Blog Forum Post Ten

I'm sad to think that this class is over, I had a lot of fun doing the blog, and in class. I'm even considering starting my own blog!
   If I were to put myself into the "Future Vision" video, a couple things popped that would either hinder or help my life move forward. To start with the bad things first, my original thought was that things like the man knowing the woman's estimated time arrival to the hotel, could make stalking someone ten times easier, and make avoiding a stalker ten times harder. And as for the man pointing his phone/device thing (I know, super descriptive) at the charity ad to donate, I'm sure that there is a way for someone, somewhere, to be able to hack into that system or even create their own similar one that takes your money if your phone/device is so much as pointed towards it, without having the owner "OK" it. Now to help, it would make my life easier because I could more easily share things with my family members, while multitasking, so I could be looking up a recipe while getting say, my dad's, take on it through Skype, or something similar. Another way the technology could help me is like the calendar example, I'd be much more apt to keep my calendar information in one place rather than having to search my phone to find one thing, one at a time.
   I think that it definitely would be a more efficient, and productive world, but better? Not so much. The reason I think this is because I could more effective access my documents on my phone/device without needing my laptop, which would be nice in case I forgot to turn in an assignment, because all I would need to do is pull out the device and send it from there. I guess that productivity could go both ways, because I could be more productive and get things done twice as fast, but I'm almost positive that there will be something on that device to distract me from what I'm actually doing. Here's my reasoning behind it not getting any better: it's impersonal. Technology like that could absolutely limit the amount of human interaction I get, and with how little there already is in the outside world, I don't think decreasing that interaction will benefit humanity anymore.
   Two implications of such a world for the media and the industries would have to be newspaper, and books. Newspaper because I think that with that technology, the newspaper will be entirely out of print. It will be completely digital, I honestly think that all paper products could be eliminated at that point. Which leads, me to books. Books would be entirely digital as well. I think that there would be little, if any, paper products, in that world with that level of technology.
   I definitely enjoyed this class, and I believe that the most important things to keep up with this class would have to be the blog, and keeping up the amount of student discussion we had! Those were my two favorite things and they worked very well. I think something to add would have to be expanding more on video games, because they are a major market, and the first vide we watched was primarily about them. I know I would have found that really interesting. I think that everything worked well with this class, it was well balanced and you don't always get that from a classroom. This was definitely one of my favorite classes.

Blog Forum Post Nine

   I was really determined to do this post earlier then Friday, but I was distracted by youtube videos.. Oops. Anyways, I have a coworker who is fairly conservative, and isn't really about listening to music about sex, or a lot of cussing in it, and to be honest I find it hard to find music that doesn't have at least one of those two things. More specifically, I was playing a song after hours at work, a cover of Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend," being sang by a punk band called "Issues"( I think), anyways, it almost turns into a scream, and at the very end it has some added cussing to it, and my coworker just kind of raised his eyebrow at me like " Really Sydney? You listen to this crap?" And in response to that look, yes, yes I do listen to that, I find it like a billion times better than Justin Bieber's version. I've always enjoyed a good cover song, whether its from a band in an entirely different genre or not.

   As for genre, I don't really have one, it kind of depends on my mood. When I'm feeling a little more romantic I listen to country, such as Lee Brice, or Blake Shelton, because country is really good about not being about sex. My favorite country song right now is one by Lee Brice called "I Don't Dance" Lately, when I'm driving in my car, I've been listening to some older stuff like "Pink" by Aerosmith, or my ALL-TIME favorite song ever, "Faithfully" by Journey. As for some other artists that I enjoy, because I don't really have favorites, there is Maroon 5, Train, Panic at the Disco, Sam Smith, and All American Rejects. Like I said, my music tastes depend on my mood, and I'm pretty open to listening to just about anything. With the combination of my parents, sisters, and friends, I've been exposed to a wide variety of music.
   Campus Radio is an awesome idea, I think that it is completely feasible. It will bring on more of a sense of unity throughout the campus, and if they play the right variety of music I think that it could work out really well. In order to bring in the loyal audience, I think that the first most important thing would have to be audience participation. Allowing audiences to suggest songs, to offer feedback on songs and DJs would bring in a bigger audience because they have more control over the station and the music really is "their music." Another thing that they should do is to allow small businesses to advertise for cheap, as well as the school, because college students love find things that are cheap and fun to do. Plus, the school could use to advertise up and coming events to students who may not always be on campus to see the bulletin boards that are posted. As for funding, I think that up and coming bands/artists could do shows like once a week or so, charge a dollar or two for admissions, and let the school see their talents, it's a good way to fundraise money, as well as get some of those artist the start that they need. They could do fundraising, bottle drives, just about anything that other places that try to fundraise are doing. The possibilities are endless.