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Moving On

Moving On

Goodbye! Photo by long-time HackCollege supporter, Bryan Thatcher. It’s been amazing ride. There are many platitudes out there, but I think the best one for this moment is “All good things must come to an end.” And after 3 years, 9 months, 10 semesters, 54 episodes and 539 posts, my time as a writing contributor ...

Summer Project: Start a Blog

Summer Project: Start a Blog

This is a pretty picture. Hopefully it motivates you to start a blog. Photo by flickr user GViciano and licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Whew. It's finals week. And I just finished my last paper ever. Well, until I consider grad school that is. And now it's time to start thinking of the summer. Sure, yo

A Weekly Wrap-up

So it’s been a pretty ridiculous week on all fronts. I saw James Cameron at the Imagine Cup, met one of the founders of Her Campus and made the front page of LMU.edu with Chris. It’s been busy to say the least. I’m graduating in a week and now is probably a good time to ...

Imagine Cup: Top 4 Teams in Software Design

Imagine Cup: Top 4 Teams in Software Design

James Cameron and Craig Mundie were two of those in attendance at yesterday's awards ceremony. (What?) Photo from Microsoft. Full disclosure: Microsoft flew me out to Washington, D.C. for the weekend and put me up in a hotel. D.C. would be all-for-nought if we didn't report on the actual winners of

How Instapaper Will Make You a Better Student

How Instapaper Will Make You a Better Student

Who knew that reading on the Web could be so clean? Photo by flickr user cote and licensed under CC BY 2.0. Yikes. I really missed the boat on this one. There's this awesomely (and awesomely simple) Web app out there named Instapaper. You've probably known about it for the last few years. It must be

Kelly at 140conf

Earlier today, I was on a panel at 140conf in New York City. There were plenty of amazing people talking at the conference including MC Hammer, Ivanka Trump, Michael Ian Black and more. My panel was titled “Growing Up with the Real-Time Internet” and was received well by the crowd. I mention HackCollege a few ...

Make Your Mobile Business Card Cool with HCOMNBC

Make Your Mobile Business Card Cool with HCOMNBC

Last Friday I was sitting through an uneventful symposium at LMU and decided to create a Web app out of my online business card. I had set up a Web page so that a user could click on links and those links would dial up the correct application. After showing it to a few people, ...