TNGG – The Apple iPad

Courtesy of AppleYou know it’s hard to keep this blog up to date when every time I have something to write about, The Next Great Generation seems to get first dibs. After the Apple iPad announcement, I was all set to write something up on it here, when I got an email looking for comment for TNGG. This, of course, is a good problem to have. I had been following Steve Jobs’ keynote with...

CES Coverage for TNGG

As the new decade rolled around, I spent several days out in fabulous Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. CES is a huge event where 120,000 attendees converge on the Las Vegas Convention Center to see the latest and greatest techno-wizardry. It was an amazing spectacle and, although exhausting, a heck of a lot of fun. I went with my brother Rob to cover the show for The Next Great...

TNGG Article – Job Search 2.0

An article I just wrote about my ongoing job search – including a lot of talk about this very website – has been published in The Next Great Generation. Give it a read and tell me what you think, either in the comments there or right here. Job Search 2.0 Photo Credit: King Edward / CC BY-SA...

Cultural Exchange

I was contracted to cover a series of State Department foreign exchange programs that are administered by the UMass Donahue Institute. For two and a half months I followed the various groups – including Iraqi college students, Indonesian teachers, Argentine grad students and a group of 18 professors each from seperate countries – as they experienced everything America has to offer....

Against the Deadline

The atmosphere is tense at the Boston Globe headquarters on May 3rd, 2009. In just a few hours, the employees of the paper will learn their fate. Will the New York Times shut the New England institution down? How much will the unions sacrifice to save it? This piece provides a glimpse into a brief moment in history, when the fate of New England’s paper of record – and its 1400 employees –...