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...ready for some unadulterated Unix fun. If lightning strikes, and Unix says your beau has been “on since” and then gives a date and time, they are still online, and the two of you can chat away to your heart’s content. Type in “talk” and their username to chat with that special someone over the Internet, AIM-style. Or if you haven’t really crossed over to the realms of “talking,” try your shot at the command...
...this semester, according to founder Kasia Cieplak-von Baldegg ’06. As it stands, there will still be a print edition, but “the big push” right now is going toward a revved-up new website, complete with blogs, merch, and web-only content. According to Cieplak-von Baldegg, readers can expect a photo shoot of boys streaking in the Quad and an “adorable” spread themed around women in science...
...possibility is that by offering to “protect” their content in this way, Harvard students who don’t want to be associated with certain opinions or viewpoints in public will be more willing to speak out. But those with presidential ambitions would still be 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...
...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...
...sealed enclave. Thanks in part to the efforts on the part of its founders to recruit pre-existing blogs and in part to their dedication to continued improvement, CampusTap seems like it will be around a little while. It’s up to us, those who will add content and contribute to the discussion that takes place surrounding it, to decide what shape, open or closed, that discussion will wind up taking...