HW#25
We started the book Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend, it's about the war that is still going on in Iraq. I was in seventh grade when the war in Iraq began, and I never paid to much attention to what was going on there. I wish I had because I feel like I know nothing that is happening in the world today, because you need to know where something began to really understand where it is today. And I missed what happened in the beginning. But I think that this book will help me learn what really happened there and not just what the American government wants you to think happened.
For today we had to read the introduction and the foreword. These gave me a little background information on the war. They were told by Ahdaf Soueif and James Ridgeway. Ahdaf Soueif told us a little about what was going to happen in the book, so basically she gave an over view of the war from the point of view of someone from in Iraq. How worried they were about their families and lives.
While James Ridgeway told us about the war from the point of view of an American. He gave a lot of facts on the war, like the day it started and how much we spent on the war. He also talks about other wars that America has been apart of in the past.
It was very sad to read what Ahdaf had to say about what was going on in Iraq, so it makes me think that this book is going to be a very sad and emotional story. Especially when I never thought that we should go to war in the first place, I think that the military should be kept here to help protect us from other terrorist attacks not going to another country to go to war with them, but that is just my opinion and I am open to everyone's opinion and know that they can believe what ever they want.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
HW#24 A Room Of My Own
HW#24 A room of My own
"For if a woman is to write fiction she must have a room of her own." So if we are to look at the room I call my own we would see that it is not really a room but just a peace of a room. For I share my room with two other woman, so I must only make a peace of it my own. But that's not really the point, the point is that I do have my own room. Does that mean that I am a woman that can write fiction? It seems that is what Virginia Woolf is saying in her book A Room Of One's Own."If a woman wrote, she would have to write in the common
sitting-room....People's feelings were impressed on her; personal relations were always before her eyes. Therefore, when the middle-class woman took to writing, she naturraly wrote novels..." (Woolf 66-67)
My room, it is really just my bed area in which I spend my time, and the few times that I do get into a writing mood this is where you will find me. Sitting comfortably on my bed surrounded by bright colors, giant pillows and pictures of the people and things I love the most. I have made this space my own, this is a place where I can be myself. I can write, read,do my homework or just dream of what is to come. But this is a room of my own. "...The very walls are permeated by their creative force..." (Woolf 87)
"There must be freedom and there must be peace. Not a wheel must grate,
not a light glimmer. The curtains must be close drawn. The writer, I
thought, once his experience is over, must lie back and let his mind celebrate
its nuptials in darkness."(Woolf 104)
A room must be peacefully light and there must not be must sound. My rooms light comes from outside and from the light right by my bed, it is a peaceful light, it seems to cast a soft glow on everything in my room, the sound is only that of the outside, and the music of my life, only occasionally interrupted by the sound of voice and laughter. So you ask do I have a room of my own? I believe the answer is yes, it may not be a whole room but it is a space of my own.
HW#23 "My Apologies to Virginia Woolf"
HW# 23 With Apologies to Virginia Woolf
The scene, if I may ask you to fallow me, was now changed. The leaves are still falling... (Woolf 25) but this time in Keene, a small college town in New Hampshire. As I sit in the student center watching all the people pass, I read something. What is this thing in front of me? Something called a computer, is there any need for it? Will it help me find the truth? I look at something called a Blog. What is a Blog? Is it the answer to all my questions? Will it help me write my women in fiction paper? The questions keep coming but the answers seem to far to reach. Jezebel, a women of fiction? How is it that a women can be writing this?
With some of the articles; Sister act, Douch-ay: Republican women are hotter then Democratic Women... What? A women is hot? A Republican or a Democrat? Have they the right? Have they found the truth to why women are poorer then men? Seems in plan sight that these women are who lead this country, but is this correct? Looking at this blog it all seems to be about women, or women and their husband. Can this be the truth? What do the men have to say for this? Can they explain how this happened? I was amazed.... I sat on the chair of the student center and stared in amazement, for so long that the next time I looked up All human beings were laid asleep... Nobody seemed stirring....(Woolf 24)
The scene, if I may ask you to fallow me, was now changed. The leaves are still falling... (Woolf 25) but this time in Keene, a small college town in New Hampshire. As I sit in the student center watching all the people pass, I read something. What is this thing in front of me? Something called a computer, is there any need for it? Will it help me find the truth? I look at something called a Blog. What is a Blog? Is it the answer to all my questions? Will it help me write my women in fiction paper? The questions keep coming but the answers seem to far to reach. Jezebel, a women of fiction? How is it that a women can be writing this?
