Media & Culture @ HM

Jack Reilly was a legendary News and Talk Show Producer. He was VP and Managing Editor of CNBC from 1994 to 1998. Before that, Executive Producer of "Good Morning America," "Entertainment Tonight," "The Mike Douglas Show" and the "David Frost Show."

Static on the Airwaves, the HM band that includes Antonio, Corey, and Gabe is announcing the release of their debut EP. Check us out on this Myspace page, and if you like what you hear, search for us on Facebook. Also, check the bosco7 channel for an exclusive video. Enjoy and stay tuned for more (our full EP will be available on iTunes in Late July.)

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.

Bozeman City, Montana now asks all applicants for jobs to 'Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,' the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.

What's surprising, however, is not just the alarming number of students who say they cheat, but also the number of students who think it's OK to do so.

Facebook announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends.

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You can't always believe your own eyes... or your own brain.

A Seattle outlet of the 16,000-store coffee behemoth is being rebranded without visible Starbucks identifiers, as 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea.

"how will people read books in the near future?"

In the latest example of finding media innovation where you'd least expect it, CBS is embedding a video player in a print ad in Entertainment Weekly that will serve up a buffet of its fall TV lineup.

There's Alex Jones and there's Jason Jones. The two unrelated ­Joneses offer competing commentaries on journalism in our times.

Harvard Medical School is backing off a new student policy that would have restricted interaction with the news media after students complained it would chill their ability to talk about current issues in medicine, school officials said Tuesday.

With journalists being laid off in droves, ideologues have stepped forward to provide the "reporting" that feeds the 24-hour news cycle. The collapse of journalism means that the quest for information has been superseded by the quest for ammunition.

The Arab TV channel is visually stunning, exudes hustle, and covers the globe like no one else. Just beware of its insidious despotism.