I’m a blogger, but this isn’t really where I do it. I do much of my writing at HackCollege and a little freelancing in other places. So, this is mostly self-promotion stuff like a resume or something.
Predict a Hottie’s Digits
July 22, 2010 - Leave a Response
I’m on today’s Scam School with Brian Brushwood! If you really stalk me a lot, you’ll notice that this is the same exact ruse I wrote up in Wired about a year ago.
Featured on LMU.edu!
April 28, 2010 - Leave a Response
My alma mater, Loyola Marmount University, featured some of my work in web video on their homepage! Check out that sexy picture! An excerpt:
[Chris Lesinski says] that the whole-person education at LMU made it possible for him to apply his knowledge to every platform — digital or analog. “Whether I’m shooting a video for web or writing for an old-fashioned magazine or newspaper, LMU taught me the storytelling principles that make it all work,” he says.
Awwww… “eduction of the whole person.”
You can read the whole feature at LMU.edu.
Mentioned on Diggnation
November 9, 2009 - Leave a Response
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article that poured one out for GeoCities, the ancient network of websites that Yahoo axed after buying it for way too much money. The article, “Goodbye GeoCities: 7 Retro Things We’ll Miss Forever,” hit the Digg front page and top in all topics with over 1400 Diggs.
But more importantly, it earned a spot on last week’s episode of Diggnation (skip the intro, it’s the second segment above… or follow this link). That’s right. Being mentioned on an actual television show every week isn’t enough — I’d like to be mentioned by two drunk guys on a couch in a web show instead.
It’s been a goal of mine for about 3 years to get an article on Diggnation. Check that one off the list.
My TV Debut
October 23, 2009 - Leave a Response
One day a few weeks ago, Daniel asked me if I wanted to shave my head. Of course, I did it. Who wouldn’t want their head shaven? Pretty soon, everyone else in the office was shaving their head, too. It was all good fun. Until we were walking down the street one day and…
Quoted in eCampus News
July 28, 2009 - Leave a Response
Open universities offer students a shot at learning for free and the freedom of doing so remotely. It’s a really cool movement in education. eCampus News just did a feature on the subject and I was lucky enough to be one of their sources. Here’s the pertinent chunk so you don’t have to register on their goofy site:
Chris Lesinski, a blogger who tracks education technology trends, credited institutions like MIT and Stanford University for making lectures available online for anyone to download and watch, but said an entire college education via the internet and without cost could remain a foreign concept for traditionalists in campuses’ Ivory Towers.
“Universities aren’t exactly forward thinking all the time,” Lesinski said. “I think it’s the main thing that holds back open universities. … There’s a technophobia there. People who are still using AOL for their eMails are the ones running the universities.”
Hot, huh?
[via eCampus News]
Researching for Tosh.0 on Comedy Central
June 30, 2009 - Leave a Response
Some how, I landed an incredible job. I get paid to browse the internet — don’t we all?
Tosh.0 is a weekly half-hour variety show hosted by Daniel Tosh that makes fun of the internet and my job is integral to that concept. I pitch the best of the web to the writer’s room and what they don’t use, I write about with my own take at the Tosh.0 blog. I also manage some of the social media presence and a lot of the video distribution.
It’s been more than a month. Here are a few of my posts so far:
Cover of The New Yorker Created on iPhone
5 Lego Fashion Trends That Never Took Off
A Dictionary Informed by the Internet
Is That How You Treat Your Mother?
A Site Dedicated to User-Submitted Street Mattresses
Tron Guy Forced to Sell Airplane
If you want more you can check out my latest posts or subscribe to a feed of my Tosh.0 contributions.
Wired – Hack a Hottie’s Digits
June 22, 2009 - Leave a Response
I have another blurb in Wired this month! It’s “How to Hack a Hottie’s Digits.” (That makes it sound way better than it is.)
Up in Wired
April 20, 2009 - Leave a Response
It’s been a long time coming — this little 1″ strip in Wired magazine — but I’m still proud. It’s hard to miss the video segments below, but here’s the original piece: How to Push a Coin Through a Table
I’m starting my own magazine. Not.
March 31, 2009 - Leave a Response
Hooray! It’s my first official LA Times Tech Blog post! It’s about how I’m starting my own magazine. Or how I could if I wanted to.
And you thought starting a blog was easy…
Why start a blog when you can start a nice, glossy print magazine? Hewlett-Packard recently launched a new service called MagCloud, which flattens the entire magazine distribution process into one website. Give HP the content in PDF form and out comes a magazine. The cost: 20 cents per page. HP handles all the printing, mailing and subscription management. Users can set the subscription price for their rag (above the base price plus postage), leaving some room for profit if they choose. Gutenberg would be proud.
