Richard Prince from the Maynard Journalism institute called me last night to ask about commercialappeal.com’s coverage of Isaac Hayes death. He quoted me extensively on our breaking news coverage in his blog/column. It’s about half-way down the page. We owned the breaking coverage of the Soul Man’s death, but everyone [...]
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August, 2008
Ubuntuing at home
In previous years, this post may have confirmed that I am a nerd, but getting ubuntu linux up and running at home was so easy that I think it may be the new easy to use operating system for everyone to use. We have six year old Dell desktop that [...]
Church websites from a visitor’s eyes
Since we moved to Memphis, we’ve visited several different churches as we are looking for a church home for our family. When I’m investigating the church the first thing I check out is the church website for some basic information about the church. So the church’s site gives me the [...]
Flipping: Houses out, websites in
There was an interesting article this past week in the New Times technology section on the practice of flipping web sites. It works pretty much like flipping a house. First, you find a web site that has been around while and has decent search engine ranking and a base level [...]