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King memorial a gateway to the future

On Sunday, October 16, 2001, I was one of several thousand people who witnessed the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. [...]

Stand for something: RIP Steve Jobs, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

To me, the best thing about Steve Jobs is he realized how tools and creativity in artists’ hands can elicit emotion and passion to inspire and initiate change in the world. In claiming the right to stand tall and be a man, Rev. Shuttlesworth also allowed black boys to watch, learn, grow and stand with him. [...]

Darryl Swint's thoughts on mobility, marketing, convenience and e-commerce

Thanks to a germinating, ongoing merger of mobile smartphones, GPS-based, social media marketing and a tech-savvy consumer base comfortable with broadcasting its whims, movements and activity through satellite social media sites, the new economy is finally taking [...]

Losing time on the Dan Ryan Expressway

Chicago commuters are familiar with the minutes, hours and ultimately days annually lost while sitting in northbound rush hour traffic. A recently released report identified one stretch of the highway as the second-worst traffic bottleneck in the country. [...]

New mobile devices change the game

Nexus One. The rumored Apple tablet. Droid. Netbooks. iPhone 3G.

It’s an amazing time from a technological point of view. The exchange of information and ideas is being revised and adapted to new technologies. Media in particular, having taken their share of lumps over the past two years, have mobile and possibly tablet-formats on which to [...]

Multimedia and the future

As more of the public obtain information, news and entertainment online, news web sites must provide all three in an easily navigated manner. These sites should also take advantage of social networking elements that allow the public to weigh in on topics, coverage, events and people in the [...]