Friday funny: Fill My Room made me laugh. (via: cynical-c)

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An observation about Nashville blogging: The Nashville NBC affiliate, WSMV, announced they are pulling the local broadcast of the program The Book of Daniel. However, if you want to monitor the Nashville blogosphere’s reaction to the decision (positive and negative), the best way to do it is via a blog maintained by the ABC affiliate, WKRN.

Observation: If WSMV had made the longterm investment in building a relationship with the Nashville blogosophere that WKRN has, when faced with the dilemma of whether or not to pull the broadcast feed of the program, they could have had a conversation with the community before announcing the decision. They may have made the same decision, however, they wouldn’t have come off looking so clueless and arrogant. (Well, maybe clueless, but not as arrogant.)

Note: I haven’t seen the show or followed the controversy. However, I can’t imagine anything about it that could make me think WSMV should cut off the network feed. But then, I always keep an extra set of batteries for my remote.

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Stephen Baker on the dilemma of being a blogger/journalist working on a story he couldn’t blog about: Steve writes: “I’ve been leading a secret life on this blog. For months and months I worked on this math cover story. I was talking to mathematicians and people who use math, and it was dominating my thinking. It was in many ways the most interesting thing going on–and I couldn’t blab about it in the blog.”

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Nashville business blogging blogging: Jackson Miller apparently is one heckuva note taker because he kept up with stuff I was slinging out at yesterday’s “blogging for business” panel sponsored by the Nashville Tehcnology Council. For the record, my “why people blog” reasons were from this survey by AOL — thus, my comment about “politics and news” not being the reason people blog. (Obviously, politics and news are reasons, but perhaps not with the magnitude most of the public percieve.) Also, I don’t know why Brittney was so nervous. She did great.

Others who were there and blogged it:

Chris Wage
This is Smyrna (a Nick fan)

Bonus news I learned at the meeting: For years, I’ve been describing Milt Capps, who has a great e-mail newsletter, as the best blogger in Nashville who doesn’t have a blog. After the panel yesterday, Milt let me peek at something he’s about to start doing to compliment the newsletter, a weblog called “Venture Nashville.” Awesome.

Update: After the session, Dirk Plantinga started a blog. (via: Nashville is Talking.)

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