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King memorial a gateway to the future

On Sunday, October 16, 2001, I was one of several thousand people who witnessed the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. [...]

Stand for something: RIP Steve Jobs, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

To me, the best thing about Steve Jobs is he realized how tools and creativity in artists’ hands can elicit emotion and passion to inspire and initiate change in the world. In claiming the right to stand tall and be a man, Rev. Shuttlesworth also allowed black boys to watch, learn, grow and stand with him. [...]

Darryl Swint | Multimedia examines Facebook Timeline beta

With Timeline, Facebook is determined to make us overshare. This is cool if you are okay with sharing with your friends everything about yourself to the last minute [...]

Darryl Swint's thoughts on community-building and social media

Scholar Community Builder Darryl Swint explains the content and navigation of the JKCF Forum

As Scholarship Community Builder at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, development, beta testing, administration of and content creation for a private Forum for Jack Kent Cooke Scholars was my primary responsibility. Between its launch in late June 2010, use of the [...]

Darryl Swint's thoughts on mobility, marketing, convenience and e-commerce

Thanks to a germinating, ongoing merger of mobile smartphones, GPS-based, social media marketing and a tech-savvy consumer base comfortable with broadcasting its whims, movements and activity through satellite social media sites, the new economy is finally taking [...]

Losing time on the Dan Ryan Expressway

Chicago commuters are familiar with the minutes, hours and ultimately days annually lost while sitting in northbound rush hour traffic. A recently released report identified one stretch of the highway as the second-worst traffic bottleneck in the country. [...]

Where is Chicago's coolest movie theater?

Chicago’s critical cinematic eye drew global respect as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert became household names. Ebert now blogs about movies, but where he screens them — the Lake Street Screening Room — is one of the city’s hidden [...]

Chicago is well-represented in Bravo's Top Chef Masters competition

On the heels of last year’s win by Frontera Grill’s Rick Bayless, this year, five Chicago chefs — the most contestants from one city — are in the field of 22 for Bravo TV’s Top Chef Masters. For this week’s Chicago Explainer story, I created a culinary tale of the tape of Second City’s five local [...]

Social media and the sports scene

Fry’s article caught my eye because the debate has been an issue of interest. In December 2008 while writing for stltoday.com’s Speaking Visually graphics blog, I briefly discussed the impact of Lance Armstrong’s embrace of Twitter. [...]

NFL helmet logos redesigned at Fast Company

This year, I’ve come across Ken Carbone’s Fast Company blog where he redesigns what he calls “the worst NFL helmet graphics. Carbone gives credit to what he considers the best NFL helmet logos: Dallas, St. Louis, Philadelphia and [...]