03.25.2008 | The Life of the 21st Century Student
Observations:
I’m currently sitting in my “New Media & Society” class. I’m surrounded by fellow Sun Editors and other friends in a class of 100 or so people. The thing is - no one is actually “here”. Sure, we’re all here physically - sitting in the seats, facing forward, and seemingly attentive, but in actuality, the people around me at least, are all busily managing something else. Blackberrys and other “smart phones” in hand, The Arts Editor in front of me is reading through his section in the paper today to make sure there weren’t any errors. The columnist next to him is managing her social network and the girl next to her is making sure the CUPB ads for Tracy Morgan are good to go. The News Editor two rows in front of me is checking on the coverage for an event tonight. Me? I’m simultaneously texting the photographers and Blackberry Messaging the Arts Editor in order to make sure an Arts assignment is covered while shuffling people around because only one of today’s photogs can work. (aside: my Prof just started singing Hot Hot Sex).
07.23.2007 | Reconsidering Facebook
Late last night as I read through my feeds, I came across a posting on Facebook’s new requirement that you must specify how you know the person you are adding as a friend. At this point, I’ve gotten used to Facebook’s attempts to suck more and more information out of me and just took it [...]
Continue Reading »07.22.2007 | More On The Perfect Job
Late last week I wrote a quicky little post about Seth Godin’s article about the number one “Job of the Future” being an “Online Community Manager”. I thought I would revisit it in better detail this time around as it’s something that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.
This summer seems to be [...]
05.27.2007 | The Future of f-d?
I’ve been contemplating the name of this site for a while now. While I still like the name - sort of - the hypen in the middle drives me insane. It’s just bad form. I’ve been trying to get foreverdigital.net or even foreverdigital.com for years now but to no avail. I’d love to have a [...]
Continue Reading »02.22.2007 | Welcome to the 21st Century: No Imagination Required
(Warning: what you are about to read is almost entirely stream-of-consciousness with a bit of editing because I myself couldn’t follow my own train of thought at times. It jumps from topic to topic, idea to idea, but hey, at least you’ll get to experience a few minutes inside my head. Good luck and enjoy!)
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