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Posted in Readings on Oct 15th, 2008
The RSS feeds I subcribed to are through google. The main ones I added were for sports and politics since those are the two main things that I follow. Also, I subcribed to some of the fin and games ones since they are always good if you are bored. The things I like about the [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 15th, 2008
I created an iGoogle account and added RSS feeds from the New York Times on the U.S., Politics, the Middle East. I have also subscribed to alerts from DU hockey including all news and blogs such as Mike Chambers’ blog in the Denver Post and du.blogspot. I will also be receiving fashion alerts from Nordstrom. [...]
After reading about RSS Feeds in Journalism 2.0, I set up a feed at igoogle. This feed allowed me to completely customize my page depending on my interests, as well as what type of background I wanted to see. It also allowed me to move my information around to my liking.
For the final project I [...]
Posted in Readings on Oct 6th, 2008
Blog for We the Media Chapters 1-4
Chapters one and two of We the Media is an introduction to the technology that can be used in respect for journalism. All of the advances in technology discusssed in the beginning of We the Media have allowed the average citizen the chance not only to state their [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 2nd, 2008
The financial crisis is bringing today’s generation of students back to a time before they (or we) were all born. The financial crisis is affecting young adults who have yet to enter the work force because they have to find jobs when there aren’t many openings. According to the Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama in an [...]
Posted in Multimedia News on Oct 2nd, 2008
Comparisons between the current economic crisis and the Great Depression may be exaggerated thus far given that unemployment during the 1930s was at 25% and currently unemployment in the U.S. stands at 6% and declining according to the BBC.
Another big difference between now and the great depression is the FDIC, which did not exist during [...]