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
Category Archives: Higher Education
University of Virginia shutting down public computer labs to save money
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 [...]
Posted in Higher Education Tagged Chronicle of Higher Education, college, computer labs, computers, University of Virgina Comments closed
Revolution and the unthinkable scenario
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 [...]
Also posted in New Media, Print Culture, Site News Tagged Clay Shirky, current crisis, experients, Gutenberg, journalism, New Media, newspapers, printing, publishing, revolution Comments closed
What Twitter did for crisis journalism today
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 [...]
Also posted in Entertainment, New Media, Social Networking Tagged Bozeman, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, New Media, Social Networking, twitter Comments closed
Google Reader or not, that is the question
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.
Also posted in Digitalia Tagged Feed Demon, Google Reader, NewNewsWire, NewsGator, RSS, synching Comments closed
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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