Tick, tock: Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find. Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of your whole life on Facebook, as compared to a snapshot of you today found on Facebook’s traditional profile page. Once activated, Timeline replaces the current profile. Although some people have already voluntarily switched to Timeline, Facebook hadn’t made that mandatory. Beginning Tuesday, Facebook started telling some users that they have seven days to clean up their profiles before Timeline is automatically activated. Facebook is rolling out the requirement to others over the next few weeks. At some point, even those who haven’t logged on to Facebook in a while will be automatically switched. The Associated Press has the full story here.
Going pro: Tulane University is one of just seven institutions across the country selected to be a part of the National Football League’s Neurological Care Program for retired players. The program gives former players special access to the nation’s leading neurological hospitals for comprehensive evaluation of brain and spinal function, along with an individually tailored treatment plan. Dr. Roger Kelley, chairman of Neurology at Tulane University School of Medicine, and Dr. Gregory Stewart, medical director of Tulane Centers for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, will lead the program. Tulane is the only medical institution in the Gulf South selected to participate in the program.
You say it’s your birthday: New Orleans’ daily newspaper The Times-Picayune is celebrating 175 years of publishing today. The paper has a number of interesting features on its website to mark the occasion. There’s an evolution of the paper’s front page through the years here; a look back at the major headlines of each of the past 175 years here; and a thank you from the paper’s publisher and editor to the paper’s readers here, which also gives some details on the paper’s plans to celebrate the milestone with special sections and publications in the coming weeks.
