I am taking a hiatus for the remainder of the summer to finish some hulking, be-fanged programming projects. Once those are complete, I am going to “take off the training wheels” on erelevant–redesign and revision it around a broader central theme. It will be less personal, less inflammatory and more topical and content-oriented. […]
When Time magazine named “You” as its person of the year in 2006, it was a ham-handed attempt to salute “user-generated content” as the driving force behind Web 2.0. Last year MySpace and YouTube commanded $580 million and $1.6 billion, respectively, because regular folks participate in the grand techno-democratic experiment, baring their souls to the […]
By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer
NEW YORK Feb 27, 2007 (AP)— Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society.
“We need to stop endlessly repeating ‘You’re special’ and having children […]
Friday Reports give a rundown of what I did over the week. It’s a window into the process here at WWC as well as a way for me to keep some records.
Latest Bookmarks
The biggest development this week was the addition of the Podcast Crew as a subdivision of the Web Crew. Discussion started early […]
VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT
Warren Wilson College invites applications for the position of Vice President for Advancement, with a starting date of July 1, 2007.
Position Summary: Reporting to the President, the Vice President for Advancement leads an aggressive fundraising/development operation and supervises the Office of College Relations. She or he must have the qualities and experience […]
When Education Secretary Margaret Spellings made a speech and report outlining her vision for higher education last fall, I went on a little blogging rage rampage. Have a look:
Big Brother Goes to College
Margaret Spellings’ Plan for Higher Ed: Standardizing College, Putting Salary Outcomes on a Pedestal
Margaret Spellings’ Plan is Fraught with Contradictions
Now, with little […]
After nearly 6 months, 70 blog entries, and 95 legitimate comments, I’m pleased to anounce that erelevant has garnered a truly amazing 5,000 spam comments. It’s nice to know that I will always have such an incredible selection of sources for various prescription drugs, organ enlargement procedures, loans, stock tips, and even high quality […]
Friday Reports give a rundown of what I did over the week. It’s a window into the process here at WWC as well as a way for me to keep some records.
Latest Bookmarks
I did not consider this week particularly productive. At work, the upcoming Presidential Inauguration and several tangential political issues related to the […]
The Savanah College of Art and Design has launched a new video viral campaign called SCAD shorts. The idea is that you watch a short, creepy-goofy video and then guess it’s four-word name. The words begin with the letters of the college’s abbreviation S, C, A, and D. If […]
Friday Reports give a rundown of what I did over the week. It’s a window into the process here at WWC as well as a way for me to keep some records.
Latest Bookmarks
Last week was swallowed largely by loose ends and everyday concerns.
Congrats to Karine on the great redesign (and some restructuring) for College Web Editor. Go have a look!
I’ve also created a new link category for Web Programming after digging through the list of links at College Web Editor and finding Institutional Knowledge.
Stephanie Geyer of Noel-Levitz, in her helpful comment on this entry (also see this great entry at UBrander), has provided two excellent examples of providing prospects and their families with a window into your institution’s financial aid system–without trying to create a fancy calculator!
Bob Johnson turned the E-Expectations study results into a sort of contest, […]
In my ‘Casulties of the Web 2.0 Revolution‘ entry I bemoaned the death of the concept of Cyberspace. Today Sardionerak wrote an interesting entry on Second Life. While I’ve been aware of Second Life for a while, I had never considered it in the context of trying to revive the old Cyberspace / […]
As pointed out by Bob Johnson, the Noel-Levitz people have released their study of college-bound students’ expectations of college websites. While they’re tossing the results to us for free (so I shouldn’t complain), I have to say that something smells fishy.
Here’s the meat:
Here are the top activities students said they would like to complete […]
[…] The best way for me to innovate and enjoy what I do is to go native. Time to slip into the digital tribe and move among its peoples—virtual, 3D hands brushing in the darkness of social networked second lives, a million onymous youth dancing hyper-textualy into the night, the thrumming of drum and bass shared via mapped music genomes, and the twinkling glow of liquid-crystal-pixels offering up the entire geo-positioned world like an altar to a social, multi-cultural, semantic, hive-minded, Mercurial GOD.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ - Blog of Danah Boyd. A PhD student studying privacy and the internet.
http://greenteaicecream.co.uk/ - “Social Value and the Social Web”
http://www.fastcompany.com/ - Interesting blog associated with Fast Company magazine.
I am taking a hiatus for the remainder of the summer to finish some hulking, be-fanged programming projects. Once those are complete, I am going to “take off the training wheels” on erelevant–redesign and revision it around a broader central theme. It will be less personal, less inflammatory and more topical and content-oriented. […]
When Time magazine named “You” as its person of the year in 2006, it was a ham-handed attempt to salute “user-generated content” as the driving force behind Web 2.0. Last year MySpace and YouTube commanded $580 million and $1.6 billion, respectively, because regular folks participate in the grand techno-democratic experiment, baring their souls to the […]
