"Big World"

Clear Channel owns most of the airwaves. At the beginning of the article, I did not like the issue with Agnew and Clear Channel. I do not think one company should own most of the airwaves, and how they can make up a price for advertisements. When one company owns most of the radio stations, they can make advertisers pay whatever they want because advertisers do not have a choice if they want their advertisements to be heard by everyone. It also can make for radio to become very bias because it is all the same company's opinions.
The only good thing I read in the article is that it makes it easy for managers of bands to put on a tour across the country. If Clear Channel owns most of the amphitheatres, by making one phone call to Clear Channel, you can book your tour across the country. The bad thing, just like with advertisers, is that they can give you any price they want, but this is better than having to call mulitple companies and booking.

Critique of other classmate's websites

First I want to start off saying, "I hope no one is offended by my critiques! Who cares what i think about them haha!"
Taryn's page is fun. She has pictures, a scrolling menu, flash movie, an update on her engagment. I like it!
Ryan's page: I think Ryan's main site page is very plain. It's all words with a few links. He doesn't have a scroll menu or flash movie!
Diana's site is cute. Not as nice as Taryn's, but still cute. She has a flash movie, and a scrolling menu! I really like her photo page. It is nice and neat, and fun to look at!
Alicia's page: Everything is centered in a line. Her page is fun, but i would put things across the page instead of a line. Overall good, but the "blog" button in her scroll menu doesn't have the rollover different button thing.
Angela's site is cool. I like how it's black and white with her title in blue. One thing I noticed on Alicia and Angela's site is that neither made another page for their video yet. When you click them, they don't do anything. Others have made a page that says under construction or something like that.
Arvind has no page lol!
Kiesten's site: I really like how she has a distored picture as the background!
Linzi's site is really nice. I like it. One problem is that her links in her scroll menu are not working. I can only go to her blog. I would have put her little bio under her pictures to help with the flow. Overall really nice!
Heather's page: I really like the colors and how she has an interest page and ambitions page. Her page is in a staight line too. Her page is very nice, one can get to know her just by going to her page.
Liz's page is very nice and neat, easy on the eyes. I like it, but she is another that has inactive links from her scrolling menu.
Shana's website is nice, but none of her links in her scroll menu link to anywhere?
Nothing on Kristin's webpage seems to work, but something may just be wrong with this computer? I don't know.
Overall, I like my page the best, but there are somethings on other people's pages that I like.
I like Diana's photo page the best. I like Taryn's charities and organizations page, and I like Heather's ambitions and interests page!

"Final blog entry"

I loved my Emerging Media class! I enjoy learning new computer programs, building a webpage, editing photos. If I had these programs at home, I would not have a social life beyond networking on the computer. I would constantly build a website, and further my skill on these programs. Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and GoLive were all fun to work with. My mom always asks me what I would like for Christmas; I'm thinking I want all this software!
I believe that having knowledge in these programs will be very benifcial when jobseeking. All these programs are opening up new job opertunities that recent college graduates in the media will be great for. I wish there was an Emerging Media Practice 2 class that I could take that would teach me more things on the programs and new programs! I'm such a media nerd...

My video

My video for my website will most likely be a how to video... I will record Bryan A. while he teaches you how to play a song on the guitar. I am still thinking about it, but most likely it will be that. I would just find a video on youtube or something that i like, but i don't want any copyright/plagerism issues!

Current.tv

I am really interested in traveling and I found a cute/short pod on a guy in traffic in India. They drive the tiniest little cars, and there is no stop signs. It is complete confusion. Check it out here.

Web design Critique

I have found a really bad website and a really good website for you to look at the difference...
Really bad website:I chose this website because it is a complete mess. The American Press is the newspaper here in Lake Charles, LA. The page is extremly messy. There are adds everywhere and no focal point. When you go to a page, you want to be able to find what you are looking for right away, and this page does not allow you to do so. It is also an example of an unorganized website we used in class.
Really neat website: I chose yahoo.com as my organized website. It has a ton of information for you that is very easy to navigate through. Nice and Neat!