Juicy Campus

March 6th, 2008

For the past few months I have been following the exploits over at Juicy Campus and more recently some of the reaction to it. If you haven’t read Juicy Campus, it is a little bit like Twitter for the lascivious college set (that actually sounds a little more thrilling than it actually is). I am not quite sure what to make of JC as we all move closer and closer to bringing more open web apps into our dot edu spaces: see the new University of Maryland homepage, which grants a chunk of real estate to You Tube, iTunes, etc. I think that is a good thing for sure, but where does the line exist between those community apps and Juicy Campus or Rate My Professors? I suspect we mostly have enough common sense to draw that line on our own.

There was quite a bit of talk over controlling message in dot edu spaces at last summer’s conference. The overwhelming theme at the conference was to open up dot edu to these more open web apps, but I fear that web-based petrie dishes like Juicy Campus will further crystallize that fear we see in the eyes of communications directors and admissions officers when we talk about opening our web presence.

So, yikes. What do you all think?

Ted Simpson
March Guest Blogger

Director, Technologist, Dragoman & Project Manager
Maryland Institute College of Art
tsimpson@mica.edu

Entry Filed under: eduWeb Conference, Web 2.0, Open Web Apps, YouTube, iTunes, New Media, Community Apps