Journalism, Technology, History

'Roo bound

Three-time Bonnaroo survivor (see 2007, 2006, 2005 coverage) and online producer Lauren Spuhler is getting in the ‘Roo mood with previews of Knoxville bands scheduled to play at Bonnaroo in Tennessee. Spuhler will be Manchester-bound mid-week with music writer Wayne...

An election year indicator to watch

One of my friends, Robin Raskin, and Steven Edelson are winding up again electionwatches.com, a Web e-commerce site for presidential election years with a line of “waving” candidate watches. Yeah, that’s right, “waving” watches. “If the Interent were a country,...

To err is to win

Funniest thing I’ve read all weekend. I guess that’s because I helped and helped. Some more links. From Instapundit:

Rooms with a view

That uncontrollable idea match thrower Bob Benz has created a flickr group called “rooms with a view” that may be catching on … fire. Join and contribute!

Elephants can't find peanuts; may go hungry

A much needed and fascinating discussion about hyperlocal news keyed off an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Washington Post’s LoudounExtra and also of Scott Karp’s analysis of how the Washington Post covered a thunderstorm. Something tells me...

The mystery of "the couch" in KnoxVegas

The New York Times features a look at a  weekend in Knoxville. I must hang with the wrong crowd, or at least with the people writer Allison Glock knows. I have never heard Knoxville referred to as the “the couch.”...

Blogging is a cause of most everything

Just when I was all convinced I could blame blogging on weight gain, sleep disorders and other maladies of my unhealthful living, Rex Hammock points to an article in the June issue of Scientific American that says blogging may actually...

On reinventing the lowly classified ad

Simon Owens interviews Editor & Publisher columnist Steve Outing on reinventing classifieds and Scripps alum Christopher Ryan, founder of Future of News. Outing told Simon: “… without doing something radical sometime soon, the industry doesn’t have much hope.”

Technically speaking ...

I upgraded last night to Movable Type version 4.2 RC1 (a beta). Living bold! I also added three OpenID plugins and turned on some internal login features. ** This is the good news: Users can now log to make comments...
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