Category: Future of News

Volunteers are needed on Thursdays from 3:45-5:00 p.m. at Perspectives Charter School, 8131 S. May St., Chicago. These mentoring sessions include a coordinator from the Big Brothers Big Sisters…

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Joseph Walker does not want the death of his grandson, Derrion Albert, to be in vain. He made that clear last week to the Chicago Board of Education as he spoke about Derrion, a 16-year-old honor…

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Open source, not proprietary coding is citizen friendly. Try VLC from theora, and other open codecs. PDFs and Flash are nice, but don’t play nice with the rest of the Internet

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What a good idea. Congrats to teacher Sally Lehrman and her journalism students from Santa Clara University for this important work.

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Denying physics won’t save the video stars | Cory Doctorow – Times Online

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The issue of whether the judges are prejudiced hasn’t been settled yet.

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This is a disruptive technology I’d say. Clothes that talk. Pill boxes, refrigerators, cabinets that count, talk, make a shopping list for you…

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After spending 26 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Alton Logan says he is now “F-R-E-E, free” to do what he wants, when he wants while getting reacquainted with Chicago. “Everyone is…

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The Chamber of Commerce recently kicked off a new tradition in Mount Greenwood by hosting their first ever Taste of Mount Greenwood festival at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences.

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Traveling to 100 schools in 70 countries over the past decade helped Sarah Elizabeth Ippel craft the vision of holistic and stimulating education that is now the basis of the Academy for Global…

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