With some of the articles; Sister act, Douch-ay: Republican women are hotter then Democratic Women... What? A women is hot? A Republican or a Democrat? Have they the right? Have they found the truth to why women are poorer then men? Seems in plan sight that these women are who lead this country, but is this correct? Looking at this blog it all seems to be about women, or women and their husband. Can this be the truth? What do the men have to say for this? Can they explain how this happened? I was amazed.... I sat on the chair of the student center and stared in amazement, for so long that the next time I looked up All human beings were laid asleep... Nobody seemed stirring....(Woolf 24)
Monday, October 22, 2007
HW#22 Are we a Patriarchy???
HW#22
If you look at the book A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf you can see many signs of patriarchy. This is because in the years that this book took place women had no rights to do anything other then what their husbands or fathers told them to do. They didn't have the right to go to school or even to own land. Women do not have the right to write about men but men write about women all the time.
If someone came from another country or even another planet and looked at the Washington Post I think that they would think that our country is a some what of a patriarchy. I think this because a lot of the titles on our News papers sound kind of manly. Many of these titles are about things that are about things man like or are interested in.
If you look at the book A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf you can see many signs of patriarchy. This is because in the years that this book took place women had no rights to do anything other then what their husbands or fathers told them to do. They didn't have the right to go to school or even to own land. Women do not have the right to write about men but men write about women all the time.
She seems to be talking a lot about how there is a difference between the rights of men and women. She talks about how Men are aloud to write about women but women writers are not aloud to write about men."The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor." (Woolf page 33)
"Women do not write books about men- a fact... the aloe that flowers once in a hundred years would have flowered twice before I could set pen to paper." (page 27)
If someone came from another country or even another planet and looked at the Washington Post I think that they would think that our country is a some what of a patriarchy. I think this because a lot of the titles on our News papers sound kind of manly. Many of these titles are about things that are about things man like or are interested in.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
HW#21 A womens room
HW#21
What was Virginia Woolf really talking about when she wrote the book A Room Of One's Own? Well that is a really good question, but is there really a good answer? I think only the reader can answer that question, every person can interpret that righting for themselves and it isn't going to be exactly the same as another person who read the same thing. My interpretation of the first chapter in Virginia Woolf's book A Room Of One's Own might not be the same as yours but that doesn't mean that either of them are wrong, it just means that they are different. I believe that when she is talking about being by the river and the fishermen and how if they catch a fish that is to small they put it back, I think she is really talking about thoughts of a fiction righter. If you are thinking of something to wright you come up with a thought and you let it grow you can't just use the first thing that comes into your head, you have to let it grow. You can let it grow by thinking of it often and coming up with new ideas , but you must do it in the right spot. A women fiction righter must have her own money to spend and a room of her own to wright in, she can not be walking around on the turf of Oxford. While walking you think of many things you could be righting about but if you are a women of the that time period you don't have the right to walk where ever you want to, you can't walk on the turf of Oxford you may only walk on the gravel, and you may not enter the library without the presents of a man. How the times have changed. Maybe this is what Virginia is trying to get us to realize, times change.
What was Virginia Woolf really talking about when she wrote the book A Room Of One's Own? Well that is a really good question, but is there really a good answer? I think only the reader can answer that question, every person can interpret that righting for themselves and it isn't going to be exactly the same as another person who read the same thing. My interpretation of the first chapter in Virginia Woolf's book A Room Of One's Own might not be the same as yours but that doesn't mean that either of them are wrong, it just means that they are different. I believe that when she is talking about being by the river and the fishermen and how if they catch a fish that is to small they put it back, I think she is really talking about thoughts of a fiction righter. If you are thinking of something to wright you come up with a thought and you let it grow you can't just use the first thing that comes into your head, you have to let it grow. You can let it grow by thinking of it often and coming up with new ideas , but you must do it in the right spot. A women fiction righter must have her own money to spend and a room of her own to wright in, she can not be walking around on the turf of Oxford. While walking you think of many things you could be righting about but if you are a women of the that time period you don't have the right to walk where ever you want to, you can't walk on the turf of Oxford you may only walk on the gravel, and you may not enter the library without the presents of a man. How the times have changed. Maybe this is what Virginia is trying to get us to realize, times change.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
HW#19 my metacommentary on BLOG!
