The 2010 Social Networking Map http:/
Voted for "Crunchnoisy Origins" in the Opening Round of the 2015 #GoodreadsChoice Awards https:/
Voted for "How to Bake Pi" by @DrEugeniaCheng in the Opening Round of 2015 #GoodreadsChoice Awards https:/
Voted for "Mathematics Without Apologies" in the Opening Round of the 2015 #GoodreadsChoice Awards https:/
I Voted for "Why Information Grows" by @cesifoti in the Opening Round of the 2015 #GoodreadsChoice Awards https:/
Voted for "A Fatal Family Secret" in the Opening Round of the 2015 #GoodreadsChoice Awards https:/
social bankruptcy: Condition of being so overwhelmed by social media that only solution is to close all accounts http:/
True Geek Cred: You can now read my social stream "blog" the way everything was truly meant to be read http:/
I have to wonder at the horrible inefficiency of the social media strategy of the @ALifeXV enterprise.
Why do they register and set up a new twitter and facebook account every year and then spend the time refollowing people (and hoping that they're followed back again to rebuild what should be a continuing and built in audience)? Why not just have a relatively generic twitter handle, and just change the display name every year? Then their presumably returning audience will already be following them? The engagement on the user's part will have to be much better as a result as well. Surely staff time would be better spent doing this. There's also the question of how smart their conference must be if their social media strategy is so primitive. Do they know they could also swap @twitter handles on successive accounts if they really wanted to go that route?
What happens if I decide to register the twitter accounts @alifeXVI, @alife16, etc. well in advance of the next conference? This is a total social media fail.
Admittedly @14thALIFE had such a paltry existence, perhaps starting from scratch wasn't too bad an idea, but let's please be thinking about what is going to happen next year...
I like what you've done with the final product and have always thought about doing something similar myself, particularly after I saw what Martin Fenner (https:/
Another thing I've been playing around with lately has been some tools/toys at http:/
A large part of their philosophy is to own one's own data and then syndicate it out to other social media/external site, but some of their infrastructure allows one to easily make posts on one's own page which then act as replies on another's site. This is particularly interesting from the viewpoint of teaching wherein students and professors can interact with each other, but still have/own all of their individual work. (Incidentally, it also makes for using one's own site as a commonplace book of sorts, which I often find valuable.)
As an exmple, you'll notice on the post on my blog http:/
I've been doing something similar myself, particularly given the number of social media outlets to which one can publish. To solve part of the problem, I've been attempting to utilize the tenets of the Indie Web (http:/
I find it hard to believe, particularly if you're in financial need, that you'd have a full ride at UT and not have been offered anything at JHU, so double check with the JHU office of financial aid first to see what, if anything, you'd be offered.
More than anything I'd recommend at least visiting both campuses in person and taking a tour and speaking to some students and professors. Asking a question here like you have with only the three data points (two schools and one financial aid package) is not nearly enough to go on for anyone to presume to help you make one of the most influential decisions you're going to make in your life - particularly when the advice is likely to be a terrifically biased and spurious and you're unlikely to delve into the nature of the responses you're getting.
In some sense, you're comparing apples and oranges. A couple of questions you should ask, however, above and beyond the simple ranking portion of the question which most are focusing on in their answers (while the remainder seem to be a bit more biased based on their personal experiences) include:
What are the campus environments like?
How big are the schools and what kind of attention and resources will I have access to?
How big are the cities they're in and what do they offer as part of the undergraduate experience?
What happens after one or two years if you decide to change your major?
Other than the end result of the degree, what do you want out of a college experience?
Are you looking for more diversity or less in terms of culture, religion, etc.?
What are your other interests outside of academics and are those interests actively represented or possible at the school you want to attend? (As an example, are you a musician and want to take classes or have practice time at a college's sister conservatory - perhaps you could get a dual degree? or are there a variety of other music outlets available like bands, symphonies, orchestras, music groups, etc.?)
UT is a humongous place, while Hopkins is significantly smaller, so at UT you're much more likely to be treated like just another number, even within the electrical engineering department. At Hopkins your classes are guaranteed to be much smaller and more intimate which gives you far more access to your professors - particularly when you may need recommendations down the road.
Statistically, if you're planning on going to graduate school, you'll have far more resources for doing research as an undergraduate at Hopkins, which will give you more preparation and a stronger case when you apply. Hopkins excels in undergraduate research experience in part because of its philosophy but also because it gets almost twice the government funding than even the next closest competitor. Additional resources like the proximity of the Applied Physics Lab and the Space Telescope Science Institute (which managed projects like the Hubble Telescope) will give you additional opportunities related to your field while you're in school.
If you do want to play the simple ranking game, keep in mind that only about a third of your course work as an undergraduate will be in the EE department. How highly ranked are all the other programs and departments like mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, English, and others from which the remainder of your coursework will come? Again, what will things look like if you decide to change major part way through?
[Disclosure: I'm an alum of Johns Hopkins class of 1996 with degrees in both biomedical engineering and electrical engineering. I've been both very active on the Hopkins Society of Engineering Alumni board as well as the board that oversees the University's larger Alumni Association. I'm happy to give you more information about Hopkins, and can be easily found via a variety of social media outlets.]
Some brief thoughts for a scientific link blog for @wbialek
If you're going to invest the time to collect interesting papers for yourself, a group, or even for the broader public, take a few minutes to think about how to not only most easily collect, but to curate them, make them searchable, and thus make them useful in a longer and broader context.
Depending on your needs and interests, I'd recommend building a link blog on a free broad platform like Wordpress that will let you save the title of the article, the URL, a short synopsis, and then tag it with metadata (categories like physics, chemistry, biology, math, etc. or sub-specific tags like information theory, statistical thermodynamics, etc.), and then broadcast it to various social media sites like Twitter, Google+, and others.
Other options with similar functionality to consider are:
WithKnown https:/
example: http:/
Radio3: http:/
example:http:/
Mendeley: https:/
Given the value I think I'd personally get out of you doing something like this, I'm happy to volunteer some time to build, set up, and simplify the process for you. I'm pretty sure that with a minimum of work, you could have a simple bookmarklet on your webbrowser that would easily allow you to "clip" the article you want, add any quick bits of metadata or tags, and then automatically publish it to one or more of your social media sites automatically, keeping the work to doing it well under a minute while allowing you to easily come back and search, sort, and filter later if you choose.
Updating @WithKnown Past 0.7.7 and Keeping Social Media Integration http:/
Though I like the concept of Convoy, I'm a bit taken aback that I'd spent a significant amount of time configuring all the API's for posting to half a dozen social networks and upon upgrading from Withknown 0.7.5 to 0.7.7.1 all of my previous configuration work has completely disappeared as have all the settings for allowing me to do so.
Where did all the other configuration settings go?! Having them all disappear to be replaced by a paid service would seem to run counter to open source...
Am I missing something here?