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Author: Ryan Schaefer
For this weeks blog, we are... yet again commenting on how the internet has changed our life and de-dee-dum de-dee-dee. I am known to be a Web Doctor for myself and anyone who is sick around me. I love the virtual chase of rummaging through WebMD and all of someone's symptoms to diagnose them much more severely than appropriate. This is slightly off topic, because they aren't really citizen journalists, but it has to do with blogger credibility. Anyways, so many people post responses to these questions and give specific medical advice to these random people, and I can assure you that they probably did not attend any kind of medical school. While there are obviously some unreliable bloggers- the internet provides a wealth of knowledge that if used diligently, can serve many purposes.
In a semester's time, I have made the conversion of reading the New York Times in paper, to reading it on my Itouch while I lay in bed thinking of what to write on my blog. As we have discussed many times in class, paper is going out of fashion, but technology does have its limits. For example, I would not want to read Harry Potter on an E-book... I just wouldn't... and what if the battery runs out- or I have to charge the dang thing. Am I going to sit by an outlet and read?
Obama's campaign manager is/was a genius. They made a celebrity out of President Obama by appealing to young voters by "speaking our language" - Smart people. They obviously see how dynamic the internet has become, and I think they also realize how blogging enhances any writing by adding other dimensions... by linking and such.
2 comments:
Good point about having to charge the book. They should make a solar sleeve for it like they have for the iPhone. Then, you'd just have to read in the sun instead of by an outlet (which is a little better depending on the month).
I agree with you about Obama’s campaign success regarding the internet. His campaign manger found a perfect way to reach our demographic. They realized that we are glued to the internet and McCain’s campain manger missed that. I bet the McCain team would like a redo. Nice Blog BTW.