6:19 am on February 29th, 2008 by Kelly Sutton
Chris and I landed this morning at 7:00 am EST (4:00 am LA time!) in Miami. We grabbed some coffee and now we’re at the cush Knight Concert Hall in Miami. We’ll be posting throughout the day about some of the talks that we find interesting and pertinent to the site.
Also, we’ll be Radar-ing the entire day. So friend Chris (username: lesinski) and I (username: ksutton) on Radar.net to see what we’re up to and who we’re talking to.
One more thing, we’ll be shooting a podcast (probably) on the beach tomorrow, so stay tuned for that.
6:11 am on February 29th, 2008 by Calvin Newport
The following is a guest post from our friend Cal Newport from his Study Hacks blog. We’ve also sent one of our own guest posts over there: Implement a Mechanism-based Lifestyle
Project Paralysis
The scenario is common. As the semester progresses, long-term projects began to pile up. A research paper for your history class. A big programming project for computer science. The articles you promised the school newspaper.
This mess of deadlines soon becomes too intricate to decode. It’s too much to handle. You freeze, and then end up scrambling, right before the deadlines, again and again, pumping your stress to dangerous pressures while handing in dangerously shitty work.
To many this is just college. Stretches of drunken stupidity followed by bursts of stressed out chaos. But it doesn’t have to be this way. There’s no magic solution: hard work is hard work. But one simple hack can make a big difference…
Read on to your heart’s content »
4:05 pm on February 27th, 2008 by Kelly Sutton
Hi Everybody,
If you didn’t catch it in our last podcast, Chris and I will be at the Future of Web Applications conference in Miami. If you’re going, let us know! We’ll catch up and get some coffee.
~Kelly
7:03 am on February 27th, 2008 by Rosario Doriott
Meeting a friend for lunch, and you’ve agreed to meet halfway? a.placebetween.us finds that midpoint and spits out the names and addresses of the restaurants nearby. Nice.
Step 1. Enter in the addresses.
This works like Google Maps. Enter in an address or a zip code or a city, state for yourself and everyone else (should you be meeting a couple friends).
Step 2. Choose the menu.
Are you looking for American food, Chinese food, Italian food, coffee, a movie theater, or a bowling alley? Enter this in the yellow box.
Step 3. Find what’s between.
And if you’re not satisfied with the midpoint, feel free to zoom in and move the green marker around. Say you want a restaurant closer to the highway. Go ahead and move the green marker to a new location. It will reload with new restaurants.
Kelly and Chris, it looks like we’d meet at the Sonic Drive-In in Chanute, KS.
a.placebetween.us
5:00 am on February 27th, 2008 by Kelly Sutton
In the best interest of transparency and not selling out, HackCollege will always divulge as much info about sponsorships. Radar is sponsoring the podcast for the next month. We don’t accept sponsorship offers if we don’t believe in what the company is doing. Radar is effectively sponsoring the next month’s bandwidth costs for the podcast.
Our Favorite Microblog
When Radar first approached us, I thought: Why do I need another microblog to keep tabs on? Then I started using it. Radar.net (don’t forget the .net!) has often described as “Twitter with pictures and privacy,” and that’s exactly what it is.
Radar.net extends the functionality of your cameraphone by plugging it into a social network. Let’s face it, you’re not going to order prints of your 1.3 megapixel “masterpieces.” You are going to want friends to see them, though. Radar provides a pictureroll for your shots online and on their Java-based phone application. Tight.
They’re Trying to Make Me Go to Rehab
The onset of addiction was short. Once I signed up and found a few friends, Radar quickly became one of the sites I check the most. Think of the rush you get when checking your friends’ Twitter messages. Now multiply that by 1000, because pictures are worth a thousand words a piece, baby.
At first, I was worried. I’m still rocking a three-year-old Verizon LG VX6200 with a VGA cameraphone. Verizon is stingy when it comes to pictures ($.25 a piece!). Little did I know, my text messaging plan (500 out-of-network texts) can also be applied to picture messages. As long as I don’t send more than 500 photos to Radar in a month, I won’t go broke. Because networks like to remain competitive, similar plans exist with other phone companies.
