The earliest video games by the Atari Company laid down a rule: No player could ever harm a “human” character. Things have changed. Halo and Call of Duty simulate war and killing, and they sell millions of copies a month. The U.S. Army has adopted many video game-style technologies to train soldiers in battlefield procedures [...]

Asking our national question in Hopkinsville, Kentucky during the annual soap box derby. Yet fast cars and ice-cream cones weren’t the only excitement to fill the day. ________________ This is a video from youngandthewireless.com, a newhouse.syr.edu and news21.com project.

Andrew and I are almost finished with a week of editing and logging here in Syracuse and even while we get geared up for our trip to Iowa, we wanted to share this with you: A sneak peak of the work we’ve done with our tours of simulators on Fort Campbell. We’re working on a [...]

I’ve been experimenting with photography and combining different cameras. Here is a quick test combining a Canon EOS 1D Mk II N with a HD Flipcam. The images were gathered while scouting for locations at the preliminary trials of the Hopkinsville Soap Box Derby to use for asking the News21 national question.

With his white monogrammed oxford and western-Kentucky accent, Wynn Radford in every way looks the part of the southern businessman. Selling insurance, however, isn’t his only venture. Radford is also a modern day community organizer as sole sponsor and contributor to hopkinsvillehowto.com, a repository for public information. Radford says his website is not an attempt [...]