A newsmaker you should know: Art Institute student's video wins $50,000 in airfare

Brendan Walsh, a film student at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, entered an Internet contest with a video about a guy trying to fly using strapped-on feathered wings because he's too cheap to buy an airline ticket.

Netizens lampooned YOG Opening Ceremony as an “international disgrace”

Despite being billed as the Singapore’s BIGGEST show by the state media, the Opening Ceremony of the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) yesterday fell far short of expectations and was decried as of “getai” standard by disgruntled netizens who watched it LIVE with some calling it an outright “international disgrace”. The opening ceremony got off [...]

Have We Become a No-Frills Society?

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following commentary was written by Dr. Benjamin Ola. Akande, dean, and Richard Ryffel, adjunct professor of finance, George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology at Webster University in St. Louis:

Newsweek: Is crowd-sourcing losing steam?

There’s no shortage of theories on why Wikipedia has stalled. But most overlook an enduring truth about human nature: most people simply don’t want to work for free. Even the Internet is no match for sloth. Wikipedia - Crowdsourcing - United States - Encyclopedia - Open Source

Rome grown

ROME — Rome, N.Y. has one quality nobody can dispute. The region boasts a surprisingly large number of residents who have gone on to great things.