This week president Gilmour discussed how the potential budget reductions to Wayne State would impact the university (video (opens new window)). He talked a lot about customer experience, reducing redundancy and working at doing our best work.

The links this week play to all of these values. Hope you enjoy.

• Exclusive interview with Seth Godin (opens new window)
• Conquering the new Facebook wall (opens new window)
• Tick Tock: what would you do if you had five minutes to live? (opens new window)
• Four Aesthetically Pleasing University Facebook Pages
• Podcast: The New York Times Joins Colleges to Create Online Courses (opens new window)
• 'The Student Poverty Song' (opens new window)
• How Recent Changes to Twitter's Terms of Service Might Hurt Academic Research (opens new window)
• Lake Superior Ice Wall (opens new window)
• Traffic Sign FAIL (opens new window)
• MailStore Home Is the Easiest Email Backup Tool We've Seen [Downloads] (opens new window)
• Flow Brings All of Facebook's Missing Features to Android [Downloads] (opens new window)
• Keep Glass from Fogging Up with a Bit of Shaving Cream [MacGyver Tip] (opens new window)
• How to Dramatically Speed Up Your Web Application - An Introduction to memcached (opens new window)
• CodeIgniter Sparks | The Package Manager and Repository (opens new window)
• Customer service on Twitter (opens new window)
• Call to Action Buttons Best Practices Guide - UX Movement (opens new window)
• Awesome HTML5 Dashboard
• iOS UI Patterns (beta) (opens new window)
• Scaling A JavaScript Codebase (opens new window)
• Tempo :: The tiny JSON rendering engine by TwigKit (opens new window)
• VIDEO: Above: Dave Gray talks to Jason about design… (opens new window)
• How an Illinois rest stop inspired a web page (opens new window)
• jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released (opens new window)
• College Students on the Web (opens new window)
• Folders vs Subdomains vs ccTLD in International SEO - An Overview (opens new window)
• Why restaurant websites are so bad (opens new window)
• Introducing Student Affairs Live with Eric Stoller (opens new window)
• A WikiLeaks Clone Takes On Higher Education (opens new window)
• Reed College Seeks to Stop Copycat Web Site (opens new window)
• Instagram Desktop Version, Built with the API (opens new window)
• HTML5 Validator extension updates (opens new window)
• Google Changes Algorithm to Punish Content Farms (opens new window)
• Sans-Serif (opens new window)
• Chiclets Are Not a Communication Strategy (opens new window)
• A linchpin hierarchy (opens new window)