Blogs r' Us

Oh boy, the joy of learning.... what have I learned in this class. I found out that there is a lot going on the internet then i know....

side note: did you know that the father of PR is the nephew of Sigmund Freud.... okay that has nothing to do with internet but i think that a lot of PR tech. are really the driving force of today's internet. I mean Myspace is really not all that great, but if you tell people that every one else is doing it then it gets them at the gut level and they need a myspace page and then they tell everyone else how cool he is and blah blah blah etc. Next thing you know he is on the cover of time mag. for the most witty blogger on the net.

I have always considered myself pretty internet savy but when i enter this class I relieved I have missed a lot. Some for good, I mean If I have one more person tell me they are depressed because so and so did become their friend on friendster or myspace I going to go crazy. But things like Flickr. and Wiki (which I need to look up more) and the internet archive these are great useful things..... Also I getting prettty gitty about Google Movie theatre (at least that is what i am callign it) that is going to change Hollywood for the good or bad. To be able to upload a whole movie and let people pay for it or to do it for free is amazing to me..... THis is going to drive the bigwigs crazy and might lower the prices in theatre. I would rather watch a movie in a theatre over my computer screen but if it could lower the price and cause some of the more stupid shit out, Then i am all for it.

I am also very big on Pay Pals even though the scare of theif is high right now.... I think for the worse we will become more like numbers and less unquie but there is give and take..... As we can talk and share more over the computer we become less relient on touch and closeness Or we can come to cherish those times more.....

So what Have i learned in class, the internet is just beginning to do what it can do...... I both love and hate it, but most times love over comes all....

thanks for a fun class.

So now I can search the net during class... Now I can write to another student in Russia about Film history or about the state of toe fungus ... so what write.

Well I think this is a great thing... why go sit in a class staring at a teacher who has repeated the same leature over and over and over until it doen't mean anything anymore. Why wouldn't it be better to have a blog that you could log in and have group classes, upload assignments and ask questions in real time..... I know personally contact is always better and lost a lot in all of this whole internet world, but come on some of these basic classes are so big anyway. I would rather be able to do work on my own at my own pace without have stupid people ask dumb question just because they were not listen in the first place... plus then I could go back and reread the leature and get more in depth with it.

Okay so if that is a big step then maybe it could at least be part of class. Make the class be bi monthly. One week it blog and work time and the other week it is in class stuff. That would definaly work better in a enviroment like cal arts. It is supposed to be all about the art here. But as a undergrad it feels like sometimes I am so bogged down by the busy work that is given in the CS class..... It probably would help with skipping.

So anyway I think that it is great that teacher are starting blog..... I think teaching is going to expand to many different forms that are only going to benifit students....


Long live the blog!!!!!!!!!!






I found this on Village Voice's website link http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/0515,edsuppdayal,62903,12.html

I am sign up for blogline and confused about what the help it is and if i am every reg. because it said i needed to reply to an email, but the email never got to me..... weird.... I will play around a little more.

I enjoying flickr, I like the community aspect and the groups. there is a sense of pride in seeing how many people are looking at your image. My head was really big when some one put one of my pics on their favorites.

It also interesting how I think Images more then words can help you get to know some one or let you think you know someone..... the voyourisic quality of that is a little freaky but then again we know that people are looking........ It is going to be interesting is a few years or months when there starts to become flickr stars..... or Flickr is helping people become famous......... right now i check my flickr page every couple of days.......maybe some day it will be every day.

So now here is what makes flickr even greater....... This was a my first attempt and blogging a image.

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/


It is fun to find your own images on the web.... geeky dorky fun......

Flickr is one of my new wastes of time. Why do we need so much stuff to fill us up.? I don't know but i like the my chocolate with lots of 1's and 0's...............did that make sense, anyway. you wanted me to talk about flickr..... first off the article was from the Villiage Voice.com sorry, I was in a hurry and just want to save it before i forgot.

Anyway so i just starting using Flickr last week or so and I'm enjoying it very much. I alreally join a group "polaroid" and post about 25 pics up on line.

I have found it crazy that it takes forever to upload but that is a small prize to pay. Also I will say I have already looked up the tags "Nude" or "boobs" but what do you expect. I didn't actually expect what i got. One women had over 900 pics of her in differnet poses. Very strange.

Anyway Yahoo, probably just want to be buy it before google did. So i think it will be left alone until google get snapshot.com or soomething like that.


Plug into flickr....... yeah......