Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Can Twitter bring people together? Part Two

David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times, recently visited my stomping grounds, Syracuse University, to talk about Twitter as part of a larger symposium on Cultural Diplomacy. I offered my newswriting students extra credit if they blogged about Pogue for Save the Media. One savvy student, Paul Kloster, took me up on my [...]

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

David Pogue: Can Twitter help connect people worldwide?

Can Twitter be a tool of cultural diplomacy? That was the heady topic New York Times technology columnist David Pogue addressed Monday during a symposium at Syracuse University in Upstate New York. He was part of a panel trying to figure out how to transcend conflict through culture. Now, the way I understood it, cultural [...]