Saturday, September 24, 2005|
& one has additional destination I was just telling students how some newspaper websites have been reluctant to link outside their own pages for fear of losing viewers for their stories (and ads). That's not true at the Knoxville News-Sentinel, at least not in its staff blogging section, where Michael Silence now has his "Valley of the blogs" page online. His directory of East Tennessee weblogs has collected more then 90 names and links since he asked for volunteers last week. Now he's inviting bloggers to add their own descriptions and locations as comments on the blog list, so I've just pasted my blog heading there... He also points to Johnny Dobbins' somewhat similar idea of sorting the RockyTopBrigade.org
membership by region. The home page he whipped up last month for the
brigade already offers links and contents from more than 140 Tennessee
blogs. If his database-backed site allows him to automagically generate
regional "samplers" from the blogs' RSS feeds, it would save
local-information junkies (including journalists) a lot of
surfing... Additional destination: For skb... and jfm... Neal's new third location isn't exactly a blog... He is contributing his twist on Tennessee myths to the first issue of Red State Reader, an online zine launched from New York by former Knoxville alt-weekly editor Jesse Fox Mayshark. Other contributors include Joe Tarr, formerly with that same weekly. 7:39:52 PM 
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