Tag: News Briefs (aka, “Link Boxers”)

It’s The Holiday Season, and here at the Boxers that means our thoughts turn to the worst holiday song of all time, pulling out our Charlie Brown Christmas DVD…. and to watching cat fights between internet companies.

A Google-esque college homepage; Higher Ed’s dirty little secret (one of them, at least); Another MSM folly RE: memes

Higher Ed trends; Being declared “cool” in a court of law; Coding, socially

Summer is here! That means everything slows down and you can take it easy as…. oh, who are we trying to kid?

Somehow, we’ve been doing this for a year now. Somehow, the academic year is rapidly coming to a close. And somehow, a column with as silly a name as this has survived a year too.

It’s March, and that can only mean one thing: workplace productivity is about to swirl the drain as college basketball takes center stage….er, I mean, “Hi Boss, how are you? No, just keeping my nose to the grindstone here. Lots of hard work going on. Have you checked out our Klout score recently? Whooeee!”

Program your New Year’s resolution in javascript ; customer service #epicfail; CES 2012

Angry Birds Turns Two, Foursquare Triples, Facebook + Dayton U = $50K scholarship

One f*cking great promotional website, let some Klout out of your Klout, opening the door to your Google+ page

Remember when summertime used to be slow and there wasn’t much news and the politicians walked arm-in-arm singing kumbaya while they enacted policies that benefitted the nation? Nah, we don’t either. Here are some of the latest items that caught our eye in this busy summer.

What’s forecasted for iCloud; Toshiba anti-iPad; High-speed internet, low price?

A Meal Ticket for Delicious; Blogging: Dude, Don’t Be Lame;The Student Loan Debt is Real, Though

RIP Flip, But They Still Won’t be Able to Take a Walk of Shame, Insert Picture of Giant Ball of Twine Here