It's like I'm a psychic or something
I finally get around to reading the Sunday paper this evening, and what do I see? Well the paper has gone and made themselves a blog network. Good on ya! Granted, trying to join resulted in a 404 error, and my blog wasn't included (no shocker there), oh and bloggers won't really be able to monetize their blogs within the page, but hey, it's a start, right?
Anything that gets the blog blog flowing is a good thing. It doesn't necessarily change the fact that, overall, we are still a pretty technologically backwards town. In a moment of true funny I scroll down and see someone blogging about killing the battery on their Wall Street Powerbook. That's the Powerbook from 1998 y'all.
So I dunno, maybe it has been tricked out by MCE Tech and is a screamer with dual DVD-burners. Maybe Blognetwork.Knoxnews.com (catchy, huh?) will be a rocket ride of local success. And maybe, just maybe, Knoxville will learn what it really means to blog and the ethos of the blogosphere. Considering it took Knoxnews a few years to drop the whole "we don't need your stinking Google referrals" and remove the mandatory log-in, we've got an uphill battle on our hands.
UPDATE: As Jack points out in the comments, this blog HAS been added. In my efforts to build an SEO-friendly site, I named my blog "The Knoxville Blog" which is pretty generic when viewed against a number of other "Knoxville" blogs. So I couldn't find it, and complained, and that's my bad. Sorry folks.
Anything that gets the blog blog flowing is a good thing. It doesn't necessarily change the fact that, overall, we are still a pretty technologically backwards town. In a moment of true funny I scroll down and see someone blogging about killing the battery on their Wall Street Powerbook. That's the Powerbook from 1998 y'all.
So I dunno, maybe it has been tricked out by MCE Tech and is a screamer with dual DVD-burners. Maybe Blognetwork.Knoxnews.com (catchy, huh?) will be a rocket ride of local success. And maybe, just maybe, Knoxville will learn what it really means to blog and the ethos of the blogosphere. Considering it took Knoxnews a few years to drop the whole "we don't need your stinking Google referrals" and remove the mandatory log-in, we've got an uphill battle on our hands.
UPDATE: As Jack points out in the comments, this blog HAS been added. In my efforts to build an SEO-friendly site, I named my blog "The Knoxville Blog" which is pretty generic when viewed against a number of other "Knoxville" blogs. So I couldn't find it, and complained, and that's my bad. Sorry folks.
Labels: knoxville, news sentinel, newspaper, scripps
posted by Victor Agreda, Jr. at
8:52 PM
5 Comments:
"It doesn't necessarily change the fact that, overall, we are still a pretty technologically backwards town."
I really do have a lot of love for knoxville, but to be mean-spirited for a moment, remove the word "technologically" from the above quote. there, that looks about right. it's that east-tn stubborn scottish blood, i tell ya! endearing in many ways, but...
Baby steps, man. I truly think open communications like blogs can open minds. If everyone has their little iPod touches with Safari, reading blogs and being exposed to new ideas, who knows? Maybe...
Victor, this one has been added to blognetwork.knoxnews.com
All of us have psychic abilities when we were born.But It's up to you to enhanced it or not.
Sure, it helps if you are psychic. I can tell you that when you do psychic readings for a living, it sure is fun.
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