HW#19
The paragraph I chose to wright about from the chapter web of influence from the book Blog! how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture, was the paragraph right after the italicised righting. This paragraph talks about how blogging is "changing the landscape for journalists and policymakers alike," and that blogging is about connecting the world. In other words blogging is what connects the world through the "function as personal diaries, political analysis, advice columns on romance, computers, money, or all of the above." I think that this is a really good thought about what blogs are used for. My point is not that we should use blogs just as a connection to the people that we know but that we should us them to connect our self to every thing in the world. Now don't get me wrong. I am not saying that blogs should not be used to connect ourselves to the people we know but that they should also touch on something larger then just the community that we live in. The book states that blogs are "drawing upon the content of the international media and the world wide web, they weave together an elaborate network with agenda setting power on issues ranging from human rights in china to the U.S. occupation of Iraq," and I think that this is what all blogs should do. They should connect their community to the world. So go now and connect your community to the rest of the world. Try visiting some of the blogs mentioned in this section of the reading such as; www.crookedtimber.org , and www.womanswallstreet.com .
The paragraph I chose to wright about from the chapter web of influence from the book Blog! how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture, was the paragraph right after the italicised righting. This paragraph talks about how blogging is "changing the landscape for journalists and policymakers alike," and that blogging is about connecting the world. In other words blogging is what connects the world through the "function as personal diaries, political analysis, advice columns on romance, computers, money, or all of the above." I think that this is a really good thought about what blogs are used for. My point is not that we should use blogs just as a connection to the people that we know but that we should us them to connect our self to every thing in the world. Now don't get me wrong. I am not saying that blogs should not be used to connect ourselves to the people we know but that they should also touch on something larger then just the community that we live in. The book states that blogs are "drawing upon the content of the international media and the world wide web, they weave together an elaborate network with agenda setting power on issues ranging from human rights in china to the U.S. occupation of Iraq," and I think that this is what all blogs should do. They should connect their community to the world. So go now and connect your community to the rest of the world. Try visiting some of the blogs mentioned in this section of the reading such as; www.crookedtimber.org , and www.womanswallstreet.com .
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
HW#17B my vote goes with...
HW#17b
After reading both interviews with Ana Marie Cox, and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga I went to there blogs; http://www.dailykos.com/ and http://www.wonkette.com/ and read over a few of there posts. I believe that of both these blogs my vote would be more impacted by what is said on wonkette. I believe this because the righting style is much more interesting and the blog is much more eye catching. The blog includes pictures, movies and dialog form various Washington people. The Dailykos is all righting, yes it was interesting to read because he was telling the Truth and was in a humans voice, but there just didn't seem to be any feeling in the blog.
I feel because wonkette is more interesting looking I would be more likely to read thought all of the posts and get a larger view then if I were just to look at Dailykos, I wouldn't read all of the posts on dailykos. So if I were reading wonkette I would get more of a 360 degree view of the candidates, because I would read more of the posts.
I am a young person who isn't really into politics so I like the was Ana the author of wonkette rights about the polititions, its more apealying to me then the way Markos rights the dailykos. Although I think if I read something on wonkette and questioned it I may go look at dailykos to find out if the information was real or if it was just a rumor. Dailykos seems to give off a more truthful vib.
So maybe my vote really wouldn't be influenced by either of the websites more then the other, because I wouldn't read all the posts on dailykos and I would question the reality of wonkettes posts.
