Right now I’m deep in the throes of writing a term paper for my summer online grad school class on Online Journalism, but I just came across an interesting and pertinent blog post about social media and other Web 2.0 technologies as they relate to the future of higher educational institutions. Enjoy! And I’ll be [...]

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I have been resisting the Kindle ever since it was introduced. Of course, I had lots of good reasons. Books published on Kindle have DRM, and in years to come when the hardware is obsolete, I may not be able to use the books I’ve bought on this platform. The Kindle itself is not the [...]

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Back in the olden days, before the Web and blogs, the way people expressed themselves and held interactive discussions was by using Bulletin Board Systems, or BBSs. Since I acquired my first modem-equipped computer in 1983, a TRS-80 Model 100, that’s how I started my online life. My dad gave me one for my birthday [...]

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As mentioned in an earlier post, I’ll be starting graduate school next week. It’s been awhile (a long while!) since I’ve indulged in formal education, so I’m a little nervous about being able to keep up. So, as I habitually do, I’m looking to technology for help. College study is essentially an exercise in knowledge [...]

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No, the University of Missouri (“Mizzou”) really doesn’t have anything to do with hydrogen peroxide, but when I phoned my parents just now to tell them I’ve been accepted into the graduate program there (in the School of Journalism), Dad said they were already celebrating another milestone. It seems he (on behalf of a client) [...]

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