The Cluetrain Manifesto

Right off the bat I could see that the Cluetrain Manifesto was written at a time when the Internet was in the early stages of its life, around 1999-ish. It explained how companies should communicate to the consumers and what consumers expect from the company though the internet. One point I liked was number 95 which states that everyone is waking up, getting connected, and watching but they certainly are not waiting. This brings up the particular lifestyle us Americans lead now. The world we live in is moving at such a fast pace where everyone wants to have content delivered to them ‘now’ and not later. Sites such as youtube provide people with the capabilities to view [flv] video at a high rate rather than waiting for it to download off of a server and then watching it on your computer. The Internet provides content to be delivered at blazing speeds today where as yesterday’s internet had us waiting, twiddling our thumbs, and yawning at your computer desks.

Superbowl Ads

This year’s Superbowl showcased mediocre ads in my opinion.  There weren’t that many catchy ads however, a few of them caught my eye. One being the FedEX ad with the birds. I thought that was pretty creative how they used the ‘old school’ style of bird mail. It kind of gave a fairy tale style of commerical. The other catchy ad was the Diet Pepsi ad. They used a really cool song from the ’80s, “What is Love” by Haddaway. I really like that song and it is also in one of my favorite movies, A Night at the Roxbury.

Photoshop Assignment Two

Today we removed some annoying dust spots on a photo, converted the photo to greyscale and resized the photo to a ridiculously small size which is at 80 dpi. Here is what it looks like:

Photoshop Assignment One

Today we were assigned to do some very basic photo editing techniques on Adobe Photoshop CS3. There were three images we were supposed to edit by adjusting the brightness and contrast as well as resizing them to fit on our blogs. Here is one of the photos:

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After:

Introduction

My name is Ryan and I’m taking this class to hopefully learn new things about new media technologies. I also need this class as one of the last classes I have to take before graduating.

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