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...them available to the general public. For example, students in some large courses, such as Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” already report some level of discomfort about the ubiquitous filming of the course’s lectures. To make videos publicly available would fundamentally shift the dynamic of these courses, turning students into characters in a performance (especially during interactive activities such as open question-and-answer sessions) instead of engaged learners...
...peruse the strip in sequence - as you can in the handsome collection called The Spirit Archives, now up to its 22nd volume - is to see Eisner shift within genres and tones. One week's story might be a melodrama, the next a comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school...
...acknowledges. "I'm not a genius, but I had the potential for an Ivy League education." She had to settle for an associate degree at the local community college. "If I'd had the Murphy program, no telling where I would be," whispers Owens, who works an evening shift at the local Wal-Mart to help support her three children. "At least it will be there for them...
...January, Yahoo! announced that Panama, a new advertising platform central to its shift in strategy, would debut Feb. 5, refining how the company sells ad space. The system gives advertisers more control over their ad campaigns, letting them freely change keywords or ad strategies to adapt to what's working. It also enables Yahoo! to highlight ads relevant to a user's search rather than ordering them simply according to who paid more. Because search advertising accounts for nearly 50% of Yahoo!'s revenue, Panama is critical to its growth...
...when it grows up. "There's always been some ambiguity about whether it's a tech company or a media company," says Stewart Butterfield, Yahoo!'s director of product management and co-founder of the photo site Flickr, which Yahoo! acquired in March 2005. "But there's been a shift in the internal messaging. I never hear execs refer to Yahoo! as a media company. A year and a half ago, there wasn't a satisfying articulation of what the mission of the company was. That has changed...