FREE DONUT.............

I personally do not read blogs ever. I rarely like to read about other people’s day online, or read about what they think. Why not just go to a website where you know the information is correct. When I think of blogs, I feel like they have low creditability. However for the second part of this blog we had to pick a blog and write about it. Therefore you could see my problem, I do not read blogs. I looked over some of the blogs my teacher put up on the class blog, but none of those caught my interest either. So I turned to what I knew best, celebrity gossip. I think you all know what I am talking about, Perez Hilton’s blogs. Perez Hilton has become so famous for his celebrity blogs. Everyone in Hollywood knows who he is, probably because each of their names has appeared on his blog at least once or twice. Most people know Perez for his humorous celebrity gossip. But I was surprised to see something else besides celebrity gossip grace his famous blog. I was a blog about going to vote. Perez wrote about how Krispy Krème is give away a free donut on Election Day to all people who vote. If you go to a Krispy Krème and show them your “I voted” sticker they will give you a free patriotic donut with red, white and blue sprinkles on it for voting. I know crispy crème probably paid Perez to do that but I just thought it was nice to see Perez encouraging people to vote and to see something besides celebrity gossip on his page. If you want to read the blog click this link below.
How to get a free donut!

T.V on the Internet???

The internet and convergence have impacted the television in many ways. First the internet is now full of the episodes and commercials on the television. Therefore if a viewer has missed something on television they can now easy go back and view it on the internet. Another impact is YouTube. Instead of watching things on television teenagers are now surfing you tube for their entertainment in their spare time. Usually if something funny happens in television, it will show up on YouTube the next day. I used to be you had to catch that funny moment on television when it happened. But now because of internet convergence you can catch all those moments on television on the internet. A third impact is that with television on the internet there are fewer commercials and viewers like less commercials. I think this convergence could be a good thing and a bad thing. It is a good thing because it is allowing the viewers to be able to vie their favorite shows on television anytime they won’t. Also it is also keeping up with our ever changing community. However there is a negative side to the convergence. With shows showing over the internet, there are now fewer ways for advertisers to get their products out to the consumers. In the end it can be looked at as a negative and as a positive. But it makes you wonder how far the media will take convergence with the internet. What else will we be able to do on the internet in the future?

It’s Not over Till the Third Debate

For this blog I was assigned to watch one of the three debates. Well I actually watched all three. But the question is why did I decide to write about the third debate? Well the first two debates I kept getting distracted and could not really remember much about them. Not to mention that the first two debates were kind of boring. So there I was on Wednesday night, I sat in front of the television in my dorm room with my chips and my salsa at hand and concentrated. I turned off my phone, told my friends I was busy, and focused on the debate.

I really liked the way this debate was set up, it was more personal. The theme of this debate was suppose to be foreign policy I thought, but it was more about the country’s economic problems. Obama talked about his plan for change and his tax cuts for the middle class while McCain replied saying that Obama’s plan would only make middle class and small businesses pay more taxes. This part of the debate confused me because McCain kept saying that Obama’s plan was to tax the middle class, when Obama clearly said that wasn’t part of his plan. This part of the debate is also where the character “the plumber” came in. At first I was confused on whether that was a real person, but in fact it was. I like how they used a real person to use as an example to describe each of their plans.

The second part of the debate that caught my attention was when the two candidates talked about negative attacks in each others campaigns. Both candidates argued that each other had negative attacks in their campaign. But finally Obama said “the voters don’t care about our hurt feelings, they want to know how we are going to get through this economic crisis”. I thought that was well said. Although it really does scare me how negative this election has become. When I hear people in the background of McCain and Palin’s rally saying “kill him”, it really scares me. Has our country still held on to racial bias? Have we not come to accept all races yet? A threat of killing someone is definitely taking it way too far in my opinion.

However after watching the debate, I thought it was more interesting than others. But at the end of the day McCain has some ground to make up. Right now he is down in the polls by double digits. I do not think this debate really helped any of the undecided voters. I think the people who went in for either Obama or McCain, came back out feeling the same way. So McCain is still in the same trouble he was before. I think McCain wasted time talking about issues that the voters did not want to hear. Each candidate had their strong points and weak points, but we will not know what to expect till the very last moment of this election. Not too long from now we will all be sitting in front of the television, waiting to hear the results of the election, and that is when we will know exactly who won the debates, right?