This weekend, I attended the wonderful International Symposium on Online Journalism at The University of Texas. It is put on by my friends and people I admire Rosental Alves, Amy Schmitz Weiss and a professional team that assists them. In its 15th year, ISOJ assembles the most innovative in professional and scholarly work in the […]
Reposted from SXTXState.com. Here we are, last day of SXSW. I’ve got a film to see this afternoon and a few music showcases, and then that’s it for 2014. Where did the time go? It seems like we just got started. But I’m also pretty exhausted and not sure how much more of this I […]
As I wait in the SFO terminal to get my flight back to Austin for SXSW (if you read this blog, you know I’m spending the year at Stanford), I have a chance to reflect on the successes of our SXTXState project over the years. This is our seventh year covering it, and I am […]
I had the chance over the past three weeks to get back to teaching by doing a few coding classes with the Knight fellows. Our Wednesday night tech sessions have been dubbed Knight Knerds, and I offered a series of workshops to introduce HTML, CSS, forms and JavaScript. The final lesson of the series culminated […]
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve checked in here. I spent a great Christmas vacation back in Austin in December, and we’ve already been back to school at Stanford for almost five weeks. Things continue to be going well, but I am getting the feeling that time is passing quickly, and I need to […]
Photos – What a blast I had at the Computer History Museum in Mountainview. They have so many artifacts in their collection. It helped string together some of the progression that is often difficult to see when you are in the midst of it. I worked for computer companies NCR Corporation and Compaq during the […]
Taking a break from the tech talk and Stanford updates to discuss a very important issue – how does Portland compare to Austin? I have long wanted to visit Portland, and this past weekend, I finally got my chance. I was very excited to check out this city depicted in the hilarious Portlandia series and […]
So, enough about me. Since I have been at Stanford, all I have done is talk about myself, my project and my temporary move out west. Today, I have some great news to share with you regarding Texas State graduates. We have another one of our recent alumni going to work at The New York […]
