I was hiding. In an effort to complete my master's thesis, I took a sabbatical from most of the outside world during most of the last semester. Sure, I caught the important news events from CNN.com or NYTimes.com. I also used The Daily Show and Colbert Report as entertainment during my dinner hours. Beyond that, I've [...]

I'm not the type to be up on the latest technologies or absolute newest trends in the media world, so it took me a while before I even heard of the most recent media "fashion": Twitter. My first question when I heard about Twitter was: "What is it?" From my research I discovered [...]

A couple weeks ago, Microsoft's new search, Bing, went live, replacing Live Search. Now, I'm an ardent Googler (who isn't in this day and age?). I especially love my Gmail, Google Trends, and of course Search. But I'm always down to try out someone's attempt at a semantic search, so I've been [...]

For the second summer in a row, I'm spending the summer in Washington DC. Unlike last summer however, I don't have classes and homework so I have a bunch of free time. As a result, I announced plans at the end of the spring semester to keep in close touch with my college friends [...]

Well, summer's finally here. You know what that means: beautiful sunny days; crippling allergies, and decreased media usage. Throughout the school year (or at least for this most recent semester), I was probably on my computer for 10 hours out of the day (keep in mind that I was doing a research immersion [...]

So - I purchased my first Facebook ad last week. Well, my organization bought it, but you know what I mean. The process is so straight forward, it's scary. Yet, at the same time it is overwhelming. Like Twitter, there is a character limitation on the title and body of the ad. [...]

How is Facebook able to keep up with itself? As more and more news stories come out about Facebook's user statistics, this is a question that is really beginning to perplex me. In February, Facebook released their numbers saying they had 175 million users. Not too shabby, I thought. Read the [...]

I don't listen to a whole lot of radio. If I'm at home, I'll generally listen to music on my computer or on vinyl (kind of polar opposites, I guess...). The only time I ever listen to the radio regularly is in my car, and 90% of the time, it's NPR. I've never been [...]

GASP! "How do you live?!" This was the reaction of my colleague when I told her I didn't have internet OR cable at home. Living without these new age technologies for nearly a year now, the idea doesn't seem so strange to me. After that reaction, I'm waiting to receive my Medal of Honor for courageously [...]

Every February, for two weeks, a flurry of activity grips Ball State University's campus as the Student Government Association campaign gets underway. During that time, slates try to convince the student body to elect them to office. For some, it's one of the most important times of the year. Others are completely oblivious to the [...]