The world wide web is an open platform where anybody can create a page using the standard hypertext markup language and users are free to move across locations on the web and visit any other site without restrictions. Openness and equality, which guided the early web, was lost in its later years to walled gardens which eventually fell. Now openness is being sacrificed again, not to the extent of the early walled gardens but to their successors, the social networks who have erected their own walls directing users to see only selected and ranked content.
Dems: Medicare turned red district blue
Senate Democrats Wednesday continued their push against the GOP Budget and changes to Medicare saying that the Republican plan handed Democrats a victory in the New York special election.
Budget concerns lead Panetta confirmation
Senators opened Thursday's Armed Service's hearing into the nomination of CIA director Leon Panetta to replace Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense with questions about the need to trim costs wile retaining the Pentagons muscle.
Senators opened Thursday's Armed Service's hearing into the nomination of CIA director Leon Panetta to replace Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense with questions about the need to trim costs wile retaining the Pentagons muscle.
An eye in the sky
A short documentary I produced as a M.A. student in Communication, Culture, and Technology examining the use of unmanned aerial vehicle technology in modern warfare.
A short documentary I produced as a M.A. student in Communication, Culture, and Technology examining the use of unmanned aerial vehicle technology in modern warfare.
In Focus: The Hell Ride
thehellride
A documentary I produced on two university students with disabilities.
Echos
echos
A documentary I produced with a partner and edited. The film looks at a man on his quest to preserve American history.
2010 Telly Award Finalist for Editing.
2010 Telly Award Finalist for Editing.
Recent Projects
About Me
I am a multimedia producer creating online news stories for TheHill.com and working towards an M.A. in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University. In May, 2010 I graduated from The George Washington University with a double major in Journalism & Mass Communication and History, two areas in which I have always held a strong interest.
Resume
Some Items from my resume
- Intern/Multimedia Producer May 2009-Present, The Hill Newspaper, Washington D.C.
- Intern September 2008-December 2008, Third Floor Productions (A Story House Company) Washington D.C.
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