Dr. Spaulding

Check out these memes from j-students who work at the Columbia Missourian:

I’ll be adding these to the MCCS internship announcement page later this week: b and bthesite.com — Baltimore’s premier publication for young adults — is looking for spring and summer interns. The internship opportunities here are varied: news, sports, entertainment and lifestyle reporting and blogging; social media; copy editing; publication design and graphics; photography; video [...]

For those of you who remember reading Strunk & White with me in MCOM 257 or MCOM 407:  

The AP announced the development of new software that will automatically check your article for AP Style from within Microsoft Word. Don’t get too excited yet. It’s in beta and only available to online subscribers until the April 1, 2012, release to the general public. So much for getting automated help with those first few [...]

I know, I’m guilty too. But here’s why we’re shortchanging ourselves when we leave big projects to the last minute. Thanks to Annie Milli for the link.

First, this job announcement comes from TU graduate Deirdre (O’Lone) Parry via Dr. Lieb: Post-Newsweek Media Inc., in Gaithersburg, Md., seeks a copy/layout editor to work with clients and on in-house projects. This job comes with the opportunity to independently edit supplements and to use or learn basic graphic design skills. The ideal candidate will [...]

What’s next after you’ve mastered the rule of thirds? Fibonacci’s divine ratio or golden spiral. Think of it as the advanced version of the rule of thirds, or as one digital photographer calls it, the rule of thirds on steroids. MCOM 407 student Andrew Constant sent me this example from Uni Watch,a  blog he reads [...]

We’ve been talking about this in both MCOM 407 and MCOM 257. Here’s a sequence of images in today’s Google Doodle, posted in honor of Mark Twain’s birthday. Click to enlarge and I’ll bet you agree–these three images tell an entire story.

A belated post for Veterans Day, which was Nov. 11. (h/t to Aim for the Heart for this find.)

View the story “60 Minutes: Families living in cars” on Storify]