Innovation In Legacy Media Companies — Not!


I had dinner this week with a dear friend who is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist. One of the dinner guests is the former head of one of the nation’s leading newspaper’s digital division. When the...
    






The Ignorance Of Today’s College Students Shouldn’t Surprise Us


By Blaine McCormick & Burton Folsom What did our students learn during this holiday break between college semesters?  Once finals were over, many probably went to see a movie or took a trip with...
    






Entrepreneur Envy


My entrepreneurial past appeared on New Year’s Eve like a ghost visiting Ebenezer Scrooge. There it was, as plain as the tuna tacos I was eating at a local hot spot, although perhaps tinted by rose-...
    






Multimillion-Pound Brain Fund Set Up To Stop Teachers Buying Into Neuroscience Myths


Neuroscience is full of urban myths that have latched on to the collective consciousness and stuck there. It’s not just the obvious ones like the old saw that “humans only use ten per cent of their...
    






How To Build Your Personal Brand And Your Body Of Work – Tips From Pamela Slim


By Dorie Clark What’s your body of work? For many, the term evokes the creations of novelists or painters. But according to consultant and author Pamela Slim, we all have a body of work, and we need...
    






Physicists Search For Tweets From Time Travelers


Researchers at Michigan Tech recently went online to look for evidence of time travelers, operating under the assumption that folks from the future might have taken the time to search for...
    






Turn Your iPhone Into A Robot: Romotive


When we humans have gazed into the future, more often than not our fantasies and predictions have included robots. Whether we’re watching Bladerunner or The Jetsons, or taking a gander at what...