11 Feb, 2008  |  Written by Blake Imeson  |  under Tips, Web Tools
It's every student's worst nightmare. You're walking to class, trip, and then suddenly your [semi]productive academic life is over. Your laptop hits the pavement and sojourns to where all good laptops go when they die. Wait… don't despair! If you use this amazing new tool, your academic career can soldier on. humyo is a new [...]
5 Feb, 2008  |  Written by Blake Imeson  |  under Course Notes
So, we are going to have this blog self hosted. The problem is… we need a name! So get at it and lets find a "Sweet" domain name for our blog. Goto BustaNames if you want to enter in more than one term and get ideas. Or goto GoDaddy to put [...]
29 Jan, 2008  |  Written by Blake Imeson  |  under Tips
In class we touched on using Facebook to profile yourself to an employer. I'd like to take that a step further… Currently, as you are going into the job market, the key to your success is "differentiation". I submit that one of the best things you can do is give your prospective employer a [...]
27 Jan, 2008  |  Written by Blake Imeson  |  under Blogging
Hey guys here is a very helpful list of articles for writing great content. Some of the subjects covered are: headlines, word choice, inspiration and style. Copywriting is truly an art and takes practice and study to get right. Something good to think about is that in this ever changing world and especially the internet, words [...]
27 Jan, 2008  |  Written by Blake Imeson  |  under Facebook
This is a hilarious parody of the song Hero by Enrique Inglesias. It highlights the absurdity of Facebook we all know and tolerate? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FahBBnfHAQ&rel=1]
27 Jan, 2008  |  Written by Blake Imeson  |  under Facebook
Many of us are very much into Facebook, to put it gently, but in light of recent discoveries and murmurings in the blogosphere. We may want to reconsider what information we put in our profiles. Recently, Facebook learned a hard lesson when it released the "Beacon" feature and didn't notify users but even worse made it [...]