Category archives: Ideas
Foreign Policy says you ought to eschew the US, send your kids overseas to college
An interesting story in Foreign Policy re: US colleges, cost and competitiveness: Want to combine a quality education with language immersion? Peking University — No. 49 on the Times criteria, above Penn State — charges between $4,000 and $6,000 in… continue reading »
“Those connections on your computer aren’t real…” and other falsehoods
I may or may not have heard a speaker recently cite the rampant use of digital devices by millennials. In this discussion, said speaker might have referenced Facebook and other tools by saying, “I have a hard time convincing kids… continue reading »
How social media militancy confuses people
So I deleted my Facebook profile the other day. Or I should say, deactivated. It was a personal thing. I can’t recall the last time I did that, but it was cathartic. Until about a week into my most recent… continue reading »
Social media, participation and the free-rider problem
Image via Wikipedia Story Article in the Times about blogging and how you can go from being very interested in writing, to not very active at all. It probably spends too much time talking about people who blog because they… continue reading »
What I Read
I ran across The Atlantic’s series asking pundits what they read. I’m not pundit, but hey…I thought it’d be a good feature for me. Naturally, it’ll start with what I read and will probably dovetail into what I’m listening to,… continue reading »