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$8.26 for 826 on 8/26!

sitedad — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:04:24 +0000

We interrupt the strike negotiation news and other EMUTalk.org events to point you to a great fund raiser for a great cause: 826 (which includes local chapter 826 Michigan) is a non-profit and nation-wide organization that helps kids with creative and other writing skills. They do great work, believe me. So why not take [...]

“The Complete Guide to Saving Money on Textbooks”

sitedad — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:30:53 +0000

I’m not sure how many EMUTalk.org readers are students (I sense more faculty, staff, and administrators around here), nor am I vetting the accuracy of these ideas, but Lifehacker is one of my favorite blogs, and this advice in “The Complete Guide to Saving Money on Textbooks” seems useful to me.

Tilt-shift Ann Arbor video

sitedad — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:17:23 +0000

I’ve seen this sort of thing before, but it’s kind of cool since I recognize much of the area being filmed here:

Via the Ann Arbor Chronicle.

“In the media” without the AANews: a year (or so) later

sitedad — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:39:21 +0000

I was browsing through the Internets this morning a bit and I came across this rather self-congratulatory piece in AnnArbor.com, “AnnArbor.com marks first anniversary, reflects on year of rapid evolution and encouraging results.” All this reminded me that we used to have a daily newspaper in this area that actually was printed on paper [...]

AnnArbor.com discovers Ypsilanti

sitedad — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:47:37 +0000

Stop the virtual presses! “AnnArbor.com launches new page of Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township news.” It feels great to be discovered by our quaint neighbors to the west, doesn’t it?

In all seriousness though, I have to say that AnnArbor.com in its first year has struck me as a so-so enterprise at best. On the [...]

“DIY U: Is There a Bubble in the Higher Education Market?”

sitedad — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:06:30 +0000

One of the mailing lists I follow posted this the other day, a blog entry from Michael Feldstein (who is a “Principal Product Manager for Academic Enterprise Solutions at Oracle”), “DIY U: Is There a Bubble in the Higher Education Market?” He’s making reference here to a book called DIY U, which is basically [...]

“Penn State Students Build a Blog Empire”

sitedad — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:07:30 +0000

This is perhaps more near and dear to my heart than others reading this, but I’ll post it anyway. From CHE:

I’m tempted to start a list/feed for these various alternative student media organizations to follow them a little more closely.

“One down, two to go” (about AFT bargaining in Michigan)

sitedad — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:23:44 +0000

I stumbled across this the other day: from AFT FACE (which is the web site for the organizing body that represents the lecturers at EMU), a story called “One Down, Two to Go: Great Lakes Bargaining Update.” Here are the opening paragraphs:

Last week we updated you on all of the ongoing contingent faculty [...]

sitedad’s thoughts in the iPad

sitedad — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:08:28 +0000

Because Donna asked over a week ago, I thought I’d pass along here a couple of links from stevendkrause.com where I blogged about the iPad:

The iPad, the first 30 or so hours Anybody who says that the iPad is the end of user-generated content or the internet does not know what they are [...]

“MSU to buy EMU in Hostile Takeover Bid”

sitedad — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:08:01 +0000

I missed this April Fool’s story over on Ypsinews.com, “MSU to buy EMU in Hostile Takeover Bid.” It’s a surprisingly elaborate article for a joke article, IMO. Be sure to check it out.

Incidentally, I have to wonder if Steve Pierce and whoever else is associated with Ypsinews.com didn’t purposefully make a more ridiculous [...]