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According to the Dowbrigade, Boston University fired a journalism professor because of how he referred to one of his students on a weblog.

so I’m trying to figure out whether I should get a new personal data assistant or whether I really need one at all. The most I really used it is for ordering for large groups in restaurants. I’ve seen so many nifty new gadgets, it just seems a shame not to have something flashy. Since [...]

This brief Associated Press article introduces a few Massachusetts podcasters and their shows.

Julien Pain, Head of Internet Freedom Desk at Reporters Without Borders, spoke at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society luncheon series on Tuesday, July 19th, at 12:30 p.m. at the Berkman Center. My original post of his talk Below are some highlights from his talk. Dictators have to control the Internet to control information. [...]

I stumbled across this handy post on Bokardo about how to add buttons or text to sites to communicate to people that you offer a feed and they should subscribe to it. I noticed the Atom enabled button isn’t on the list, though some Atom buttons and links are there.

" … [E]ven though they would soon be back at work, even though they had been offered one of the least fair deals ever offered to children, the three siblings felt a little bit better. Whether it was Uncle Monty’s library of reptile books, or Aunt Josephine’s library of grammar books, or Justice Strauss’s library [...]

A few of you remember me griping about the aggregator being stuck on a few feeds with enclosures. I noticed those two entries are gone. I hope that’s a good sign. For a second opinion, I checked the Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog’s aggregator since it was clinging to more enclosures. Surprisingly, it seems to [...]

One of the scratchpad’s readers pointed me to this comic with the explicit instructions of looking in the top right corner. hee hee hee Thanks, JSL!

I saw a copy Tuesday. Sure enough, there I am. It’s kinda scary at the same time I should feel honored by it. Who’s there and who isn’t there still surprises me. There’s an error in my entry they refused to fix. Honestly, it was one I made when I typed it in using only [...]

rte shares this list of job search tips from Information Wants to be Free. I’ve been spending a lot of time lately helping one of my mentees with her job search. I told her I have a special post for her today and it’s something I wish we would have seen months ago. She asked [...]