Student loans can really put a damper on your new life after college. This is especially true if you are like many students and owe at least $15,000 for loans. If you do not take steps to pay off your student loans sooner than later, you could be paying for the loans for ten to twenty years. In that time, you will be paying back a lot of interest even if you received fair interest rates at the time you took out your student loans.

A new study suggests that ginger is an effective all-natural solution for treating nausea and vomiting following cancer treatment. Chemotherapy is a treatment process that often comes with a variety of side effects. Nausea is one of the most common of these side effects, with as many as 70 percent of all chemotherapy patients complaining about the symptom.

For patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), it seems that concurrent chemoradiation may be the most effective treatment option. At least, that is what a new study based out of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor suggests. In the study, 237 patients with inoperable stage III NSCLC were randomized into three different treatment groups " radiation alone, sequential chemotherapy and radiation and concurrent chemoradiation.

Brian Krebs has a story in Tuesday's Washington Post about a new trend in the ongoing saga of Internet-based fraud. Apparently, criminal groups, many based in Eastern Europe, are focusing their attention on small- and medium-sized businesses in the US, and stealing electronic banking credentials in order to carry out fraudulent wire transfers.

My blog has been quiet of late, much due to the fact that I have been immersed in work related to the pending launch of The Rapidian, a new citizen journalism project in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A project of the Grand Rapids Community Media Center (with support from the GR Community Foundation and the Knight Foundation), it is an ambitious endeavor and we are just 20 days from launch. It combines a web based journalism structure with neighborhood news bureaus.

So you've become part of the twitter world. You set up your account and start following people like crazy. But you begin to get discouraged. Few are following you back and a fair number are actually blocking you from following them. What gives?

On Thursday, July 16th, I had the pleasure of presenting a two-hour seminar on "new media for nonprofit organizations". In the audience were 55 or so representatives of organizations in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Brought together by the Winnipeg Foundation, the seminar was designed to introduce new media tools and providing guidelines about how an organization develops a communications strategy given all of the social networking and online content tools available.

Have you heard about babies being thrown from roofs for their own good as some kind of traditional ritual? My guess is that you haven't, unless you read about it in the last year or two in some foreign publication. There have been news stories about this baby throwing "ritual" abroad and the impression created is that this is a traditional Indian ritual.

I spent the summer finishing up a paper that I have been working on (off-again, on-again) for the better part of a year. The paper grew out of a seemingly simple question I tried to answer a couple of years ago, namely: if I put something into the public domain, can I take it out again?

As a web entrepreneur, there are a few times a year when I travel
out of town and I really must have a mobile Internet connection. This
is not very often, usually just twice a year when on vacation or
visiting friends. So I've been searching for an inexpensive but
quality solution that doesn't chain me to a monthly expense.

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