Archive for February, 2008
HW18 Truth or Lies???
Thursday, February 28th, 2008On http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/02/26.html, Robert Scoble explains the fundamentals of writing a good blog. Here I will quickly review an article I found interesting and discuss whether it is believable according to Scoble’s guidelines. According to an article from http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_1_in_every_100_Americans_0228.html, more than one in every one hundred people in the United States is in prison. This creates [...]
HW16 Bloggy Boom
Monday, February 25th, 2008Although blogging has become such a popular thing to do, Japanese blogger Joi Ito still believes it can retain some personal aspects. For example Ito believes that the way to maintaining a civil blog site is to make it personal. Hence he named his blog site after his name in order to enforce a sense [...]
HW14: Blogs and Podcasts go Wild!
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Blogging was a newer creation three years ago, but what has not changed is the popularity of it. A quote from Kline and Burnstein’s Blog! reveals just how popular blogs are on a daily basis. “… 23,000 blogs are being built every day; the BusinessWeek story ups that to 40,000.” Blogging is the tool the [...]
HW13: My favorite blog post this week
Monday, February 18th, 2008Though many people will probably protest the fact, it seems that Hollywood celebrity news coverage is still sexist. My favorite blog post of the past week was in Jezebel entitled “US Editor Claims Women Want Covers That Exploit Female Celebs.” It caught my eye because it brought up an issue that is not so talked [...]
HW10 Agree or Disagree that is the Question
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008In Kline and Burnstein’s Blog! an interview with Ayelet Waldman told of how Waldman went from a novelist stay-at-home mom to a blog fanatic. She was sucked into the blogosphere and brought as far as to write a suicide note online because of fellow bloggers comments to stories about her before other bloggers, friends and [...]
HW8: invasion of Privacy
Monday, February 11th, 2008Monitoring where children go online is in my opinion a violation of the privacy and the point of being online. Today Facebook is larger than ever, but if parents started checking their children’s Facebook pages, then there would be nowhere for them to have an online social network. In Kline and Burnstein’s Book Blog!, it [...]
HW7: Filesharing is the present and future! Paper abstract
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008I have been thinking about what the best topic for my term paper should be. I decided that I want to write about file sharing among youth in America and Europe. I have been interested with file sharing and the ingenuity of it for some time now and I want [...]
HW6: Are Radio, TV and Newspapers going to Disappear?
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008This chapter of David Kline’s Blog! discussed how the old forms of media are being put to the wayside in order to allow new Internet forms of media to take over. It discussed the different types of communication that used to exist such as tapes and records and how the radio, newspaper and television adapted [...]
Our Opinions Finally Matter!
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008Though before I didn’t fully appreciate the impact that bloggers have on product success or failure, I now know otherwise. From reading “The Voice of the Customer” in Blog! and chapter one in “They Say/ I Say” by Graff and Birkenstein, I have concluded that many companies are now facing [...]
HW3: Jeez Media, U Kept That Quiet!
Friday, February 1st, 2008After reading chapter one in Blog! titled Toward a More Participatory Democracy, I had a few enlightened ideas come to my mind. For one, I had no idea before starting this class on blogs that they were such a huge deal. The roles they played in major elections therefore were oblivious to me until now. [...]