January 30th, 2012 | by Jake | published in Andrew Katz, Business, Featured, head2head, Theo Pui
Strap yourselves in, rich people: it’s apocalypse time By: Theo Pui Is the world is going through a great equalization? Theo Pui After some intense research obtained from the all-knowing Internet source called Wikipedia, it seems that the whole Mayan Calendar 2012 Apocalypse was merely a media-hyped hoax–and a horrible movie starring John Cusack. It [...]
July 12th, 2011 | by Jake | published in Business, Featured, head2head, Katie Burrell, Rachel Peck, Technology
Forget the Mark Zuckerberg myth By: Rachel Peck Background: The Thiel Fellowship is a grant established by Silicon Valley superstar Peter Thiel that provides 20 $100,000 scholarships to young people (under the age of twenty) who agree to drop out of college – for at least 2 years – to pursue innovative scientific and technical [...]
April 3rd, 2011 | by Jake | published in Business, EDITorial, Katie Burrell, Rachel Peck
Unpaid Interns, Complicit Colleges By: Ross Perlin Originally published by the New York Times on April 2, 2011 On college campuses, the annual race for summer internships, many of them unpaid, is well under way. But instead of steering students toward the best opportunities and encouraging them to value their work, many institutions of higher [...]
April 3rd, 2011 | by Jake | published in Business, Chris Feniak, Featured, Media, Steve Patrick Ercolani
Writer’s “Block” and the New York Times’ Paywall, or Why You Should Pay for Your Journalism By: Steve Patrick Ercolani Photo by dkr82 (Flickr) *Blogging about the inefficacy of bloggers is kind of like protesting protesting, so I’ll have to ask you to humor me. On March 28th, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of the [...]
March 17th, 2011 | by Jake | published in Business, Jake Heller
We want to know what you think about this: The second-largest mining company in the world, Vale, has decided to close a nickel smelter and refinery in Thompson, Manitoba despite recently receiving a $1-billion (yes, billion) loan from the Canadian federal government. According to The Globe and Mail, Vale “received the loan last fall after [...]
March 17th, 2011 | by Jake | published in Blogs, Business, Jake Heller, Media
By: Jake Heller Today, the greatest experiment in recent publishing history began. The New York Times, the most revered news organization in the world, erected (hehe) a paywall on its website. Much has already been made of this decision to charge for online content (the most interesting commentary I’ve read is here and here), but [...]
February 22nd, 2011 | by Jake | published in Business, Featured, head2head, Mitch Conrad, Music, Theo Pui
Is Rock Dead or Alive? By: Mitch Conrad It seems like rock music has taken the spotlight on a few different occasions over the past couple of months. Some of these moments have been good, some have been bad, but all of them put a rock band in the headlines instead of a Top 40 [...]
February 20th, 2011 | by Jake | published in Alex Heller, Business, EDITorial, Featured, Theo Pui
Bloguments contributors take on the Maclean’s editorial board in this week’s EDITorial. Should the internet be free?