Richard Gingras of Google at #isoj

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Drupal at Texas State

I had the pleasure of sitting through the presentations for the Web Content Management Systems class taught by my colleague Jacie Yang. This was the first time she taught the class in our program, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the results were nothing less than amazing. It’s a graduate-level class. Some of […]

So Long, Gowalla. We’ll Miss You

The news broke on Friday and was confirmed today on their blog, that the Austin-based location service Gowalla would soon be no longer. They are being acquired by Facebook, which means they are closing up shop in January and some of their employees (most likely developers) will be moving to Palo Alto to live out […]

Honoring Steve

I don’t think I fully appreciated the role of Apple and the vision of Steve Jobs until I analyzed the events that happened during the hour or so before I learned of his death. Yesterday, I was assisting the students working on Mass Comm Week with a video project promoting the event. They were working […]

7 Things Everyone in Your Organization Should Know…

This weekend, I attended the Online News Association Conference in Boston. It was a great gathering of multimedia developers and those concerned with all things digital – quite a fantastic event. I had the opportunity to participate on a panel called “If I Were in Charge, I’d…” Proposals for the panel were solicited before the […]

Storifying the Story

I’m working on a chapter for a new version of the book The Future of News: An Agenda of Perspectives, edited by Maxwell McCombs, Amber Willard Hinsley, Kelly Kaufhold and Seth Lewis. One of the features of my chapter is to develop some information boxes with interviews, Q&A’s or other supplementary material. I decided to […]

More SXSWi Recommendations

Looks like this is the last week to comment on SXSW panels, and there are several more that I identified in my perusing of the Panel Picker. You can see my first batch of picks on an earlier post, but here are another 20 or so more that I also think are cool. Excellent People […]