Tag Archives: Chancellor's Choice

Chancellor’s Choice: Keynes vs. Hayek

By Lee Aase | Published: May 10, 2011
This has got to be the best thing to come out of George Mason University since 2006, when the Patriots made the NCAA basketball Final Four. It’s a fantastic example of how a creative video can make a dry topic (economics is called “the dismal science” after all) vibrant and interesting. This one definitely gets [...]
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Chancellor’s Choice Award: Flip Video Camera

By Lee Aase | Published: April 10, 2009
This award will be no surprise to long-term SMUGgles (especially those who have completed Blogging 130), but the Chancellor’s Choice award for low-cost video cameras goes to: The Flip. Among its Advantages: Strong video quality, particularly in relatively low-light conditions.  Speed. Using a camera with miniDV or other tape, you have to play the tape to [...]
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Chancellor’s Choice Award: Tweetie

By Lee Aase | Published: April 7, 2009
The SMUG Chancellor’s Choice Award is presented occasionally to social media tools that aren’t free but are good values, as judged by the SMUG Chancellor in his sole discretion. The first category to be presented is Twitter Clients for iPhone, and honorable mention goes to: Twittelator Pro I had previously used Twitterific and the free version of [...]
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Chancellor’s Choice Award: iPhone 3G

By Lee Aase | Published: April 6, 2009
This won’t be a surprise to anyone, but the first Chancellor’s Choice award, in the category of Smart Phones, goes to the Apple iPhone 3G. I formerly used a Blackberry (and liked it), but was blown away by the iPhone. And since at least one of the future Chancellor’s Choice winners is an iPhone application, I [...]
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Announcing the Chancellor’s Choice Awards

By Lee Aase | Published: April 6, 2009
One of my basic approaches to social media is to maximize what can be done for free. I do this partly to prove a point; to eliminate excuses by showing how much you can do without spending a penny (and without requiring the support of IT). And of course the other reason is: I’m cheap. [...]
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