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In the early morning hours of Tuesday November 15th, Will Wheaton, former actor (Star Trek, Stand By Me) and current independent blogger, tweeted from Zucotti Park in New York: Isn’t it against the law for the NYPD to bar credentialed press from entry to Zuccotti and #occupywallstreet? What are they trying to hide? His tweet was […]
That’s the question many people have been asking themselves and others lately, both in general conversation and in the media. We have the Internet. It’s almost literally everywhere. You can access it on a tiny screen that acts as a music player, video game, flashlight, day planner, and status symbol all at the same time. […]
The Internet. It’s bigger than every newspaper, television network, radio station and CB line combined. The transfer of information from one side of the world, once taking days, weeks, or even months, is now instantaneous. Through the brilliance of Skype, my next-door neighbor can speak face to face with members of his family back in […]
With our Super-Blog themes hanging over our heads, this semester’s crop of burgeoning printed news historians would be well served to continue seeking out the “little known facts” of history that never got much pub. These lesser known knowledge nuggets are usually small pieces of larger stories that defined history. Like the story of Abraham […]
Media outlets in California have an important decision to make. “Federal prosecutors are preparing to target newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets that advertise medical marijuana dispensaries in California, another escalation in the Obama administration’s newly invigorated war against the state’s pot industry.” Wait… pot is legal? In 16 states and the District of […]
What’s your freak? Cassady controls the room, with his sledge hammer and his mile-a-minute ramblings about… nothing? Shh, everybody quiet down. Here comes The Chief.
Happy birthday, Google! Just a few short years and you’ll be borrowing the car and taking your gal YouTube out for a malt and a drive-in movie (kids still do that, right?) So you’re a teenager now. What’s on your wish list for the Big 1-3? A new smart phone? A trip to… Kansas? Kansas City, […]
Ever heard of the band Tea Party? Of course not, unless you’ve been living in Canada for the past decade or two. And even then it might be a stretch for anyone reading this blog to say “Oh… yeah. Tea Party. “The Edges of Twilight” was a wicked awesome album… eh?” But now these crooning […]
Manager John Schiffner sees me coming from his perch in the dugout and makes sure to put on his hat. His hair is a little disheveled today, and wouldn’t look very good on camera. Ten years ago this scenario would never have played out in the small town of Chatham, Massachusetts. Ten years ago the Cape Cod […]
Google. The name stands alone as one of the most revolutionary innovations in recorded history, fifteen years after its inception in 1996 as the “web crawler” BackRub, “designed to traverse the web.” Where its predecessors Yahoo and AOL, with their once-widely popular search engines, have failed to corner the search market, Google founders Larry Page […]
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