The Friday Week in Review: You Lie! Edition

It’s Friday, and time for another long look back at a brutal week in politics, sports and the Web. We’re going to try for a reasoned, respectful debate here, so no shouting! But feel free to call us out in comments if we start going on about death panels. Remember: There remains some significant details [...]

Friday Week In Review: Who Will Wear the Crown? Edition

Now that the Great Northwest Arkansas Newspaper War is settled, we can move on to other, more important forms of media self-destruction, like giving away all our online content for free!
Here now, at no extra charge, is a loving look back at the Week The Way It Was, Not Necessarily How We’d Like It To [...]

Pew Study Shows Emerging Trends in Political, Civic Engagement Online

On KARN radio on Monday, political bloggers Blake Rutherford and David Kinkade commented on how new media has finally arrived in Arkansas, and how blogs and social networks will play an even bigger role in the 2010 election cycle (one that’s already sure to be exciting given a certain U.S. Senate race) as more Arkansans [...]

LT, On Your TV and Radio Dials This Weekend

No rest for the narcissistic! Not content with the Internet, we’re also on the airwaves this weekend, aiming for Paris Hilton levels of overexposure. To wit:
Arkansas Week, 8:30 p.m. Friday, AETN – Catch myself, host Steve Barnes and Hoyt Purvis of the University of Arkansas as we tag-n-bag the week in business and politics. Tonight’s [...]

Friday Week in Review: Pouring One Out for Teddy K.

And there you have it. Another week in the can, another Kennedy cast off this mortal coil. Other stuff happened too, and there were blogs that wrote about it. Let us reminisce …
Walter Hussman spread the gospel of No Free Meal on the Internets.
Blake Rutherford remembered Ted Kennedy (how could anyone forget?) and shared some [...]

The Friday Week in Review: Abbreviated Edition

Have we mentioned how out of it we’ve been? This week has been one slow slog into oblivion. Fortunately, some stuff happened, and now we’ll relive it.
Here’s a quick look back at The Week That Once Was, blogwise:
Bullwhiz, the e-mail gossip sheet founded by Paul Johnson back in the day, has made its latest comeback.
We [...]

Tune In: I’ll Be a Guest on Arkansas Sunday Edition This Weekend

UPDATE: We’re off the air. It was a fun show! Congrats to Blake on his radio debut, and my thanks for inviting me to come on. Along with RJ Hawk, Jessica Dean and David Kinkade, we talked health care, Blanche Lincoln, GOP candidates for U.S. Senate and Bob Dylan. We even got a call from [...]

Friday Week in Review: The Week We Were Barely Here

Who’s running this blog, anyway? Because one of the keys to successful blogging is that there be new posts on a semi-regular basis. And in that regard, we’ve been an utter failure this week! But we have been making the rounds to all the hottest health care town halls — it’s the new “in” thing. [...]

Media Notes: Inside Saline Debuts; ‘FaceFriend’ Announced; Local, Local Local!

Please excuse us while we navel-gaze. The latest bits from around the media world, Arkansas and beyond:
Airheads – Blake Rutherford guests today on 103.7 The Buzz from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tune in for a taste of the his new radio show, starting this weekend.
Web Jones -  Whit Jones, the former editor of the [...]

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 street [...]