After newspapers disappearing at Arkansas State University (see prior post), it’s alarming to see that one in three high school students believe that the press should be more restricted. USA Today reports 36 percent of students believe that newspapers should get government approval of stories before publishing and 32 percent [...]

Sigma Chi fraternity at Arkansas State University stole thousands of copies of the ASU newspaper The Herald last week trying to hide a report of an unregistered party where an underage female was injured. Instead the story being hidden, the Arkansas media picked up the story of the newspapers disappearance [...]

Paul Farhi at The Washington Post reports that journalists at inaugural celebrations were given “minders” to follow them around at the interview. At first he thought they were to keep him out of certain places or from talking to someone, but later he determined they were just there to let [...]

Did you really expect usability guru Jakob Nielsen to advocate building a complex website? He just released a new study of teen web use revealing quite a couple misconceptions. The most interesting factoid in his report is that teenagers are not in fact superior Web geniuses, but averaged a ten [...]

BrandChannel.com recently released their study of Brand Rankings by Impact 2004 revealing Apple and Google as the top two brands of 2004. Other big names in the top ten included IKEA, Starbucks and Ebay. One new comer to the list was Al Jazeera, the arab all-news channel and interestingly enough [...]

So Blogs are a big deal. The media and the public both agree on that, but what do academics think? Several communications researchers are trying to make a name for themselves analyzing what blogs are and why people blog. They include Kaye Trammell at LSU Alex Havalais at the University [...]

The new rage in search engine technology will be Local Search. Among others Yahoo and Amazon’s A9 already have sites for it. Yahoo Local – Try searching for a business and they have a link to email it to a phone or a person. Amazon Yellow pages

Can you say flip-flop? Rolling Stone has changed it’s mind and is now willing to take Zondervan’s money to run an ad for Today’s New International Version (TNIV). USA Today reports that Rolling Stone attributes the change in plans to an “internal miscommunications that led to the previous misstatement of [...]

If you’re like me and the major online newspaper serving your region is a sorry excuse for an online newspaper(see for yourself), then you may not know how amazing a great online newspaper can be. Well, he’s your chance… The 2005 Digital Edge Award finalists wereannounced today. Normally this is [...]

Yeah, that’s right I just called you stupid (and myself, too). For some reason when people sit down in front of a keyboard and open up their web browser, they have a tendency to disengage their brain. If you have ever seen the user support/customer service comments from a website [...]