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About three weeks ago, a new player quietly showed up on the battlefield of websites vying for Harvard attention spans. With a small release party and a single Crimson article, CampusTap, a Harvard-centric blogging community with the tagline ‘This is your campus—Go ahead, say something,” opened its doors. By most counts, the launch went well for creators Harry I. Ritter ’06, Adam J. Katz ’07, and Jeremiah L. Lowin ’07. They convinced a few high-profile Harvard blogs—Cambridge...
...order to promote risk-taking and a willingness to speak, CampusTap follows a model popularized by the Facebook. The site allows blog authors to easily restrict their audiences to those with harvard.edu email addresses, or even to specific people—a blocking group or the board of a student organization, for example. In this way it creates what Katz refers to as a “walled garden”—a safe place amidst a sea of unfriendly or unwanted outsiders...
...foolish to relax their guard: we’ve already seen that corporate recruiters use the Facebook as a tool for evaluating potential candidates. There’s little reason to believe that the journalists of the future won’t find a way to get at past blog posts in the same...
...fair, CampusTap offers some intriguing community-building features independent of its “walled garden” structure. “Tags,” short one or two word phrases about the content of a particular blog posts, are aggregated onto a page called “Campus Chatter” so that readers can get a visual feel for what issues or people are hot topics of discussion. Blogs come with calendars attached so that student groups can use them to advertise events or meetings, and calendars for all the blogs you read regularly can be viewed...
...user clicks through a website. "When someone types in the words schools or Oprah, your education plan--targeted for moms--will be right there. You're still fishing, but at least you're fishing with the right bait." Candidates will also infiltrate every trusted message board and blog that they possibly can. "That's just a given," says Trippi...