Shoaf onboard Dobie

Forrest Shoaf, attorney, Cracker Barrel exec and investment banker, has thrown-in with Bruce Dobie at Dobie Media, right here.

GOBA 2.5

GOBA ("Get Out, Be Active"), led by John Dayani Jr., today announced v2.5, a more robust version. Release here. Other GOBA progress notes here.

Dobie makes best of missing Tennessean job

We're not sure it was ever confirmed, but it's widely believed that Bruce Dobie, of whom we write in today's story about a B-round cap raise for Dobie Media, may've benefited by the door closing at The Tennessean a few years ago, when he was rumored to have been considered a finalist for the editorship at The TSN, after he and his partner sold Nashville Scene. Here's our story on the capital raise and background on Dobie.