Four years ago, MIT made a committment to sharing the educational materials from all of their undergraduate and graduate courses online, making it free and accessible to people around the world. More than 1400 courses from their OpenCourseWare site , ranging from Aeronautics to Nuclear Sciences to Writing and Humanistic Studies is available through written syllabi to video lectures....
Continue ReadingWay back when, I wrote a post about the undoing of James Frey and his memoir, "A Million Little Pieces."
We all know the memoir was a lie, a total fabrication. I wondered at the time what might happen, whether the publisher would fess up and give readers a refund. ...
Continue ReadingOur recent post, 9 Ways to Improve Newspaper websites, has received a great deal of blogger response in the past few weeks. TBR's most popular post of all time, "9 Ways" was linked to by over 120 blogs, according to Technorati. Below is a roundup of some of the most insightful responses to our suggestions for newspaper website improvements....
Continue ReadingWe've posted frequently about the impact video sharing sites like YouTube are having on politics. Sometimes it's better to show than to tell. So here are ten political themed videos that have made the rounds on YouTube. They demonstrate the power YouTube can have in catching politicians in “oops” moments and spreading funny/weird videos that appear on CSPAN and Comedy Central....
Continue ReadingIf you needed information about your city, it makes sense to head over to the metropolitan website to begin figuring out what's what. A research study by Cleveland State's Leo Jeffres and UConn's Carolyn Lin appears in Indiana University's Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The study examines how the websites of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the US represented their cities and how well their websites communicated with the public,...
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