Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

Image via CrunchBase The UK / EU web is buzzing with the news that Youtube (Google) has started to block or remove UK music videos because they have not been able to strike a new music licensing deal with the PRS-For-Music, the UK rights society which represents the songwriters and the publishers. I...

[This is Post 3 for my guest blogging stint at The Des Moines Register.] Archimedes said “Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world.� This week I am blogging about 5 key levers that I think are necessary to move Iowa schools forward and help our graduates survive and thrive in this ne...

Image via CrunchBase Read: E-Commerce News: E-Commerce: Amazon: Only Copyright Holders Can Unzip Kindle's Lips.This is an interesting debate that once again shows that many rights holders will need some serious hand-holding when it's about understanding new technological implementations. I t...

Image by christophercarfi via Flickr Chris 'LongTail & Free' Anderson has dished up another great op-ed in the WSJ . Note: this link keeps having problems... maybe try this one, instead, or this. Below are some of the best snippets - and my comments. Chris writes: "Gratis can be a g...

Crossposted at the Infinite Thinking Machine This week, it's my turn to come up with a thoughtful list of resources for teachers, and I have chosen the theme of 21st Century Skills. Recently, in the main stream press and in the edublogger/eduTwitter world, there has been debate about the validity of...

A: A jihadi that likes to sleep with jihadis of the same sex.(Aside: Contrary to certain blog-driven gossip, I am not a co-author of any present or future book titled Gay Jihad. If such a book should ever be published,......

Another blog post by one of my students in this year’s Digital Journalism class at Stanford: “How Christian media almost saved a wretch like me”. This one is a recommendation by a documentary video maker and — his blog beat for my class — a critic of documentary video. ...

“Detag” is a term that has recently entered the vocabulary, and which implies a whole world of concerns about privacy literacy — what people know and don’t know about possible repercussions from casual revelations on MySpace, Facebook, or other sites. I remember the students ...

Click here to say Thank You to the most moral military force in the world. Thank you, Israeli soldiers for doing the hard work most of the rest of the world refuses to do: defending the Jewish people and combating......