at&t

this was a good commercial.  hats off to the marketing team who came up with it because not only did it catch my eye when i was flipping through the channels but it caught my teacher's eye enough to have her show it to the class and start a conversation about it.  one could interpret the commercial in a variety of ways but what it comes down to is simply that it's just an ad.  it's just a company trying to sell you their product.  were they successful?  maybe.  i am not going to go out and buy the phone but i do remember the ad and the visual images they wanted to leave me with have been imprinted in my memory.  

Assignment 1

so here i am at hofstra, and i am blogging.  writing online makes me feel stupid.  well let's clarify, writing online doesn't make me feel stupid, creating a blog and posting does.  primarily blogs are devoted to bitch sessions and tend to create unnecessary drama.  i prefer one on one, human to human interaction.  NOT computer to computer. i guess i take that back to some degree, i enjoy iming but that is a live dialogue, not posting something to vent and having people respond later.  in my political islam class the professor brought in one of his colleagues to lecture on blogging in the middle east and how it has drastically increased awareness of human rights violations occurring in the area.  while i understand and respect bloggers doing positive things, it still doesn't motivate me to create my own blog.  i didn't journal before i had a computer so why would i now keep an online public journal?  i have friends who have kept blogs about experiences they were having ie. road trips, environmental challenges, work out challenges, etc. to keep people up to date on their progress.  as sad as it may be, i don't think anyone would care much to know about updates on my half-marathon training so why bother maintaining the blog about it?  i just tell the people who ask, isn't that enough?  is it cocky to think that what you are doing is worthy enough for a website or that whatever you are doing is actually interesting enough for someone to go out of their way to read?  not everyone is your mom.  not everyone cares.  perhaps this is just too pessimistic but i wonder how many students in this class would have created a blog if their grade did not depend on it...