Monday, March 10, 2008
Why I hate Sean Hannity...
I'm not sure if anyone is still reading this, but I needed to vent. Sean Hannity, Fox News a-hole, is doing a new series where he is basically race baiting. He's been attacking Obama's involvement in a black church, basically calling him a black racist. Check it out here.
Now, I'm not going to say that I necessarily believe all of the church's viewpoint, but I don't think Sean Hannity is any expert on race relations or equality. Also, what bothers me most about this whole thing - the election, Fox News ultra-Christians, etc. - is that our country was founded as a secular nation, not a Christian one. The First Amendment was written to guarantee freedom of religion and freedom FROM religion. It's not freedom of Christianity. I wish we could stop injecting religion into politics. I want to puke.
Now, I'm not going to say that I necessarily believe all of the church's viewpoint, but I don't think Sean Hannity is any expert on race relations or equality. Also, what bothers me most about this whole thing - the election, Fox News ultra-Christians, etc. - is that our country was founded as a secular nation, not a Christian one. The First Amendment was written to guarantee freedom of religion and freedom FROM religion. It's not freedom of Christianity. I wish we could stop injecting religion into politics. I want to puke.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
"Leakage"???
this is the article I was talking about in my presentation from Newsweek that talks about Alli. http://www.newsweek.com/id/33731
It's pretty funny but their are many more out there that say about the same thing. I think this article just sums it up real nice.
It's pretty funny but their are many more out there that say about the same thing. I think this article just sums it up real nice.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Online Gaming
From Angie:
Is it just me or is online gaming one of the coolest phenomena to hit the internet. It’s not like the internet was not already cool enough, but now we have the capabilities to play video games with people in other countries and we don’t even have to worry about the language barrier. I was playing NBA Live 08 with my nephew when he asked me if he could start up a game against some guy that he could not beat the night before. L looked at him puzzled thinking who the heck the person was, and then I asked him what time he would be over to play. My nephew laughed at me and said he’s already here; we play each other through online gaming. Man, an Xbox 360 has internet capability, that’s crazy to me. I guess I sound kind of old school when I say this, but we didn’t have that back when I was a kid. That’s funny to me because I am still a kid, kind of and in just a few years the internet has advanced a ton and communication has enhanced. What’s next?
Is it just me or is online gaming one of the coolest phenomena to hit the internet. It’s not like the internet was not already cool enough, but now we have the capabilities to play video games with people in other countries and we don’t even have to worry about the language barrier. I was playing NBA Live 08 with my nephew when he asked me if he could start up a game against some guy that he could not beat the night before. L looked at him puzzled thinking who the heck the person was, and then I asked him what time he would be over to play. My nephew laughed at me and said he’s already here; we play each other through online gaming. Man, an Xbox 360 has internet capability, that’s crazy to me. I guess I sound kind of old school when I say this, but we didn’t have that back when I was a kid. That’s funny to me because I am still a kid, kind of and in just a few years the internet has advanced a ton and communication has enhanced. What’s next?
Wiki Articles
from Angie
My new favorite web sites are wiki sites. The opportunity to visit a page and learn about what others know about a topic and to also have the chance to share your knowledge with others is rewarding feeling. Wiki sites embody many of the things that we have discussed in class. They provide information for others to learn from, they give everyone a chance to share their ideas and knowledge, but best of all they give us the chance to write on the internet. Wiki pages are a lot like Denver Open Media in that they give anyone a chance to showcase and produce what they know and want others to know. I just though I would let you all know how cool I think wikis are!
My new favorite web sites are wiki sites. The opportunity to visit a page and learn about what others know about a topic and to also have the chance to share your knowledge with others is rewarding feeling. Wiki sites embody many of the things that we have discussed in class. They provide information for others to learn from, they give everyone a chance to share their ideas and knowledge, but best of all they give us the chance to write on the internet. Wiki pages are a lot like Denver Open Media in that they give anyone a chance to showcase and produce what they know and want others to know. I just though I would let you all know how cool I think wikis are!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
birth of the blog
I know that there are several people who chose to pick a specific event and how the media or blogs depicted them. During my research I found this article which looked at how vital blogs can be in situations of disasters or tragic events (ie- school shootings, Hurricane Katrina). It examines how the events of September 11 2001 really showed and boosted the importance of blogs due to the first hand accounts and eye witness videos and testimonies. I thought it might be interesting for some of us whose papers are on similar events or subjects.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Hahahahahaha!
Bush adviser and White House official Timothy Goeglein (three times fast anyone?) resigned after he was discovered to be a plagiarist! Smells like burnt Leopold...pungent...stings the nostrils.
From MSNBC:
"The News-Sentinel said an internal investigation found that 20 of 38 of Goeglein's columns published in the past eight years contained portions copied from other sources without attribution. Goeglein has submitted unsolicited, or guest, columns to The News-Sentinel for more than 20 years and he has never been paid for them, the paper said."
The moral of the story? Mayhaps if the Bush administration got paid they'd stop lying. Wait...no...that doesn't....shit. Back to the drawing board...
BeeTeeDub, if you like swearing, there's all sorts of profanity-laced goodness over at my blog.
~J
From MSNBC:
"The News-Sentinel said an internal investigation found that 20 of 38 of Goeglein's columns published in the past eight years contained portions copied from other sources without attribution. Goeglein has submitted unsolicited, or guest, columns to The News-Sentinel for more than 20 years and he has never been paid for them, the paper said."
The moral of the story? Mayhaps if the Bush administration got paid they'd stop lying. Wait...no...that doesn't....shit. Back to the drawing board...
BeeTeeDub, if you like swearing, there's all sorts of profanity-laced goodness over at my blog.
~J
Monday, March 3, 2008
Links Galore
First, CNN just launched (as far as I know it's pretty recent) a new iReport Beta Site that is supposed to be a place for "uncensored, user-powered news." Additionally, "All the stories here are user-generated and instant: CNN does not vet or verify their authenticity or accuracy before they post. The ones with the "On CNN" stamp have been vetted and used in CNN news coverage."
So...there you have it. Censored if it's appeared on CNN, if it's just for the web, naked iReports are still fair game!
This is the link to the article I referenced (a lot) in class about the original newspaper, Publick Occurrences. It has lots of fun information about North Carolina papers specifically, but the insights on early American newspapers is pertinent (to me) and interesting (mostly to me) when juxtaposed with ideas of early blog development as well.
If you'd like to take a closer look at the video we watched a smidge/tidge/skoche/bit of, it's located ici.
(that's French for 'here'!!!!)
mais je ne parle pas francias bien.
Um, methinks that's it.
Any questions comments or cheap abuse, commment here or visit my blog at ersatzvellum.blogspot.com!
~J
So...there you have it. Censored if it's appeared on CNN, if it's just for the web, naked iReports are still fair game!
This is the link to the article I referenced (a lot) in class about the original newspaper, Publick Occurrences. It has lots of fun information about North Carolina papers specifically, but the insights on early American newspapers is pertinent (to me) and interesting (mostly to me) when juxtaposed with ideas of early blog development as well.
If you'd like to take a closer look at the video we watched a smidge/tidge/skoche/bit of, it's located ici.(that's French for 'here'!!!!)
mais je ne parle pas francias bien.
Um, methinks that's it.
Any questions comments or cheap abuse, commment here or visit my blog at ersatzvellum.blogspot.com!
~J
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