A niche I hadn’t thought of (pirates classifieds), but it looks fun — and a good idea.They’ve aggregated 71,000 ads for Knoxville. Has former newspaper-exec-now-Oodler Lem Lloyd gone the pirate way? Well, anyway, ahoy, Knoxville pirates. (via Greg Sterling) Tags: pirates | oodle | classifieds

It was great to get a respite from the gloom of the newspaper industry by helping out with the Center for Innovation in College Media workshop over the weekend in Nashville. I got to meet some really bright people: Angela Grant, the first multimedia producer for the San Antonio Express, who in her first job…