scottmoore's blog

Many models that are being worked on as the economic way for news organizations, especially newspapers, in the future have some serious flaws. Those chinks in the armor may cause the entire system to fail, therefore, threatening the entire industry.

Many people who have attempted to leave the print copy of a newspaper for a digital copy will tell you they have the same complaints: web pages are hard to navigate, often updated and changed throughout the day, and are plain strenuous to read. Enter Times Reader.

After twelve weeks of blogging my every movement and event, through hell and high water, heartache and discontent, and the occasionally stolen item, the experiment known to all as “Summer at Stony” comes to an end.

Rounding third and heading home, the summer is beginning to wrap up as the school year steadily approaches. Less drama fills the week but life always throws another curve in for measure.

With time on the summer slowly slipping away, I would expect that events wouldn’t happen at an alarming pace, but rather a slow one. However, I should know myself and the University better - everything seems to come to head or completely change only weeks before the end of a semester. If this past week was any indicator, then the last summer days here at Stony Brook University are going to be full of twists and unexpected happenings.

The weeks are winding down, classes past the half-way point, and the finals are approaching like a foreign army through Main Street. Like my time at school, the Summer at Stony series is winding down to the end.

While the past weeks have contained a detailed description of the on-goings throughout classes, this week's Summer at Stony takes a look at the events going on inside of my apartment as things come and go - and never show up again!

Stony Brook University is, as I’ve always said, what you make of it. You can hate it, love it, want to stay, pack up and move out, or be entirely apathetic. I’ve found that it’s usually a combination of people, surroundings, food, events, and classes that make all the difference, with the latter having a more significant impact than one may think.

Curious how quickly things change. Life, in the blink of an eye, can be directly changed forever more with no way of going back to the past that had most certainty been the present not so long ago.

My, my, how the weeks fly by. It feels like just yesterday I was in my first history class and the power went out. However, I have a pressing need to say that the glamor that went along with living in the West Apartments has entirely left me.

With the introduction of Verizon's FiOS 1 Long Island news channel, Cablevision's monopoly on the major Long Island news networks seems to have been dealt a major blow and it has reintroduced the art of a competitive news area in one of the country's largest markets.

The weeks continue to go by here on campus as classes blaze along at a pace that could make heads spins. Week three at Stony Brook University was relatively quiet, considering the first couple weeks, but still featured some unexpected events as only SBU can deliver. However, I can’t just not mention the epic amounts of rain that our area has been deluged under.

While week one here at Stony Brook University marked itself by being busy with personal obligations, adjusting to new people, and coming to grips with the new situation I found myself in, week two could have been considered just more of the same - but with different twists.

My first week of living at Stony Brook University for summer classes could be described in a few descriptive words: loneliness, surprise, fun, and hunger.

In a shocking move that may prove to be the fate of many U.S. Newspapers in the future, Newsday’s owners, Cablevision, announced that the Long Island-based newspaper would be moving to a paid version of its website.