Archive for January 8th, 2008
Don’t pay for that old Tennessean article
Did you know that the Nashville Public Library maintains a searchable database of articles published in The Tennessean? It’s free if you are a Davidson County resident with a library card, and it’s constantly being updated. The content is usually current within a few days of the present, so January 2008 editions are already online. The library began archiving the paper electronically in 1999, so you can search nearly 10 years of articles.
Here’s another little secret: The Tennessean doesn’t move its articles once they age past its seven-day free archive period. It only stops indexing them on its main pages because they are no longer current stories. They’ll show up as articles you have to pay for in a keyword search on the paper’s Web site, but Google and/or Google News can usually find the direct link to the stories for free.
Nashvillian takes on Hamburg, Germany
Corey at Webspun Ideas, a self-described “ambassador for Nashville” who is employed as a concierge, is traveling in Germany and captured great photos of the Hamburg train station. You’ve probably seen it before in magazines or commercials, and now Corey’s seen it in person. If you look closely, you can see that, appropriately enough, Hamburg has its own McDonald’s. Have a safe trip, Corey.
