In a similar vein to yesterday's post, an interesting question to ask is how do news publications impact events? The story that spurred this thought was Steve Jobs' denouncement of DRM last February (NPR story: "Apple's Jobs Argues Against Song Protections"). At the time, all of the four major record labels (Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, EMI, and ( Read more... )

I find it funny how quickly times and trends change. Now I don't mean fashion here (though that changes rapidly, too), I mean more like social issues. I've been listening to some old NPR podcasts, a recent one being from January of 2007, and it talked about getting rid of trans-saturated fat. Now, I remember that in last spring semester there ( Read more... )