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:
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Wolf whistling for Xmas
And if you fancy a unique free ring tone Xmas gift for your mobile what could be better than WolframTones? The ringtones are an experiment in applying Stephen Wolfram’s discoveries to the creation of music. To explain:
“At the core of A New Kind of Science is the idea of exploring a new abstract universe: a “computational universe” of simple programs. In A New Kind of Science, Wolfram shows how remarkably simple programs in his “computational universe” capture the essence of the complexity–and beauty–of many systems in nature.
“WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram’s computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story–and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition.”