Category Archives: Higher Education

Universities finding donations are becoming fewer and farther between

By Michael Becker | Published: March 30, 2009
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 [...]
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University of Virginia shutting down public computer labs to save money

By Michael Becker | Published: March 24, 2009
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 [...]
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Revolution and the unthinkable scenario

By Michael Becker | Published: March 14, 2009
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 [...]
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What Twitter did for crisis journalism today

By Michael Becker | Published: March 5, 2009
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 [...]
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Google Reader or not, that is the question

By Michael Becker | Published: December 20, 2008
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.
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