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The fine folks over at Ten­nessee Blog­gers For Edu­ca­tion have been ask­ing us to spread the word about their pro­gram for a while. And what a great pro­gram it is. Head on over to their dona­tion page and look at all the ways we can help local teachers.

Last Sat­ur­day approx­i­mately 75 technophiles descended on Chat­tanooga for the “uncon­fer­ence” con­fer­ence, Bar­Camp Chatt. We (Knoxify’s found­ing fathers, Bran­don Clarke and Casey Peters) had the oppor­tu­nity to sit on a hyper­local blog­ging panel with the fine folks from Nashvillest, Chat­tarati, and The Ter­mi­nal. We found out that Knoxville isn’t all that dif­fer­ent from its neigh­bor­ing cities.

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So with all the bad news lately, it seems that “everything’s amaz­ing, but nobody’s happy.” Well, Triathlon super­star and Knoxvil­lian Eric Bell, has some good news from Down Under. Dream Big, EB and keep send­ing the updates! See you soon, the Dog­wood Mile awaits its leader’s return

Look no far­ther than the mid­dle col­umn of our site to find the inside scoop on our neigh­bors, Chat­tanooga and Nashville.

We have part­nered with Chat­tarati, a Chat­tanooga blog with a touch of nar­cis­sism, and the Nashvillest, a Music City blog, to bring you the lat­est news and opin­ions from Mid­dle and South­east Tennessee.

Just like Knox­ify, both the ‘Ratis and the ‘Villests are show­ing their read­ers what makes their cities great. Don’t be shy, make a new friend or two today.

Pho­tog­ra­phy by elvissa

My wife and I have been blessed with many great friends from Knoxville, whom we love to sup­port. A cou­ple of weeks ago we decided to invite Stu­dio 193 into our home to take pic­tures of our daughter.

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Hey Wigshop­pers, Knox­ify found your sticker. We spot­ted one on August 31st Down­town. Where should we pick up our prize, yo?

Yes­ter­day, July 16th, Knox­ify hit a new mile­stone: 104 RSS subscribers!

When we launched this blog in Decem­ber of ’06 we never expected such a warm wel­come from the Knoxville com­mu­nity. So, from the bot­tom of our hearts, THANK YOU!

The entire Knoxville blo­gos­phere will con­tinue to grow with great read­ers like you. Now go treat your­self to some ice cream.

In case you for­got what RSS means, read this.

When I meet Knox­ify read­ers, I often ask if they’re an RSS sub­scriber. Sur­pris­ingly, the most com­mon response is a con­fused face.

To shed some light on RSS feeds and sub­scrip­tions, I have pro­vided a step-by-step tuto­r­ial below so that you can learn how to eas­ily fol­low all of your favorite Knoxville blogs.

This may be very ele­men­tary to a few folks but remem­ber that this was writ­ten for some­one who has never heard of RSS before.

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My del.icio.us book­mark roll has been grow­ing rapidly with new Knoxville blog’s. Either I’ve been hid­ing under a rock and haven’t noticed these places or more Knoxvillian’s are sign­ing on. Here are a few of my recent discoveries.

• Tabloid Boy: Larry Van Guilder of the Shopper-News cov­ers local pol­i­tics and “other oddities”.
• Rad­De­von: Devon N. Camp­bell writes about pol­i­tics to Apple to “Buy Noth­ing Day”.
• Chris D. Knight: A Jef­fer­son County blog­ger, Chris enjoys “being in the tech­nol­ogy scene”.
• The Road Home to Ten­nessee: Mar­sha Loftis cov­ers a vari­ety of top­ics. But most impor­tantly, her about page lets you know she’s look­ing for a job. Any­one got an opening?
• Cloudy Day: Emma Chace is a UT stu­dent major­ing in Hotel, Restau­rant, and Tourism. I stop by her blog every­day because it’s that good.

Bonus: A few addi­tions to the list.

• Pull A Chair Up: Chad Pariz­man, Tim O’Hare and Dani (couldn’t find the last name) cover top­ics from GQ to wiki pages.
• Pattie’s Pop Cul­ture Par­adise: Pat­tie writes about TV, movies, books, music, and photography.

Know of any other Knoxville blog’s I should be reading?

Pho­tog­ra­phy by ZenOp­tic

Before the I-40 Down­town bot­tle­neck gets bet­ter, it’s only going to get worse. TDOT has out­lined the entire project on their site and are even pro­vid­ing high-tech web cam­eras to pub­li­cize the progress.

To help bet­ter answer the ques­tion, “what the heck is going on with I-40″, Don Jacobs of the News Sen­tinel has launched his Nav­i­gat­ing SmartFIX40 blog. Don writes:

To help dri­vers and the com­mu­nity bet­ter under­stand the most expen­sive high­way project in the state’s his­tory, I am field­ing ques­tions about the SmartFIX40 project that for 14 months will change the way peo­ple get around Knoxville.

If you don’t make it over there today, you’ll have 14 months to visit it later.