Regular readers of this column will know that I am suspicious of cyberspace innovations — from Facebook to MySpace to Second Life — that substitute the accumulation of “friends” for actual friendship, ...

Tutoring services only help when students actually use them. To promote engagement with its tutoring services, Moorpark College leaders equipped tutors with texting capabilities for student outreach.

Texting has long been bemoaned as the downfall of the written word, “penmanship for illiterates,” as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn’t writing at all — ...