Last year, for fathers day, my family rented a boat on Raystown Lake for an afternoon of water skiing, sunbathing, and cliff jumping. To preserve the experience forever, I created this slideshow on photosnack.com. Check it out!

Last year, we decided to throw the best costume party we could. The result included hipsters, avatars, the amish, and more. Check it out here!

Why should the stars have all the fun? This was exactly the question that encouraged a party that, we believe, rivals the one at the Kodak Center. For the past two years, my friends and I have thrown formal viewing parties as we eagerly anticipate the announcement of “Picture of the Year.” This years party [...]

Last year my cousins and some friends up in Canada both got me really interested in downhill mountain biking. Downhill mountain biking usually involves a bike with between 6 and 8 inches of rear suspension travel and a lot of pads. Ski lifts are converted to carry your bike to the top of the mountain [...]

During the semester, I was introduced to WordPress for the first time. As I became more familiar with the service, it became easier to update my blog and share it with friends. In addition to becoming familiar with WordPress and blogging, I learned some really interesting skills from classmates during their individual presentations. Some notable [...]

Something I have, tirelessly, pushed on my friends and family over the last few years is the iPhone. And I can proudly say that the majority of them now own one. Whether or not I directly influenced this phenomenon or not is of little interest to me. A greater reward than bragging rights are the [...]

Something useful I’ve learned this semester is the option to add tags to your posts. From there you can make these tags visible on your blog for others to better navigate through topics interesting to them. Below I’ve posted a presentation that takes you step by step through the process of tagging your posts and [...]

In his column, Nobody Gets Social Media… Yet , Gary Stein offers a new definition for media: any moment when the brand and the consumer come into contact with each other. As I began to consider this definition, I pondered the ways that social media is new and different from traditional media. In a way, social media [...]

While there are many things that I could do to attract more people to my blog, one option is to add more pictures to my posts. Pictures naturally make a blog more interesting, and with strategic tags, could even make my blog appear more often in google searches. I could track the success of this [...]

I realized something for the first time today, Apple has very little- if any, presence on facebook other than pages created by users (which are not in short supply). There is one page titled, Apple Inc. , which simply quotes the description of the company from wikipedia. It’s unclear whether it was actually created by Apple or not, [...]

Earlier this year I began attending Circle of Hope , a church- in Philadelphia, unlike any I’ve encountered. Circle of Hope is a network of cells* that meet all over the city of Philadelphia and South Jersey. Every Sunday night, those cells congregate at one of four locations, three in Philadelphia and one in South Jersey. There [...]

In a post on Purple Car, Christine Cavalier discusses how to build a community online . As described in The Starfish and The Spider, “ideology is the fuel that drives the decentralized organization.” Christine uses “fellow believers” as an example of fuel for an online community. These people, she says, will find customers for you. You [...]