Just three week’s ago Google turned the social media world upside down with the announcement of its latest social media product, Google Buzz. The product’s introductory video describes the service as, “a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more and start conversations about the things you find interesting.”
Buzz seems most like Twitter in [...]

As a Media Studies major at Pomona College, I enrolled in the major’s senior seminar this past fall. The course brought about 50 students from five campuses and five concentrations together who’d taken media studies-related course in any number of disciplines with. As many of our experiences of media studies differed vastly, the seminar was [...]

I’m currently taking an Advanced Digital Imaging course and one of our text’s is Scott Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop. The book is composed of a number of tutorials that utilize 7 techniques “for taking your images from flat to fantastic.” The techniques include: raw processing, curve adjustments, shadow/highlight, painting with light, channel adjustments, [...]

As much as I love my iPhone, my Slingbox may be my favorite implementation of technology. For those of you that are unaware, a Slingbox is a device made by Sling Media that allows me to watch and control my family’s television from anywhere there’s an internet connection. As a college student and someone that [...]

I’m the proud president of the ski and snowboard club at Pomona College and have been for the past three years. One of the issues I’ve always struggled with is cost. Many of us are relatively poor college students, but love the very expensive sport of skiing (as I write this, the cost of an [...]