What I'm Really Learning From College

For the 9 people still tracking this old blog - I work for Netscape now.

Here are a few news articles about it.

Still working for U Weekly over the summer, Buckeye TV is shut down for the summer, and I'll be spending another year at the lovely Ohio State University.

Remember, this isn't the place to come for updates on me though, I'm just telling you because people seem to still visit this site. Look for me on Cowtown and Newsvine column, instead.

Update those links and bookmarks, kids, Cowtown is now available at:


http://uweekly.com/cowtown


Also, followup on the post below: Farva is working on a way so all three of you Mac users out there can watch the live Buckeye TV stream on Quicktime.

An issue I keep revisiting at my newly appointed post as VP of Programming at Buckeye TV is 'how can we expand our audience.' Granted the size of our current audience is one of the largest campuses in America - plus every room in our award-winning hospital system - which is really nothing at all to sniff at... but there is such a bigger market to tap.

One major step our station took towards this goal was establishing an Internet2 connection with other universities - which in turn allowed us to become one of the pioneering members of the Open Student Television Network - which is a 24/7 consortium of 100% student produced content. Member stations range from Akron to Harvard, and everywhere in between. But I didn't write this post to toot our horn on OSTN (okay well maybe a little, the guys at our station have worked really hard to make it happen).

As of 11.04pm tonight, I am happy to report that anyone with a broadband connection to the interweb can once again receive a real-time feed of our station, any time - day or night. All thanks to our VP of Operations and IT guy - whom we affectionately call Farva.

We used to offer this stream before, but the server it was on could not really handle the task when many users were logged on. Tonight, Farva installed a new server and reconfigured the way the video stream is accessed, so we shouldn't run into this problem again. There are still some little glitches to be ironed out, but nothing you will really notice in the meantime.

The stream can be accessed from Buckeye TV's website or directly at mms://buckitv.osu.edu/btvwebstream

Mac users - sorry, you need Windows Media Player. Our station is hopelessly shackled to Windows. We have one Mac and it almost got thrown into the Olentangy River today by our software developer.

Hey, hey, hey Corey fans! The new UWeekly blog - Livin' in Cowtown - goes public this Wednesday. It's going to be geared primarily for the same demographic as our UWeekly readers - 18-24ish college folks around Columbus. For the most part - that's you guys! It should be pretty entertaining and engaging particularly if you live/have lived in Columbus. My first article is about the USG (undergraduate student government) and might raise a few eyebrows ;)

For my readers, I will post the link to Cowtown in this space tomorrow night, before UWeekly hits the stands on Wednesday (the USG article will also be in the print edition, I believe). I'm doing this because I know I have many readers here who had best follow my antics from this spot to that one ;)


Check back tomorrow!

The first time I ever had an "ah ha" moment that I might actually be a good journalist was when Michel Gondry, the award-winning director of Eternal Sunshine and Dave Chappelle's Block Party, personally invited to watch a screening of one of his films with him and a couple of my co-workers, after having a good interview with Dave Chappelle. Long story short - we ended up not being able to see it because the film couldn't be flown to Ohio in time.

Yeah, that's a very cool and surreal experience. A decidedly uncool experience, however, was when I really realized that I might be good:

People start copying me.

Unlike my last post, where a 'rival' paper was late to the punch on a story I already wrote on, this case was a 'Corey Spring copy-paste' from the article I wrote at Newsvine.

Some say it's a nice compliment, but honestly, I don't think I've ever had a compliment that has pissed me off more. Comments are turned off on this one, because I don't think there is anymore to be said that wasn't said in the article and discussion here.

I was on The Lantern's website at work this morning, and came across this article:

Film displays plight of Ugandan children - Campus

You'll also find it on the front page of today's issue. It's a nice article that chronicles the journeys of several young filmmakers as they delve into Uganda and gain a firsthand look at the injustices many Ugandan children face and heartbreaking situations they are forced into. It's quite a touching article, really.

I liked it the first time, though, when I wrote it over 6 weeks ago for UWeekly.

Invisible Children: Finding a story to change the world - UWeekly - March 1st

Looks like they are a little late to the punch on this one - another fine example of The Lantern and the non-accredited journalism program at Thee Ohio State University.