Month: February 2007

  • Wonderful Sunday for a jog

    Great day in Knoxville Sunday. Sunny, windy and warm (in the mid-60s). Went jogging at my favorite greenway and did 7.75 miles in 1:20:48 (156 average heart rate bpm). Yep, that’s Slowsky; I usually don’t jog/walk that long — or far. It was good. Lots of folks and dogs out. Only two problems: it was…

  • No one said culture change was uplifting

    More on newsroom transformation, this one Steve Yelvington, who asks: “When do we become the roadblock?” This one is not a high-level shifting of the trends discussion, but about the often very painful decisions that have to be made while slogging it out in the trenches. Yelvington’s call is for the online leaders to not…

  • Are the wires dead meat?

    It wouldn’t be news to say Jeff Jarvis is one of the most interesting people talking — and writing — about media. Last week he proposed a new rule for newspapers: “Cover what you do best. Link to the rest.” it’s a great concept — disruptive as hell. Jarvis didn’t hone in on what this…