Posts by jacquelinelipton

OK - so it's not really Kindle's (or Amazon's) fault, but recently I've noticed that it seems like more and more book publishers are delaying the Kindle release of new…

So the title of this post is probably misleading because I'm not sure that cover letters could really be described as an "art".  What I'm wondering is whether cover letters…

Today is the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble telescope and the telescope's latest image has just been released: For an archive of images and full story, see…

In the hopes that it's not too early (or too optimistic of me) to start thinking about summer reading - for fun, not work - I'll make a few suggestions…

  For those who like to speculate about who the new Supreme Court nominee is likely to be, I would recommend reading Christopher Buckley's novel, Supreme Courtship, which was written…

I blogged recently that the Brits are about to face the polls (May 6) for a general election.  For those election watchers who are really missing good old U.S.-style presidential…

In an effort to curb online bullying and online predators, a British child protection agency is apparently working to convince Facebook to institute a virtual "panic button" that would allow…

In light of the recent privacy debacle involving the Plain Dealer and Judge Saffold (see previous post), a number of news media outlets are reconsidering their policies relating to the…

With thanks to my colleague, Richard Gordon, for passing this along, today's Chronicle of Higher Education ran a story about business schools outsourcing grading of papers to online services based…

In a developing story in Cleveland this week, Cuyahoga County Court Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold has sued the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper and others for unmasking her or her daughter…