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Educational Technology Services has operated its lecture capture service since 2001, recording about 3,000 lectures each semester. However, the service spends more than $1 million more than its budget per year, and the “students-only” webcast model would help to solve its deficit, according to deputy director Ben Hubbard.
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I met Grace Helbig in 2011. She was sitting on a raggedy couch, showing off the Reeboks her mom had bought her for her birthday. She decided that she was going to teach me how to tie my shoes, and she tugged at the laces in preparation for tying the
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Kina Grannis is living her dream. After winning a national singing contest in 2008, the singer-songwriter’s career transformed from shyly performing in Los Angeles coffee shops to producing music for more than 1 million subscribers on YouTube and touring across Europe and North America. The 29 year old’s Youtube channel
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A previous version of this article stated that Amy Lee is a sophomore. In fact, she is a junior. It’s time to slip on your favorite chunky platform shoes and partake in some vlogging vagrancy. If it’s any time to be a young, empowered public figure, it’s in the age
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Sometimes, all you feel like doing is curling up on your unmade bed — in your ratty sweatpants and with a cup of overly strong coffee — and watching YouTube clips. If this is the case, you clicked on the right blog link — especially if you enjoy feeling awesome
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You wake up with a massive hangover and hazy memories of the night before. Grabbing your computer to check your browser history, you realize … oh god, no. The video was uploaded. To YouTube. For most people, this would be the end. After all, the Internet is forever. So now,
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So you’ve been in Main Stacks for a while, your brain feels fried and all you want to do is go home and lay in bed with your laptop. You begin to scroll aimlessly through Facebook. You might start to binge-watch Game of Thrones or maybe go on YouTube to
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I had never listened to a single song by the Lonely Island until my sophomore year at UC Berkeley — no, not even “I’m on a Boat.” My roommate Gabby was the one to open my eyes — rather, my ears — to the hilarity of the band’s music. After watching a
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While users may enjoy the Twitter microblogging app’s ability to quickly and easily share nuggets of info with thousands of people, they may be just as horrified to discover what other information they are unknowingly releasing to the world, say a group of researchers affiliated with UC Berkeley.
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For those of you who have not heard of twerking — to say, those of you who fall under the elderly, Caucasian demographic — it has swept our already-sexually-promiscuous country with its motto of “shake, wobble and jiggle” in 2013. Regardless of whether the word derived from (foo)twork or twist-and-jerk,
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