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    Monday
    06Jul

    We're in a Documentary!

    I'm super-excited to announce today that Chris and I have an appearance in You 2.0: A Documentary on Lifehacking. The documentary has been more than a year in the making by a recent Florida State graduate, Joey Daoud. I had the pleasure of meeting Joey as he was on his whirlwind through San Francisco getting this film together.

    What makes this really cool is that Chris and I are alongside the big guys: David Allen (inventor of GTD), Tim Ferriss (author of the 4-Hour Workweek) and many others. It's like having a crappy house in a nice neighborhood; your house is worth more by association. We are super excited to have a part in this documentary.

    So head over to the site and pick up a copy of the film. It will be 2 hours of solid gold (hey, we're in it!) and you'll be supporting a recent graduate.

    Friday
    03Jul

    This Week in College News for the Week of 6/28

    Arizona State Sued for Using the Kindle (via eSchoolNews)

    Because the Amazon Kindle is not easily accessible by the blind, the National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind sued Arizona State earlier this week. I may sound a little harsh, but what prohobits the sight-impaired to using old-fashioned technology that I still know and love hate?

    BYU Unbans YouTube (via the Chronicle)

    For the past three years, the students of BYU have had nothing to do during the weeknights. No Keyboard Cat. No Afro Ninja. No nothing. Citing "increased educational opportunity," the Latter Day Saints university did a complete 180 this week.

    Friday
    03Jul

    This Week In Facebook

    Live Notes from Future of Facebook Privacy Conference Call (With Screenshots) (via InsideFacebook)

    InsideFacebook has put the whole conference call on their site. This details how the new privacy options are going to work. Facebook wants you to open up your information to the world, or Facebook wants the public information to create personalized ads just for you. Oh, what tangled web they have woven.

    Twitter’s Popular Facebook App Has Been Broken Or Exploited For Days. (via TechCrunch)

    Facebook has been getting a lot of flack for how their news feed has evolved to strangly resemble the Twitter timeline. Well, it looks like the flames have been stoked a little bit by a third party who has created an app that is currently blocking new users from adding the Twitter application to facebook. Users added the app before "Session Test" was put in to play are still able to use the connection but errors seem to pop up after they change their username or password on Twitter.

    Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out (via Wired)

    Image Courtesy: Wired

    There is something to the employees from Google going to Facebook. They are at war. It is an ideological war. Google's constant use of algoritms and dedication to technicality has left designers, like Douglass Bowmann to leave the site. Facebook strategy is to let the hive mind control the web by having searches and problems fixed by contacting people instead of typing something in and "Feeling Lucky".

    Facebook Purity Removes Eye-Gouging Quiz Updates (via Lifehacker)

    This is a Greasmonkey user script you can install in Firefox that takes away all those annoying quizzes your friends are taking because they can't find jobs.

     

    Wednesday
    01Jul

    What the Iranian Electolution Means for Students

    Image Courtesy: Hans MastThe Iranian election turn revolution has become front page news all around the world. The Daily Show's coverage of this movement showed how similar we can be to people who live half way around the world. They also showed how important this election is for college students and what they can do to help.

    Champion the Cause

    College students love to be down for the cause. Politicians can count on us at every election to walk around for no money to tell people how great they are. 

    Get the Word Out

    It's more important for you to foreward the emails you get from the American based Iranian Politico-Action groups to the email addresses in your address book (You know, the ones your aunts and uncles gave you at your graduation party but never actually planned on talking to you).

    Wear the Gear

    As I said before college students will pop-up anytime a political action buzzword slips out of the mouth of a CNN reporter. What college students love about these causes is the shwag they can buy or work for in order to get. It's like the badge of honor you get from going to the indie rock show last night except it's an actual war with real badges of honor.

    Friday
    26Jun

    This Week in College News for the Week of 6/21

    Private Scholarships Feel the Pinch [via the NY Times]

    Anecdotes are slowly starting to trickle in that private scholarships around the country are starting to dry up. Some colleges just aren't accepting applications. Yes, it's the economy, stupid.

    Cheerleaders? You're All Cut [via the The Choice Blog]

    Florida International University recently decided that its cheerleading squad wasn't worth the cash, so they cut the entire team and are saving $45,000. How will FIU facilitate school spirit? Maybe their new $50 million stadium will help.

    Blackboard Promises to Not Be Evil, Function Properly [via the Wired Campus Blog]

    Our favorite opaque campus-organization software said this week it would "do more to follow industry software standards, and to participate more actively in their development." The company's head of course-management software even went as far as to admit some degree of failure. Cool. I'll believe it when I see it.