It’s hard to think of a more striking way in which "old school" could meet new.  Donald E. Graham, chairman of the board and CEO of The Washington Post Company, will join Facebook’s board of directors next month.

If search engines are contributing to the death of newspapers, what better to save a newspaper than a search firm?  Perhaps nothing.  And now The Washington Post Company, seeing the logic (and/or the irony) of this idea, has acquired CourseAdvisor.