Episode 24: Super Karaoke Funtime!:
Episode 24: Super Karaoke Funtime!:
The guys bring the thunder and a party before taking off for karaoke for the night.
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You would think that JuicyCampus would be long and gone by now, but such is not the case. The news and politics podcast/show/awesome asked Yale students about JuicyCampus today. Great stuff.
Is Yale Too Juicy? [MobLogic.tv]
We’ve done a few posts about JuicyCampus in the past after the site was used to syndicate a shooting threat. Check them out: “JuicyCampus.com, Anonymity, and (Fake) School Shootings” and “A Juicy JuicyCampus.com Follow-Up”.
Episode 23: Introducing Scott2K!:
Episode 23: Introducing Scott2K!:
The crew is joined this week by a newcomer Scott Davidson a.k.a. Scott2K. He’ll be helping Scott and Chris into the future with technology tips and tricks. Keep your tech glasses on!
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Hi everybody. We are coming out with a new segment called Scott2K! Scott Davidson will be helping us educate everyone about technology in the coming months! We’re glad to have him aboard! Check out episode 1!
Earlier last week, LMU announced a 6% tuition raise. Many other schools, both Jesuit and not, have also recently announced tuition bumps for the 2008-2009 year. As expected, torrents of complaints through voiceless mediums like JuicyCampus and letters to the editor flow in every which direction.
The universities fire back citing inflation, suffering markets, and a few other things. They lay on top of all of these reasons the rhetoric, “We want your degree to mean something in the future.” And that’s where every university reminds the world that they will never be a “Georgetown” or a “Harvard.”
The greatest minds have never been defined by their university degrees. Recent general conventional wisdom tell me, “Your degree doesn’t mean as much as you think.” Maybe conventional wisdom for once might be right.
This was an article originally written for the Los Angeles Loyolan, the student-run newspaper at LMU. We thought most HackCollege readers would also find it interesting.
I’m part of the last generation of “Film Production” majors to go through LMU. The School of Film and Television is phasing out the major and already, the sophomores and freshmen major in something different: just plain old “Production.” The point is to encompass both television and film (and maybe even new media) into one major. The class structure is altered now so that students have to take both television and film classes. The idea is that the two workflows are gradually converging, as one-hour television dramas shoot on film and action movies get shot on digital video. That sounds pretty progressive for a film school, doesn’t it?
Unfortunately, changing the name of a major doesn’t do the trick. If you’re going to shoot a junior thesis, AKA PROD 300, you have to use film – actual film, like the stuff we used in still cameras once upon a time. Real film is expensive. That means the bare minimum budget for a junior thesis is about $3,000. Indeed, it’s as goofy a requirement as it sounds. Effectively, when you’re a junior, you can’t shoot a fictional piece on a digital medium in spite of the dawn of iTunes, high-definition television and outstanding digital cameras like the Red One. Granted, 35mm is certainly not obsolete, but it’s noncore for a media person these days.
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Dear HackCollege,
Where can I find Girl Scout cookies?
Thanks,
Bridgeport ‘08
Check out the new girlscoutcookies.org, but Girl Scout season in your area has probably ended. ;( You can, however, still enter your email address to be notified of future sales.
Want to buy in bulk? Search for “girl scout cookies” on eBay.
Or simply go to your local grocery store on a weekend. You can’t miss them.
Chris Lesinski is 21! To celebrate, Chris and Kelly show some of the most gratuitous behavior podcasting has ever seen! The crew also brings along some friends this week!
Episode 22: Chris' Birthday:
Episode 22: Chris' Birthday:
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Disclaimer: Believe it or not, we are not required to do these sponsor write-ups. None of what we’re saying is copied or given to us. We don’t like it when people put words in our mouths. We write these because we love our sponsors and believe in what they are doing.
For those watching, you’ll see we picked up a new sponsor last episode, Empressr. We’re more that happy to have them aboard as a sponsor. We’re going to tell you a little bit about them, and hopefully you’ll check them out. Shout out also to the founder, Bryan Thatcher, who was the guy who famously got me to SXSW this year.
I know. I made the pitch many times at SXSW 2008. Empressr is a “rich media slide presentation tool.” As everything these days, it can be likened to a Microsoft product “on steroids” or some facet of YouTube. Empressr can be described as both. With Empressr you can create a slideshow and then present it. It’s also noteworthy that Empressr handles both video and audio well.
There are two parts to Empressr. The slide creator, or “composr,” and and then the YouTube-esque social network of displaying slide presentations. Everything is done completely online. The composr part is a little rough around the edges right now, but still straightforward and functional enough.
Once you’re done with a presentation and you save it, the presentation can appear on the Empressr site. The site itself is a social network for slides. Sounds boring, but there’s some interesting stuff up there. If anything, it let’s you find your presentation easily. If you want to keep a presentation private, you also have that option.
According to the United States of America, Christopher Lesinski is officially 21 years of age as of April 6, 2008, 12:00 am PST. Among his new capabilities, he can now legally sip beer and sport cool shades.
If you’ve got a spare moment, send him some birthday wishes! twitter.com/lesinski
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