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So November marks my sixth month at Vox Media.That's pretty cool.I'm beyond fortunate that they hired me on to work part time from beautiful Muncie, Ind. while I finish up my degree.But working remotely has definitely come with its own set of…
The internet is a strange place.But you need to understand it.That's why a professor asked me to create a series of tutorials to present to her class across three sessions.The tutorials walk students through everything from HTML and CSS syntax to…
bsu.eduI'm proud to announce I've been selected as the first place winner of the Indianapolis Press Club's Excellence in Student Journalism Award.This is a huge honor, and I feel absolutely humbled to have been chosen.So I want to use this space to…
Inspired by Northwestern's Knight Lab, I have begun hosting a Code Night for Ball State's chapter of SND.This is not a hackathon or anything resembling one, to be clear. It is a night for people who know code or want to know code to hang out and ...…
SND 2014 had many amazing speakers, touching on topics from the integrity of journalism to the challenges of redesigning websites.The biggest lessons I learned from these sessions, though, all support one main theme: Put users at the forefront of…
John NiedermeyerAt SND 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany, I had the opportunity to sit down with John Niedermeyer of The New York Times. Niedermeyer is deputy director of digital news design and works on pieces like the Invisible Child series.Here are a…
About a year ago, I created this portfolio site for myself.It was kind of a BFD to me, because it was the first time I coded anything, and retrospectively, it was the first time outside of Myspace that I really contemplated web design.But it was…
So I've been coding my buns off lately.I feel like I'm lost in coding Wonderland. I haven't encountered the Mad Hatter yet. Just CMS-es that eat CSS.I'm definitely still not a code expert.But in the last 24 hours, I've published this piece, created…
Top of "Knightly Ritual," a story on ballstatedaily.com.I asked Jolly Blackburn, the comic book artist the story is about, to illustrate a few specific moments he had described in the story.Check out the full piece here:…
We all just want to make the Internet a better place, right?So that's what a group of coders, designers and thinkers set out to do March 19-22.At the first #SNDmakes, four teams set out to find solutions to problems users encounter when viewing…
It's been a crazy two weeks.I've been participating in a class at Ball State called "BSU at the Games." In it, more than 40 students act as a media group creating content for the Olympics.Most participants went to Sochi, but seven of us voyaged to…
On the SND website. I wrote a post about my experience coding my website from scratch.Here's a bit of it:Don’t come to me with your questions about coding. I’m not your guy. My knowledge is limited.But, my limited knowledge is what I hope makes this…
The Ball State Daily News just worked with other student media organizations to relaunch BallStateDaily.com. The site is now responsive and works well on mobile devices and tablets, instead of just desktops. I'm using this new website as an…
