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If you haven’t already seen it, you should take a few moments to watch Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.  The film is initially being distributed on the internet, and can be viewed as streaming video for free through July 20.  It’s also available for download from the iTunes store, and will eventually be available on [...]

No textbook is perfect, but a good text should at least get people’s names right. I have earlier complained about John Vivian perpetuating mistakes in his text, The Media of Mass Communication, which I use in the large lecture course in mass communication I teach at West Chester University. I like the book, [...]

As an American of Norwegian descent (my grandparents came over on “the boat” from the Bergen area) I was particularly disappointed to recently read Torgeir Waterhouse’s reaction to Steve Job’s “open letter” on music and FairPlay, the digital rights management (DRM) system used by Apple on the iTunes music store.
Job’s letter is in part a [...]

Last night I had the pleasure of watching a performance of “The Devil You Know,” a two-act play written and directed by Andrea Daniels. Performed by the Barley Sheaf Players, the performance was a benefit for The Domestic Violence Center of Chester County.
The play was a thoughtful and sensitive treatment of the emotional, psychological [...]