Jan 30, 2015
By Robin Ewing In the last three months, Apple made US$18 billion and news agency Associated Press produced 3,000 stories written by a computer program. One of these was the report about Apple’s billions, published minutes after the quarterly earnings were...
Jan 28, 2015
Medium, a blog-publishing platform, has been called (by others and by Medium itself) the “best writing tool on the web.” Anyone can publish and it looks good; “elegant” is the word most often used. If you want to read something that clearly...
Jan 26, 2015
This is the tragic story of jazz singer Billie Holiday and how she was killed, in part, by the man who created the U.S.’s War on Drugs. Though Holiday died in 1959, this article — adapted from a book and published here in Politico Magazine —...
Jan 23, 2015
So should I scrap my lesson plans and let my students explore the world on the computer during class? It worked in Mexico! Great story in Wired that reminds us not to underestimate people of any age and also challenges the traditional classroom model....
Jan 21, 2015
Surprise hit Serial, with 1.2 million listeners per episode, has everyone talking about how podcasts are the new hot thing, despite having been around for 10 years (and radio dramas since the 1920s). In fact, podcasts apparently confuse so many people that Ira Glass...
