As a professional journalist (I am multimedia journalist for MLive Media Group. Check out my portfolio and my latest work), I spend a lot of time at the keyboard. From articles to quick briefs, interview notes to random thoughts, I probably write one to two thousand words a day. And
From the New York Times: Message to Self: In 2015, Stop Texting While Walking I've had a few close calls, and have seen several people have them. This is a resolution I can follow. But what happens when the Apple Watch comes out?
Marco Arment made a solid point in his post about the recent popularity of "long-form journalism": Rather than fetishize length, which is completely misguided, focus on quality. Length isn’t the problem that most people are looking to solve in their online reading, but we will always have
I’ve been using GoPros for the past four years and each time it gives a new perspective. It’s great, too, to see You see something and say — “Put a GoPro on it.” There were not a huge variety of mounts back then, so we had to be creative
Sixteen years ago around this time of year, I woke up early in the morning, turned on the computer and dialed up to AOL. Two hours later, my mom came down to the basement and asked if she could make a phone call. No, I responded, and probably not for
Last week, I watched a documentary on CNN about college and student debt called Ivory Tower. While hearing the tales of students going into debt to have a higher education, I realized how incredibly fortunate I am for the Kalamazoo Promise. The scholarship was announced in November of my senior
classics
To adapt to a changing world, we need new software for our cellphones; we also need new ideas. The same goes for literature, for architecture, languages and theology. Great column from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times. While there has been a push for increased education in science and
So I don't know exactly what will happen tomorrow or how I will express myself. Tomorrow, Thursday August 14, 2014, I will only communicate in Emoji. I was not the biggest fan of it at first years ago, but slowly it became part of my texting vocabulary. Only
News
I spoke last week to more than 300 high school journalism students about how I use my iPhone as a reporting tool. In the past few days, I’ve thought about how I use the same phone to consume news. Specifically, how do I use iPhone alerts me about news
Last week, one of my friends sent a message that he was surprised I liked an certain organization on Facebook. I didn't strike him as that kind of a guy, he wrote. The organization was a political action committee. I like hundreds of other groups and politicians on
Michigan State University graduated its last classical studies major last week, becoming one of the few top universities that does not offer specialization in the discipline. It's going to be a sad day in East Lansing when there are no students left on campus who can translate the
classics
This weekend, I wrote a column about why studying Latin and Greek is important. It came a week after Michigan State University graduated its last Classical Studies major. It's going to be a sad day in East Lansing when there are no students left on campus who can