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A Business’s Biggest Threat in 2013: Social Media

While tackling the traffic during my commute to intern this morning I was listening to the radio, JAMN 94.5 to be exact.  Their morning show consists of a daily “Jam-Scam” in which one of the morning personalities plays a joke …

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Are We Too Dependent on Google as a Society?

In terms of accessing and finding information our society has it incredibly easy.  With the click of a button we can access whatever our hearts desire.  Having a health issue? Simply type in your symptoms and self diagnose yourself.  Need …

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An Observation of Media Coverage From a Non-News Viewer

There are numerous ways to gather one’s desired information these days. It is no secret that newspapers are struggling to maintain an audience and now news channels on television are losing viewers as well. I’d have to say the main …

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America’s Favorite Pastime: Shifting from Super Bowl to Social Media

For some reason I found it inevitable to escape the constant pre-Super Bowl chit chat this year.  Maybe it was due to the fact that neither team has won the title in years, or because pop-fans all over the world …

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The Revival of Journalism: Buried Alive in Information

It seems we have contradicted ourselves:  we want to know everything, yet when “everything” is given to us we retreat in a state of information fatigue.  When it comes to information and technology we have the mindset that more is …

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TMI: Too Much Information All At Once

Whether the information is personal, business, or entertainment oriented…it’s just too much. Being 100% honest, it does not affect me that “Stephanie” has class, then a doctor’s appointment, then has to walk her dog, go to the gym, and finally …

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When Was Your Last “Play-Date”?

“Oh you’re bored? Invite a friend over!” is a sentence few of us have heard since before AOL, Skype, FaceBook, and Smartphone’s leaped into society; some would say uninvited. Our society has replaced technology with people to the extension where …

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