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Protected: Reading is fun-damental with M and Dad

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Imagine that you subscribe to The Washington Post, The New York Times or The Boston Globe and one of those papers is delivered to your front door every morning. I congratulate you because you are seemingly and intelligent and informed person who stays up on the current, well-reported and important news. Or, are you?
Now imagine [...]

TimesSelect is no more

Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor and media expert, posted on his blog BuzzMachine earlier this week that the New York Times has scrapped their TimeSelect feature, which charged users for online content in certain areas of its website.
“No one with sufficient experience ever thought that TimesSelect made good business sense. Oh, they talked a good [...]

Spoiler alert! Do not continue to read this post if you have not finished reading the final Harry Potter book!
Spoiler alert! Do not continue to read this post if you have not finished reading the final Harry Potter book!
Spoiler alert! Do not continue to read this post if you have not finished reading the final [...]

It was the summer of 1998 when I first heard of Harry Potter. I was 27.
I was sitting in my car in the parking area for the Cygnet Rowing club in Newton waiting for my rowing partner one sunny Saturday morning, when an NPR radio journalist was giving his take on the Potter universe with [...]

Thank god for comic books! And for Joss Whedon’s continuation of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer storyline with Dark Horse Comics.
In march, the story of Buffy, her watcher Giles, and the rest of the Scooby gang lives on to season eight, but in comic book format. (The television series ended with season 7.) Dark Horse [...]