http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet Skinny boy, eat more fried rice! Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:29:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en '''We the Journalists''' For the longest time, a degree and a job at a private organization have determined whether or not you are fit to tell others of the events of the world around us. Anderson Cooper certainly is qualified. He’s done amazing stories under CNN, made all the more great ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet/2007/07/26/we-the-journalists/ So, we watched the Democratic debate hosted by CNN and Youtube streamed LIVE over the internet. Candidates were asked questions from Americans via video uploaded onto Youtube. Entrants were allowed to create a video under 30 seconds in length which could pose a question to a specific candidate or the ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet/2007/07/24/youtube-and-cnn-making-tv-interactive/ Alright...so, talked to Dr. C about my project and decided it would probably be best if CCTV were dumped from the list. This leaves blogging and citizen journalism together, and those two mesh rather well so I think this project has gotten less hectic. I found new sources in Technorati.com ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet/2007/07/10/more-final-project-analysis/ Let's see....looking at my notes now...there isn't much on there for me to write about. I'm seeing a doodle of a mouse, a mushroom, the mad hatter and the march hair with the phrase "Feed Your Head!" floating above the mouse.  Seeing as that's that, today's blog will be brainstorming ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet/2007/07/09/figuring-out-this-final-project-thingy/ So we talked briefly on giving emotions to machines. For instance, making a vacuum afraid to go near stairs for fear of falling down them. I thought that was a cool idea till I imagined my vacuum screaming bloody murder that one fateful day it fell down the stairs. Then ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet/2007/07/04/my-vacuum-isnt-speaking-to-me-right-now/ As a designer I am supposed to communicate, visually, a message. Be it to get the general population to buy a certain brand of soap, navigate easily to a news article or bring down the government with a series of well placed, ingenious posters. That's why I'm in school ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet/2007/07/02/white-people-religious-tolerance-smallpox-indians-america/ Sooo last class we spent a lot of time talking about time and how humanity responds to it since it is our inevitable fate to grow old, have young people think you suck and smell bad, and then die. First of all, young people, when I was your age we ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet/2007/07/02/2-hours-before-4th-class-and-spanking-out-my-2nd-blog/ So...when it comes to blogging I am rather like my sister. I'm still pretty new to this whole "write down your thoughts for everyone to see" thing. I've got a myspace account which allows me to blog as well, but so far in the last 3 years that I've had ... http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet/2007/06/27/a-blog-for-all-occasions/ I swear I have a blog! I swear! http://blogs.elsweb.org/georgestreet/2007/06/26/for-real/