Month: February 2008

  • Seriously, it’s real

    A wearable computer. Not a new concept, but today was the first time I had ever met anyone using one. Ga. Tech professor Thad Stamer, who’s been building these gizmos since the early 1990s, was explaining the technology. He can type 130 words a minute with a 12 key keyboard — seemingly while talking to you…

  • New Frontier Awards

    Got some great news on Tuesday. From an Inland Press Association news release: Winners of second newspaper Web contest chosenThe Globe Gazette, News Sentinel receive best in circulation size The Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, and the Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel took first-place honors in their respective circulation divisions in the second New Frontier Awards…

  • Conversation worth noting

    Journalist/blogger and all-around Knoxville wired maven Katie Alison Granju hears a conversation with the power to change in the Knoxville blogosphere. This conversation extends beyond bloggers themselves, and even past the thousands of people who now read local blogs every day. It’s seeped out into the community at large – into political coverage by the…