Internship Program Presentation

CenturyTel will be presenting information on its internship program to CIS and CS majors on Wednesday at 6pm in the Airway Sciences Bldg.  Dr. Berry will be providing pizza.  ALL CIS majors/minors and faculty are encouraged to attend.  CenturyTel has expressed an interest in the development of an extensive internship program and in the establishment of advanced networking labs for our program.

Put this on your calendar and come hear about this exciting opportunity.

Thats what I know, and now you know too.

Dr. Barnett

Can you digg it?

Yes, it may look like a misspelling, but it’s not. Digg.com is a wildly popular site specializing in what’s called Social Bookmarking. Social bookmarking has its roots in more traditional bookmarking that you probably already do with your browser. You find a site with an interesting tidbit or an interesting story at an online news site, you bookmark it or copy the link so you can revisit it and share it with your friends.

Digg.com and other social bookmarking sites take this one or two steps further. Social bookmarking sites store your bookmarks on the web. What does this mean to you? Well think about all the computers you interact with in the course of a day. Wouldn’t it be nice if all your bookmarks were in one place so you could use all your favorite sites and their services (without having to remember their individual addresses)? Social bookmarking allows you to do this and more.

The more part is that you can also share your bookmarks of interesting tidbits with other people. The site del.icio.us, allows social bookmarking by allowing you to store your links and then establish networks of other people’s links. As a student, you could bookmark your items, share them with group members, or even subscribe to your professor’s bookmarks. Want to know where your prof is coming from? Read what they read.

Digg.com takes this even further by allowing people to submit stories found on the web to a central site. The stories are tagged with keywords to facilitate searching. You can customize the content of your view of digg.com to feature stories on specialized topics, like technology, security, entertainment, etc. The digg.com homepage features the most popular stories submitted by users (as determined by the process of subscribers “digging” the stories). I personally use it to keep my internet news and content in one place and availible to students.

If you’d like to check out my online bookmarks at www.digg.com/users/drbarnett.

Well, thats all I know, and now you know too.

Dr. Barnett