It was all over the Internet and television news the past few days. Bette Midler was in big trouble for cutting down over 200 trees on her property in Hawaii without the proper permit. The story was more newsworthy because Ms. Midler has been an advocate and spokesperson for environmental causes for many years now. […]
User-generated content is all the rage on the Internet. Sites like YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, and Digg.com have been highlighted in mainstream media, so a lot of people have at least heard those names, even if they’ve never visited the sites or understand how they work. These four sites in particular, and probably hundreds of others, […]
Social websites are popping up everywhere… Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Flickr… the list goes on and on. The idea is that you create virtual groups of friends so you can share everything online and keep each other informed. You can share news, photos, music, links, or you can just tell everyone where […]
The 2007 college football season will begin in a couple weeks, and I am as excited as ever to see how my alma mater will stack up against the rest of the league and in the national Division I-A polls. In a couple months we will begin to hear the sportscasters calling once again for […]
For thirty years now we’ve been hearing how soccer is growing in popularity in the US. Soccer aficionados believe that youth soccer is the answer — that if kids are exposed to soccer at an early age, they’ll learn to love the game, which will carry on to adulthood. But that just isn’t the case.
Youth […]
When I was in Fifth Grade, our teacher had a small bulletin board that he changed each Monday. On it he posted a Word of the Week along with a picture to illustrate it, a Quotation of the Week, and a general knowledge Question of the Week. The only question from that Fifth Grade bulletin […]