The Huffington Post bid-for-an-intership situation is unique in requiring potential interns to bid to gain the position for the summer. However, internships often require the students to make a number of financial investments. Many internships are unpaid. Students may be working 20, 30, 40 or more hours a week for no pay. I took a […]
No resume or clips required. Just $15,500. That’s the next minimum bid for an internship this summer with The Huffington Post. The story in AdvertisingAge reports that the internship was contributed to raise money for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The current bid was $13,000. Bids continue until May 28.
Not all authors are enthusiastic about paperless books J.K. Rowling continues to be one of the authors who oppose having their work in e-book format. “Harry Potter among those missing in e-library” discusses the authors who resisted having digital versons of their work (including Rowling) and those who finally have agreed to e-book versions (including […]
Less glossy but more informative is this review of the first Kindle. A few aspects have changed from this first Kindle to Kindle 2, but most of this information is accurate. (Fortunately the cover has been improved.)
If you’d like the advertising approach to information, here’s a video with the Kindle 2’s virtues, which can make you log on to amazon.com to order yours. Note the calming music and text of key features. If you’d like the advertising approach to information, here’s a video with the Kindle 2’s virtues, which can make […]
Kindle readers The first version of the Kindle is on the left, and the newer version (distributed beginning February 2009) on the right. The newer version has better keys for turning pages. The keyboard is also better. Both appear from these screen savers to be good for illustrations, but that’s actually a weakness of the […]
Yet another buyout/takeover in the educational arena. According to today’s Wired Campus from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Blackboard Inc. plans to purchase Angel learning, another online course-management company. UF’s course-management system initially was WebCT. But then WebCT was purchased by Blackboard. The Poynter Institute’s course-management system for NewsU has been Angel, which I had […]
Just yesterday at lunch, two friends brought their Kindles to compare. One had the first Kindle, and the other had the new Kindle. As we compared the modifications in the Kindle, we also discussed if the Kindle would become the Web 2.0 college textbook. Then today I read in the Wall Street Journal that Amazon.com […]
After shaking hands with the department chair, the dean and the president, the students walked down from the stage to find a table with big bottles of hand sanitizer, a precaution in these times of concern about swine flu.
Cap decorations include gators and slogans like “Hire me.” This cap must be from ceremony earlier in the day as there were no bare-headed grads at our ceremony.
Julie Dodd 