George Chriss used to film public University Park Undergraduate Association and Daily Collegian meetings when he was at Penn State. He first got involved with open video during his time here. Now he is the founder and heart-and-soul of OpenMeetings.org, a website that hosts films of public meetings from around the country.
The larger concept of open video has become a new phenomenon about making video production and creation more accessible to everyone, essentially bringing video as a medium more into the forefront and having it become a more natural tool we can use to express ourselves. As we can write an essay or speech without thinking twice, we would be able to create a video with this kind of ease. Chriss was kind enough to share his thoughts and experiences with us in our latest 10 Questions piece, which is after the jump.
Google posted a offer to college students a few days ago, saying that they would receive Google Voice invitations within 24 hours. All you need is a .edu email address.
Google Voice offers features like voicemail transcriptions to your inbox and free text messaging and claims that it can be used as "one number for life."
Google Voice is best thought of as a lightweight operator for your own personal telephone exchange. Once you've set it up and created a new phone number, you can basically tell the system to direct calls to your various phone numbers (home, work, cell) depending on when they are placed and who they are from.
How do you like your eggs at Penn State? Scrambled? In an omelet? Fertilized? How about full of animal cruelty? According to Cage-Free Penn State,
Penn State University's Dining Services currently buys eggs from cruel "battery cage" egg farms - massive warehouses where hens are confined to cages so small they cannot spread their wings and can barely turn around. They often live among the feces and waste of other birds, and their feathers are torn off from constantly rubbing against the cage bars.
Two good tidings of great joy for Penn State basketball fans in one post?! Crazy and unprecedented, but it is the case today.
First, it was announced that the Lions have added recruit Johnathan Graham, a 6'8 power forward out of Baltimore. The Nittany Lions needed someone to fill the paint, and while Graham might not the cream of the recruiting crop, he's certainly no slouch. Rated a 3-star recruit by Rivals.com and given a grade of 86 by ESPN, he averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds as a senior at Calvert Hall High School and graduated as the school's second-leading scorer at 1,670 points. With a year of watching the trio of Brooks, Jackson, and Jones (and learning from every one of their mistakes), Graham will hopefully develop into a strong player during his time in Happy Valley.
Find out some details about Penn State's upcoming home game against Maryland after the jump.
Penn State commencement weekend can be described as many things: sad, happy, exciting, or quite possibly embarrassing depending on your parents. No matter what, though, it is certainly busy. We've put together this handy-dandy list of individual college graduation times, places, and speakers so you know what's up.
Find out what's going on where after the jump.
The Republican National Committee fired its top two financial officers last Friday, the higher of whom, Rob Bickhart, happened to graduate from Penn State in 1978. The reasons cited in asking for Bickhart and his deputy's resignations were, according to RNC Chief of Staff Michael Leavitt, "to improve on strong fundraising numbers" and to "help to provide the resources for defeating Democrats across the country."
More on why Bickhart was fired after the jump.