March 1, 2012
Apple Worth More Then 1 Trillion in the Near Future?!
In a Yahoo Article written by Henry Bloget, it is discussed how apple may be worth up to 1 trillion in the near future. –Apple is one of 4 companies to ever reach this mark -Apple is worth more then the gross domestic product of Poland, Belgium, Sweden and even Saudi Arabia. -Why? because Apple’s […]
February 23, 2012
Briggs Chapter 6
Photos are worth a million words. This is stressed greatly by Briggs in chapter 6. I think that stories can be told over and over again but may change over time. A photo stays the exact same no matter who is seeing it. A photo that I feel I feel is worth a million words […]
iPad 3 Facts? Maybe..
I came across this article by John Cox that really gave me an idea of the major “what if’s” that are hidden behind the up and coming iPad 3 Some of the major things discussed in this article are: – Two stock analysts are predicting that iPad 3 will only be the first Next iPad […]
February 21, 2012
Briggs Chapter 5: Going Mobile
Technology has come a very long way within the last 10 years. It has gone from big bulky cell phones to the smallest way to record and spread your message about anything. Briggs talks about mobile journalism in chapter 5. According too a newspaper in London, on average, a person gets their first cell phone […]
February 16, 2012
February 14, 2012
Briggs Chapters 3 and 4
Briggs Chapter 3 Chapter 3 really went in on the topic of crowed-source reporting and open-source reporting. Before reading this chapter, I honestly really didn’t know what they were about. It really opened my eyes to what I have been overlooking. Crowed-sourcing is important because it really depends on its committed users to keep everything […]
Special Guest Speaker Steven Buttry
Here are some highlighted noted I took from this lecture – “Digital tools are so versatile that they are only limited to our imagination” Buttry – “You don’t use all tools on a single story or it just becomes chaotic” – Buttry – Twitter’s natural character limitations keep sentences at an appropriate length for journalism […]
February 7, 2012
The Wise Words of Mark Briggs
When someone thinks about journalism, they think of newspapers. When someone thinks of newspapers, they think about the decline of newspapers and might be misinformed on the true facts behind that statement. Briggs really opens ones eyes to where journalism once was to where it is heading in the near and distant future. Chapters one […]