March 2012

How Not to Die: Using Tech in a Dictatorship

““We are about upgrading our humanity and our own freedom.” –  Mark Belinsky Iphones, Twitter, Facebook and the like aren’t just for Americans wanting to talk about what bar to meet at or what celebrity said what anymore. Now this amazing technology has made its way into the hands of some of the most oppressed […]

Journalism is evolving into a more engaging, consumer-oriented format. The problem is that many institutions are slow to adopt and are essentially constrained by their content management systems. So what can journalists and educators do to get with the times?

Kathleen Hessert is the Founder and CEO of Buzz Manager and Sports Media Challenge, a social media consulting and online monitoring and measuring company.  Hessert wowed the crowd and panel at “Sports Media: The Beat Goes Gone?” with key advice for how athletes, coaches and teams must create their own brand utilzing tools like social […]

In this panel, David Weinstock, Jim Beiderman,Tony Mennuto discuss the art of using humor in advertisements and the best practices for doing so. Tony Mennuto kicked of the panel with a discussion of radio advertisements and keeping listeners engaged with humor. Mennuto is the creative director of Radioface which specializes in the field. He noted that today you have to, “create […]

What Students Can Do To Stay Ahead of the Game In a panel discussion on the current state of CSS and the direction of CSS in the future, panelists discuss issues with web standards and cross browser compatibility. Also with the emergence of mobile devices and tablets, grid layouts are becoming the trend for more […]

The Dark Side of Social Networks: Malware & Fraud

Dr. Paul Judge, Chief Research Officer at Barracuda Networks discussed the history and malicious activities of hackers in Twitter and Facebook. Judge began his presentation by analyzing the state of the web and indicating an association between web usage and spam attacks. “1 in 100 urls on twitter is spam and malicious,” states Judge. Judge […]