politicans say the darnest things

Scott Adcox is starting a Carnival of Local Political Gaffes. Probably the biggest factor that keeps local politicians from being more than just local are the idiotic messes they get themselves into. The Carnival of Local Political Gaffes aims to...

Seriously, I'm busy

“We could put out the same paper with half has many people as we have now-but they’d have to be different people.”

A long tale, 140 characters at a time

On what Ron Sylvester learned from Twittering a trial. One day, I cut and pasted all my “tweet” updates into a traditional story file.  It measured 80 inches.  Now, I don’t think anyone would have read an 80-inch story from...

And the underwear just disappeared

Willow Nero, a summer intern for knoxnews from Ole Miss, has done her first video for us, a brief tribute to when underwear was king in Knoxville..

Insty-Photography

Glenn Reynolds has added a photo section to his site. A great idea because he takes fabulous photos, most of them of people or sights in and around Knoxville.

Even boring lives can have action streams

I started experimenting over the weekend with an “action stream,” a way of viewing one’s activities on various social networking sites in an updating stream, a link blog of life. There is a relatively new plugin for the Movable Type...

Great campaign tool

Dave Mastio, whom I’ve gotten to know working on the BlogNetNews powered Knoxville Blog Network, announced a new tool yesterday for elections. It’s incredibly cool. Here’s what the North Carolina section looks like, for instance. It organizes blogging coverage of...
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