Thursday, April 17th, 2008 |
Finally, a reason to Twitter: A student at the University of California at Berkeley was arrested in Egypt for photographing a demonstration. His Twitter message, “Arrested”, sparked a series of events that led to his being released from jail. More…
A new social network on Internet2: Muse was developed by student Web programmers at the University of Washington for Internet2, an advanced computing consortium of colleges and businesses. Visit Muse.
Linked to in a uWedD thread: “…the web is a conversation. Marketing, by contrast, is a monologue.” Well said, Zeldman. The article this was taken from is a interesting look at why web is not a department of its own, but housed in IT or Marketing. Read…
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 |
Now it’s easier than ever to find out personal information about students.
Facebook just announced that they have removed the .edu restriction on registrations and now anyone can join.
If students want to keep their information restricted to people in their approved ‘networks’, they must uncheck the option where people with ‘no network’ may find them in a search. This is in the privacy section.
Article: Digg comments: Facebook’s explanation
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 |
Guy enters lab with two girls. Guy desperately wants to impress girls. Girls oooo and awww when they see the dual-screen Mac G5s. Guys says, “Aren’t these computers nice? They’re European.” Girls giggle in awe of guy’s underwhelming intelligence.
Freshmen.
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006 |
Two articles (quoted in their entireity below) in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus Blog reinforce the notion that campus communications have evolved with the times. The first, regarding live online broadcasts of athletic events, is happening parallel to Cal’s own efforts to bring live streaming athletic events to the web beginning this fall. The second, using text messaging to push news to students, is an intriguing idea.
August 16, 2006
Small-Conference Football Hits the Computer Screen
Fans of the Oklahoma Sooners or the Auburn Tigers may never have to travel farther than a local sports bar to see their favorite college football teams in action. But supporters of the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks have no such luck: Small-conference teams virtually never show up on television.
So instead of trying, futilely, to negotiate TV contracts, the lesser conferences are taking their games straight to the Web. This season the Big Sky Conference, which features Northern Arizona, will broadcast all its football games (as well as its basketball and volleyball matches) online, according to the Associated Press. And the commissioner of the Ivy League predicts that almost all the league’s sporting events will air on the Web — for the benefit of alumni and proud parents — within seven years. –Brock Read
August 16, 2006
Campus News, on Your Cellphone
Pennsylvania State University will start using text messages to send news bulletins to cellphones and PDA’s, campus officials announced today. The text-messaging service, which starts Friday, is the latest high-tech expansion of Penn State Live, the university’s popular online news network.
Penn State Live already boasts 360,000 subscribers, and it recently added an RSS subscription service to its e-mail offerings. But more students are turning to text messaging, and university officials decided it was time to try out the technology.
Cellphone users can subscribe to receive information on three different topics, according to CNET News: campus emergencies, sports, and concerts. —Brock Read
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