Minor Site Maintenance and Improvements: Watch Your Head!

17 Apr

Posted by Sam Jackson as Advertisements, Irrelevance

I have been making a few changes around the site in the last day or so and just wanted to alert you to them and ask if anyone is experiencing any strange bugs. First, I have installed a new archives page! I know that the archives page has been broken for some time, so I […]

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Maintaining MY online identity (a teaser post) - random domain name purchases

28 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Esoterotica, Internets, Irrelevance, Teenagers, personal

I was recently having a little debate with Diana over at the Digital Natives blog about how best to manage online identities as a teenager, inspired by Lifehacker’s recent post about managing digital reputations. My main point of agreement was about ‘becoming the source’ for information about yourself, and how important it is to maintain […]

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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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Yawn: U.S. News & World Report 2008 embargoed College Rankings Leaked, still deeply flawed

16 Aug

Posted by Sam Jackson as College, Irrelevance, education, marketing

Our good friends at IvyGate, through what I assume must be great cleverness and sneakery, posted the top 25 overall and top 25 Liberal Arts colleges in the U.S. News’ 2008 rankings earlier today. At first had ethical reservations about saying really anything on the topic since I felt I could be indirectly promoting the […]

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Actually, instant messaging -might- be ruining grammar after all?

19 Feb

Posted by Sam Jackson as Internets, Irrelevance, Teenagers

Remember how I wrote back in August that “Instant Messaging is Grammar Friendly” ? Well, it might be chummy with grammar but as I heard from Trend Hunter a few days ago, it’s creeping into essays and tainting middle school essays. Students Use Instant Messenger Lingo In Essays, Trend Hunter reports via CNN.
This “instant messaging-speak” […]

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Who is Sam Jackson?

I'm currently a freshman 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.”