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What I'm Reading
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?CBS News | Aug 30, 2010Apple has scheduled a big event for Wednesday. CBS News speculates on the company's coming announcements.
- Can Preschoolers Be Depressed?New York Times | Aug 25, 2010Some psychologists believe preschoolers can experience bouts of depression, this New York Times report says.
- Electronic Arts stands by Medal of Honor Taliban featureCNET | Aug 25, 2010EA defends the ability to play as Taliban soldiers in the upcoming "Medal of Honor" game.
- Twitter’s not stupid – you just have boring friendswww.andrewdubber.com | Aug 16, 2010A nice look at how to get the most out of Twitter and refutation of some common Twitter complaints.
- Is 3-D dead in the water? A box-office analysisSlate | Aug 24, 2010Slate magazine looks at whether people are happy with just two dimensions in their movies, thank you very much.
- Apple to Unveil its Next Move in Music?
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My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Techno-Journalists
Rich Gordon at the Readership Institute has written a brief introduction to a new digital journalism program at Medill (Northwestern University) that offers scholarships to computer science majors and technologists. The goal is to join technologists and journalists together into an efficient hybrid, because, as Gordon writes, the two camps do not understand each other. [...]
Book Burning
The owner of a used bookstore in Kansas City, Missouri, says he will burn up to 20,000 books from his warehouse stock–books he could not even give away to libraries or other shops–to protest what he sees as the decline of the printed word.
Oh Helvetica My Sweet!
Mia Fineman wrote a slideshow essay on the classic font Helvetica for Slate on Friday, which then led to a companion piece in which authors tell Slate what their favorite fonts are (overwhelmingly Courier or Courier New, by the way). From the textbooks on typography that I was able to read while working late hours in [...]
E-Mail Bankruptcy
Some people are wiping their hands of e-mail, the Washington Post reported Friday. One witty blogger said he was “bankrupt” under a storm of e-mail and was starting over, though Sherry Turkle may have coined the term in 1999. It’s a trend that Post reporter Mike Musgrove found happening in many people’s in-boxes. The phenomenon [...]
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Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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