After reading both interviews with Ana Marie Cox, and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga I went to there blogs; http://www.dailykos.com/ and http://www.wonkette.com/ and read over a few of there posts. I believe that of both these blogs my vote would be more impacted by what is said on wonkette. I believe this because the righting style is much more interesting and the blog is much more eye catching. The blog includes pictures, movies and dialog form various Washington people. The Dailykos is all righting, yes it was interesting to read because he was telling the Truth and was in a humans voice, but there just didn't seem to be any feeling in the blog.
I feel because wonkette is more interesting looking I would be more likely to read thought all of the posts and get a larger view then if I were just to look at Dailykos, I wouldn't read all of the posts on dailykos. So if I were reading wonkette I would get more of a 360 degree view of the candidates, because I would read more of the posts.
I am a young person who isn't really into politics so I like the was Ana the author of wonkette rights about the polititions, its more apealying to me then the way Markos rights the dailykos. Although I think if I read something on wonkette and questioned it I may go look at dailykos to find out if the information was real or if it was just a rumor. Dailykos seems to give off a more truthful vib.
So maybe my vote really wouldn't be influenced by either of the websites more then the other, because I wouldn't read all the posts on dailykos and I would question the reality of wonkettes posts.
HW#18 You don't really want to be a model, do you??
HW#18
I was looking at all the blogs that I am watching, and there were a few blog entries that disturbed me, but there was one article that really disturbed me. That was the article from Jezebel, http://jezebel.com/gossip/business-models/forbes-models-are-starving-financially-fucked--computer-analyzed-308222.php is the article. It's about the way models really live, they don't make a lot of money, they are told if they look good by a computer, and they can't ever eat anything that they want. "Stop eating. Grow. Be at least five foot nine, weighing 110 to 120 Ibs. This would give you a body-mass index of about 16 to 18. "Models starve themselves, and we tell them to," says Richard Habberley, a top agent with Elite, which reps Victoria's Secret hottie Alessandra Ambrosio and Maybelline face Jessica White." Why would you let someone tell you to stop eating? If they don't think your pretty enough, get a new job. I was completely disturbed that an agent would ever tell their models to stop eating all together, hello you need to eat to live.
I personally don't understand the point of modeling especially if you are "modeling" people who are not the average size of a real person. Seriously there are only a few people out there who really look like that, and chances are if they look like that its because they are a model or are trying to be one.
Seriously if you are hungry, please eat something.
I was looking at all the blogs that I am watching, and there were a few blog entries that disturbed me, but there was one article that really disturbed me. That was the article from Jezebel, http://jezebel.com/gossip/business-models/forbes-models-are-starving-financially-fucked--computer-analyzed-308222.php is the article. It's about the way models really live, they don't make a lot of money, they are told if they look good by a computer, and they can't ever eat anything that they want. "Stop eating. Grow. Be at least five foot nine, weighing 110 to 120 Ibs. This would give you a body-mass index of about 16 to 18. "Models starve themselves, and we tell them to," says Richard Habberley, a top agent with Elite, which reps Victoria's Secret hottie Alessandra Ambrosio and Maybelline face Jessica White." Why would you let someone tell you to stop eating? If they don't think your pretty enough, get a new job. I was completely disturbed that an agent would ever tell their models to stop eating all together, hello you need to eat to live.
I personally don't understand the point of modeling especially if you are "modeling" people who are not the average size of a real person. Seriously there are only a few people out there who really look like that, and chances are if they look like that its because they are a model or are trying to be one.
Seriously if you are hungry, please eat something.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
HW# 17 not really a blog I am watching but connected to it
HW#17
Okay so our assignment was to look at one of the blogs we are watching that we would say made us think, we thought was well written, was informative, or funny. So looking over the three blog that I am watching which are; http://jezebel.com , http://feministing.com/ , http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/index.html?source=rss&aim=broadsheet , I chose out of all the post with in the last seven days one that I liked the most. But here's the thing, as I was looking over the last weeks post one article kept jumping out to me, yeah that's not the weired part, I read the article off of Jezebel but it was an article about an article on http://www.feministe.us which was another blog we could have been watching but I choose not to. Now is that an example of using Robert Scoble's rules or not??? Jezebel needs people to read to her blog, so in order to get more readers she links her blog to other blogs that are like her own. Letting people see her blog and her competitions blog.
