retrospecticus

The first blog post up here was about the illusive Scott Brodeur. As the semester progressed online journalism developed around us. The presidential election gave us a perfect expiriment to see how online journalists are participating in the electoral process and the effect they had on the overall coverage. The hoax about Sarah Palin and [...]

JIMMY CARTER CURES FLESH BURROWING WORMS

 
The former president of the USA has been on a crusade in equatorial Africa against not famine or war but a parasite known as GUINEA WORM, This us a a parasite you drink and in a year you have a three foot long spaghetti living inside your body eating at you from the inside, pardon [...]

Frontman

Here is a photo slideshow from Boston.com that features classic rock and roll frontmen. It also reminds us of how rock has changed and the classic iconic frontman is more or a rarity. The slideshow misses more than a few classic frontmen, such as Kurt Cobain or John Lennon, for some lesser known indiviudals maybe more poplular [...]

Peace Corps looks for Volunteers

I spoke with a few prospective volunteers and Peace Corps representative Paul Frisoli. Here is what they had to say. Tom Kennedy, a chinese major at Umass explained, “I wish to become an interpreter for Chinese Japanese Spanish and French, I have no other plans after college so I figured I’d maybe join the peace [...]

Modern Estonia

Estonia or Eesti has known indipendance since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. Since then tensions with its neighbor have been acute. Regardless Estonia has successfully extracted itself from the past shadows of communism. Russia has dominated Estonia for much of modern history. This new indipendance is twenty years out of forty that Estonia [...]

Photo Essay-Afghanistan

This album posted on Boston.coms ‘the big picture’ is a personal up close look at what the soldiers in Afghanistan are living like. These photos put a face on what is becoming the new front in America’s ‘war on terror’.

The Big Picture

Boston.com’s the big picture is an inspiring collection of high resolution photos that span the world. From the depths of war, to the roller coaster of American Poltics, to the barren nothings of Antartica. These photos capture a moment in time and anyone a hundred years in the future looking at them would have a clear [...]

Writing for Response

Putting up one post amidst the thousands daily on wordpress and getting it read is not a simple task. I see it akin to posting a flyer on a giant wall covered six deep in paper and expecting someone to call. The post on Iran was intended to draw commments by whoever read it, the [...]

Surfs Up

It’s a bird it’s a PLANE. This is Princess Juliana airport in the Dutch Antilies. You Tube has hundreds of these videos. I would go to this island just to watch planes on the beach, it would never get old!

here is a jet landing and taking off

Post Election Coverage

The week after America’s longest election saw alot of the media patting itself on the back. After the gamut was over many polls came true and many pundits got their wish for Obama as president. After the fact campaign stories dominated the scene this week. Newsweek ran a seven part serial story, on what [...]