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Picture of channel 30 studio

This picture does not say much to you guys, but to me it represents a long journey from purchasing a camera to actually getting it online. Finally!

NYC: Map of Cheap Yummy Food

I made this map to accompany my Web shell. At the end of the self-guided tour, I recommend this neighborhood for good affordable food. Now, my user can decide what they want based on where they wander!

CommunityWalk Map – Good Food in Brooklyn

Originally, I held this map in drafts because it was not [...]

Journalism and the Web: Chaos, Calamity or Coolness?

Image: Accclaim Images Stock Photography.

On line, everyone is in the game. And yes, it is a free-for-all. If you want to say something, your voice can be heard. And if you want to know something, the information is available.

And for traditional news sources, that were once known as the “gatekeepers” the availability [...]

Fish Movie: Revised and Explained

This is my second attempt at iMovie. It went a little better, but as you can tell I’m still not displaying any signs of talent (I mean off camera, but if you watch the movie, you’ll see see a deep lack of talent ensue there too…)
What I learned this time:
I had no tripod. [...]

Election Coverage 2008

My last post was lame. I was running around to events early in the evening, and then Obamamadness struck at 11 p.m.

I was missing some key information, so I wanted to expand on it today. Salon.com has an vibrant interactive community. The public can either post blog entries or comment on other [...]

New America in the News

Joan Walsh of Salon.com wrote the following about her blog tonight:

I was trying to get a quick post up about Barack Obama’s speech but I couldn’t type. I was agog.

I was in the African American Center taking pictures of a returns party at 11 p.m. I had been traveling from event to event with [...]

What if the Whole World Could Vote Today?

If the whole world could vote for the president today, who would win. I asked some UConn students from around the world…

The students are from Spain, Puerto Rico, Afghanistan, Mexico, India, Italy, USA, India, Lebanon, Ecuador, Kenya, Egypt, Mexico, The Netherlands…
Doing this project taught me several important don’ts of [...]

Visiting Egypt?

This is a space holding post, until we can figure out how to put our audio on the blog. My audio project has handy phrases (or sort of handy phrases… I lost my script mid-recording so some of the phrases are less handy than others) in Arabic for travelers who need directions or to [...]

Not Broadcast News: Podcast News

I had a look at the NPR podcast page, and then tried a some free podcast downloads from iTunes.

The verdict: iTunes wins. It was easier to download and listen to BBC from iTunes than from the BBC’s own podcast page.

The content, however, was great either way. A new BBC program called “South Asian [...]