This article came passed along from a friend. Michael Rosenberg of the Detroit Free Press gives an entertaining lesson in journalism practices. His satire stands out, but there are certainly some sad truths in what he writes.

Here is a SoundSlide I did for the High Springs Herald of the Newberry Watermelon Festival. A fun afternoon indeed.

My dad let me know about this photo slideshow from the NY Times by Micheal Kamber about the search for the three missing soldiers around Baghdad. I’d love to do this for a living, but not there. I really like community news and events like the Watermelon Fest. Kudos to the journalists who have the guts to embed themselves overseas. They’re doing things that were once unheard of in reporting the news.

Amen for the end of the semester. Summer is upon us in steaming hot Gainesville and the city is already clearing out. I’ll be sticking around with an internship at the High Springs Herald in their Web department. It’s a small town weekly with a community focus and I really can’t wait to get started. In the meantime, I submitted my final Web portfolio project for MMC4341. I also ditched the old site at my domain, mallorycolliflower.com, and replaced it with my portfolio. Long story short, I’ve been busy as usual but the summer is a welcomed change. The hot Florida humidity does a pretty good job of slowing down the pace of life.

Took me quite a while to finish it, and I’m still not 100% satisfied of course, but here is my Flash 4 exercise. If only I had used a better camera the photos would have turned out a little nicer. I’m eager to learn to make some more exciting looking buttons too.

CNN.com has a cool Flash peice on the new Air Bus A380 that just took its first trip across the Atlantic. It can hold up to 500 passengers and some airline execs are talking about cruise-ship style planes in the next generation of flying machines. But check it out for yourself!