Archive for January, 2013

Crain’s Detroit Business features a Q&A with Michael Tidwell, dean of the Eastern Michigan University College of Business, who joined EMU last year and talks about his efforts to involve alumni: ”As we know, the state has had significant financial trouble over the last decade or so. We’ve seen budgetary cuts like many public institutions have seen, … so alumni, both financial support and also moral support, are really critical to the growth and development and viability of an institution.” [Source]

The start of a new year is a plenty good excuse to talk about calendars – or event listings.

Screenshot showing an excerpt from The Chronicle event listings.

Ordinarily, I would be inclined to bore you to death by discussing Internet standards, syndication, multiple-data entry problems, connections to authoritative sources, the myriad ways I am smarter than our pet cat, and how all this should cause us to grumble and make very serious faces as we lament the future of journalism.

But I figure I have a whole year to do that.

For now, I’d like you to consider this: The Chronicle’s calendar listings currently include 4,217 events.

That’s because we’ve embraced an approach to event listings based on the idea that: (1) event hosts are in command of the most accurate information about their events; and (2) event hosts should be able to just maintain their own calendars, and expect their event information to show up all over the Internet, without doing one bit of extra data entry for any publication.  [Full Story]

The Huron River Watershed Council gives a “sneak preview” of a new river guide: the Huron River Water Trail Paddler’s Companion. The waterproof book, with 28 maps covering 104 miles of the Huron River, will be available in March. [Source]

The Detroit Free Press reports that U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff has issued a temporary restraining order allowing Domino’s Farms property management company – owned by Tom Monaghan – to avoid the Affordable Care Act mandate to provide employees with contraceptive coverage. The opinion stated that Monaghan, a devout Catholic, showed that “abiding by the mandate will substantially burden his exercise of religion.” Domino’s Farms, based in Ann Arbor Township, is the location of the headquarters for Domino’s Pizza, but the companies are not affiliated – Monaghan sold Domino’s Pizza in the late 1990s. [Source]