Archive for: Google
#StopSOPA: a Reflection
The Internet got mad last Wednesday. You may have noticed that on January 18, Wikipedia and Reddit went dark and Google displayed a black rectangle over its normally...
It’s Time to Stop Learning Facts
Cell phones have changed the college experience. Students today plan parties differently, take photos differently and cheat on exams differently than their parents...
The Top 5 Companies That Hire CMC Students
With the Senior Thesis deadline just around the corner, we’re seeing more and more harrowed seniors rushing around campus in a caffeine-induced haze trying to...
Stop Wasting Time On Your Computer
Professors, other adults, and your parents probably think that you are really good at using a computer. Based on my none-too-empirical observations of most Claremont...
“Friending the Future” TEDx Conference Comes to Claremont,
Thanks to the hard work of Jason Soll, Brian Hoffstein, John-Clark Levin and their team, the Claremont Colleges became the latest addition to the TEDx intellectual committee last...
Innovation and the Silicon Valley
Crescit cum commercio civitas. Civilization prospers with commerce: indeed, it does. And our college strikes out to prepare our students to be leaders in commerce...
Castles & Moats in the Tech Business
I haven’t yet dove into the business side of tech in this column, but seeing as it’s actually a column now, I’d like to discuss a rather famous piece...
CMC’s Website Redesign: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
This piece initially ran on Kevin Burke’s personal website the day after the new cmc.edu website posted. Please note, some technical changes have been made...
What You Don’t Get About Why You Don’t Get Twitter
You’re not on Twitter. You don’t “get” Twitter. Chronicling your life in 140-character “tweets”? Nobody cares, which you realized right around the time...
Catching the Wave: A Beginner’s Guide to Surfing at the 5Cs
As a recent transfer student who grew up in a landlocked state, I really wanted to learn how to surf. In the last semester, with wetsuit on and board in hand, I’ve...
