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 [...]
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 / Virtual Reality [...]
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 [...]
In some ways Web 2.0 is a bit of a disappointment. Professor Michael Wesch, in this beautiful video, defines the early internet as purely hypertext–about linking information. He holds “Web 1.0″ over and against Web 2.0, which he characterizes as the separation of form from content using technologies like XML in order to empower the [...]
A “cybersquatter” is a person who registers large quantities of internet domain names in the hopes that they can resell them at premium prices. A cybersquatter’s “portfolio” of domains, before they are sold, is often set up with third-party companies who provide advertising services. In this way, a cybersquatter can earn money off of the [...]
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 This week I have focused most of my efforts on continuing preparations for work on a simple PHP MVC Framework to [...]
And radical marketers: stay away from Boston. When the folks behind Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim” hired New York guerilla marketing agency Interference, Inc. to promote the cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the results turned into a pathetic display of “the culture of fear” in Boston. The agency hired people in several large US cities to [...]
After an all-too-short winter break of hectic traveling and several bouts of illness, I’m back at work and firmly ensconced into my stunted left brain! After a nice, comfortable time cultivating my claim to the titles of “marketer” and “designer,” I’m working on growing into a programmer as well. It has been neither nice, nor [...]
There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.
Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…
