About Kiyoshi Martinez
This blog: The concept for nerdlusus is simple: a collection of personal essays on topics ranging from comic books, mashed-up music, post-modern fiction, cinema, media, Internet culture and whatever geeky stuff comes along. Updates are not done on a regular schedule, however, I update my Tumblr blog and Twitter account on a consistent basis.
Follow me via RSS: The RSS feed for nerdlusus is here, the RSS feed for my tweets is here, and my Tumblr RSS feed is here.
Past projects: For fun and a mild profit, I started the now-defunct AngryJournalist.com, which I referred to as a punching bag for the industry.
A brief biography: I currently work for the Illinois Senate Republican Caucus as communications and public affairs specialist. With that note, I must point out the views and opinions expressed here and on any other site or service mentioned above are mine and are not necessarily those of my employers. Apologies for the disclaimer, but for some people it needs to be said.
Before I left journalism, I was the Web Editor at 22nd Century Media.
I received my graduate degree from the University of Illinois, Springfield in the Public Affairs Reporting program. I interned as a statehouse reporter in the Springfield bureau for the Rockford Register Star.
I did my undergraduate work at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in news-editorial journalism at the College of Communications.
I received my first dosage of in journalism at The Daily Illini, the independent student newspaper at UIUC. During the course of four semesters I did a variety of jobs starting as a columnist and eventually became editor-in-chief.
To contact me: Via e-mail — kiyoshimartinez@gmail.com. Also, you can use that address to talk to me on GoogleTalk. If you prefer AOL Instant Messenger, KiyoshiMartinez.