I just got a BarCamp Nashville email from Marcus Whitney. It turns out they got two Platinum Sponsors (congrats!). Who are they? Griffin Technology and WKRN. From what I understand, part of the sponsorship money will go to paying for drinks for the participants. (Hey, who wouldn’t want to hang out with a [...]
When I was just a wee lad, my maternal Grandfather (Henry Shipp) died from ALS (also known as Lou Gehrigs disease). It had been a long, painful battle with a very confusing and painful disease. That was in 1979 (I think).
In many ways ALS is one of the diseases that modern medicine has [...]
I have mentioned before that I think the original Nashville Is Talking is dead. It was no single event that killed it; it was a slow ending that played out over the course of a few months. What once was will never be again. I mean, it could be, but it won’t.
Now [...]
When we were deciding on a location for our retail store we wanted to pick a location that would be good for the long term. As we looked at the available markets we settled on Cool Springs. At the time the population density and demographics didn’t look great, but we felt that Cool [...]
I went to Flugtag downtown yesterday. I have to say it was the most enjoyable event I have ever been to at Riverfront park. Well, maybe Koko Taylor on my 18th birthday was more fun, but I had a blast yesterday.
The actual flying contraptions didn’t fly very well. The “world record breaking” [...]
WKRN has helped to foster a vibrant locol blogosphere in Nashville. I don’t know of any city with such a cohesive local blog community. A large amount of credit for that goes to Brittney Gilbert (and others) for the Nashville is Talking website.
When NashvilleIsTalking (or NiT as it is locally known) was [...]
WKRN (Nashville’s ABC affiliate) has launched a new blog called Nashville is Talking. Unfortunately, this is a blog that is not participating in the Web2.0 standards that make blogging more meaningful than the personal web pages of the mid 1990’s. There is an icon for an RSS feed, but it does not link [...]
