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Twitpic Changes TOS, Claims Copyright on Your Images
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
The popular Twitter photo sharing tool Twitpic recently updated their Terms of Service, and with the change in language, it now seems that they are claiming copyright license on all images uploaded to the service.
Here’s an excerpt of the changed terms:
. . . by submitting Content to Twitpic, you hereby grant Twitpic a worldwide, [...]
April Fool’s Day in Higher-Ed
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Ah, April 1st – the day that higher-ed loves to turn institutional homepages into a creative canvas of jokes and tricks. Here’s what I’ve found so far this year – I’ll try to keep this list updated throughout the day!
Marywood University – Scranton, PA
Squirrel takeover
University of Rochester – Rochester, NY
Back to 1996
Bryn Mawr College [...]
Three Years of Facebook Forgery
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Update – 12/8/10, 9:45 PM – According to a new post on the New York Times Choice Blog, many of the deceptive RoomSurf initiated groups have added language to identify their affiliation with the company. In addition, the fake profile of Justin Blackwell appears to have been removed.
We’re now entering our third admission cycle with [...]
The Value of Stories
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Only a few short comments here before I pass you off to Georgy Cohen’s thoughts on this subject. Her post came about after a recent episode of Higher Ed Live where a number of us, in higher ed marketing and communications, chimed in on the Twitter backchannel.
In particular, I believe these few sentences by Georgy [...]
A Video I Love and Why: The Machine is Us/ing Us
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
After reading through Tim, Andrew and Todd’s posts on this subject, I felt compelled to jump in too.
The video I love is The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch, professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. And if I had to pick a second video, it would be Information R/evolution also by Wesch.
It’s over [...]