CUNY Academic Commons | Rob Laurich | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/madlibrarian/activity/ Activity feed for Rob Laurich. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 510afc7a1581415a5a073fbed9556ebf Rob Laurich and Lisa Finder are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/52661/ Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:33:19 -0400 e0333773cfa749dd51fd44e8e3874383 Rob Laurich and Judy Connorton are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/47050/ Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:38:53 -0400 e429e6f6101c1e11781000c0e2cf58c1 Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/26/the-economics-of-a-sitcom/ Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:47:50 -0500 ThumbnailThe implosion of Charlie Sheen and his career this week has gotten the tabloid treatment in most of the Media. The New York Times however took a more financial approach to the story. Bill Carter’s article ” Sheen Tantrum Likely to Cost in the Millions ” discusses the economical fallout of the suspension of production on Two and a Half […]

]]> 812de23f0c2a63814397d37aa736e090 Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/25/the-art-of-the-spin/ Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:02:32 -0500 ThumbnailThis week, in a lecture I was doing for a public relations course, ‘truthfulness’ was raised by a student as something one wants when producing P.R. material. When I answered that the ‘truth’ in public relations is much like the ‘truth’ is to defense attorneys, unnessesary, I could see the students disbelief. This was a perfect opening […]

]]> 30a251ac4b17913c03d3f25a3ce93f61 Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/19/if-only-paul-revere-had-social-networking/ Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:02:50 -0500 ThumbnailThe political upheaval being experienced across North Africa and the Middle East has already found its iconic symbol. It is not an individual or a particular group–it is in fact Facebook, Twitter and You Tube . The youth of Tunisia and Egypt discovered that the tools they have used for social communication, can in fact be  a powerful weapon. I […]

]]> 616c7c98b420f60e2c67984fb31b337a Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/18/thegrio-an-african-american-voice-on-the-web/ Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:54:31 -0500 Thumbnail MSNBC has created an exciting website for the African -American community called the Grio . The Grio , which  translates to  “a storyteller in western Africa who maintains the oral tradition and history of a village or family,” gives an African -American voice and perspective to the Internet. Recent articles covered topics as diverse as  Black Actors and Drag, […]

]]> 6bb94ff6bab432efb8965f18f714161e Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/44334/ Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:25:47 -0500 2858431da0f868b1f2a4475c9b8e592d Rob Laurich commented on the post, Keith Olbermann's 'Network' moment, on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/01/21/keith-olbermanns-network-moment/#comment-28 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:26:54 -0500 Thank you for your comments Ethyl. Your point is well taken concerning the blogs length. I tend to lay the ‘seeds’ of an idea, without expanding the prose. I will work on that. Cheers. r

]]> 6f30f8f2bc5441dfa8317d811c443879 Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/43547/ Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:54:45 -0500 0030b334b32f482b8c04284205937926 Rob Laurich commented on the post, Keith Olbermann's 'Network' moment, on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/01/21/keith-olbermanns-network-moment/#comment-26 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:27:17 -0500 The timing certainly is interesting, however I believe the political donation controversy sealed his fate back in November. Both parties never felt happy with the results. The Comcast acquisition does raise the question if there will be a shift in MSNBC’s political slant. I look forward to the coverage of this on Morning Joe Monday […]

]]> b209405e7787d93c56391cbac18b2e66 Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/01/21/keith-olbermanns-network-moment/ Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:24:59 -0500 Thumbnail This evening Keith Olbermann and MSNBC parted ways leaving viewers and the Media clucking their tongues and wondering what exactly happened here.  Since his suspension in November on ethical issues, there has been no love lost between network management and Olbermann. Still, the departure tonight was certainly speedy and without an explanation.  I have included […]

]]> dc5e266288159c320579f28e725f660b Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/01/21/the-first-must-read-of-2011-alone-together/ Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:26:24 -0500 Thumbnail Last summer as we drove up to Maine for a family vacation, I watched my 14 year old nephew and his best friend spend hours texting. When I asked who they were each texting, they looked at me as if I was crazy and stated each other.  Why when they are two feet away from […]

]]> 22b587b48dc341be15ff8492f8e94188 Rob Laurich joined the group E-Books and E-Readers in the Libraries https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/42911/ Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:36:49 -0500 94ad7f11546d089b61bb3fe6434bab1e Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/01/09/when-did-fact-checking-become-irrelevant/ Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:10:13 -0500 Thumbnail Greetings from a cybercafe in sunny Puerto Vallarta.  I have been following the attempted assasination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords with facination and alarm. From the first bulletins that were sent out, false unvarified information was all over the web and media– the villians were not bloggers or social networkers, they were the major media outlets. NPR […]

]]> c1fe4812f5c41b6d4129d37633af228f Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/12/10/was-john-lennon-a-precursor-to-reality-television/ Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:37:07 -0500 ThumbnailThe Media has given a considerable amount of coverage to the 30th anniversary of John Lennon’s assassination this past week. Most of the articles were nostalgia pieces that focused either on Lennon’s music or his death. Andrew Romano, in an essay published in the December 13,2010  Newsweek, has chosen to focus on the issue of ‘fame’. “Lennon’s Other […]

]]> 4432d2b4de83b6e1acedf9881d2513da Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/12/01/an-agatha-christie-mystery-for-the-internet-age/ Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:48:35 -0500 ThumbnailThe website Wikileaks has certainly earned the wrath of some major international governments and corporations: the US,  Chinese, Saudis,and even Bank of America to name a few. So it is not surprising that on December 1, 2010 we  find the  site ‘unavailable’.  According to Geek.com, a DDoS attack has crippled the site, but a possible rescuer maybe  Amazon. […]

