It’s harder than one might think it is to condense one’s thoughts into 200 words. I couldn’t do it – I needed 214. Words like “hypocritical,” “strident” and “presumptuous” made it into the first draft, but not the final draft. My letter to the Buffalo News, as submitted, with linky goodness, follows. As a web geek and political ...
A horrifying component of the ongoing financial and banking industry scandal – and I call a scandal, not a meltdown or crisis – involves the fact that the Federal Reserve stopped tracking M3 in 2006. What is M3? Let us explore, for a moment, the Wikipedia entry on Money Supply. M0: Physical currency. A measure of the money supply ...
Educause’s compilation of college web page content from a technical perspective is a fascinating and revealing way of looking at how colleges develop their most public interface with their publics: the home page. The data available to mine from this – in terms of what is working for other colleges, and what technologies are being ignored – ...
Two of the sessions I attended at today’s Northeast PRSA Conference dealt explicitly with social media. The first, on the SMR, or social media release, is the one I will go into detail about here, having already written about it back in April 2008. The second, on blogging ethics, gave me tons and tons to think ...
I had the idea to create a course that would reflect on some of the very pressing needs in the communication industry for clear and creative writing skills. Here is an outline for a little course I like to call Writing for Electronic Media. It’s not the first time this has been taught, nor is ...