Denny Carter of eCampus News (@ecampusnews) reports insightfully on IntelliGuard Systems and its pager alert system (requires login, but available on bugmenot), which it claims reaches students in 20 seconds flat by using a private wireless system. Carter did his homework for the piece, and he addresses all the appropriate aspects of the larger context [...]

Update: I see that UberTwitter is back (with a new name), but the questions below still stand. Many (including the LA Times) are reporting that Twitter has suspended three applications that many people use to access the micro-blogging service on their cell phones. As a big UberTwitter fan, I was disappointed to log on to [...]

Few things gain more attention in the higher education world than rankings. The most widely known are probably the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and graduate programs. Other lists analyze everything from dating and drugs/drinking to dorms and dining. (see collegeprowler.com and Princeton Review) Add to the list a couple recent [...]

UPDATE: If you missed the conversation, click on the link below to read a transcript of the entire event. Join our own Menachem Wecker, the Washington Post’s Jenna Johnson, Chronicle of Higher Ed’s Marc Parry & Webster University’s Patrick Powers for a Campus Overload live Q&A about College Social Media on Thursday, Jan. 20 at [...]

I appreciate a combination of wit and geeked-out science. Especially in a blog post. PR 2.0 posted an article under the heading “The Twitter Star: Nova or Supernova?” earlier today. The first lines of the the post define exactly what a nova and a supernova are: Nova: a star showing a sudden large increase in brightness [...]