Dear All, After taking a three week hiatus from our blog, I came back to discover that we have over 350 comments! It took me a while to go through all of them, but I would like to thank every single one of you who took the time to comment on our blog. To be [...]

by: James F. Keith OIEE Contributor At Michigan State University’s “Commodification, Technoculture, and the Human” conference, presenter and author from Simon Fraser University Andrew Feenberg acknowledged the internet as a technology and compared it to a “wheel chair ramp”. It took me by surprise, as I would hold that the internet is NOT a technology, [...]

By: James Felton Keith OIEE Contributor During the second week of October 2010 Mayor Michael R Bloomberg pursued an agenda to prohibit users of federal and state aid, more specifically “bridge cards” or “half dollars” or “food stamps” depending on how you take your slang, from buying “pop” or “soda water” or “soda”. It was [...]

By: Dr. Cleve Stevens Special Contributor The politically charged arguments from the reactionary right (and the unhinged left) that fear we are (or hope we are) now headed down the path to socialism, are, frankly, misguided. Anyone with a larger sense of history and who is not blinded by ideology can see the silliness of [...]

by: Elizabeth Greenberg Writer, All About Business People say that, as a young person, there is great value in holding a “regular job”. Few would disagree, but even fewer seem to stress just how many pros these sorts of jobs hold. This summer I began my first “real job”: an entry-level gig at a department [...]