Protect your chicken from hungry hair bands with the right firewall software.
I want to know who did this campaign.... I &hearts them. Lots.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
ACORN
Found a link of the study of how ACORN was portrayed by the media, and what the media did wrong in portraying them. (Courtesy of Stumble)
http://www.uni.edu/martinc/acornstudy.html
Ashley
http://www.uni.edu/martinc/acornstudy.html
Ashley
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
McDonalds Commercial
Here's the McDonald's commercial, hilarious and shows what we're up against. And tons of other Clio commercials. Enjoy.
Sorry video won't post so you have to click the link and Play Video, next to McDonald's. ~Samus
http://www.aef.com/exhibits/awards/clio_awards/2008/01
Sorry video won't post so you have to click the link and Play Video, next to McDonald's. ~Samus
http://www.aef.com/exhibits/awards/clio_awards/2008/01
Monday, September 21, 2009
The New Literacy
...from neatorama.com
New technologies are often blamed for the “dumbing-down” of new generations, but it’s hard to see that any generation is “dumber” than the one before it in a historical context. Professor Andrea Lunsford of Stanford University studied college student’s writing and how it changed from 2002 to 2006.
The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That’s because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom—life writing, as Lunsford calls it. Those Twitter updates and lists of 25 things about yourself add up.
It’s almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn’t a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they’d leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again.
On the one hand, you may look at YouTube comments and chat rooms and think literacy is going into the dumpster. On the other hand, those are millions of people who would otherwise never communicate a thought in public if the internet were not available to them. Writer Clive Thompson says the new technology has changed the meaning of writing for younger people.
The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it’s over something as quotidian as what movie to go see.
Of course, not every young internet commenter will go on to be a Stanford student. Do you see the internet as an aid or a hindrance to literacy. wired.com article
New technologies are often blamed for the “dumbing-down” of new generations, but it’s hard to see that any generation is “dumber” than the one before it in a historical context. Professor Andrea Lunsford of Stanford University studied college student’s writing and how it changed from 2002 to 2006.
The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That’s because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom—life writing, as Lunsford calls it. Those Twitter updates and lists of 25 things about yourself add up.
It’s almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn’t a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they’d leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again.
On the one hand, you may look at YouTube comments and chat rooms and think literacy is going into the dumpster. On the other hand, those are millions of people who would otherwise never communicate a thought in public if the internet were not available to them. Writer Clive Thompson says the new technology has changed the meaning of writing for younger people.
The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it’s over something as quotidian as what movie to go see.
Of course, not every young internet commenter will go on to be a Stanford student. Do you see the internet as an aid or a hindrance to literacy. wired.com article
Sunday, September 20, 2009
House series 6 premier tomorrow night!
W00T!
Set your TiVo now!!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Completely random but hey....
Has anyone ever notice Megan Fox has a clubbed thumb? I know it doesn't matter cause she is freaking gorgeous but it is funny but throughout the day I have people look at the Jennifer's Body poster (I work in a movie theatre) and they couldn't tell me her flaw for the life of them.
Like I said, I don't mean to get on the girl for this one tiny thing but I am guessing 99.9% of people would never notice.
I hate that a friend brought this to my attention the other day and this is the only thing I can think about when she is mentioned anymore.
-Colleen
More photographic proof
Good Link for the J.U.I.C.E Box Project
Some good info for the J.U.I.C.E Box projects, including the CDC’s community obesity strategies & info on a new anti-soda public health advertising campaign by NYC Health Department.
http://trailnetstl.blogspot.com/
http://trailnetstl.blogspot.com/
Interesting photo comment from Newsweek mag
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/essay-9/?hp
Notice how the photog says that Newsweek deliberately changed the shot. -js
Notice how the photog says that Newsweek deliberately changed the shot. -js
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