Sh*t My Dad Says Author Reads Tonight
In 2009, Justin Halpern was a struggling writer who wasn’t making it in Hollywood, forcing him to move back in with his parents. That was, it turns out, the best thing that ever happened to his career....
View ArticleLinkedIn Hacking: What You Need to Know
People who changed their LinkedIn password in the wake of a recent hack attack that exposed more than six million of those passwords may still be at risk of further security breaches, according to BU’s...
View ArticleTweet FYSOP 2012
[View the story "#FYSOP23" on Storify] BU Today is covering this year’s First Year Student Outreach Project live this week via Twitter. Share your FYSOP experience under the hashtag #FYSOP23, and we...
View ArticleThe Real Meaning of the Middle East Firestorm
It started on Tuesday, September 11. Islamic militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades stormed the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya, killing ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other...
View ArticleNew Face at COM Focuses on New Media
Cell phones are now as essential as air for most people, yet it wasn’t that long ago that they were an expensive status marker for the hyper-busy. James Katz remembers those days, and he remembers one...
View ArticleInternet Scams as Plentiful as Carols
’Tis the season to be—taken. With people in a holiday spending mood, it’s a grand time for phishing (fraudulently getting a person’s financial or confidential information with a phony email...
View ArticleYouSpeak: Harlem Shake
What began as a single video last month on YouTube featuring four Spandex-clad dancers rocking to Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” has exploded into the latest meme phenomenon. The original video has been...
View ArticleTweet Your ASB Experience
On Saturday, 387 BU student volunteers, 78 coordinators, and 39 chaperones boarded planes, vans, and buses for places like Horse Cave, Ky., Killeen, Tex., Orland, Maine, and Springfield, Mo., where...
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Pulitzer Winner Tracy Kidder to Headline COM’s Narrative Conference
The biggest name at this year’s College of Communication Power of Narrative: Storytelling Journalism Goes Digital conference admits he has “never been entirely comfortable with the digital world,” and...
View ArticleHow Ford Became a Leader in Social Media
Ford Motor Company knew it had to find a way to reach young consumers after redesigning the Fiesta in 2009. The company anticipated the compact would appeal to a generation of drivers who were buying...
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LAW Prof Weighs US Phone, Internet Surveillance
Last Thursday, US intelligence officials confirmed that for six years the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting information on foreigners overseas from Google, Facebook, Apple, and other...
View ArticleTweet Your FYSOP Experience
BU Today is covering this year’s First-Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP) live via Twitter for the rest of the week. Share your FYSOP experience under the hashtag #fysop, and we’ll post your...
View ArticleYouSpeak: Snapchat
When Snapchat, the popular photo-sharing app created by two Sanford University frat brothers, turned down a $3 billion takeover offer from Facebook last month, the story made headlines. After all, the...
View ArticleReddit Cofounder Spreads the Start-Up Gospel
It was an unscripted moment: beginning a talk Monday night at the Photonics Center, Alexis Ohanian, founder of the popular news and discussion site Reddit, asked his student listeners if any had ideas...
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A Dream Come True
On a recent weekday morning, Jimmy Morgan donned a pair of skates and glided out to TD Garden’s center ice to meet his figure skating partner, Alex Shaughnessy. Staring intently at the bench where the...
View ArticleYouSpeak: The Forecast for Social Media
It wouldn’t be the start of a new year without trend-spotters compiling lists of what to expect in the months ahead. When asked to forecast changes for social media in 2014, many bloggers and tech...
View ArticleASB Volunteers: Tweet Your Experience
Last Saturday, 306 student volunteers, 79 coordinators, and 38 chaperones boarded planes, vans, and buses for places like Antelope Island, Utah, Crossville, Tex., Missoula, Mont., and Staten Island,...
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COM Nominated for Shorty Award
When Micha Sabovik oversaw the launch of the College of Communication’s YouTube channel and its first series, COMlife, she never imagined that four years later COM would be competing for a national...
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Could Facebook Use End a Marriage?
It turns out that spending countless hours talking to friends in front of a screen can negatively affect your most important relationship—the one with your spouse. A new study conducted by James E....
View ArticleBU Archaeologists Explore Turkey, and Blog About It
This summer, a team led by two Boston University archaeology professors has been working hard on an archaeological dig in Turkey, and when they’re not digging, they are blogging about digging. The...
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