Today, we've been looking at our blogs in class. One thing we discussed was that it is actually a pity that our blogs don't get the attention they deserve. Hardly anybody has gotten any comments by others despite raising questions and addressing the "reader" (does he exist at all?) directly.
It's a lot of efford to keep your blog up-to-date and it takes a lot of time to do some research about the topic you want to write about (or the one you've been given).
Therefore, one might not have enough sparetime to read other blogs regularly, but I think a good idea would have been if everybody of us had been supposed to follow one classmate's blog and to leave comments - then none of us would have had the feeling of writing in vain!
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Friday, 10 July 2009
Controversy in L'Aquila
Recently, discussions have arisen about the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy. The region has been
destroyed by a massive earthquake in April and many people still have to live in tents:
Originally, the summit was supposed to be held
on an italian island, but Berlusconi wanted
L'Aquila to host the summit in order to draw
everybody's attention to it and thus get more
people to donate more money and see the
necessity of help.
But not everybody is happy about this decision. Especially the people who have lost everything think that this is the wrong way. Doesn't the summit cost too much money that should rather be invested in the building of houses and infrastructure etc?
I understand this opinion and I also wouldn't want to have all these politicians and journalists wandering around and looking at my miserable living conditions...
So I think it it absolutely justified to be sceptical about the movement of the G8 venue to L'Aquila.
destroyed by a massive earthquake in April and many people still have to live in tents:
Originally, the summit was supposed to be heldon an italian island, but Berlusconi wanted
L'Aquila to host the summit in order to draw
everybody's attention to it and thus get more
people to donate more money and see the
necessity of help.
But not everybody is happy about this decision. Especially the people who have lost everything think that this is the wrong way. Doesn't the summit cost too much money that should rather be invested in the building of houses and infrastructure etc?
I understand this opinion and I also wouldn't want to have all these politicians and journalists wandering around and looking at my miserable living conditions...
So I think it it absolutely justified to be sceptical about the movement of the G8 venue to L'Aquila.
Forgotten Moment Of Zen 25.05.09
Ups, I realised that I hadn't posted a MOZ for that day. Unfortunately do I not know anymore what we were taling about then, so I will just quickly write about something else. On Twitter, Joe Trippe mentioned that NY Times might charge people for reading it online, like 5$ a month.
Mmh, I don't think that many people would pay that-at least I wouldn't. I mean, aren't there enough sources to get the information you want without paying for it? But on the other hand, the NY Times might be considered as one of the best sources for news etc and people might not want to miss it. But I don't think it would make sense in Germany-you either buy the magazine you want to read or you don't want to pay anything and get the information online-for free!
Mmh, I don't think that many people would pay that-at least I wouldn't. I mean, aren't there enough sources to get the information you want without paying for it? But on the other hand, the NY Times might be considered as one of the best sources for news etc and people might not want to miss it. But I don't think it would make sense in Germany-you either buy the magazine you want to read or you don't want to pay anything and get the information online-for free!
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Trippi's Afterword...
Well, while reading the afterword several thoughts, comments and questions came to my mind. Since they are all pretty different I'm just going to put them here without including them in a text:
- I was impressed by the way Trippi talks about his illness-how honest he is
- things did change a lot between 2004 and 2008 - Trippi mentions that again and again although we all know it!
- I found the part where Trippi talks about all these people working in several campaigns/companies...
- will the Internet actually stay that popular or will it loose attraction?
- this chapter helped me to get a better insight in how politics/campaigns work (e.g. the meeting with Mr & Mrs Edwards)
- Mark Penn's quote really surprised me as well: "The Internet wouldn't have any impact in 2008 because it is composed of too small a group of Americans who are doing nothing but talking to each other" (from: Joe Trippi, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", Afterword)
- The hair thing is so confusing...Can't really imagine how it became that famous...
- I didn't like the comparisons between 2004 and 2008 coming up again and again
- I also think it's pathetic to draw attention to other people's mistakes (video about Hillary Clinton: http://www.trippimultimedia.com/clients/john_edwards ) Shouldn't you rather stress your own qualities?
- The idea of limiting contributions for campaigns is really cool-but would any candidate for presidency ever dare to do so?
- Would Hillary Clinton have won against Barack Obama if Joe Trippi had worked on her campaign?
Moment of Zen 07.07.09
How far do family circumstances really influence elections? Would a non-married man be able to become president of the US???
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