September 2006 Archives
Congrats to Tim O'Brien for winning to the Male Vocalist of the Year" and "Song of the Year" from the International Bluegrass Music Association on Thursday.
O'Brien won "Song of the Year" for "Look Down That Lonesome Road" from Fiddler's Green
Visit his Web site. He's got a body of work that's been consistently good since his Hot Rize days in the late '70s and early '80s at least.
Looks like he'll be playing a few reunion Hot Rize shows next week in Nashville, Cincinnati, and Boulder. Now that'd be good. Np KnoxVegas stops on the horizon. If you've never heard him, here's a link to an mp3 from his Web site, "You Are My Flower" recorded May 19, 2005 at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville.
I'm sure the American Press Institute Newspaper Next study will be a blueprint for something, but Susan Mernit, a former online newspaper pioneer now with Yahoo Personals, takes the newspaper industry to task for continually redrawing the drawings and says do something.
Read her advice.
Tags: newspapers | API | Susan Mernit
One of The News Sentinel's photographers was seriously injured in an automobile accident Sunday evening.
We're thinking about her and her family. A blog has been created for updates.
I have discovered my great-grandfather was once the town policeman for Rock Creek, a tiny, incorporated town in Unicoi County, Tennessee, with an interesting, but brief history.
My mother found somewhere recently a book called “Erwin, Tennessee, A Pictorial History, 1891-1929” by James A. Goforth
One of the things Erwin is known for is the town that hung an elephant. Yes, an elephant. An elephant named “Murderous Mary” was hung in this very month (September) in 1916, but that’s another story and has nothing to do with my great-grandfather.
My great-grandfather pops up in the book in a short section on the town of Rock Creek, which existed from 1898 to 1908. Its story goes like this:
Tags: Tennessee | Erwin | Unicoi | whiskey | | Prohibition
Mark and I went rafting on the French Broad River in North Carolina for my birthday. We're the two in the front. We went with French Broad Rafting Expeditions just outside Marshall, NC.
We took an afternoon five-mile trip. It was fun. The day was beautiful. The water was cold. We didn't fall out.
UT journalism prof Bob Stepno points to an interesting mobile/PDA project from Johnny Dobbins. Wow, pretty cool.
It's a PDA/mobile news aggregator of news from traditional media outlets in Tennessee (mostly East Tennessee) and bloggers in the Rocky Top Brigade.
Some of the RSS feeds seem to be screwing it up. WATE has some headlines that say "September 15, 2006 11:33 PM" and it's just 9 p.m.
And he looks to be using just the local news feeds of the ones we have here. (We could create a special feed on whatever combination of sections Dobbins/Stepno are interested in for that matter. We created what we thought people might want, but we haven't had much feedback on what they do want, but I digress.)
I'm sure he'll get it tweaked out. The "Tennessee River of News" is an interesting concept and useful implementation.
Sounds like it was Bob's inspiration (who got the "ah ha" from Dave Winer) and Johnny's coding wizardry. Boom, a news source is born, Web 2.0 style.
Good luck!
Tags: Tennessee | Web 2.0 | Knoxville news | Rocky Top Brigade
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There's probably a news application here ... hmmm.
Smart, very smart.
Psst ... here's how Charlene Li of Forrester Research says you can reach the elusive 18-26 market.
One key data point that stood out for me: 24% of Gen Yers read blogs, which is twice as often as the 12% of Gen Xers (ages 27-40) and three times the 7% of Young Boomers (ages 41-50) that read blogs. So skeptics of blogs should suspend their disbelief and look to at least one bellweather demographic to get an idea of how widespread blog readership can potentially grow in the future.
It's really dumbfounding how many people dismiss blogs as over hyped by the media -- even as traditional media has been slow to effectively adapt the trend it ballyhoos.
Tags: blogosphere | GenY | blog audience
I saw a reference to this site on Friday and found it to be just what I needed because I hate typing into my address book on my cell phone.
Zyb.com, a service based in Denmark, lets you do all that typing in a Web page and synch with your phone. You can do appointments as well.
It uses synchML (Synchronization Markup Language) to perform its magic. Most phones have synchML built-in, but I had begun to think that it was a pretty useless feature, one that I would never use.
Tags: mobile phones | contact management | cell phone
Surveys are always fun even if you’re not sure what they mean.
Michael Silence did a write-up today on a survey Randy Neal did on his popular Knoxviews.com site.
The survey at best only represents what the demographics of the community site, knoxviews.com, look like. At worst, it’s the demographics of only the people that responded. But the results are still interesting.
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com says Neal’s visitors look a lot like his. And they are all not too different from knoxnews: over 40 and upscale.
Tags: blogoshere | community journalism
One of the best CDs I brought recently is G. Love's "Lemonade."
Released Aug. 1, 2006, it's a collection of really nice tunes with a host of guest musicians including Ben Harper, Marc Broussard, Jack Johnson (the CD is on Johnson's Brushfire Records), Tristan Prettyman, Blackalicious.
Philly-based hip/hop bluesman Garrett "G. Love" Dutton (who one reviewer calls "one of the premier purveyors of a funky fusion of sparkling acoustic pop, white-boy rap, and ragged blues" .. whew, whatever) has one nice CD. I'll think I'll be listening to it for quite awhile.
Here's the track list:
1. Ride
2. Ain't That Right
3. Hot Cookin'
4. Can't Go Back to Jersey
5. Missing My Baby
6. Holla!
7. Banger - Blackalicious, G. Love, Lateef the Truth Speaker
8. Thanks and Praise - G. Love,
9. Let the Music Play - Marc Broussard, G. Love,
10. Free
11. Beautiful - G. Love, Tristan Prettyman
12. Rainbow - G. Love, Jack Johnson
13. Breakin' Up
14. Still Hanging' Around/Sneakster
15. Love
Steve Safran of Lost Remote is bogging from the WKRN blogger meetup in Nashville. See his coverage:
Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker weighs in on that self-righteous bastion of certitude, the NCAA.
And finds it, well, inhumane.
(The comments posted so far on his post are pretty fun reading as well.)
Tags: NCAA | Malcolm Gladwell
Heard an Alvin Youngblood Hart track the other night and decided to buy the CD, a 2005 release called "Motivational Speaker."
Recorded in Memphis, it is da Blues. Here's a little snippet from the CD's first track "Big Mama's Door (Might Return)."
Tags: AYH | Alvin Youngblood Hart | Blues
