As you may have noticed I haven’t posted on this site in a long time. That is because there is a new blog for the seminarians of my diocese. For the foreseeable future I will only be blogging on this site:
The other day I posted links to some of my first work published at Conception. One of those items was a Facebook photo album of the CSC Film Club premiere. There is now a post on the Web Site as well. The article was written by fellow transfer junior, Ryan Koster, and I took the accompanying photograph.
As you might have noticed this site is once again converting back to a portfolio site with links to my published works.
This weekend is Alumni Weekend yesterday I covered a series of events and took almost 600 shots, so look for some of that to be published soon.
At my newest assignment with Conception my journalism work will mainly be photography. These photos will be posted on Facebook and the Conception Web site.
My newest set of photos was published here on Conception’s Facebook Fan page. They are a set of photos of the Basic Design Class taught at Conception.
I’m not 100% sure, but I believe you will need access to Facebook in order to view the photos, I’m not sure exactly how the privacy settings are set up for the page.
The first two events I covered were the Knights of Columbus Officer Installation and the CSC Film Club first movie premiere.
At these events I take photos and also do a very brief write up.
The first of these writeups and photo packages has been published on the Web site as well as a photo album on Facebook.
Click here to view the coverage of the Knights of Columbus Officer Installation.
Click here to view the photo album from the CSC Film Club premiere. (You may need Facebook to view these photos, as I’m not sure what the privacy settings are for the page.)
Be sure to check back here for future updates on those stories and many others.
Friday night I shot photos for two events here at Conception. I have received word that at least one of the photo sets and accompanying blog post style paragraph will be posted later this afternoon.
Also stay tuned for two weeks from now, there could be some potentially HUGE news in terms of my social networking/blogging/journalistic endeavours…
A lot of people have asked me in the past months… “so are you giving up on journalism?”
To that my answer is always a resounding NO. As I wrestled with the idea of entering the seminary one of my biggest issues and reasons why I decided to enter was trying to find a balance between living out my Catholic faith at the same time as my passion for journalism.
I did some work for mainstream coverage of religion as well as Catholic Press. Up to this point what I have discerned is that the best way for me to approach journalism would be as a Catholic priest. I feel that this way there are no hidden biases or anything like that, and I can freely live out my faith, while at the same time continuing to produce journalism product.
Obviously right now I don’t know exactly how that will play out, but that’s not my biggest concern. I know that I will have the opportunity to use my gifts and passion for journalism to help better the church.
Fortunately, I will still have the opportunity to practice and develop some of these skills while at Conception. The school has a quarterly magazine, Web site, and Facebook page. After meeting with the Director of Communications for the Abbey/Seminary yesterday, I was very excited.
There is a team forming of students who will cover all seminary events, just as journalists would cover events for a local paper. We will then send all photos and stories to the Director who will determine where to publish them, with most of them ending up on the Web site.
To me the idea of being able to give these gifts back to the Church for the purpose of New Evangelization, the term used by previous popes and my role model John Cardinal Foley, of Philadelphia, brings me great joy and peace.
As with all of my other previous journalistic endeavors, I will post links to stories here on this site so that you can see some of the work that I will continue to do here at the seminary.
A friend of mine sent me this link the other day. He has tons of PC’s in his house and knows quite a bit about computer programming. While I am not very good with programming, I like taking the programming and finding a way to make a usable product to get information to the masses.
The link was about Google Wave. Right now it is still in the testing stages but it is set to be released later this year. After watching the video from the Google I/O 2009 conference, let me say I am very excited to see Google Wave unveiled.
Right now I have requested to be a tester, but we will see if that happens. My biggest question at this point is wether or not people will be able to adapt. I feel like a lot of people will just use it like email for a while and won’t really take advantage of the technology.
I know during the presentation they were going for the “wow” factor…but there are some parts of this demonstration that caused my jaw to just drop in amazement. The video is long but you could try skipping ahead to a random point to see what Google Wave is all about.
In middle school and high school, I was pretty good at math, except I didn’t necessarily enjoy it. Hence why I never considered making it a part of my major or minor.
What I have discovered over the past couple of years is that my math experiences have translated into a liking for web statistics. Over the past couple of years I have been involved in the creation, design and writing of numerous Web sites.
At the end of last week I tracked this wedding video and watched it get over 3 million views in one day. That got me thinking, what are some of the all time most viewed videos on YouTube? My favorite one in the top 23 (the number that appear on the first page of “Top Viewed”) is titled Charlie bit my finger – again! I first saw this one when a good friend sent it to me along with some notes from a Newman Center meeting.
On the second page I found Michael Jackson’s Thriller Video. In the wake of the death of Billy Mays and Michael Jackson, I blogged about the viral nature of the web and how it played out with the death of those two well known figures. The Thriller video really is quite the production and is unlike music videos today.
The newest Harry Potter movie recently came out, however, I was not one of the people who ran to the movies that opening night at midnight. Did folks not realize it was the All Star Game?
I have since seen the movie, which left me with an interesting revelation.
Everyone keeps talking about how it doesn’t follow the book, and I’m sure this is true, but I read the books so long ago, I can’t really remember. As I was watching the latest movie, I found myself realizing that there was a lot I forgot about all of the books, in many ways they are all combined into one massive story in my memory.
I started wondering when I might be able to reread the books as I think I would enjoy doing that, but I haven’t read many books for fun lately, its purely been for academic reasons.
I will get a week long “break” in New Jersey in a couple weeks, I may try tackling one or two of the books, and then finish going through them all during winter break.
In the meantime, I was browsing YouTube and found this infamous Harry Potter Puppet YouTube video, it’s actually the all time 21st most watched video on YouTube.
I think Tim Tebow is a great football player, I also admire his faith and his openness about that faith in a culture when it is not popular. However, I do not worship him as some people do. This past week there was quite a bit of news from the SEC media day because Tebow was not the unanimous decision for 1st team All-SEC.
For something so meaningless there was quite a bit of fuss. However, the best line by far that I have seen regarding the incident is:
Kiffin isn’t the only one cuckoo for Tebow-puffs.
That quote came from this article by Robert Holder for the Herald-Citizen.
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