I'm finally making the jump away from blogger to a wordpress blog. I guess that means I won't be spending as much time at BloggerHacks. The new site can be found at http://www.danielsato.com

I am still working on the site...hopefully I have an index page and all of that up soon.

Another thing that has kept me busy this semester has been the SJSU NPPA student chapter. I am pleased to post our list of guest speakers for the semester (full list of events to come).

Tuesday, Sept. 19 - BBQ with new SJSU photojournalism professor, Dr. Michael Cheers. Cheers is a former professor of photojournalism and magazine journalism at the University of Mississippi. The BBQ starts at 5 p.m. at the 7th Street BBQ Pits on the SJSU Campus.

Thursday, Sept. 28 - Shmuel Thaler, staff photographer of Santa Cruz Sentinel and president of the California Press Photographers Association. Nhat Meyer, staff photographers with San Jose Mercury News. They will talk on ethics in the digital darkroom age.

Tuesday, Oct. 10 - Michael Grecco, Los Angeles freelance photographer from editorial to advertising.

Thursday, Oct. 26 - Frederic Neema, San Francisco freelance photographer.

Thursday, Nov. 9 - Marcio Sanchez and Jeff Chiu, staff photographers with Associated Press.

Thursday, Nov. 30 - Brad Mangin, freelance sports photographer.

Where: SJSU Journalism building Dwight Bentel Hall room 133
When: All meetings start at 6 p.m. with exception of the 9/19 BBQ
RSVP: none
Cost: none
Parking: 7th and San Carlos Streets

Here are links to a map of campus (DBH is located in C2) as well as directions to the campus. For more information you can email sjsunppa@gmail.com.

It has been more than a month since my last post. I have been kept busy at my new post as Spartan Daily online editor. Thanks to Neal Waters, we started the semester off with a multimedia presentation on the San Jose Grand Prix.

Neal and I are also working on a rather frustrating site redesign for thespartandaily.com. As Ryan Sholin pointed out not too long ago, it can be a pain to work in a system that is "driven by a daily print cycle" and formatted to look like a newspaper. Breaking free of this College Publisher supplied mold has required Neal to tear apart most of what CP had built, while still being bound by some of their basic formatting rules when trying to redesign the site.

Also in the works online is the recently launched Spartan Daily blogs. I hope to migrate all of the columnists from the main daily page over to the blog in some manner, as well as add representatives from various aspects of student life on campus.