Unless–that is–you’re a lucky bastard and have an unlimited data plan. Radar accepts pictures via email, so people with the iPhone never have to worry about $.25 a picture. I hate you, Chris.
Check It Out for Yourself
You’ll be seeing Radar in action over the next month on the podcast, so you only have a few more days to hold your skepticism close to your heart. When you sign up, friend me up. Here are my credentials:
username: ksutton
ref code: tail623
Radar is a young and developing company so they are always looking for feedback. Either voice your praises/concerns with us or send them along to Radar. They’ll be most appreciative. We’re glad to be supporting Radar!
11:41 am on February 26th, 2008 by Rosario Doriott
Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, has announced it will provide all incoming freshmen either an iPhone or an iPod Touch:
At ACU - the first university in the nation to provide these cutting-edge media devices to its incoming class - freshmen will use the iPhones or iPod Touches to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors’ offices, and check their meal and account balances - among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed, said ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts.
And hopefully other universities will soon see the utility of this technology:
ACU’s innovative plans for this technology have attracted the attention of Apple executives and leaders at Ivy League universities. In fact, Roberts returned to Abilene Monday from Cupertino, Calif., where he was asked to present ACU’s creative vision for converged media devices at Apple headquarters to executives and to selected leaders from universities including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Duke, Stanford, Oxford, Princeton and UCLA, Schubert said.
ACU News [via SMS Text News]
11:39 am on February 26th, 2008 by Kelly Sutton
HackCollege Reader “Marla” tipped us to the following story. Apparently Irvine Valley College wasn’t aware it was hanging the flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. I’m no Vietnamese history buff, but it seems this would akin to hanging a North Korean flag somewhere around school. Read on:
Vietnamese flag removed at Irvine Valley College [Orange County Register]
If you have any tips for a HackCollege story, send them to tips@hackcollege.com
1:39 pm on February 22nd, 2008 by Rosario Doriott
And has been met with heavy criticism. Reportedly, JuicyCampus is:
- picking Yale apart:
Posters to the site have mentioned specific student names in discussions such as “craziest bitch on the Yale campus” and “most overrated person at Yale.”
- highly visited and hurtful for Princetonians:
Sarah Ferguson ’10 has firsthand experience with the negative effects of JuicyCampus. She was named on the site in several defamatory posts and challenged the anonymous poster to “grow a pair” and say something to her face.
- at UPenn but will fade soon enough:
Like it or not, students have been ruining their own reputations long before gossip Web sites ever came along. And Web sites like these tend to fade fast. Words like “man-whore” and “slut” can only be read so many times before they start to lose their bite and put you to sleep faster than a Friday morning math recitation.
- still relatively unheard of at Brown:
Looking to create a place for students to share their college stories, Ivester and his team initially launched JuicyCampus at seven trial schools across the country in Oct. 2007. Although JuicyCampus has attracted media attention - including critics at Cornell, Yale and Loyola Marymount University - many Brown students have yet to hear of the site.
- trashing Cornell students pretty hard:
You have to have thick skin.
It is for good reason that there is no link to the anonymous forum from this post.
12:34 am on February 22nd, 2008 by Kelly Sutton
Episode 17: Visitors!:
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Chris and Kelly are back at Kelly’s place for the seventeenth episode of madness. The two are just on the brink of a caffeine high as they press record. A few friends stop by throughout the episode.
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9:31 am on February 21st, 2008 by Chris Lesinski
Ohhhhh my goodness — this is such a good hack. Simple, powerful and flashy. You will be so popular if you use this. I’m going to teach you how to download Quicksilver into your HEAD! Doesn’t sound healthy does it? Wait and see…
For those unfamiliar with Quicksilver and others who don’t understand my cryptic references yet, here’s what you’re going to be able to do by the time I’m finished here: search for things on the net faster than anyone. And we all know how much time is spent just searching.
You might be asking yourself: what could I do if I had Quicksilver in my head? Well, first of all, you wouldn’t need to download it on to your computer. So, if you think it’s a confusing RAM-eater, you can use your mind instead with this trick. But I also use this all the time because a lot of the computers I use don’t have QS: at the office, at the library, in my pocket (iPhone)…
Basically, all you get to download is the “quick search” kind of function from Quicksilver. You get to skip right to the results page.
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