The article I chose was an article about how the BMI system is inaccurate. The thing I liked the most was that they incorporated pictures of real woman, you looked at the picture and decide for yourself if they are; overweight, underweight, normal, obese, or ever morbidly obese, then you put the mouse over the picture and it tells you what they are based on the BMI system. By the looks of these pictures I got almost all of them wrong. "The point of the collection is to challenge our ideas of what “overweight” and “obese” look like, and the photo set certainly does that." This article made me think about what I classify as "normal" and "obese", I can tell you that it is definatly not the same as the BMI's classification. But who is right???
Okay so our assignment was to look at one of the blogs we are watching that we would say made us think, we thought was well written, was informative, or funny. So looking over the three blog that I am watching which are; http://jezebel.com , http://feministing.com/ , http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/index.html?source=rss&aim=broadsheet , I chose out of all the post with in the last seven days one that I liked the most. But here's the thing, as I was looking over the last weeks post one article kept jumping out to me, yeah that's not the weired part, I read the article off of Jezebel but it was an article about an article on http://www.feministe.us which was another blog we could have been watching but I choose not to. Now is that an example of using Robert Scoble's rules or not??? Jezebel needs people to read to her blog, so in order to get more readers she links her blog to other blogs that are like her own. Letting people see her blog and her competitions blog.
The article I chose was an article about how the BMI system is inaccurate. The thing I liked the most was that they incorporated pictures of real woman, you looked at the picture and decide for yourself if they are; overweight, underweight, normal, obese, or ever morbidly obese, then you put the mouse over the picture and it tells you what they are based on the BMI system. By the looks of these pictures I got almost all of them wrong. "The point of the collection is to challenge our ideas of what “overweight” and “obese” look like, and the photo set certainly does that." This article made me think about what I classify as "normal" and "obese", I can tell you that it is definatly not the same as the BMI's classification. But who is right???
The right way to blog HW#16
HW# 16
"Blogs: Humanizing the Face of Corporate America- an interview with Robert Scoble" ( Klein and Burnstein 124-134) and http://lindsaysblogonthoughts.blogspot.com/ are the resources that I used for this writing.
Is Lindsay's Thoughts in the correct format for a blog according to Robert Scoble "Microsoft's 'Chief Humanizing Officer'?" Robert suggests that the rules to making a successful Corporate blog are some of the fallowing; "tell the truth, post fast, use a human voice, support the latest software, have thick skin, don't ignore slashdot, talk to the grassroots first, if you screw up acknowledge it and fast, under promise and over deliver, if Doc Searls says it or writes it believe it Live it, and know the information gatekeepers, connect to other blogs to get yourself known," But Lindsay's thoughts is not a corporate blog, but I believe a lot of these rules still apply to other blogs, yes some of them don't make any sense to follow if you don't have a product you are trying to promote but a lot of them are good global blogging rules. All Bloggers should; "tell the truth, use a human voice, if you screw up acknowledge it and fast, and that you should connect your blog to other blog by commenting on other blogs to get your blog known out there in the blogosphere. Isn't that what it's all about getting your blog known out there in the blogosphere??
Well if those are the rules for a successful blog then I would say Lindsay's thoughts is a pretty decent blog; She tells the truth in all of her blogs and she tells it in a human voice, she uses the latest software (Blogger,) she knows the information gatekeepers ( being the classes teacher in this case,) and she connects herself to other blogs (using bloglines and having links to other peoples blogs. ( also other people have links to her blog)) But of her blog was a corporate blog then no it wouldn't be successful because she doesn't fallow all the rules... Good thing it's not a corporate blog then!!!
"Blogs: Humanizing the Face of Corporate America- an interview with Robert Scoble" ( Klein and Burnstein 124-134) and http://lindsaysblogonthoughts.blogspot.com/ are the resources that I used for this writing.
