HW 23: "With Apologies to Vigginia Woolf"

After getting the chance to read through Jezebels Blog I found many blogs that speak about different women and gossip about them, making assumptions or snap judgments. I do enjoy the “dubious gossip” from time to time, but when will women be treated equally? When will we be aloud to do and say what we want? Naturally, this site is full of false information or information they think is true based on pictures etc. However, on the contrary it is truly a great feminist blog. What is the latest gossip? What are people wearing? What are women doing? Who are the latest couples? All of my questions are answered on this site and I find it very informative. www.Jezebel.com is a great feminist site.

HW:21 Responding to Woolf

Dear Lori,
I know you had a lot of trouble with the reading you had to do in Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” but I’m here to help you understand what you read and hopefully feel comfortable enough with the material to continue reading on. To start off, this chapter is about the importance of women and fiction. It starts with a narrator who is sitting and wondering about women and fiction. She talks about all these thing women are not aloud to do like, walk across the grass, walk into a library alone with out a man at the university. This certainly shows how women were treated. Then the narrator goes on to see a cat without a tail and that seems really odd because she keeps jumping around but the cat makes her think back to a time before the war. Basically, this chapter is talking about how certain social classes have changed so much over time, especially women. This chapter talks about women and fiction and how the author states that "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." This gives the reader a chance to think about this and see how far women have come over time. I hope you have a better understanding of the material, I know it was difficult but keep reading and I’m sure it’ll start to click!

Love, Amy

HW:19 Blogging and Foreign-language texts

I feel that the second paragraph on page 89 is important because it talks about how blogs are “supplying unfiltered eyewitness accounts about foreign countries.” What Kline really means is it is not like the information on the news when we do not know what to believe, blogs are eye witnessed and they are writing everything they see and not what they want us to think. This paragraph is speaking very highly of blogs in general; blogs are really starting to “take over.” In other words, they are overpowering the news papers and government studies by providing summaries of these foreign-language texts and making them easier to read. I feel that when I started this class, blogs weren’t even something I knew about, but now they are becoming more and more popular. My conclusion, then, is that blogs are really starting to evolve and change the way people read information from newspapers to the “man on the street” or blogging.

HW 18 YIKES!!!

http://jezebel.com/gossip/save-the-children/mommy-can-i-be-a-whore+from+hell-for-halloween-308279.php

After looking through Jezebel’s blog I found some awesome blogs and some weird ones as well. I usually look for articles I would be interesting in and not typically ones that I would dislike, however, this week I did find an article that I was both interested in and found extremely disturbing.
Since when do children dress as whores for Halloween? I read an article called “Save The Children: Mommy, Can I Be A Whore-From-Hell For Halloween?
By Jennifer on slutty costumes, which informed the readers how Halloween costumes have gone to an all time extreme. Although very short and to the point, I still find this article to be very disturbing because kids are being exposed to so much these days, that I would never have seen when I was a kid. Also, these costumes are being targeted to girls not boys because as she’s says “boys have a lot of simple, innocent options….” and girls don’t?? What happened to little girls dressing as witches or princesses for Halloween? Jeeze, this article freaked me out because I wonder what it’ll be like when I have kids and they want to be hookers for Halloween at the age of 5. Yikes!!

HW17B Cox and Zuniga

After reading both interviews and getting a chance to look at both blogs, I would have to say I would be more likely to vote in an election with Zuniga’s influence. Mainly because of the reading, I would have to say that Zuniga seems to have stronger points and a much more professional approach to interviews. With that said, I would take his opinion much more serious than Cox’s because she seemed so naïve and unprofessional. Cox’s interview was so interesting to read because she was so blunt and seemed so young with her responses. Also, Zuniga’s blog has much more information, and Cox has videos and not much information, so I wouldn’t make a huge decision, such as an election, based on Cox’s views. Overall, I wouldn’t really let anyone make my decisions for something so big as an election, but I would take their views into consideration and Zuniga just seems to be the more informative one.

HW 16A Jezebel follows the principles

The blog I chose is Jezebel because the blog posts on there are very interesting. Some of the 20 principles this blog follows are principle 1: “tell the truth. The whole truth. Nothing but the truth. If your competitor has a product that’s better than yours, link to it. You might as well. We’ll find it anyway.” In this blog there are a lot of links and all the information is true and trustworthy. Also, Principle 2: “ Post fast on good news and bad…” this is shown a lot on this blog because they inform the reader with good and bad news. Some examples of the bad news are: Forever 21’s new clothing, and the information on Angelina and Brittany. Lastly, Principle 16: states “Never lie. You’ll get caught and you’ll lose credibility that you’ll never get back.” I feel like this web site is trust worthy, like I said, and I know they are following this principle because even if it’s just an opinion, they are still stating the truth, whether good or bad. One of the principles it may not follow would be principle 17: stating “If you have information that might get you a lawsuit, see a lawyer before posting…” I feel like this may not follow because some of the blogs are based on certain magazines and if the information in the magazines in false then the blogs could get caught by certain people for displaying false information, even though they might have stated it is false, or if they are just making fun of the person. I feel like blogs should follow these standards because it could run into issues if they all decide to just post and do whatever they want. Where this sort of sets some limits and guide lines.

HW 17: Forever 21's Attempt at Fancy Fails

http://jezebel.com/gossip/the-good%2C-the-bad-%26-the-ugly/forever-21s-attempt-at-fancy-fails-306715.php

Basically in this Blog the author Jennifer is writing about the new line of clothing coming out at Forever 21, which is targeting all different types of groups and styles. Some of the styles she mentions are “Vintage Couture” “60’s pop vibe” “012 Luxe” etc. She goes on to say that not all the clothes are appealing, “The good the bad and the ugly” she says. This quote basically describes what she talks about in the Blog and how she shows different examples of each. The good being some things like: The Modern Art Tulip Dress and the mystical forest sweater tights. The bad being some things like: The mystical forest lurex sweater dress and the royals countryside cable sweater coat. Lastly, the ugly being: the rear view modern tunic and the dandy dolls satin keyhole mini dress. Overall, I looked at the collection of clothing because the blog provided a lot of pictures, and I would have to say I agree for the most part and this blog certainly makes me want to go to the store and see if they are selling these outfits.

HW14: Responding to Denton

After reading Denton’s interview I felt like he knew exactly what he was talking about and his wording was very easy to follow along with because I also found myself agreeing with him a lot. He talked about blogging and his experience with hiring non-journalists and how they are better “because the unknown are hungrier and because often a track record in print journalism is no advantage in writing a weblog.” Similar, when they look for new blog writers they don’t look for resumes either. Consequently, “writers who are good web bloggers often don’t do well when they try to make the transition to magazine journalism or newspaper journalism.” Also, I agree with Denton when he states that the attention paid to blogs is unhealthy and unnecessary. Furthermore, as the interview goes on I feel like his personality was a little cocky when he uses words like “Obviously” as he talks to the person interviewing him, which seems rude. In addition to thinking people pay too much attention to blogs he also states that “I think it’s reasonably obvious that weblogs are going to unbundle the existing newspaper publishing business.” On the contrary, he doesn’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon. To summarize, I would say I agree with Denton and his views on blogs.