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...Harvard students had heeded the advice in my last column, they would be aware of the fact that the world is now coming down around our ears. The other day, while watching the completely non-partisan and unbiased Fox News Network, I was treated to several stories on rioting, civil unrest, and generalized chaos. The languages, skin tones, and political backgrounds of the participants all changed, but burning cars, Molotov cocktails, and swarms of plastic-shielded riot police provided enough continuity for even the most unschooled to make the connection: In more than a few countries, things...
...pretty boring: I subscribe to an online newsfeed about all things Beck. A month ago, an intern for MTV’s college-oriented offshoot, mtvU, distributes a solicitation that made its way to the feed: the network was looking for a college kid to interview Beck. I submitted my information and 15 potential questions for the interview, and a week and a half later, I get a call telling me I’ve won. I’m headed to Times Square to do an interview with Beck...
Bloggers will have to sit tight on Election Day. At least, that's what the major television networks are hoping. After early exit poll data that favored John Kerry was leaked online in 2004, the networks have changed their policy. Now their exit pollsters will be quarantined together on Nov. 7 until 5 p.m. EST. This means that even network news executives themselves won't know the results until just before the evening newscasts. Will bloggers also remain in the dark until then? That's the goal...
...More importantly, even though the phone physically uses the Sprint network, GreatCall is the operator. If you buy your mother this phone, you won?t get free in-network calling from your carrier, not just Verizon, T-Mobile and Cingular, but even Sprint. The clear message here is that these phones aren?t for gabbers?they?re for people who are worried that their parents don?t have any means to communicate, in case of emergency or just in case. I just don?t know how many people would entrust their elderly parents? safety to a cell-phone carrier that...
...list yesterday for his role in the creation of a Web site designed to help college students enter the workforce. Allan P. Sahagun ’09 and his brother Aaron Sahagun, a University of California-Berkeley graduate, are the founders of alumwire.com, a “professional network with the mission to effectively consolidate important career resources,” according to the Web site. The site, which is available to invitees and anyone with a college e-mail address, offers career advice forums, posts of interviews, and job search features. Like Facebook.com, MySpace.com, and other social networking sites...