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Jakob Nielsen:Print publications -- from newspaper articles to marketing brochures -- contain linear content that's often consumed in a more relaxed setting and manner than the solution-hunting behavior that characterizes most high-value Web use. In print, you can spice up...

Journalism In The Service of Democracy: A Summit Of Deans, Faculty, Students And Journalists
This morning in my mail I found an attractive printing of the proceedings from a January summit on journalism. All in all, this is a good print document that suffered when it was shoveled online. I have no idea what...

Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Nicholas Carr, in The Atlantic:As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the...

High flatulent language
An amusing post from Language Log, about the ill wind that blows for people who trust their spell checkers too much.As you might have guessed, what Edwards actually said in the debate was "Highfalutin language is not enough." The word...

A Facebook App for Every Occasion ... Even Recruiting
From Inside Higher Ed, an article about a Facebook app designed for college recruiters:The solution they came up with essentially offers a series of "challenges" to students interested in SUNY Plattsburgh. Each challenge requires them to upload video or photographic...