By Chris Gagne
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April 2, 2007
StudentofFortune.com made front-page news in today’s issue of USC’s Daily Trojan newspaper.
A brief snippet:
Website offers homework help - at a price
Users place bids to answer questions at Student of Fortune. Some say services border on cheating.
Auction websites have been known to offer everything from designer bags to alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary on a [...]
By Chris Gagne
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March 31, 2007
From the site:
The Geek Dinners are a monthly gathers of Internet technology lovers in Los Angeles. We are loosely affiliated with BarCamp - because many of us met there. Anyone who has an interest and passion for technology, the internet, internet technologies, software or you just know you’re a geek is welcome. Come play with [...]
By Chris Gagne
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March 30, 2007
If you’re a technology person, you need BarCamp. And, if you’re a technology person in LA, then you need BarCampLA. It’s that simple.
Allow me to break it down.
BarCamp is a bi-annual gathering of the coolest geeks you’ll ever meet. It’s free to attend, but if you attend, you’re also expected to present. And present we [...]
By Chris Gagne
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March 25, 2007
Studentoffortune.com was mentioned in this article for it’s role in providing students with homework answers.
From the article:
Young people today are simply too far ahead of anything schools might do to curb their recycling efforts. Beyond simply selling used term papers online, Web sites such as StudentofFortune.com allow students to post specific questions and pay for [...]
By Chris Gagne
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January 11, 2007
If you’re not aware of what this organization does, please take the time to look at their website and videos at http://wheelchairfoundation.org.
I first heard about the Wheelchair Foundation about 6 months ago at a Rotaract convention here in LA. I saw a brief video of theirs that literally moved me to tears. Since then, Rotaract [...]
By Chris Gagne
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December 17, 2006
Take a look at open-source software. It’s collaborative, usually high-quality, and responsive to people’s wants and needs. Apache and Linux, for instance, are two prime examples of how people coming together can do quite a bit in the world, even if in a limited way.
Other fields of pursuit have an opportunity to capitalize the lessons [...]
By Chris Gagne
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December 16, 2006
I’m now forwarding the original email address to a black hole. Moving on…
By Chris Gagne
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December 8, 2006
As an exercise in intestinal fortitude, listen to as much of this following audio file as you can:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0HyxQv97Q&eurl=
Verizon offers a cellular data product priced at $0.002 per kilobyte (two-tenths of one cent). However, when a Verizon rep quoted a price to a customer, they quoted the price as “0.002 cents”, or two-thousanths of one cent. [...]
By Chris Gagne
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December 8, 2006
No response from eMusic yet.
By Chris Gagne
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December 4, 2006
I called eMusic today and had a chance to speak with one of their support folks. They were surprised that the email I forwarded them on Thursday didn’t get through - but in retrospect, it was probably caught by their junk mail filters. I’ve forwarded the spam to the support person directly, and they promised [...]