Take a look at my web portfolio of all things Megan! I call it “Curriculum Vitae of Megan Spurr” Where one comes on the interwebs to find things about Megan Spurr. And possibly Batman. (Seriously folks, I have a Batman thing going on. You get two points and a tip of my hat if you figured that out from my wordpress username)
What they are still not understanding
I was really struck by the Ted talk by Larry Lessig where a predominant discussion was about how it is that the new generation learns. It struck me then, as I read it as a lesson that we need to change the rules of how we publish.. well, everything, so that we don’t raise the next generation of children to be criminals. As all Ted talks are, he really only breached the tip of the iceberg.
Open questions – Part 2
I like to ponder the role of editor more and more these days, because it’s a hat I never thought I would wear as I got older. (I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I ‘grow up’) That being said, I have a few questions in mind:
Everyone should be a media outlet
Yes – everyone is a media outlet. My understanding when I worked in radio, was that we banked on that concept. We wanted to say something, and then word of mouth spread the information. The problem was that if someone got the information wrong, then the word of mouth didn’t do us any good. My point is, modern day ‘lame stream’ media has encouraged the idea that we should seek other non-professional sources for information for years – just not in the ‘stop tuning into channel 5 at 11 PM’ sort of way.
I’m not slacking off – i’m compiling!
Guess who has two thumbs and has been slacking off? L Sadly, I’m at a University, so that describes most of us. So let me be more specific – who has two thumbs and has managed to have high aspirations about getting this blog together but has only accomplished one step that seems only important to me and no one else? This girl. Oops.
Papyrus and the downfall of civilization
I have never felt more like a hipster than sitting down in my living room with my husband, drinking a microbrew beer, and watching then debating the film Helvetica.
Blurry lines
I have a problem with Flickr. To be specific, I have problems with people who argue about Flickr. Yes, pages like Flickr do make the lines between professional photography and amateur photography blurry, but why on earth does that matter to… well anyone? I apologize for my personal rant, but one of these papers sparked up a good natured debate between a friend of mine who is a ‘amateur photographer’ as she calls it, because she does commission her work, but it is not entirely what she does for a living. She does use Flickr for some of her work, but dislikes it because people can go there and browse by specific tags and email people if they can use their work.
tweet tweet
I would say that since taking this class, I can understand more why twitter is a medium of the masses. My personal use of twitter has been 99.9999% consumption, and 0.0001% production. I can see why people enjoy it, because I like to use it as a medium to follow specific news people – but why not your friends as well? I currently check facebook about as frequently as I check twitter (a few times a day), but i’m finding i’m moving to more twitter and less facebook.
My data is going to be mined in either location, but I think the concept of micro blogging on my blog is pretty amusing, and something that I have already looked to incorporate! (Currently I have a widget that shows my feed at the bottom of my blog page – scroll down!) but, I am looking for a way to integrate it into my meganspurr.wordpress.com.
