The world today can be held in the palm of the hand, with all the news and sounds and motion a tap away. These are familiar agonies that grip the newspaper industry across the land and may yet do in the survivor here, victory not a conclusion as much as an amnesty.
via LINCICOME: Sports will go on, just without the Rocky : Columns & Blogs : The Rocky Mountain News.
(Press release, Feb. 24, 2009)
Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Media Management Center (MMC) will offer a unique master’s degree track starting this fall tailored to media professionals who want to retool and broaden their skills to meet the challenges of the digital age. (more…)
There is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over.
via Do We Need a New Internet? – NYTimes.com.
Many Twitter users embrace the technology as a way of feeling “ambient intimacy.”
via Twitter: What is it good for?: Scientific American Blog.