Andrew Keen on Social Media: “What We Once Saw as a Prison Is Now Considered a Playground”
This past week, I read an advance e-book version of Andrew Keen’s new title, “Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us,” and wanted to …Continue reading
Review: Yang Tai Chi for Beginners DVD by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming
Any martial artist interested in the Chinese martial arts should get their hands on Yang Tai Chi for Beginners. Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming takes the viewer through each step of the …Continue reading
The 5 Classes You Need to Take While In College
Picking out a class schedule is hard. If you’re nerdy like me, you have to whittle down to the classes you really want to take. Chances are you want only …Continue reading
If you can learn to code, maybe you can get a job
Like the more than 330,000 who’ve signed up as of this writing, I registered for Code Year to brush up on and refine old programming techniques, as well as to …Continue reading
Peoria-area doesn’t lean toward favoring SOPA
When a movie studio such as Paramount finds its copyrighted content being distributed illegally online through a peer-to-peer network such as BitTorrent, the studio sends a notice to the Internet …Continue reading
New articles in Bradley Hilltopics, Winter 2012 edition
I wrote a few weeks ago about the Pi Phi video I posted about a few weeks ago. The winter 2012 edition of Bradley Hilltopics is finally out, so I …Continue reading
Congressman Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) on SOPA
I’m working on an article for class on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261. The article will be available on my blog within the next …Continue reading
The Hilltopics experiment
Anybody who’s seen my print work knows I don’t often venture into other ways of storytelling. However, I know that as a journalism student, I shouldn’t restrict my efforts to …Continue reading
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack touts farm bill
Many Americans don’t understand the importance of the farm bill, according to the U.S. secretary of Agriculture. “This is more than a farm bill,” Tom Vilsack said about the proposed …Continue reading
Tex Grebner shoots himself into redemption
It was the shot heard ’round the world. Nope, not the one that is purported to have started the Revolutionary War. I’m talking about the one that propelled Tex Grebner …Continue reading
