Carnival of Education #160: Tools and thought provoking discussion for students, educators, and more

27 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Blogging, Internets, education

Hello everyone! This is my first time hosting a blog carnival, but it is the 160th Carnival of Education! I got a lot of submissions for this week and chose the best ones to share with you today. Welcome to the February 27, 2008 edition of the carnival of education, let’s get started! [...]

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Citizen Media Law Project launches online legal guide: really useful!

12 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Blogging, Harvard, Internets

I am currently working as an intern at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and got a press release hit last week from one project that the center is involved in. The Citizen Media Law Project does a lot of good work providing legal education for people involved in… you guessed it, citizen media. [...]

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A SamJackson.org scholarship? Plus: college blogging revenue talk

01 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Admissions, Advertisements, Blogging, Internets, Teenagers, marketing, odd & fun, personal

One thing I have always wanted to do is make good use of my split audience. There are students and admissions officers / higher ed professionals–why not have them both work together for mutual benefit? What would really be great would be if the latter group pitched in to co-sponsor a scholarship, which would [...]

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Return to posts: Business as usual!

30 Jan

Posted by Sam Jackson as Blogging, Student Life, Yale, personal

Hey everyone! Sorry that I have been away so long. I had a lot of fun in Russia and Yale’s second semester has been going great, it’s just been really, really, really busy and as important as all my readers and this blog are to me, I don’t want to flunk out of school! Then [...]

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Should I publish an OPML file of my RSS subscriptions?

27 Nov

Posted by Sam Jackson as Blogging, Esoterotica, Internets, Irrelevance, Poll, personal

Reader Jay Collier recently contacted me and asked if I had ever considered publishing an OPML file of all my feed reader feeds. Feed Demon has such a feature, but I had never been able to really accurate gauge the ratio of reader-utility to pointless-egoism and had therefore refrained from posting one. But Jay inspired [...]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a sophomore at Yale University and I've been blogging about college admissions and higher education marketing trends since I began my college application process in 2005. I now also write about my experience here at Yale, and am an official Yale blogger. Click here to read my 'about' page.

Kind words about my blog:

Andrew Careaga calls it “a service to all of us in the higher ed marketing business.”

Christian Long says it has “dramatically inspired college admissions folks to take notice”

Bob Johnson says “I like [it] because I agree with so much of what he says.” and that “Paying attention what Sam writes will let you focus more closely on students who will actually attend your school.”

Karine Joly says my witty and fresh style “offers a rare glimpse at the mind of our elusive prospective students”

and TargetX calls my blog “good reading” and me “wise-beyond-my-years.”