We all love Tweeting about our daily lives. What we think, we what like, what we DON’T like, what thrills us and what is going on around us. Especially, if that something going on around us is BIG. The royal wedding that will be held this Friday, April 29 has put an end to that. […]

Brad Kalbfeld knows what it’s like to be a journalist. He has been doing it for more than 36 years. Three weeks ago, on Tuesday, April 5, Kalbfeld joined students in Steve Klein’s COMM 361 Online Journalism class and spoke regarding the implications of the iPhone. He brought with himself, a typewriter, a Telex machine, […]

Hear ye! Hear ye! The revolution is coming! The revolution is coming! Well, wait. Maybe not a COMPLETE revolution.  As of an April 8, 2011 Mashable.com article, rumor has it that the social media revolution that has been spreading like wildfire in the Western world seems to be coming to China. With the CEO of […]

Some people love it. Some people say it’s the devil. But with over 500 million users, we cannot deny its power. Facebook is the latest medium that can help decide if your interviewer will hire you. We all have had someone put in a good word so that it can help us get a job. […]

The Soldier Transition Project aims to highlight and tell the stories of returning soldiers who are trying to readjust back into life as a civilian. As the techy in the group, I will be in charge of the web site development/layout along with helping other group members out with incorporating their sections into one area. […]

Twitter. It’s been the buzz of the past few years. Now, that it has made it big, everyone is encouraged to jump on the bandwagon and get with it.  Here’s are the top five ways you can get in on the hype: 5. Interesting drives traffic With Twitter, if you are smart, witty or cool enough, you […]

Last week, I asked my father, who has spent a good portion of his life in Libya (my two brothers were born there), if he thought that a Libyan revolution was possible. His response? Never in a million years. A few days later, a new revolution was born. It is a remarkable thing when the […]

I really need you to read this article, okay? Joel Achenbach, a Washington Post staff writer, is worried. Where once was the time that journalists were not driven by money, this is certainly not the case now. Back then, money came with the job. Now, the job is aimed at making money. As print journalism […]

In a world of twitter, twellow, bebo, cloob and fotki, there possibly couldn’t be any use for Quora. Turns out I am wrong. Quora.com, a website founded by two former Facebook moguls, has been buzzing in the world of media gurus lately due to its community-driven Q & A repository. Deemed a “social network for […]

I never thought of myself as much of a blog or Twitter person. Yes, I have a personal blog where I vent and write about issues that are important to me. And yes, I have a Twitter account where I would tweet maybe once every two months. However, when I started this class, doing these […]