Friday Week in Review: The Week Everyone Left

It’s another Friday Week in Review! A week in which we lost so much and gained so very little. Among those shaking the dust of this crummy little town, Nick “Zack” Stovall, the Arkansas News Bureau Web guru and Unfamous First Words blogger who hates our blue shirt, likes to scream at us on the [...]

Coming Soon: Think Tank Radio on 103.7 The Buzz

You’ve probably heard, but because the Internets is an echo chamber, we’ll tell you again! Justin Acri‘s gone bat-sh!t* crazy and given PR guy and blogger Blake Rutherford his own radio show. Fortunately, it’s on when no one will be listening: Sunday! You can catch the proprietor of Blake’s Think Tank holding forth each week [...]

Happy Retirement, BJ!

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More From Walter Hussman, the ‘Patron Saint of the Pay Wall’

Noted here mainly for the record, since there’s not much new in this Arkansas Democrat-Gazette piece (on the front of the Business section here in Little Rock) on publisher Walter Hussman’s championing of the pay wall, this time during a Webinar hosted by the American Society of News Editors. A longtime advocate of subscriptions for [...]

The Long Goodbye: BJ Sams Says Farewell on Friday

After more than 50 years in broadcasting (“Fifty-six,” he’ll remind you), BJ Sams is signing off tomorrow. His final broadcast of “Today’s THV This Morning” happens Friday. This morning, before tomorrow’s busy farewell, he spent some final moments with his long-time “This Morning” co-host and sparring partner Tom Brannon, who commissioned a special “long-distance dedication” [...]

Here’s An Idea: The Harvard Business Review on the ‘Nichepaper’

Big ups to Robb Montgomery on Twitter for a link to this article on the “nichepaper manifesto.” I’m not big on buzzwords, nor am I big on manifestos, but I like the ideas described in this piece on the future of newspapers by the Harvard Business Review. What does it boil down to? The future [...]

Ernie Passailaigue’s South Carolina Days, the ‘Moritz Scale’ and More in This Week’s Arkansas Business

It’s Monday. On the bright side, there’s the new Arkansas Business. In this week’s edition: Mark Hengel investigates Ernie Passailaigue’s time as head of the South Carolina. Let’s see: There was an FOI lawsuit, a conflict over a $7.5 million advertising contract, and allegations that Passailaigue, a former South Carolina state senator, benefited from cronyism. [...]

Friday Week In Review: The Week We Tweeted-up

Holy crap it’s Friday! The day we finally convicted Tony Alamo for something other than his lack of fashion sense, and the day after most of us Tweeted up. Before plunging headlong into another lost weekend, here’s a last long look at the carnage behind us: Walter Hussman allegedly kicked the tires on another “news-paper,” [...]

A Packed House at the Third #LRTweetup, at Copper Grill

Last night was the third #LRTweetup and, from what I’m hearing, it was the biggest one yet, with about 70 RSVPs making for a packed house at Copper Grill, our third gracious event host. We missed the event. Yesterday was Laura’s birthday, and we had a family dinner at her mom’s house. Yep, the only [...]

Get Your Northwest Arkansas Twitterers Here

In honor of the third #LRTweetup tonight @CopperGrill in downtown Little Rock, we salute our neighbors to the northwest, who’re also cultivating quite the Twitter community. It’s grown so much that today the Fayetteville Flyer, the region’s online hub for news, music, culture and all things Internet, has launched its own Twitter guide. You can [...]