FINISHED!!!!

Well-- we finally finished! Everything is done: every story written, design perfected, picture taken, page number placed. Don't believe us? Check it out:

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Must-Have Holiday Gifts

Need some ideas for your holiday Wish-list this year? Check out our podcast: full of cheap, pratical, ideas from the Neiman Marcus catalouge.

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Our Health

How advances in computers and genetics
are changing medicine for the better.

Read this article.

The Last Words of Print

 During the past century, journalism was a strong, stable profession. The print paper ruled the world of reporting and news, and most people read whatever landed on their doorstep in the morning. But with the advent of internet and online news, what will happen to newspapers?

Read "The Last Word of Print'

Roger C

The Diagnosis

We're bringing up kids with gaming and the internet--and the shortest attention spans ever.

Read The Diagnosis

Out of the Dark

How digital photography has changed the picture taking world:

Read Out of the Dark

Opinion Pieces!

So we've still got some edits to make on our opinion pieces (the first of our magazine pieces), so we aren't posting those today, but below you can see some teasers of what's to come! When we've got them finalized we'll put them up, likely November.

~MPCR

The Case for Nukes

Why nuclear energy is the future.
Nuclear energy is safe, effective, and clean. Just what we need in a new energy source. Find out more in November when Max Z publishes his opinion.

Wikipedia-The New Frontier

In the early days of the web, people searched for tidbits of research in pages and pages of useless information. Now, we have Wikipedia, a streamlined internet encyclopedia with information and articles on every subject you can think of. But has it really improved our lives? You bet. Stay tuned for the article, which is coming soon on this blog.
-Roger C

Students: Digitized

Textbooks are piling up on students in today's society, but many are beginning to switch to electronic versions of the books. As these new textbooks are cheaper, lighter, and often more effective, the change should be made as soon as possible.
-Courtney T

A Texting Revolution: y txtng iz gr8

With the rapid increase in text messaging, the world is becoming more connected by the minute. Following this electronic revolution is propelling us further into the globalized future.

-Priya V

We're Starting, Slowly

Okay, it's been a while since the last post, and a lot has happened. We've met with a professional designer who has given us great advice on our magazine.

Today, we are just finishing up our opinion pieces, our first writing pieces of the semester. We've written some satires--on text messaging and Wikipedia--and some serious commentaries on nuclear power and electronic textbooks. Some of them will be up as soon as we've finished editing them.

On the design front, I could bore you on the specifics, but here are some of the general trends in the magazine:
1. The color scheme will be black and white with accent colors of blue, green, dark pink, and orange/yellow.
2. Magazine sections will be indicated by a change in the color of the folio.
3. We will have all of our article layouts based on a layout in our inspiration magazine, Wired.

We'll post again soon! This magazine is going to be awesome!

About Us

Hi! We are four high school students setting out on an exciting journey through journalism, design, and blogging! Our goal: write and design a magazine in one semester. The theme: technology and its impact on human life. We plan to look deeper into social networking systems like Facebook, plagiarism and schoolwork, the changes that printed newspapers are experiencing due to the Internet, the radical changes medical technology has made in people's lives, and much more. So far, we haven't gotten too far, but we'll update the blog when we start writing stories and designing!