Month: February 2012

  • The slant on media bias

    The Wall Street Journal is among the most liberal media outlets in the U.S., more liberal than the New York Times and NPR. And the Drudge Report is left leaning, yes, left leaning, more left leaning than CNN. One study found: The most important factor driving the slant of a given newspaper is … the…

  • Has a tablet replaced your ‘main’ computer for reading news?

    Interesting survey. If you have a few minutes, help grad student full-time faculty member in the University of Kentucky Division of Instructional Communicatio Chas Hartman by taking it. He’s trying to answer: How is consumers’ use of tablets such as the iPad and the Kindle Fire for gathering news and information impacting their use of…

  • The inventor of the camera phone may surprise you

    I remember Phillipe Kahn primarily as the CEO of database and programming tool maker Borland International, but he is also credited with inventing the camera phone in 1997, yes, in 1997. And he’s the only to have a photo to prove it, a photo shot of his newborn daughter on June 11, 1997. This video…