Joyce fell. I only met her a few weeks ago and I already knew we’d still be talking five, ten years down the road. With some people you just know. Unfortunatly two days after she asked me “how do I get to the Sierras?”… and I proceded to tell her only to then say, “Oh...
During the first week of August I had the distinct pleasure of attending the AEJMC convention held in San Francisco, California this year.AEJMC, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is a non-profit organization aimed at J-School educators, administrators, their students and media professionals. Founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1912, the non-profit has...
(I was looking through some of my unpublished articals and it looks like I forgot to publish this one… it’s been a few months… it was supposed to go up June 3) Looks like I won’t be traveling with famed New York Times columnist Nick Kristof to Africa anytime. On a positive note, I didn’t...
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Adobe has been rumbling about RAW again. As I pointed out… way back when… Adobe looked to be answering Apple’s challenge of Aperture with LightRoom. (Oh no, I see a soapbox! Why didn’t Adobe call it LightTable? Doesn’t that make more sense? It’s an editing program and where did we edit our takes in the...
While I was away from SLR, one of the things that was keeping me busy was serving as Online/Multimedia Editor for The Spartan Daily. Among the new things I worked toward implementing, one of my proudest moments was the implementation of multimedia and the new multimedia section. But enough about me, let’s take a look...
Happened to be purusing by Daniel Sato’s blog and to my surprise, fellow photographer and San Jose State University student Diana Diroy has decided to start up a blog of her own. She’s off in the Philippines working on a documentary project, and in the process is reconnecting with her cultural roots. Along the way...
If it wasn’t obvious before, now it should be without a doubt. Wikipedia isn’t a source of research, at least not as the end all authoritative voice. During a speech at the University of Pennsylvania back in June, Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, warned students against using the online encyclopedia as an academic source for class...