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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.” KnoxVegas, K-Town, Knoxpatch, yes. But “the couch,” no, never. The accompanying slide show to the…
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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 have therapeutic value for serious ailments. “Whatever the underlying causes may be, people coping with…
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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.” He also said Craig Newmark and Craigslist is not to blame for the industry woes.