May 9, 2010
Posted by Sam Jackson
I was interviewed two weeks ago for an article in the NYT, titled "The Tell-All Generation Learns to Keep Things Offline," which just came out today. This was great fun and I had a very good talk with the writer, Laura Holson. Sadly a lot of what we discussed seemed to end up on the [...]
April 16, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
About a month ago, I wrote about patterns I found comparing Yale and Harvard in Google searches through Google Trends. Well, just today, Facebook released a simply fascinating tool called "Lexicon" which is the same thing, but for wall posts. Computers (not humans!) track the content of every wallpost for words and phrases, and you [...]
February 4, 2008
Posted by Sam Jackson
Teachers, educators, and librarians sometimes ponder the possible uses of Facebook as an education tool; students and teachers alike talk about the awkwardness and occasional utility that arises from online social networking interactions between-groups. The Education Committee of Missouri has weighed in with a proposal which paints its picture using a giant "sex offenders are [...]
August 1, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
Mashable had a great post today, "DOWNLOAD EVERYTHING: 30+ Firefox Add-ons For Downloading Images, Videos & Files" many of which are very useful--check it out if you're a Firefox user (and if you're not, check it out so you can see why you ought to be). But nestled within those embedded video downloaders and screen [...]
June 8, 2007
Posted by Sam Jackson
I pretty much agreed with Fred Stutzman out of the gate on the Facebook gifts feature when he said that the pricing and demand wasn't there appropriately for these to work out terribly well. Well, it's about four months now since the introduction of the Facebook gifts capacity and I thought that was as arbitrary [...]
I'm currently a rising senior 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. Click here to read my extended 'about' page.I'm currently a junior 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. I just got back from studying abroad at Peking University this past Fall 2009 in Beijing, China! Click here to read my 'about' page.