Comments on: Campus Reader Aggregates College News

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » DormItem: Regional College Classifieds in Rails

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:37:55 +0000

[...] At launch today DormItem is available for Boston area colleges, Babson, schools in NYC and Atlanta. This project could do well, I think it will appeal to a lot of students and possibly colleges as well. If college oriented services are of interest, see also our write up of CampusReader, an aggregator of college newspapers by region. DormItem Sphere It [...]

By: Pubblico da Flock « Oplà

Pubblico da Flock « Oplà — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:27:07 +0000

By: Innovation in College Media » Blog Archive » CampusReader: only a matter of time

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:38:59 +0000

[...] As TechCrunch’s Marshall Kirkpatrick noted, it was only a matter of time before someone put together free RSS feeds from college news organizations in a news aggregation site. And so they did: Campus Reader, rather brazenly branding itself as “America’s College Newspaper.” [...]

By: blinkin8s

blinkin8s — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:12:24 +0000

neat, my editor noticed it before i came across this article…i think its a cool idea, not sure how much it will help a mid-sized school paper like mine, but still cool.

now just to devise a master plan to put college publisher out of business and i’ll be happy with the online college newspaper world! haha…

By: TechCrunch en français » Recap2.0: les autres billets de la semaine de TechCrunch.com

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:50:14 +0000

[...] Campus Reader: un portail social vertical pour les étudiants (lire le billet) [...]

By: elvirs

elvirs — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:52:29 +0000

early this year we had a project to make sth similar for our university. the aim was to set up an automatical system that imports feeds of different departments,student clubs etc. and displays it on the main page under different categories. Also we were going to use user interaction for tagging and rating so that every type of person (academician,student,staff) gets the most relevant content. it was going to be kinda mix of digg and techmeme. but we faced a problem of explaining departments how to set up a feed for their news. and the project failed:( sometimes it is very hard to find some one who undersands the language you speak:(

By: Carly L.

Carly L. — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:37:46 +0000

Not as fancy as some of the other sites, but looks like it’s up and coming and also into the college scene: http://www.IntelliGrad.com

By: cg

cg — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:22:31 +0000

this site is terrible. not only did it detect me at a university over 500 miles away from where I live (and BTW I live less than 2 miles from one of the 3 largest universities in the entire nation) I couldn’t even figure out how to change schools. it took me 20 minutes. AJAX experience here was unenviable at best. Pretty good idea, but this site needs a serious overhaul…

By: Eric Eldon

Eric Eldon — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:03:00 +0000

There is a news aggregator site for Canada, at http://www.cup.ca. It doesn’t have the same features as Campus Reader, though.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:21:37 +0000

This is a great idea. I hope they expand to Canadian campuses (not alot) but would be useful.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Campus Reader、カレッジニュースをアグリゲート

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Campus Reader、カレッジニュースをアグリゲート — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:06:38 +0000

[...] [原文へ] Campus Reader [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:44:45 +0000

I get a redirect to a Flash detection page (I’m running Flash 9). It’s a great idea, but the site needs to degrade more gracefully.

By: paulieg

paulieg — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:04:02 +0000

What are the legal issues with aggregation sites? Copyright issues? Is there a good article on the subject of what’s legal and what is not?

By: startupwatcher

startupwatcher — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:39:11 +0000

don’t forget that http://popurls.com was the first to make all that aggregation stuff really popular

By: NeoTechie

NeoTechie — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:34:52 +0000

Wow! I wish I had this sit when I was in college. Back in my days, we had
Web 1.0 apps.

The audience this site is targeting will only get more and more attention.

Why have they not been targeted earlier? Will we see more web 2.0 apps targeting college students?

By: Robster

Robster — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:25:59 +0000

“adding a stop at College Reader to the daily routine”

It’s Campus Reader

By: James Patrick Gibson

James Patrick Gibson — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:15:27 +0000

Adam, we just found out your site today, and are very excited about what you are doing. My staff and I, became the first college newspaper in the nation to abandon print and go online only. It’s been making some waves around the internet. Even Romanesko from Poynter linked us in his blog last week. I think what you and your staff are doing is going to very much increase readership and intererest in college media.

We’re very excited about it.

http://www.thecampuslantern.com

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:05:36 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the comments, and a special thanks to TechCrunch for the write-up.

#1 Jitendra - We agree! One of our biggest goals is to increase the exposure (and by extension revenue) of college newspapers. So far, only one major university has disagreed with us. I’m glad that someone from the outside looking in can see and understand what our aim is. Thank you!

Feel free to contact me with any questions about the site or anything else. adam@campusreader.com

-Adam

By: kloey

kloey — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:03:20 +0000

We’ve all been using the beta version of threz news for a while here, and I must say its pretty impressive.
It basically fetches/filters all your feeds into tags so theres just one stream to look at.

http://www.threz.com/news

By: qloc

qloc — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:00:56 +0000

We’ve all been using the beta version of threz news for a while here, and I must say its pretty impressive.

By: Jonathan Mendez

Jonathan Mendez — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:51:39 +0000

It took 12 seconds for the page to load and it had my geo wrong. Guess no one thought about page load times when they were talking about how cool the site would be.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:50:21 +0000

#6 patricia…

it’s not that the college news is what you care about.. it’s the local ads for the newspapers.. some colleges like utaustin are beasts when it comes to local college newspaper advertisements!!!!

By: Patricia

Patricia — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:45:48 +0000

I had no idea anybody really cared about college news. Very cool.

By: Drew Olanoff

Drew Olanoff — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:44:26 +0000

Definitely one to keep an eye on.

By: vik

vik — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:41:25 +0000

That is very possible, Marshall. I’ve be complimented on copious occasions in the past on my clicking style. The way I click is quite unique, indeed!