Silicon Alley Insider:
Founded in 1982 and at times so rich with ads its issues reached as many as 600 pages, Ziff Davis's PC Magazine will issue its last print edition this January, thereafter becoming an online-only publication. Ziff Davis, which recently exited bankruptcy will lay of seven print production employees.Gadget and PC shoppers stay (Read More)
Submitted by azymus
from blog:
Officials at Boston College have made what may be a momentous decision: they've stopped doling out new email accounts to incoming students. The officials realized that the students already had established digital identities by the time they entered college, so the new email addresses were just not being utilized. The colleg (Read More)
: Interesting. I know here at my school many professors do not see your questions/concerns through email as legit unless they are sent through a school source (school e-mail); they are afraid they are spam. Most young kids create immature and embarrassing e-mail names ("stud", "hot", "baby"). In this case, they (probably) will create a new one when they start college if the school doesn't give them one. I know Google runs our school e-mail now and it great. I just can't imagine eliminating the school e-mail addresses altogether verification reasons.
: I think it's a good move. I hated that when I was in college, I always had to log in and check my school mail (their POP was so unreliable, but then again, this was the 90s/early 2000s) when I'd rather be using my main account.
: Kara does bring up a sub-concept in her post. We get a lot of resumes emailed to us for job postings our company places on different job boards -- many college ones. Frankly, the unprofessional email names are passed over more quickly than the professional ones. Kids getting out of college should minimally keep an innocuous email account, ideally from their school domain as a minor proof that they are affiliated with the institution on their resume (transcripts should still be on hand)
: @jasongoldberg I agree with you Jason, I use the same 5, you might try alert thingy to update you in real time as I keep tweetdeck open on one computer at all times and thingy flashes various alerts such as Friendfeed you might miss.
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
By Daniel J. Pritchett of SharingAtWork.com (FriendFeed/Twitter)The FriendFeed social network is a powerful resource. With it you can connect to some brilliant people and learn new things as they learn them. Converse with interesting people around the world around similar interests. Stream together separate news sources (Read More)