Moammar Gadhafi, the overthrown Libyan leader, took over news stations Thursday with news that he had died from a bullet to the head.

The Boston Globe used social media to update the status of this breaking news.

By using all-capital status markers such as BREAKING NEWS and UPDATE, The Globe effectively drew attention to their tweets in a crowded news feed.

I first heard news of Gadhafi's death through Twitter (@BostonGlobe). I was instantly drawn to The Globe's updates. They were succinct, but provided all necessary information. Their tweets were frequent, but not overwhelming.

Overall, The Boston Globe used social media to their advantage to bring readers in and provide up-to-date coverage on this world news story.

The Boston Globe has come along way in its use of digital journalism and web content since September.

The Globe replaced Boston.com, it's out-dated first site suffering from a commercial overload, with bostonglobe.com.

Bostonglobe.com offered a save feature that organized your stories you wanted to save – similar to Delicious.

I have followed The Globe through social media, namely it's various Twitter and Facebook accounts and pages. I hope that they will further their use of social media to stay relevant.

The nearly month long free trial of this site showed great improvement from the original free site, but that time is ended. Now that The Globe has gotten its online viewers hooked on bostonglobe.com, they are charging an online subscription fee – something I will not be buying.

It will be interesting to see how readers react to the subscription fee and how many of them will pay for use of the site.

Back to boston.com to me – a site that you can barely call a news organization.

For my Digital Journalism II mid-term, I was to create an audio slideshow using my photojournalism from my previous class project.

This was my first attempt at both photo and audio journalism. I was scared.

After visits from John Pray, the associate vice provost for educational technology at Marquette and resident "audio-guru," and Berford Gammon, a self-proclaimed "cropaholic" and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's photography director, my troubles were eased. Slightly.

I reviewed my professor, Herbert Lowe's, blogs on these classroom visits to prepare for my project.

My class and I learned about both audio and photojournalism from various NewsU courses by the Poynter Institute.

After hours of hard work, I finally finished my slideshow, pleased with the results and happy to be done with it. Then my classmates and I were told the projects wouldn't upload to our websites.

After numerous technical problems, I present my mid-term project – Mid-Term: Jillian Ogren.

A true technological visionary, Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple and creator of Pixar Animation, died yesterday at the age of 52.

The Boston Globe heralded Jobs as one of this millennium's greatest innovators and inventors. The man who brought us Apple as we know it is gone.

Jobs changed the world and technology forever. The iPhone broke foundries and brought Jobs's motto "Think Different" to life. Before this phone was unveiled, cellphones were thought of as purely mobile phones – texting and email were still fancy features.

In The Boston Globe's Arts section, Wesley Morris explored why Jobs was so successful: he made technology less scary.

In this story, Morris said, "Jobs removed the fear and essentially hid the computer: the iPod (computer as record crate), the MacBook (computer as personal office), the iPhone (computer as lifeline), the iPad (computer as, well, we’re still figuring that out)."

Morris contrasted the public love of Steve Jobs with the current backlash against other CEOs in the "occupy Wall-Street" protests. Morris said Jobs was loved because he always seemed to be working for the people.

Whether a "PC" or a "Mac," the world mourned the loss of Jobs, who has suffered from Pancreatic cancer and stepped down as CEO in August in part due to his deteriorating health.

The public took to Twitter and Facebook to give condolences and celebrate Jobs's life. The fact that I first read about Jobs' death on my iPhone and then blogged about it on my MacBook Pro is a testament to his legacy.

In addition to a headlined obituary, The Globe featured a photo timeline of Job's major inventions, both successes and failures – and that was only the first day of coverage.

In the past days after his death, The Boston Globe has covered numerous stories related to Jobs: a health and wellness story on pancreatic cancer and Jobs, a photo slideshow of Boston tributes and letters to the editor about Jobs just to name a few.

A photo slideshow commemorates Jobs's influence on pop culture. He brought us Pixar and the Mac. He told us to "Think Different," and although I cringe at his grammar, I know he changed the future of technology with those two words. While other companies were still looking into making phones with keyboards, Jobs was creating the iPhone – a device that has changed my life.

In his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford, Jobs addressed the graduates about his unlikely path to success.

He said: "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

Jobs was born out of wedlock, given up for adoption, dropped out of college and fired from the company he started, yet he still managed to change the world.

I put my photojournalist skills to the test by capturing Jillian Ogren at work as a desk receptionist for my Digital Journalism class project.

Ogren is a character. She is bubbly and animated – qualities which I knew would make her a great subject for this project.

After studying The Poynter Institute's NewsU course Language of the Image, I tried to use multiple photo elements in my slide show.

By taking a photo of the desk from the lobby entrance, I gained a sense of place to let my viewers know the set-up and layout of the lobby.

Ogren never stopped smiling. Her animated expressions allowed me to easily capture her emotions of joy, laughter and surprise.

When Rashaad Lay, a resident assistant, joined Ogren behind the desk, I used juxtaposition to make the shot more interesting.

I attempted to use Ogren's eyes and smile as points of entry for many of the photos.

I used specific moments of interaction to capture the expressions on each subject's face, much like I did in the shot were Lizzy Owens presents Ogren with a batch of cupcakes.

I believes the entire slide show functions as a personality portrait of Ogren.

September is over. And so is my free use of The Boston Globe's new website.

I must resort to using its free counterpart – the old model littered with advertisements. Today provides a new annoyance. Animated leaves sprinkle the screen and fall across the page in homage to the autumn season.

Although I am not happy with this outdated site, I must commend The Boston Globe for its use of photo galleries in both news and sport stories.

Today's top story, rain waters flood North Shore towns, featured two photo galleries – one professional and one of user-generated content.

The site also features a special photo gallery on the 2011 Topsfield Fair. This use of photos gives The Boston Globe readers a sense of community.

Another photo gallery focuses on the Boston Red Sox, and what players will need to change in order to create a more successful team for next year. These photos use personality portraits and emotion to capture the players instead of the typical baseball action shot.

I was surprised by The Boston Globe's use of photography on its free site.