How not to fall behind

The promise of educational attainment through Massive Online Only Courses (or MOOCs, as they are called) is proving to be illusive. You may or may not learn enough in a MOOC to make you more worthwhile to an employer or potential employer, but the chances are very,...

How, exactly?

The CEO of the world’s largest publisher of books is bullish on the future for his company, which means, of course, he is also bullish on long-form narratives and fiction. Markus Dohle of Penguin Random House told The Indian express this week that he believes...

Think about our future

The Board of Trustees of the Wimberley Village Library cordially invites you and your constituents to attend a public planning session to discuss future expansion of the library. The board has contracted with an architectural planner to develop a master plan for the...

Hello-o-o-o Echo-o-o-

We don’t use an iPhone so we know very little about Siri. I think she is a digital assistant that can help a user track information, directions, phone numbers, and so on. It’s an intriguing technology, but I don’t use a cell phone often enough to...

Copyright isn’t that difficult

I’ve heard a variety of speakers over the course of the last year or so talking about how to publish work either on the web or in a print format. Generally, at some point in their presentations they bring up the issue of how to copyright one’s work so that...