Blockbuster: “Block-Busted”

November 26, 2006

I recently tried to use a Blockbuster gift card to rent a movie, but at $6.50 per rental, I decided the pre-viewed videos for sale at $9.99 were a much better bargain. At $6.50 per rental and with OnDemand, NetFlix and host of other choices, it’s no wonder that Blockbuster’s stock price has plummeted. The [...]

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Demanding a Voice: Campus Leadership Isn t a Silent Job

November 24, 2006

Several news networks, including the New York Times and ABC have recently covered a select group of college presidents who are taking to blogging as a new tool for communications. To me, it seems imperative that every school president, headmaster, or other, maintain an active blog. The Times cites a blog run by the Colorado [...]

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Who Owns my Searches: Me or Google?

November 20, 2006

WallStrip has a great Friday conversation with Seth Goldstein that is definitely worth a listen. Seth talks about misconception that Google is giving away applications for FREE (i.e. Google Spreadsheets, Maps, Search, etc). As Seth explains, Google is making a killing off users’ personal information, like search histories, which he believes should be the property [...]

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Social Media: Academics meet Myspace

November 20, 2006

As we have been saying for a while now if you are interested in social networks and the web, why not make a career out of it? Every company in the world worth its salt has a website and 90% of those websites have some monetizable component. Most companies would kill for a sharp, English-speaking [...]

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Free Cell Phones from Google?

November 18, 2006

This past Monday, Google’s Chief Executive, Eric Schmidt was quoted as stating his belief that: “Your mobile phone should be free’…in exchange for watching short advertisements. Google has long theorized that as more users use multifunction cell phones for watching videos, news, surfing the web and emailing, more and more adverting dollars will move to [...]

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Friday’s Featured Friend: Decisiveness

November 17, 2006

A trait that I constantly look for in people I work with is decisiveness, or the ability to make decisions. This is one of the most important life skills a young person can develop; learn to make a decision and be confident in it. More often than not, it seems that peoples’ waffling over ‘what [...]

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Podcasts Replacing Lectures?

November 16, 2006

Here is an interesting concept: Dr Bill Ashraf, a professor of microbiology at Bradford University is getting rid of in-person lectures completely. Instead, he’s only recording the lessons for students to download as podcasts or video. Students can then ask questions via email or text message, and the professor will respond on via his blog. [...]

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Sorry for the Technical Difficulties!

November 15, 2006

We are making some changes to our blog….sorry for the technical and viewing problems…we should be back up and running in a few hours

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We’re on Facebook.com – Join the Group: “2.0 Graduates”

November 14, 2006
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Ocean s Eleven: Brad Pitt Explains Web 2.0

November 14, 2006

We’ve been throwing around the term ’2.0’ quite liberally and it seems most people are not yet familiar with the concept. Thus, I will now try to put ’2.0’ in context that any student or young professional can understand and appreciate.Web 2.0 is all about three things: the evolution of technology & the internet the [...]

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