I typically don’t have much time to watch television, so I only have a few shows that I’ll watch, but to those I watch, I am very loyal: American Idol, The Bachelor (yes, I know it rarely works out, but it’s my guilty pleasure), and, even though it’s technically not a show, the World […]

I’m a journalist.
I’m an educator.
I’m a PC.

In a day an age when what type of computer you use defines who you are, a recent identity switch has left me wondering who I am and where I fit into this crazy little thing called life. Yes, I might be a PC but I once was a […]

Have you seen this service? It’s pretty neat; a dynamic, graphically rich presentation tool. However, this isn’t your average PowerPoint emulator. It doesn’t use slides at all; instead, the entire presentation is always displayed, and the user determines where the audience’s focus is through zooming and panning.
It’s some pretty interesting […]

After reading an article with the statistics backing Facebook’s popularity, I found myself not at all surprised. When Facebook began, it was restricted to college students only – sort of a rite of passage. From my experience, I remember getting my Facebook page was much more exciting than when I got my MySpace […]

Last week in one of my education classes, we discussed the importance of technology in our personal lives and in the classroom. As a class, we agreed that, on a scale of 1 to 10, our need for technology is a 10. We use it for communication, entertainment, research, etc. It’s hard […]

I recently moved to a new house… same town, same zip code… only about 7 blocks from my old house, really. But the house is much larger than my old one, and I’ve now got two roommates, one of which is quite knowledgeable about web programming, networks, and computers, in general.
So why is this […]

There’s an internal debate raging inside me: Google’s efforts to digitize the whole of world’s printed texts.
At face value, it seems like it could be a good idea: all of the world’s texts available to anyone, anywhere. And as I originally wrote this post, it consisted largely of praise for e-documents, especially the portability […]

So I haven’t really posted here a whole lot this summer. It’s been a fairly busy summer, what with working, starting research on my thesis, and traveling, to name a few of the things I’ve been to up to lately (not that I’m making excuses or anything). A few months back, I wrote […]

Are college textbooks expensive? Yes. Are they heavy and annoying to lug around to class everyday? Yes. Should we do away with them? I’m not sure.
Buying books is a hassle. If it’s a new edition of the textbook, then you have to pay the price for a […]

Thank you so much for all your comments on my last post about Twitter. Clearly, I was missing a huge piece of what Twitter is. Although I understand now that Twitter has functions other than just updating status, I personally still don’t see any reason for me to adopt Twitter into my basic […]