Is Lindsay's Thoughts in the correct format for a blog according to Robert Scoble "Microsoft's 'Chief Humanizing Officer'?" Robert suggests that the rules to making a successful Corporate blog are some of the fallowing; "tell the truth, post fast, use a human voice, support the latest software, have thick skin, don't ignore slashdot, talk to the grassroots first, if you screw up acknowledge it and fast, under promise and over deliver, if Doc Searls says it or writes it believe it Live it, and know the information gatekeepers, connect to other blogs to get yourself known," But Lindsay's thoughts is not a corporate blog, but I believe a lot of these rules still apply to other blogs, yes some of them don't make any sense to follow if you don't have a product you are trying to promote but a lot of them are good global blogging rules. All Bloggers should; "tell the truth, use a human voice, if you screw up acknowledge it and fast, and that you should connect your blog to other blog by commenting on other blogs to get your blog known out there in the blogosphere. Isn't that what it's all about getting your blog known out there in the blogosphere??
Well if those are the rules for a successful blog then I would say Lindsay's thoughts is a pretty decent blog; She tells the truth in all of her blogs and she tells it in a human voice, she uses the latest software (Blogger,) she knows the information gatekeepers ( being the classes teacher in this case,) and she connects herself to other blogs (using bloglines and having links to other peoples blogs. ( also other people have links to her blog)) But of her blog was a corporate blog then no it wouldn't be successful because she doesn't fallow all the rules... Good thing it's not a corporate blog then!!!
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
HW#14 ITo
HW#14
Although I liked the interview with Nick Denton I would have to say I like the interview with Joi Ito better,I thought that it was more interesting to read. To sum up Ito's interview he talked about his view on blogging and what it should be like on all blogs, I agree with almost everything that Ito had to say about blogging and the blogging world. As a result to ITo's interview I went looking at the interviews that he mentioned in his interview; www.joi.ito.com , and www.akma.disseminary.org . Although I did not read all of Joi Ito's blog I did read some of them and I really liked it, his blog talks about real life things, "I write about anything of interest and as a result of having written about it, I will get comments that enhance and deepen my knowledge." Actually I think that this is exactly what I think blogs should be, a place to converse on things in life that interest you, a place to meet other who have the same interests and views on subjects as you, not a place to just talk about what happened in your day and not get feedback. Besides the fact that he talks about how he uses his blog he also talks about what he thinks is going to happen to blogs, and how people will continue to use them, as well as talking about how there will be copyrights on online things now as well. Ultimately there will be copyright that as "there is a spectrum of rights that you have as a copyright owner and, if you feel like it, you should be allowed to give certain ones up." Therefore I can say you may use my word and pictures and what ever I have on my blog and put it on your own with out any of my permission. So here goes, you may use my word and material for your own use with out my permission, just please use it in a good context and give credit to those people I give credit to because we don't have there permission to use it with out giving them that credit. Also If you use my words and you become famous for it, can you at least give me a little credit, like if your going to use it in a commercial let me be in that commercial, Please!!!
Although I liked the interview with Nick Denton I would have to say I like the interview with Joi Ito better,I thought that it was more interesting to read. To sum up Ito's interview he talked about his view on blogging and what it should be like on all blogs, I agree with almost everything that Ito had to say about blogging and the blogging world. As a result to ITo's interview I went looking at the interviews that he mentioned in his interview; www.joi.ito.com , and www.akma.disseminary.org . Although I did not read all of Joi Ito's blog I did read some of them and I really liked it, his blog talks about real life things, "I write about anything of interest and as a result of having written about it, I will get comments that enhance and deepen my knowledge." Actually I think that this is exactly what I think blogs should be, a place to converse on things in life that interest you, a place to meet other who have the same interests and views on subjects as you, not a place to just talk about what happened in your day and not get feedback. Besides the fact that he talks about how he uses his blog he also talks about what he thinks is going to happen to blogs, and how people will continue to use them, as well as talking about how there will be copyrights on online things now as well. Ultimately there will be copyright that as "there is a spectrum of rights that you have as a copyright owner and, if you feel like it, you should be allowed to give certain ones up." Therefore I can say you may use my word and pictures and what ever I have on my blog and put it on your own with out any of my permission. So here goes, you may use my word and material for your own use with out my permission, just please use it in a good context and give credit to those people I give credit to because we don't have there permission to use it with out giving them that credit. Also If you use my words and you become famous for it, can you at least give me a little credit, like if your going to use it in a commercial let me be in that commercial, Please!!!
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