St Ives at Xmas

Having been to St Ives on holiday for the last 20 years or so you can’t help but notice a few differences, mainly how many shops are open right up until Xmas and the amount of cars continually chugging through the town. Plus the price of property –

Fired for blogging (aka: Dooced)



My friend Meg was fired from her job as Department Chair of Communications and Composition at DeVry University in Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A. because of her blog. The administration didn’t tell her specifically what she said that they found so offensive.

There’s a brief explanation in the Blogspotting section of Business Week, including a comment from the guy fired from Google for blogging, Mark Jen. The article in the Denver Post is also worth a gander – David Harsanyi suggesting in conclusion that the students of DeVry should press the administration to reveal the offending blog post.

Or try clicking on the technorati links below to find out more:
DeVry
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