Group blogging is way better than groupthink
Check out this ubercool idea offering a new way to aggregate Tennessee blogging content for the election.
Kudos to Jack Lail on his role.
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Who endorsed whom?
Find out where most Tennessee politicians’ presidential endorsements went in this comprehensive, searchable database.
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I saw it on KnoxTube
This is grassroots new media done right and done hyper-local.
(And I think I was at that Gut Truck show back in the day…)
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“This one time…at PodCamp…”
PodCamp Nashville looks like a neat-o learning get-together for folks interested in grassroots new media.
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I’m Twittering
You can now follow me on Twitter, if you feel so inclined:
follow undefined at http://twitter.com
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Jack Lail helps me with my Twitter impairment
I’ve mentioned before that I still don’t quite get Twitter, but this does seem like pretty neat-o explanation.
Twitter can be a great way for journalists to connect with their readers. This, of course, also helps journalists: “One day, when I was researching an article, I was looking for a specific piece of information”, says Thomas [...]
A nifty tool
Michael Silence blogs a nifty EPA tool that lets you see how green your area’s energy consumption is by entering your zipcode:
How Clean is Your Electricity?
We’re better than the national average on hydro (thanks, TVA!) and worse than the national average on coal (thanks, TVA).
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Romancing the youth vote
Jack Lail introduces us to MTV’s Tennessee-based citizen reporter, Dustin Ogdin.
Ogdin describes the project:
You asked what I hope to accomplish with the MTV Street team. My goal is to cover the issues that matter to young Tennesseans, especially young people of voting age. I am particularly interested in covering those issues that are [...]
NORAD Santa update
My daughter Jane informs me she actually put a call in to NORAD this morning, and spoke to a real, live person at their Washington HQ, who told her that their satellite tracking projects that Santa will hit Tennessee at around 11:30 pm tonight.
The woman - bless her heart - also told Jane that this [...]
Tracking Santa
My children inform me that NORAD’s online Santa Tracker will be operational beginning at 3:00 am on the 24th. They know this because they’ve been checking it every few hours for the past day or two..
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