This week, The Economist published a special report on social networking changing the way people communicate, work and play.
Recently the Fitchburg office of the Honorable John Olver came to the aid of my grieving mother who was facing mounting medical bills following the death of my father. The insurance companies sending those bills seemed to be engaging in predatory practices sending bills my parents hadn’t seen during my father’s four-year fight with cancer. [...]
I have to share this. It’s too freakin’ funny and is totally something Bubbah Jones (Ella, our precious Boston Terrier) would do if we had a pool.
Is the Tooth Fairy real? How about the garbage man? Those questions may seem trivial, but how young children answer them is an important indicator of cognitive development. Keep Santa comin’…
There’s buzz circulating the Internets that Apple’s new iPad tablet could come to the rescue of the publishing and journalism industries. I don’t think so. At least for the journalism piece of the argument.
Spring is approaching (well, it’s already here in college-speak), so now’s the time to explore those spring awakenings. My course, Intro to Online Journalism, is offered through UMassOnline’s award-winning Certificate of Journalism program. Class begins Jan. 19, you can register through Jan. 31.
Reporting is dead. Well, not dead, but has been made into a commodity by the web. Consumers of news don’t want to pay for reporting anymore because they can get it for free via mobile phones, PDAs, computers and laptops. Reporting is what the internet is really good at.
