All about graduate-school

Grad school update: I think I’m done

April 8, 2009

For those of you keeping score, I started blogging, more or less, when I started graduate school at San Jose State University back in early 2005.
As of Monday, April 6, 2009, I’m finished with my M.S. in Mass Communications at SJSU’s School of Journalism & Mass Communications, after turning in my project report and presenting [...]

Why train programmers as journalists?

January 17, 2009

Over at IdeaLab, Rich Gordon shares his exit interview with Brian Boyer and Ryan Mark, the first two programmers to earn a Master’s degree through Medill’s Knight News Challenge-funded scholarship.
Because it’s fucking important.
Thanks to the News Challenge, I’ve had the chance to meet Brian and Ryan and hang out with them a bit. Frankly, they’re [...]

Things to do…

September 2, 2008

Now that I’m back from vacation, here’s what’s on my to-do list for, uh, the foreseeable future:

Finish developing the pre-alpha version of ReportingOn and launch it.  Like, really, really soon.
Go to SND/APME next week, speak on Sunday, go to some awesome sessions and pimp ReportingOn to every editor I meet.
Write the first draft of my [...]

Scobleization plus three years

February 12, 2008

Three years and two days ago, I got Scobleized.
The highlight of Robert’s informal talk was when he plugged his tablet into the projector in a packed room at the SJSU/MLK library and showed us his aggregator.
It was Bloglines at the time, not that it mattered.
I was blown away by the amount of information — and [...]

Deadline Day, v1.0

August 30, 2006

Today I turn in 12, count ‘em, 12 copies of my 33-page thesis proposal. (The first draft was longer, believe it or not.)
I finished it up last night shortly before 1am, but it’s safe to assume I’ll get it back in September with conditional approval (I hope) and notes on mechanical changes, plus a few [...]