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

Sorry folks, no question today. The Knoxified crew has a lot going on these days but we’ll return next week for another installment.

A mid-evening stroll led my wife and I to Coastal Connections, a local seafood market specializing in Gulf Coast shrimp, fish, crawfish and oysters.

We were greeted by Brian, one of the operating partners, who let us sample the cajun fare; samples only since we were walking without cash or credit. The two small cups of seafood gumbo and crawfish etouffee left us hungry for more. All of their selections were fresh and ready to take home. Coastal Connections visit the Alabama and Florida coastline every week to bring home never-frozen fresh seafood.

But don’t take my word for it. Brian and the boys also wholesale to local favorites like Chesapeake’s and Calhoun’s.

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After multiple “tweets” by Whodini, a large group of Knoxville’s Twitter community met for lunch at Lakeside Tavern. Here’s a quick round-up of the coverage.

• Whodini’s flickr set
• mwender’s blog coverage
• tohare’s flickr image and blog post

Update: The official roster from the tweet-up. If I missed someone leave a comment.

1. cpknoxify
2. patrickbeeson
3. Rootclip / luchauer
4. Whodini
5. gavinbaker
6. djuggler
7. LissaKay
8. lasthome
9. tohare
10. mwender
11. z11
12. cmm1869

Picture courtesy of Michael Wender

Dane Baker, Publisher of the Knoxville Voice, dropped us a line alerting the Knoxify guys that KnoxVoice.com was ready and willing. To serve up “Knoxville’s Only Independent Alternative” voice that is.

The new site boasts tons of good stories as well as a new Knoxville-centric job section, KnoxJobsLive. It’s worth a look.

photo credit: Lawrence Whittemore

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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.