]]> 9a2f3f18d5f3511e42e9da268df101e0 Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/12/01/the-evil-empire-prepares-for-a-new-assault/ Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:27:19 -0500 ThumbnailIn my lectures concerning Internet search strategies  I often refer to Google as an ‘evil empire’. There are those who may feel this statement is a bit harsh, while others might feel I am being to kind. Like many in Academia, my love/hate relationship with Google is very complicated. Although I am constantly in awe of […]

]]> 0b47f1d9f427ece6d00067e574637795 Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/11/30/the-ipads-newest-champion-rupert-murdoch/ Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:40:41 -0500 ThumbnailSay what you may about Rupert Murdoch, but he certainly knows how to rattle the Media World. With the announcement of the i-newspaper called The Daily , the future of newsprint and its adaptation to the web is again ready for a renewed debate. In the article Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs to launch tablet newspaper , in ComputerWeekly.com , Murdoch is […]

]]> 0e47eebab520d061a580261e10e99bdc Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/37862/ Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:37:05 -0500 1d3e3b3a38c3146895f963eedf63cbbf Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/11/12/you-tube-video-on-ucf-cheating-scandal-opens-debate-on-academic-integrity/ Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:49:23 -0500 ThumbnailThe November 1 lecture by Professor Richard Quinn of the University of Central Florida Business School has become a sensation on You Tube , opening a discussion of plagiarism and cheating in Academia.  When faced with the knowledge that up to 1/3 of his class of 600+students cheated, the  Professor uses his class time to address the issue. […]

]]> b6764b80c465a66f82d9a0fa839787aa Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/11/08/what-is-the-future-of-media/ Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:42:45 -0500 Thumbnail Our colleagues at the Graduate Center have put together an exciting program for this evening concerning future of media . What Is the Future of the Media? This event will feature Tina Brown, Andrew Sullivan, and Jeff Jarvis in conversation about the future of the media, and the way in which electronic publishing and the Internet, as a virtual […]

]]> 55e3e8880f347a83417ddeb670a9b9d2 Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/36732/ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:51:37 -0400 622620b290ccb4031cdedc5cc86b740c Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/28/will-newsweek-survive/ Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:02:31 -0400 ThumbnailThe recent sale of Newsweek magazine for $1 (along with much debt) to Sidney Harman certainly does not seem to bode well for the future of the weekly news magazine. The sale of the magazine, along with the painful selecting of an editor and the behind the scene drama between Harman and Barry Diller is the focus of New […]

]]> 738d612acfe67d56b5b79f6b2b7f3bc0 Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/28/we-have-no-secrets-we-tell-each-other-everything/ Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:54:32 -0400 ThumbnailThe  Carly Simon song on secrets played in my head while reading the article in Newsweek titled Privacy is Dead . Yes, we all have heard that an amazing amount of data is available online about individuals, however the extent and how it is being misused is staggering. Writer Jessica Bennett hired the firm Reputation Defender to ‘mine’ information […]

]]> ecd97616d6f43f78e31bfe0549e44d84 Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/18/oh-what-a-circus-oh-what-a-show-2/ Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:16:11 -0400 ThumbnailLost in all the feel good coverage of the amazing rescue of the miners in Chile, is the behavior of the Media at the site.  From the excessive coverage to the hair pulling, tent trampling conclusion (I was reminded of the conclusion of Nathanael West’s ‘The Day of the Locust’) to the now cruel post-rescue coverage, […]

]]> f348916075cbd7d4b1b1f6811280db08 Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/18/blogs-and-the-ground-zero-mosque-controversy/ Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:24:28 -0400 ThumbnailThe controversy over building a mosque in Lower Manhattan certainly has become Media feeding frenzy. How did this issue develop?  Steve Rendall and Alex Kane chart the development of this cyberstorm on FAIR‘s website. The Media’s Construction of the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ is an interesting time line on how news explodes via the Internet. […]

]]> 5dc668f08c3015279fa00127e604117a Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35902/ Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:38:31 -0400 49fe47caabdca9b2d7d28c141271e11b Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35507/ Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:16:44 -0400 ac8252ed67ff8be94d2d7ab48ed914f7 Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35409/ Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:48:00 -0400 ce672db3f584284b8ccc44471f0ac34a Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35406/ Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:24:09 -0400 f0969797739d323e06af5a730563c302 Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35345/ Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:33:27 -0400 09267660a922328b8cfb57aed8289b65 Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35335/ Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:37:04 -0400 3acfa6e0cb789fb495cd43baa6abe89d Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35322/ Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:48:49 -0400 e21b878430fa4f20d321ed67b1ec13f2 Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35316/ Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:20:13 -0400 297173caeb4feaa1a326086a2f25c682 Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35239/ Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:52:05 -0400 c10291d64f48e83cded69be7f813ae9a Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35236/ Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:31:32 -0400 9eb67bd10412ca03c969ddacf537276b Rob Laurich and are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35232/ Sat, 02 Oct 2010 11:23:42 -0400 8af809946c2d955409f727fc2bab079a Rob Laurich wrote a new post on the site Madlibrarian's Issues in the Media http://madlibrarian.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/10/02/the-rick-sanchezcnn-mess-what-were-they-thinking/ Sat, 02 Oct 2010 07:38:21 -0400 ThumbnailNBC’s Today has an excellent report covering the Rich Sanchez firing at CNN, including a link to the entire interview. CNN’s coverage is itself short and too the point–“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company,” according to a statement from CNN. “We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.” Listening to […]

]]> a0e5f1d009d97ee482bf277607f330d6 Rob Laurich posted a new activity comment https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/35184/#acomment-35227 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:34:24 -0400 Thanks Maura I am very excited about the commons.

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