The Brandon Simmons Blog

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  • Social Media Love

    Social Media Love

    Recently I wrote an article about Pay 2 Play practices going on with local hip hop shows. It was written from a personal persepective and received some good feedback. So here are some pics I posted it on Facebook and decided to show some of the social media love I’ve…

  • Data Journalism used in the Newsrooms

    Data Journalism used in the Newsrooms

    The past few weeks in regards to data journalism there has only been mentions and predictions of how actual newsrooms would function with this new endeavor. Well this week, the readings have discussed how newsrooms actually look when applying data journalism as apart of their news cycle. The scenarios all…

  • Testing Infographic

    So I looked up how to make an infographic online and came up with a few. Check them out, it’s just some stuff I played around with. NBA Career Comparison | Create Infographics

  • Picture Me Coding: Big Data Visualizations

    Picture Me Coding: Big Data Visualizations

      For the past two weeks we have basically took the crash course into data journalism and may have more to go. In this current section of it, it focuses more on the visulizations that have appeared with the data which in a sense puts into visual everything that has…

  • My Bittersweet Attitude on Pay2Play

    For the last few weeks or so I have been seeing posts regarding the practice of pay2play. I just wanna offer some insight from my personal view. I came to Central Texas in 04 to attend Texas State and graduated in 09. Around that time, San Marcos’ opportunities for hip…

  • Newsroom and Data Journalism

    Newsroom and Data Journalism

      Last week’s readings introduced us to data journalism and what it all entails. This week is focusing on more of the application of data journalism, particularly in the newsrooms. One of the questions I proposed for the last discussion was whether or not data journalism can help alleviate news…

  • San Marcos Music Award Nominee

    San Marcos Music Award Nominee

    So this weekend I received some amazing news regarding my music. I have been nominated for a San Marcos Music Award for Slept on Artist of the Year. For those who do not know what “slept on” means, it is another term for describing someone who is underrated at what…

  • Why I Think the Seahawks SHOULD Win; But Why they Won’t

    Why I Think the Seahawks SHOULD Win; But Why they Won’t

    Making this year’s Super Bowl prediction was not as easy as one might assume. Perhaps it is because this year I am apart of an actual sports writing team and sports writing requires you to make some educated and some uneducated guesses. I mean looking at both of these teams…

Meet the Man

Get to know the talented individual behind this blog

When i was a freshman in high school I remember we hd to write our autobiography of our likes and interests. Fast forward 13 years later and I’m doing the same in the form a website for my graduate class. I could copy some of the same things butI’m not sure my professor would buy the fact that my favorite cereal is CapN Crunch or Allen Iverson is my all-time favorite athlete.

When I first started this website it was as basic as basic websites can be, but now with newer additions such as html5, css and WordPress it is looking more like 21st century than 1995 which I am very proud of. Also when I first started this site, it was intended for purposes of being in my portfolio to submit to companies. Included within this site is everything you want to know about me personally and professionally. If you are a fan of any content shown on here then feel free to check back on the site regularly as I will be updating this site even after the class is finished. So click on any of the links above and get to know me as much as you want.