Bill Grueskin welcomes the incoming Columbia J-School class.

Bill Grueskin, former deputy managing editor for news at The Wall Street Journal, where he oversaw the development of the Journal’s wsj.com welcomed the incoming Columbia J-School class as the newly appointed Academic Dean. He discusses RSS readers and the increasingly pull-environment of news intake, engagement in a digital world and signs off with a [...]

Wired at 15.

WIRED magazine’s founders interviewed to celebrate the 15th anniversary.
The magazine that changed my life. It introduced me to the possibilities of a networked world and was one of the major reasons I decided to study Electronic Engineering (specializing in Human Computer Interaction). It was where I first met McLuhan, Negroponte, Gibson and Sterling - all huge inspirations. It also sowed the seeds of my interest in media.

MTV Arabia.

Dana El Bataji writing for Arab Media & Society believes that: MTV Arabia “has not only translated a western medium to suit an Arab audience; it has also translated the western definition of what is and isn’t cool and made it pertinent to the region. That is, by all accounts, a laudable feat, especially given the cultural, social and political divides between the west and the Arab world.”

Wow. Really?

Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation.

I received an email from the Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation on August 28 2008 (The Foundation is a really exciting initiative launched by the ruler of Dubai that runs a Fellowship Program offering scholarships for Arab MBA / MPP / MPA students).

social book networks.

Amazon’s recent acquisition of ABEbooks has by extension given it a 50% stake in Library Thing which is a little awkward as Amazon was an early investor in competitor Shelfari.
Facebook’s feature creep threatens to make both Shelfari and LibraryThing superfluous.