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Big Knoxville Overground Event Tonight!
KO is working on building a micro-enterprise development center at 35 Market Square and is hosting a social mixer there tonight (link to the flyer). From KnoxViews: Their proposal, modeled off of the top-ranked San Francisco Renaissance Center, entails using the space as a resource where startups in a variety of industries (specifically companies positioned [...]
Local Dustup Over “Indoctrination”
This one was pretty amusing…a “she said, she said” over whether or not gun permit instructors are “indoctrinating” people who show up for their courses. This one comes complete with removed content and closed comments–fun for everybody. It seems to me it would be awfully tough to indoctrinate adults who have made a decision on [...]
Zach Wamp Meets With East Tennessee Bloggers
Thanks to Ken’s efforts along with others at ConserVOLiance.com, a group of East Tennessee bloggers treated to a meeting with Tennessee Gubernatorial candidate Zach Wamp. To his credit, @zachwamp requested these meetups himself in a message to @bluecollarmuse on Twitter. I think this is important for two reasons. First of all, it says to me [...]
Good Peanut Butter and Good Toilet Paper
…the rest of life is butter if you have those two things. Really good butter. Check out this awesome video of our ol’ buddy at ktownlowdown and his (much) better half, CouponKatie. You may have to watch the video twice, because the first time through you’ll most likely be distracted with thoughts of, “how did [...]
Even More Annoying In Person
Here’s your chance to see me make a real fool of myself. Well, at least hear it. Newscoma and I are going to be on The DontGo Show tonight, 7 pm EST, discussing Newstechzilla. Thanks to BlueCollarMuse for giving us a whole hour to talk about our new project!!! This should be a blast! You [...]
A Car, A Washer/Dryer, and Air Conditioning
No, this isn’t a Johnny Carson Carnac skit. And yes, I’m old enough to remember Carnac, even though I didn’t get it. These are the first three items that are considered to be necessities by Pew Research Center. You know what that means–it’s just a matter of time before everyone has a “right” to these [...]
Ok, So Not Everyone Agrees…
There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.” — PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, JANUARY 9 , 2009 But then again, what do these guys know? it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. [...]
I Think We Should See Other People
Lots of other people. In fact, I think I should see everybody but you and you should see everybody  but me. I’m proposing a mass Facebook “We Don’t Have To Be Friends” group. It’s like Whopper Sacrifice, but for keeps this time. I’m going to fix the social networking world’s woes. I’m starting a group [...]
Blog Commenters UNITE!
The announcement of this new left-leaning blog made me wonder something… When left-leaning blogs and websites show advertising, what happens to the money? I mean, a blog is nothing without its readers, just like a company is nothing without its workforce, right? Is the money left over after operational costs are paid dispersed evenly amongst [...]
A Quick Hi and Some Thanks!
The last few days have been pretty crazy. Last Thursday Newscoma and I launched a little project, NewsTechZilla. We thought it was a good idea and would be a fun way to document some stuff. Little did we know it would explode. We’ve seen an unbelievable amount of support (and traffic) so far, and I [...]
