Blogs in the News... in East Tennessee

Knoxville News-Sentinel reporter, columnist and blogger Michael Silence look at Tennessee blogs. It's a primer, not an in-depth report, but still good for those new to Tennessee blogging. Silence's newspaper blog is also worth a regular read.

Just to note: while the story concentrates on the Knoxville area, not one West Tennessee blog is mentioned. And though the KNS has been regularly keeping up with the Tennessee blog scene, its sibling paper in the Scripps empire, the Memphis Commercial Appeal has yet to do any stories on Memphis bloggers. Nada. And the KNS also has a web feature wherein they round up all the URLs mentioned in that day's print edition! Pretty snazzy.

The CA's fine with hiring Memphis bloggers to write for them, but not with covering Memphis' rather diverse and vibrant blog community. Old think, people, old think. No wonder circulation's still flat.