- Netflix set to surpass HBO in USA paid subscriptions
You can watch any of their programs any time and any where on any device for about $8 a month. And they let you shotgun their original series from day one. No surprises here. - Young people get most of their news from the Internet
This is really ought not to be a surprise. Though it is also an incomplete concept – because those of us who get our news online generally get it from some kind of a source online. Seriously, the Pew Study that this Fishbowl NY post is based on has lots of important data about how our news consumption is changing. But it is not surprising. - Most Important Advice to Political Tweeters: Don’t Be Dumb
You know better than to drunk tweet, right? And you know that you shouldn’t say bad things online about your boss? No? Then you aren’t following Washington Post political blogger The Fix’s central advice – Don’t be dumb. And that should be no surprise. - If you have naughty pictures of you and your significant other on your computer, don’t e-mail them to your students
A University of Iowa teaching assistant apparently accidentally e-mailed “inappropriate content” to her students. According the Iowa City Press-Citizen, university officials are asking “anyone who received the message to delete it and not pass it on.” Yeah, like that’s going to happen. People mismanaging their intimate photos online? No surprise there! (And, no, I didn’t give you a link to the photos.)
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Arem’t teachers supposed to be “smart?” Apparently not at University of Iowa (or is being smart and having good (common sense) judgement two different things?