Links Everywhere.

I went onto Ryan Sholin’s web site and I checked out a few of his attached web sites. Out of the seven attached sites available on his Links that redefine news site I would have to say Everyblock- Knight news challenge project and Flight delays- Las Vegas Sun were the most interesting. Compared to the other links on his page I found them the most helpful and easy to use. Both links made it easy to look up things for your local area that I would not have expected to find. On the Everyblock link I found ratings of restaurants and crimes rankings in somewhat near by areas, for San Fransisco, New York, and Chicago. New cities are coming soon but until then its still interesting to see what there is. The Flights delays site was interesting because it showed you just that. On the site you can check your flight, flights anywhere in America and also flight delay ratings for airlines and airports. I found both of these sites more interesting than the Cluetrain Manifesto. The Cluetrain Manifesto was interesting, but it was just a jumble of words for the most part. I found the other two sites were much more interesting because they were more interactive.

Cluetrain Manifesto

I read the Cluetrain Manifesto and I thought it seemed insightful because it seemed to me that it was a bunch of people's opinions put together. In the 95 Thesis it was interesting to see all the differences between each of them. Some are more insightful, others are talking of what change we need. I guess what it all comes down to is that the human voice is important and it has always been important to get your voice heard. The only way you can make change is by getting your voice heard. Otherwise you might as well just not try at all.

Dueling videos…courting the youth vote

Ah yes, well, I voted for Barack Obama but I enjoyed the Hillary Clinton video much more. The Hillary Video had more of a comedic tone to it and the Obama had a serious tone to it. The Obama video did not keep your attention quite as well, and was more repetitive. The Obama video just had a bunch of people from different racial backgrounds and genders saying "Yes we can" over and over. While the Hillary Video was well made, creative, and defiantly kept your attention with the whole bit about her being part of a band and deciding to run for president. Once the video has your attention they make their point. They say Hillary will make college affordable, fight global warming, and end the war. now, we will see how things go with the election, and I still stick with whom I voted for but out of the two, it made Hillary seem more appealing to me.

weekly blog post

For our MCOM 101 class we were given the assignment to listen to controversial radio show host Michael Savage for fifteen minutes. Savage is on the radio station KNEW 910 am. From 3 pm- 7pm. I thought Savage was quite interesting to listen to. I can understand however, how many people would say he was offensive. He is very opinionated and obviously an intelligent man though I don’t agree with most of what he says. Savage is most definitely a conservative man. He, from what I gathered listening to what he says, appears to despise democrats.
Savage was saying the he has wanted to change the name of the Martin Luther King day holiday to Civil rights day for years. When on the topic of changing the name of the MLK holiday to civil rights day, I believe he said: “if you want to see some “salad picker” to have his name on a holiday then, vote democrat.”’ Although offensive, Savage is within his rights under the first Amendment. Even when savage says statements such as “the gays and the feminists are draining the masculinity from this country.” After listening to Michael Savage for this assignment, I think I may tune in once in a while just to see what he is shaking up.

photo shop again

I'll have to write more later I'm out of time.

late-breaking blog post

Our class was given three options, write about the up coming election, write about a presentation or sorts, or write about the super bowl advertisements. My choice, of the three, I have come to is to write about the advertisements that ran during the super bowl.
I want to write about the commercials for a couple reasons. The first reason I wanted to write about the commercials is, I didn’t get the chance to watch them when the game was happening and I figured this would give me the opportunity to find them on the internet. The second reason goes along with my major. My major is advertising so I like to keep track to the advertisements on the television because I want to help make them one day.
It took me a little while to find a good site with all of the advertisements from the 2008 game. Many of the sites either had only one or two of the advertisements, were only a synopsis, or were from the wrong year. Once I found the right site I was blown away by the amount of commercials there were. The second quarter alone had 22 commercials.
There were a few advertisements that stuck out in my mind that most. The first was a “Tide To Go” advertisement with a talking stain that would talk gibberish over the man who was trying to present himself in a job interview. The second was a “Cars.com” with a man that had checked out a car on the internet to find the best price before going to the dealership. The third was a “CareerBuilder” advertisement with a woman that obviously hated her job but just didn’t know how to tell her boss. The woman was at her desk when her heart jumped out of her chest, walked up to her boss, and told him that she quite.
Overall I was quite entertained by this year’s super bowl advertisement lineup.