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)
: I cut my IT teeth on PC magazine when it first came out, in many ways it taught me a lot of what I know about IT and computers! Very sad. But how many more magazines will the Internet replace?
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 recall this issue from my time at the university. Students were using their gmail and hotmail accounts, and simply neglected their university e-mail accounts because of the poor web interface we were using, and the amount of incoming spam thru the system. I also noticed that all student accounts were spammed from legit university accounts. So yeah, this is a good idea - but the personal e-mail has to be approved via some authorization system. @Kara are your current accounts @university.edu or @gmail.com with the Google system?
: @Sina They are @umail.iu.edu. You can still use the previous one (@indiana.edu); the mail is just forwarded to the new one. Works great and you get the advantages of verified e-mails for profs and also the gmail features.
: @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)