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This week we talked a whole lot about Facebook posts. At my last job, Facebook was our most prominently used social media. We used it for event publicity because Facebook lets anyone create a public event, I'm pretty sure, so a lot of that work was tagging every business that attended/ sponsored the event and creating itinerary that were ~appealing to the eye~, which to my staffers included anything not created with remedial Microsoft 2006 skills. Tedious work, indeed. For one event I got pictures of every vendor booth (15-20 of them) and created a post for each on the station's page. Each of these posts contained links to the company's business Facebook and a link to their company website and a link to the event. Usually something like " These Guys are keeping us fed out here at the Millionth Car Show This Month , come join us!" My heart was really in the work. It was super repetitive stuff, but I understood the point: exposure. All the vendors obvi...

I found the documentary we watched in class on the Arab Spring highly interesting, and, although I was familiar with the initial auto-arsony, I knew little of the details of the incident. Additionally, I had no prior knowledge on its viral impact in the area and even globally. I went to Boulder this weekend, and on the car ride over, my friend mentioned to me an incident that reminded me of the documentary. UC Berkeley campus cop confiscates hot-dog vendor's hard earned cash I hadn't heard about this story, but it's linked here . In sum,  a campus police officer was caught on video taking money from the wallet of a food vendor on the grounds he was not permitted to sell there.  The vendor is said to not speak much English, and did not understand the situation or the cop's rationale. He was selling following a campus sporting event, expecting a flood of people and a profitable shift. The cop seizes the vendor's money, as the law he cites would allow...

If you go to Google News and search "pornography" your return will include pages like this: and pages thereafter of child pornography case after child pornography case.  It then dawned on me, I hear about child pornography an awful lot. Is this something that has always gone on, but technology only now has the capabilities to communicate in full? Rather, could we be living in a spike of child pornography popularity? It's the latter. We are living in a spike of child porn distribution According to former U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, "a historic rise in the distribution of child pornography," is being observed by lawmakers and persecutors throughout the U.S. Holder also reported a decrease "is in the age of the victims," overall, as more cases with younger children arise. Psychologists have found  child pornography addicts are prone to progress to younger and younger children as their addiction continues. A...

This last week was a rough one, full of life lessons and bountiful wisdom to come. I will definitely be taking advantage of the "lowest homework score is dropped" portion of my syllabi from my work this week. I wish I could apologize for myself. "She's a little tired this week, sorry." "She's really working on it, ok?" With all of that in mind, how about LinkedIn? I made my LinkedIn last year, while scouring internet search engines for exciting internships from far off lands... To no avail. At least not yet. But, many job finder engines, like Indeed.com, which is what I have, highly encourage, if not, require users to have a LinkedIn profile. I wasn't a huge fan of this. At the time, the LinkedIn profile was extremely similar to that of the Indeed in that I downloaded my resume to the site and it (inaccurately) autofills all of your info into the online profile.  It was basically, if I remember correctly, doing the same tedious ...

"Hyperlocal news" was a term I'd never heard before this week, but I think I actually may have experience with. From my understanding, hyperlocal news sites are those which cover a specific geographical area, but it also begs many questions. In particular, what's the coverage? On what? Depending on the answer to this question, I think I may have had experience writing for a hyperlocal news platform because, "I used to work for a radio station in town," as I've mentioned, probably too many times, in mass-comm class discussions. I apologize to my peers, as I'm sure it's pretty annoying. We get it. You were an intern. Too bad it's so damn relevant. My position at the radio station gave me a healthy dose of all sides of the local radio show. It's true video killed the radio star, but so did the internet, in at least certain aspects. Yet, radio refuses to die. Instead, it pretends to be radio while existing as an internet, and, a...