Wednesday, May 30

From Westminster to Winchester TV 3

Look what commencement ceremonies will bring to campus… It’s Sebas! The world (at least the world in Winchester, VA) now knows him as TV 3’s Sebastian Salazar (a.k.a.Sebastian Driver- the man who created Titantown Sports at WCN). Sorry I didn’t have a chance to mingle after the commencement pageantry, Sebas.


You can keep up to date with this up and coming sportscaster online where his latest TV 3 sportscasts are posted. You can also check out his sports blog and leave comments. It seems like only yesterday he was shooting, editing, producing & anchoring sports on WCN.


Tuesday, May 29

Extreme Makeover: The Animated "SIMPSONS" Edition


If I were on "The Simpsons" would I look like this?
I created my own Simpons avatar on "The Simpsons Movie" web site. So can you.

Here's what I WISH I LOOKED LIKE IF I WERE A CHARACTER ON "THE SIMPONS." However, I'd prefer to be on "Futurama."




The online folks at FOX have come up with a cool way to generate some buzz and interest online about the upcoming feature film. It's also a cool way to interact with fans.

Monday, May 21

Outsourcing Local New Jobs...to India?

Many American manufacturing jobs disappeared as they went overseas to cheaper markets without unions. Much of the animation for The Simpsons is done abroad. Then telemarketing jobs went to India, Central America, Mexico...as did other middle management jobs for all sorts of companies.

Now look for outsourcing to come to a newsroom near you as American journalism is exported. Is this the shape of things to come? Consider what a Pasadena paper is trying to do as it looks to outsource “local” coverage for city hall to a reporter based in India. NPR provides an interesting examination of what could happen with news jobs in this country. Imagine the implication for American Democracy, public opinion, schools of journalism, etc.

Sunday, May 20

Commencement 2007- Follow Your Bliss



Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell

From titanradio.net

More than 325 graduates received degrees on Old Main's Senior Terrace as the sun peaked out on a breezy Saturday afternoon in New Wilmington marking the 153rd commencement for Westminster College. Titan Radio presents highlights online from this year's graduation ceremonies. The highlights are available here on tiitanradio.net and on You Tube.

Westminster's commencement speaker, Dr. Dianne D. Aronian, encouraged each graduate to do as Joseph Campbell wrote and "follow your bliss." Aronian, a 1962 Westminster graduate and former College trustee and accomplished ophthalmologist, created a program to bring eye care to southern Belize in Central America. The program responded to a health crisis where there was no eye care available to the poor in the region. Aronian noted her work in that program was one of the more recent occasions where she discovered her newest "bliss." She described her life after her college graduation as a journey of finding her bliss a number of times from medical school and throughout her professional life. She urged the class of 2007 to open themselves up to discover the bliss that will lead them as they leave Westminster.




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