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.
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