About this blog
This blog was launched in 2005 as a resource for those in the Higher Education community interested in online content syndication. It’s since expanded to include technology, marketing, and PR topics relating to new communications and new media.
It is edited by me, Dan Karleen (pictured), director of new media products at Peterson’s. I currently work as part of the Lead Gen group which operates under the umbrella of Nelnet Enrollment Solutions.
I’m also a research fellow with Society for New Communications Research.
Posts to this blog are not pre-approved or moderated by my company, who may or may not share my opinions. I moderate blog comments for spam and slander.
I am available for conference speaking, webinars, and workshops and enjoy talking about blogs, podcasting, RSS, websites, wikis, video and video blogging, lead generation, and search engine optimization.
If you have questions or feedback about this blog, please email me.
[…] Dan Karleen’s comment on the preceding blog entry is both intriguing and troubling. Mostly troubling. It appears that Apple is providing a private iTunes store to the University of Michigan dental school. Dan, who also has a dog in this fight, explains the basic setup in his blog entry: dental school lectures are recorded and made available for download by means of a “special iTunes Music Store interface from Apple Computer” (quoting from the Michigan press release). Access is therefore limited to users who can authenticate within the University of Michigan network. Plans for future collaboration between Apple and Michigan include even more types of downloadable content. […]
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