Brian Gongol
College newspapers move to a digital-first model
The biggest problem will probably be whether the lack of a highly specific nightly deadline causes journalists (collegiate or otherwise) to take the foot off the gas. Conversely, by releasing journalists from form-dependent work (that is, laying out a physical newspaper), perhaps a digital-first model will encourage more meaningful storytelling.
Which Americans have been paying down credit-card debt?
Show notes: The Brian Gongol Show on WHO Radio - April 13, 2014
What is "news", and why does a serious definition matter?
"The corporate meritocrat has become a new class of aristocrat"
It's a problem for shareholders, who are basically getting extorted by executives. It's hard to imagine paying one person $13.9 million a year (per the "Equilar 100 CEO Pay Study" of the 100 highest-paid American CEOs of publicly-traded companies) and thinking you're getting more value than you would from the ideas and work of 70 people, each being paid a cool $200,000 each.
It's time to give serious thought to signing up for two-step verifications online
How to super-pack: 10 days' worth into a carry-on
No surprise: A flight attendant knows best
A statistical analysis of Bob Ross paintings
Totally unnecessary, but then there are those happy little clouds...
That's not Omaha
Proving once again that we really are nothing more than "flyover country" to some people on the coasts, a CBS graphic shows Omaha where Kansas City...or Topeka, maybe?...should be
Toyota promises more than a dozen cars to use the Atkinson-cycle engine by 2015
It's expected to be 30% more fuel-efficient than conventional engine designs
Are college adjunct instructors badly underpaid?
Students pay rapidly-rising prices for education. The instructors say they're wildly underpaid. There's a market failure at work here, and someone's going to get rich for resolving it. A consultant calls it "alarming" that 70% of faculty are adjuncts. The current tenure system looks like a serious roadblock to fixing the problem.
Transparent, conductive, flexible, and cheap: Graphene could be the wonder material
Early outreach to get girls into science and engineering
We're not doing ourselves any favors as a society if the culture discourages 50% from using their natural abilities
Which prices are inflated and which aren't
It's quite lumpy -- not evenly distributed
So far, Volvo hasn't fallen apart under Chinese ownership
One wonders whether that is more or less scary to many people than the prospect of a quick failure. If China manages not to squander the spoils of its successes, then it might really be "here to stay" on the top tier of economies
NATO asks Russia to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine
Chinese GDP growth rate now 7.4%
Very high when compared to the rest of the world, but the slowest in 24 years
Waukee plans a 1500-acre development
Amy Schumer nicks Aaron Sorkin's style in "The Foodroom"
(Video) Funny, as is the supercut of Aaron Sorkin's self-plagiarization
Put your money where your "green" attitudes are
Toyota is offering investors the opportunity to buy "green" bonds, funding those consumers who want to buy cars like the Prius using dealer financing
Labor shortages return
Microsoft moves Bing in the direction of Google Plus/Google Now
When a Facebook "like' signs away your right to a trial
No casino for Cedar Rapids
Police raid over Twitter account impersonating the mayor of Peoria
If you're a public figure and you don't want to risk being mocked or impersonated, get there first. Establish a presence that people will recognize and believe.
Tamping down Omaha gang violence by sending in the voice of experience
Gallup survey finds Des Moines residents wildly enthusiastic about home
A reminder: Change your passwords to protect from Heartbleed
PicoBrew: Making beer like using a Mr. Coffee
Devastating story about child tormented by her peers
Show notes for the WHO Radio Wise Guys - April 19, 2014
Live on WHO Radio at 1:00 Central
Senate report says the CIA went way beyond the pale with use of torture, and that it didn't work
The report remains classified, so the fact we're hearing about it means there was a leak. And that outrages Senator Dianne Feinstein. Not the content of the still-classified report; the leak is what makes her angry.
April is Iowa's Financial Literacy Awareness Month
Crooks used Heartbleed to hack at least two big sites
A UK site called "Mumsnet" and the Canada Revenue Agency both got hit
"Star Wars" posters in a vintage WWII style
Others have tried travel posters in the same vein, too.
Domino's thinks you look a little gaunt
There's no other reason for launching a pizza with a "crust" made of breaded chicken
State Department puts Keystone XL on ice until at least November
Whether the pipeline is ultimately approved or not, this has the distinct odor of a politically-corrupted process
Sign of the times: Television weather forecaster hasn't heard of Huey Lewis and the News
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