Waterloo, Part 4: Keeping Up
A lot of people have asked how it is I keep up with everything going on at UW. My response is that actually I only keep up with less than one percent of what goes on, and doing so actually takes a fair effort.
I get my information several ways. People telling me, looking at posters on campus (sadly, lots of things are only available in this form), and many online sources. Most of these I won’t be reading much longer. My list is of coursed biased towards my interests and my program.
From the web, I get a lot in my newsreader, a few things through my calendar program, a number of things through email newsletters, and an increasing number of things through Facebook groups. In that order,
Sites in my newsreader at the moment (I have added and removed many over the last five years), grouped but not specifically ordered.
general UW news
- The Daily Bulletin is the single best source of news at UW. It also isn’t going away, Chris has been editing it since 1993. Although it has an RSS feed today, it is unfortunately still published newspaper-style, making it slightly difficult to read over quickly.
- @UW is a recent UW blog
- Federation of Students
- fedsPULSE - Events Feed
- http://pulse.feds.ca/news/feed
- Imprint, the student newspaper, at least publishes most (but not all) online. It is also annoying to get flooded with all the news stories at once, but that’s what you get with classic publishing
- news @ your library
- One Waterloo Campaign
- quadspot » waterloo » all categories - this has about as much spam as content, and is mostly useless
- Render - UW art gallery
- smARTS is Arts student life stuff, but the RSS feed is basically empty
- University of Waterloo News Releases - reading this is a combination of learning things and seeing how silly PR is (but that is a story for another day)
- UW Community -livejournal - practically the only general student forum anyone uses; quite useful
- UW Diversity Awareness Campaign - not sure if this is over or coming back next year
- Engineers Without Borders - University of Waterloo
- Grand House Blog - about the sustainable coop for some students in architecture. not sure if the blog is still being updated
- News and events, Faculty of Environmental Studies
- UW Opinion was intended as a replacement to letters to the editor in the old UW Gazette. not used much, but still useful
- UW Warrior Weekends
- UWENet News - probably dead now, a UW green blog
- uwstudent.org News - old student blog, essentially dead
- What’s New at Graphics
- Waterloo Environment and Business Students
- Google Video - Video Search ["university of waterloo" | uwaterloo
- del.icio.us/tag/universityofwaterloo
- Coop Rankings :: Latest News is mostly dead
- Coop Rankings :: UW News also mostly dead
tech stuff and tech people
- UW IST Special Projects Group - people working on the new Jobmine system
- Chopsticker
- Communitech Blog
- Gary Will
- King Gary
- Mind of a Young Undergrad Entrepreneur
- Paul Butler.org
- terrill.ca
- User Experience Group of Waterloo Region
- WatStart
- WatStart Wiki - RecentChanges
waterloo-area stuff
- KW Now - Events
- Live Maps: Explore collections around UW
- Idealist.org - Nonprofit Organizations in Waterloo
- Topix: Waterloo Forum
- Flickr: Waterloo Park Photo Pool
other people, misc
Calendars (note links are directly to icalendar files)
- smARTS from Arts student life, except it seems the icalendar file no longer gets updated?
- UW Engineers Without Borders
- fedsPULSE
- UW Events, although the icalendar file is broken and can’t be subscribed to now. UW Events is theoretically the unified university calendar, but it needs an advocat for this to actually happen.
- Eventful
- Upcoming.org
mailing lists
- UW Community Garden
- WPIRG Announce
- Upper-year student life
- Science Society
- Science General
- FedNews
- UW Weather Station
- UWWD (web design club)
- UWWD Executive (not for everyone of course, but I am on the executive)
- BarCampWaterloo
- Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre
- The Loop is for local arts and entertainment
- Princess Twin
- the UW Food Issues Group doesn’t have a real mailing list, you probably just need to ask the owner to get added
Facebook Groups; some of these are essentially inactive, others send frequent mail
general
- UW Daily Bulletin
- UW needs a positive space Campaign
- PULSE.FEDS.CA - UW’s FedsPulse
- @UW - News for the University of Waterloo community
- Not only am I voting Feb 12-14, I’m voting Naked! Again!
- I Support CKMS
- Campus Crusade for Cheese
tech
- BarCampWaterloo
- User Experience Group of Waterloo Region
- Web Clinic
- UW Website Designers
- Open-Source Waterloo
- Podcast My Damn Lectures
- Students Who Hate JobMine
science
- UW Science Society
- Mr. Scientist
- BUGS
- I Love the Science CnD
- Science and Business Students Association (formerly known as SCRUBS)
- WATROX
environment, volunteer, etc
- Improving UW Recycling … 2007/08 and onwards
- I support an Office of Sustainability at UW
- Laurel Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
- Petition to GROW (Green Roofs Over Waterloo)
- University of Waterloo Sustainability Project (UWSP)
- R3Design
- Ready to Act
- Student Refugee Program
- Waterloo Mayor’s Student Advisory Council
- Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG)
entertainment, misc