There’s an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education this morning about the billion-dollar fundraising campaigns at many large universities.
As you can imagine, the campaigns aren’t going well. The donors who either have pledged money or would have pledged money were hurt by the financial crash and are rethinking their donations.
The worst part? Even if the […]
The University of Virginia is planning to shut down its public computer labs to save money, the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog reports.
An explanation on the university’s Web site.More from the CHE here.
Basically, a survey last fall showed that 99 percent of students bring their own computers. And though students spent over 650,000 hours in […]
We are living through a revolution, writes Clay Shirky, just like the one that Gutenberg started around 1500. And all revolutions are more or less the same, he writes: “The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff gets put in its place.”
The old stuff getting broken in this case is newspapers. More and more […]
For a long time, people have been talking about the potential of Twitter as a news source. Today, Twitter earned its stripes.
At 8:12 a.m. MDT, an explosion rattled downtown Bozeman, Mont., destroying three whole buildings and at least five businesses. Shortly after the explosion, few people outside of the immediate downtown area knew anything about the […]
Some time ago, shortly after Google Reader was launched, I made a choice to stick with desktop applications for reading RSS across multiple computers. It’s a choice I’ve stuck with for a couple of years now, and it’s a choice I’m beginning to doubt.