Continuing today’s theme of satire and parody, here’s a quite relevant item from The Onion, which, if you don’t know already, is a parodical newspaper. Scroll down while looking in the center column for “News in Brief.”
(I met their unofficial librarian this summer at a conference. Turns out we were in the same [...]
Here’s another news parody: Alice Furlaud ‘51, the “Unreliable Narrator,” recently explored what might happen if Harvard University goes online for the radio show The Next Big Thing produced by WNYC, New York Public Radio.
The Watley Review, a satirical news source, published a piece last week about whether John Harvard, who donated his book collection to Harvard at his death in 1638 and thus became the institution’s name sake, was actually a pirate. I can’t wait until the feedback starts coming in on this story, as many peoople [...]
Here’s yet another reason to come to BloggerCon (the redhead makes me plug the conference): Conference organizer Dave Winer is featured on CRN’s list of 25 innovators behind “some of this year’s most talked-about technologies.”
(Thanks, Gary!)