It’s a common misconception that everything “white-boxed” is unprofessional. (White-boxing on the Web is when it’s apparent you are using another service rather than hosting it yourself.) That certainly was the case in the “Web 1.0″ world; you wouldn’t host a personal and professional digital business card on a GeoCities account.
For some reason or another, the evil overhead of white-box accounts seems to have disappeared.
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If you aren’t already convinced, you need to start blogging. Right now. Stop reading this post and visit Wordpress.com and sign yourself up. Then we’ll talk. Let’s kick things off with a Common Craft video:
If you haven’t heard our pitch yet, read on.
Blogging is an ugly word. It sounds like “clog.” People associate it with flamers and politicians and Fox News and LiveJournal. Blogs are seen as a place to whine or an extra source of white noise.
Blogging, though, will change your life. In more ways than one. It has for the staff of HackCollege, at least. HackCollege has been going strong for nearly 2 years now. After all this time, there’s still one thing we’re lacking: regret. We chose to start a blog about lifehacking in college.
We’ve changed a little bit over time. If you have a passion, you need to blog about it. (I hate the word “passion.”) Passions usually align with your major, or maybe they don’t. Whatever you know or want to know more about, you need to blog about it. Blogging changes the way you think; you become much more critical of the world around you. And no matter how bad you are at writing, you’ll learn. I’m still working on the writing thing.
Because of the blog and not the podcast, we’ve been approached by multiple larger organizations. It’s awesome. Starting a blog establishes credibility and gives you something to do.
And yes, there is a catch. You have to start following us on Twitter and religiously watch the podcast. For now, the contests will be lightning-fast and last only a day or two. We already gave away our first shirt to @KushalP for his post suggestion in the last episode! Awesome! We’ll give one away each week on average.
So sign up for Twitter and start following us!
We hinted at in today’s episode 25, but the student blogging series will be going online tomorrow!
It will feature posts about the case for blogging, why students in particular need to blog, and interviews with some successful student bloggers. Stay tuned!
Episode 25: Crazy Thursday:
Episode 25: Crazy Thursday:
The guys shoot earlier this week on a crazy Thursday with a lot of friends around and give away their first T-Shirt!
Topics this week:
Music this week:
This episode’s sponsors:
We took some shots the other day with one of our friends in the HackCollege T-Shirt! We think that they turned out pretty well. We like objectifying women.
Blatant sexographies aside, we would also like to remind everyone that our shirts are made by Homeboy Industries. Homeboy helps recently incarcerated (and unincarcerated?) people get back on their feet. As their motto says, “Jobs not Jails.” Every shirt purchase is that much more. Buy your T-Shirts with pride!
Head over to hackcollege.com/tshirts to get one for yourself!
You would think that this week would be national JuicyCampus week or something. Last night at LMU, a senior girl hosted a debate and panel about JuicyCampus.com at LMU.
Here is the video of the debate.
One thing that has always been neglected in the JuicyCampus debate at LMU is the slightly potential that JuicyCampus can be used for good. When there was a shooting a little while ago just outside LMU’s pearly white gates, JuicyCampus was the first source to provide accurate information about the incident. The hivemind beat Public Safety; it beat the campus newspaper to the digital scene.
Banning the site wouldn’t work thanks to things like Tor. Boycotting the site would be pointless because of its persistence at other schools. JuicyCampus is on its way out; conventional wisdom tells me people don’t check it nearly as often as they do. And JuicyCampus is finding it tougher by the day to find advertisers.
With Coachella happening this weekend in the desert of southern California, the music festival season (known to some simply as “summer”) is here. Music and college are often closely associated; the same goes for music and weed and also weed and college. There must be a connection there somewhere…
HackCollege covered and did some live blogging last year from Coachella 2007. Check out the past posts:
Summer music festivals are a great way to blow off some steam, spend some hard-earned work-study money and forget about the world. Here are a few tips for the festival-goers.
It’s been a long time coming, but the HackCollege tees are finally ready. Get them shipped to your dorm for $20 all said and done.
Head over to hackcollege.com/tshirts to buy one!
The New York Times Education section published an article yesterday about universities that are drastically revamping their financial aid programs. Rather than aiming for ethnic or geographic diversity, big name schools are focusing on economic diversity, something that books like Freakonomics have been all about.
Check it out: The (Yes) Low Cost of Higher Ed
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