Online Magazine: Flyer Education
My online magazine, entitled “Flyer Education” is a collegiate fashion online magazine focused currently on the styles of University at Albany students. Here is the About Me: What does it truly mean to be fly? The Flyer Education, a play on “Higher Education” is a sartorial collection of styles within the University of Albany community. It … Continue reading
Online Resume: Flavors.ME
For my online resume, I used Flavors.Me which is a landing page/domain that displays and connects your social media all in one place, along with your credentials, in this case, my resume. It is dynamic, customizable, easy to use, and most of all, interactive. I customized the page to not just a static link, but … Continue reading
Telling True Stories Part 9: Building a Career in Magazines and Books
While writing with intent, purpose, and passion are all necessary in order to deliver a piece that is compelling and memorable to an audience, these may not be the most important part of the process. One can argue that the rewarding experience is enough on its own, but the reality is, if we ultimately seek … Continue reading
Telling True Stories Part 2: “Finding, Researching, and Reporting Topics”
We read journalism because it strikes us. Whether from a newspaper, website, magazine, or non-fiction book, if we’ve started to read it, it’s because something has caught our attention. Our curiosities were alarmed, and we continue to read as long as we feel we are getting value from it. Itcan be an enjoyable or enlightening process … Continue reading
“Events pass, people live and die, life changes. But stories endure.”
This four-part chapter, “An Invitation to Narrative,” consisting of articles including firsthand advice and perspective from some of the most renowned and celebrated storytellers of their time is certainly a heartfelt and compelling opening to Telling True Stories. These are the writers that have inspired the next generation of writers after them, and still continue to do so. They are … Continue reading
“You want to know people better than they know themselves.”
To build a billion dollar enterprise it takes a huge amount of acquired knowledge about the consumers you seek to entice. Just ask Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, who created a phone app with Kevin Systrom, that has now more than 100 million+ registered users and was bought in April 2012 by Facebook for $1 … Continue reading
“Do what you love. F*** everything else.”
Citing “advice” as weird, these were the words that Sussanah Strumfeld, or simply Zan, chose to give. And fittingly so as her accumulated career capital in copy editing and writing starting from high school has earned her an immediate position at a local weekly newspaper Zan is a twenty-two year old journalist who currently writes news … Continue reading
Cascading Style Sheets
How We Started From its mid 1990’s start as a SUNY Albany student’s project to establish a central internet listing of local band web sites, CRUMBS (Capital Region Unofficial Musicians & Band Site) has evolved into the major resource for all capital area musicians and bands. CRUMBS is arguably the longest running independent capital region … Continue reading
The Best Tools That Covered 2012 Presidential Election and Hurricane Sandy
Two of the biggest and most talked about events of the year by far have been the presidential election to decide the future of the USA for the next four years, and the widespread catastrophe caused by Hurricane Sandy on the east coast. With that said, the coverage of these two momentous events that are … Continue reading
“Should I Help my Country, or Help Myself?” UAlbany Students Weigh In on the Presidential Election
The presidential race is among us. What better way to gauge the mood of the race (somewhat) by asking UAlbany students how they feel about it the night before 270 electoral votes decide the leader of the free world for the next four years? Penny Penalosa, 19 admits his apathy for the race: “I know … Continue reading
Social Media and the Final Presidential Debate
Final round. Mano-y-mano. Let’s get ready to rumble! After two very interesting debates from the two presidential candidates, Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Pres. Barack Obama, we have finally arrived at the last one—possibly a strong deciding factor for the seemingly balanced race thus far. The first one strongly favored Mitt Romney, who was more … Continue reading
Top 10 OTHER Things To Do in Albany!
Students always say that there’s nothing much to do in the Capital region. There is so much more to do and go to than drink at the downtown bars! Here are the Top 10 things to do in the Albany area outside of the ordinary mall shopping and dorm storming. Enjoy!
Group Project: Fact Checking the Presidential Campaign
With the first wave of presidential debates coming on October 3rd, and the election date coming closer and closer, the campaigns are in full swing and both Republican and Democrat camps have holstered their guns through conventions, political advertisements, and many other types of media. The focus of this article is the evaluation of the anti-ads … Continue reading
Just The Right Spice of Blog
The blogosphere is generally divided among different individual talents by which bloggers use as the driving force behind the material that they feel compelled to share. There are the writers who can relay an article with such precision of words that just flow wonderfully on a page. There are the photographers who have a deep … Continue reading
How Do Young People Use Social Media?
Social media has become the most prevalent medium of mass communication in the digital age. The Internet has paved the way for instant correspondence, leading to millions of conversations taking place at every moment. But what precisely are the reasons why we use them? How has social media helped in the means of receiving news … Continue reading
The Day The Earth Stood Still
I get chills thinking about this day eleven years ago. The memory of dark smoke rising on a clear New York sky, not knowing what to think of it, in disbelief. Of magnificent buildings collapsing, leaving an empty space where the Towers used to be. Of all those men and women, civilian and in uniform, … Continue reading
Media Diet: What I Read
My normal day starts at 8AM and upon waking is the mandatory check of the iPhone. I do a quick scan of my e-mails, but now I make sure to open one from Sunrise, which is a new web service that gives me a daily blast of my schedule from GMail and birthdays from my … Continue reading
A Blogger’s Struggle
Andrew Sullivan’s piece “Why I Blog” from The Atlantic is easily the best essay I have ever read about blogging. He spoke on the humanity and the real essence of blogging, the challenges and advantages it poses as a postmodern medium in a currently gloomy state of the journalism industry, and what bloggers should do … Continue reading
The Hot Switch 