Monthly Archives: November 2008

Barack Obama will be the next president

By Jared | Published: November 4, 2008
It’s official. I’m truly unable to express my excitement. Right now I’m sitting in my appartment watching the aftermath on TV while I listen to students running down Broad St. As a journalism student I’m reminded of the everpresent mantra of “objectivity.” To all journalists who cannot appreciate how this election trumps the objectivity defense [...]
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links for November 3rd through November 4th

By jssilfies | Published: November 4, 2008
Cool links for November 3rd through November 4th: Election day Soundslide | Jared Silfies – Quickly built Soundslide of "get out the vote" efforts at Temple University. My Page – US Presidential Election 2008 – Posted my Soundslide project about the voting effort at Temple University on a Ning network for people interested in the [...]
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Election day Soundslide

By Jared | Published: November 4, 2008
Being election day, I felt the need to get out and do something since I voted absentee a few weeks ago. Since I couldn’t vote again I decided to talk to the volunteers trying to get Temple Students to go vote. Kevin Inacker, the residential housing director for the Obama campaign at Temple, talked about [...]
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Bookmarks for November 2nd through November 3rd

By jssilfies | Published: November 3, 2008
Cool links for November 2nd through November 3rd:   Knight News Challenge: 10 Tips for Submitting Your Grant Application — contentious.com – Great tips to work through with applying for a KNC grant. Awesome, awesome stuff. FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts – Build your own font. Awesome tool for creating unique designs. Amazon.com: Collapse: How Societies [...]
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Bookmarks for October 31st through November 2nd

By jssilfies | Published: November 2, 2008
Cool links for October 31st through November 2nd: Video Haiku: The Campaign in Moments (washingtonpost.com) – Excellent WaPo example of how Vuvox can create excellent multimedia packages. The player embeds video, audio, text and images into a timeline-like feature navigated either by scrolling manually or automatic advancement with the player. Thirsty world: Desperate quest for [...]
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