Month: January 2010

Is a man with a 4.0 GPA and a masters degree in education likely to be better at teaching in an inner city school than a woman with a BA in history who had a 2.5 GPA in her first two years of college and a 4.0 her junior and senior year? All other things… Continue reading Learning to be a great teacher

Last week we soft-launched a bunch of new features to help you untangle the mysteries of who is who on Twitter. You can now: a) Identify an individual’s most influential followers. Wonder who’s really influential?  This is your search.  In theory this search is “biggest followers,” except we’ve weeded out all those people who follow… Continue reading New twiangulate followers, biggest followers, smallest friends, and common followers

“The way to kill a newspaper is to ask more for less,” says legendary newsman Sir Harold Evans in his autobiography My Paper Chase. The New York Times should remember Sir Harold’s rule as plans to erect a paywall around its online content in January 2011.  The paywall means not just that readers will pay more,… Continue reading ClubNYT.com: turning the paywall into a velvet rope