pattimartinvisitomiescuela

during her high school years at manasquan, Patti Martin was the editor of her school's paper. martin has not strayed far from her jersey shore roots and has been writing for the local Asbury Park Press for the last 25 years. she took the time to visit my journalism class today and gave a great deal of insight into the future of journalism.
Martin at first appeared to be an advocate of newspapers' unavoidable move to the internet(she even gave us advice on how to become a successful blogger), but later admitted to having mixed feelings about the age of "citizen bloggers"
"[i feel] sort of a resentment because we're held to a different standard," said Martin on the subject, "that's damaging sometimes."
one point that Martin made that i find particularly interesting is to always ask the "eternal question": why? why is it important to write about these things? why would people care? i am wondering why people are more interested in these "citizen bloggers" than qualified journalists. the internet has changed how almost everything is viewed. i am also conflicted on the switch to the internet, but it is probably better to work with it than fight it.
this is a nice transition to what i would like to propose, a website, for our Crimson Courier. i have been meaning to bring this up for quite some time, but Patti Martin's visit made me realize i should suggest a website now. i feel like it would create more work for us, but the results would be so overwhelmingly positive. we could more accurately advertise when the paper will be out, and all of the articles that will be included. we could have snippets of the next months articles and archives of the previous. i feel this would be such a great addition to the already amazing Crimson Courier, and i hope it happens!

lolololol

there is an almost daily comic called dinosaur comics and it rules. this guy ryan north takes the same picture and just changes the dialogue for every comic! genius!


anyway the comic from a few days ago just made me lawl.


i am sorry i find this hilarious.


IF YOU ARE REALLY BORED AND WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A LAUGH NEARLY EVERY DAY READ INTERNET COMICS. THANK YOU.

whatdidyougiveup?

apparently a group of college students gave up facebook for lent. the extra time that would have been spend surfing the internet will give the students the time they need to become closer to God. but even without a religious reason, maybe we all should spend a little bit less time on the internet. i have realized i spend almost every hour not spend in school signed in to facebook, even if i am not at the computer. maybe i'll start by spending a day without facebook, i don't know if i could stand 40.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510484,00.html

whatissextin'

"have you ever heard of... 'sexting?'" my dad recently asked. i had not ever heard of the term until the now almost daily headlines warning of the dangers associated with it. this is not new to teens, but suddenly every adult in america is checking their child's phone for nudie pics. the recently unveiled mystery of sexting has only put a deeper fear of technology into the older generation, but maybe this fear is justified.


if i were to write a feature about sexting, i would probably describe it as the sending of inappropriate pics via text message.

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0508/520195.html

losingtotheinternet

how often do we hear about someone posting something about their job or their school and how often does it end up coming back to haunt them? i came upon ANOTHER story, this one not involving an unfortunate facebook album, but a twitter tweet that insulted a future employer. this is already been turned into an internet meme and has sparked my interest in twitter.

my mom is very into twitter, which is weird. just last weekend she found out that a friend's hotel room was given away via twitter, and immediately sent sympathetic emails. she wants me to get a twitter to update from my phone when im out, so she doesn't have to call me and ask where i am. i don't know how comfortable i am with having it on the internet, i could just as easily text the people that would care to know. twitter is kind of like status updates i guess. except its just status updates and it kind of creeps me out.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29796962/


heres a thing about twitter that i might have made me lol a little.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w&feature=featured

NEWFACEBOOK

"Welcome to the new home page
You're looking at the real-time stream of posts from your friends and connections. Control the stream using the filters on the left. To hide posts from friends in this stream, click the "x" in the upper-right corner of a post. Learn more."


I DONT GET IT REALLY.
so i have to consciously point out who i do and do not want to show up on my newsfeed? i could not find my event invites for like a day (which is probably just me being dumb) but like i guess it's ok. people complained about the old new facebook for like months. just as i was getting used to it it changed. but oh well!



WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE NEW FACEBOOK.

"The visual hierarchy is less effective than the former layout, and the interface is less intuitive. It seems to me that the Facebook developers are Twitter wannabe's," said Jon Laing, a Sophomore at The University of the Arts.

However, not all consumer reception has been negative. "The new layout may be somewhat of a chore to learn, but I think that the newest version of Facebook will actually be a welcomed change. Granted, it seems to be a consolidation of some other popular social networking sites in existence. But the idea of attempting to compress our Internet needs into just one click should be lauded for being a step in the right direction towards convenience."
Matt McCue (via text message)

Anne Thoma at 7:36pm March 17
it rules.

Arielle Rebecca Fieltsch at 7:46pm March 17
i hate it.

Paige Laino at 7:56pm March 17
i did not like it but am already used to it since i only refresh my own profile and my inbox anyway

Joe Fadem at 7:56pm March 17
It has little relistening value and I cannot seem to get into the sets of ambient noise.

Justyn Plaskon at 8:14pm March 17
its stalkerish... it stalks everyone for you and i don't want to know/see that stuff cause im not a stalker

also as a side note: i hate when people do something to warrant a notification and then delete it because i almost always think it was something mean that they realized was mean even though it could have just been a typo.

billspassed

yesterday, a bunch of bills were passed which increased penalties for online abuse, and also made it mandatory for computer repair-ers to report child pornography.

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1237263371298890.xml&coll=1

impressive!