I won't be gone too long.

So as we all know the semester has come to an end. The fun I had in all my fall classes is over and hopefully the final exams won't kill my grades too much. The blog that I started in my journalism 222 class will not stop because I'm not being graded on it. It will only be postponed for awhile. I will still have times when I may not want to talk about my feelings and want to write them done. Writing on my blog gives me a calming sensation and I feel like I can write anything without being judged.

I'm so thankful for getting the chance to experience so many fun projects in my online journalism class. I never expected for it to be this fun and to be able to gain so much information about journalism. This class pushed me and made me realize that I have talents that I thought I didn't have. As I have said before, with the negative feedback that I have gotten about my writing, I didn't get that in this class. Writing was a major part of it, but I felt like I was writing freely and could have fun instead of writing about boring topics.

As I end my last blog for awhile, I would like to thank my teachers Staci and Peggy for giving me a new and fun twist on journalism. I probably won't have this much fun in another class, so I'm glad that I cherished it. Good luck in the future to both of you and I will miss you both as teachers. Thank you so much for the advice that was given to me. This class brought out my creative side and made me feel good about myself. So once again, Thank You.

Kassiah

How to capture my attention?

With the styles of the Internet changing everyday, one must always remember to satisfy everyone. Most of the time with the older audience all of their needs are met, because many of them may not know as much about web interaction or they may not care. The way that most sites are able to continue to capture young viewers is by keeping themselves one step ahead of technology. One way to accomplish this is by having the most up to date tools and by being the first to use a new interactive tool.

I am usually captured by a website if it offers videos and interactive tools to click on that gives me a different understanding of what they are trying to get across. As along as I'm able to watch a video or find something funny, then I'm satisfied. If i was trying to capture young audiences attention I would always use videos, blogs posts, and plenty of links that will take them to cool sites.

To change how news is being reported I would want more viewer inputs. Instead of just using a story that is found by a journalist, I would like for the viewers to show and tell me the types of news they would like to know about. As long as I'm able to keep them satisfied by using plenty of technology and their opinions, then I think I would be successful in keeping their attentions.

If I put a story online I would use alot of pictures to showcase a story and plenty of bright colors to keep their attention. I wouldn't use a lot of long drawn out stories, but instead use videos and pictures with little text to explain my story. I think that young audiences get distracted from having to read long stories, so by using pictures this would help explain my story to them.

If there were no limitations then I would use every type of technology there was out at the time. I would keep myself informed with the lasted technologies and use them all to my advantage. Using lots of technology would bring plenty of viewers young and old to my stories.

Are you connected?

Being connected to me is being able to surf the Internet and find all the hot sites and being able to stay on top of the best things the Internet has to offer. The Internet is a place where everyone can go explore and find things that are liked and others that are not liked. I like the Internet alot. I can sell my clothes, find new ideas, and if I want find a date for Saturday night. (Don't take this personal Daionte, it's just for class.) But anyways the Internet is just a fun area to search anything that can be dreamt up. The Internet can also be evil if users are not careful to watch who they are talking to or giving information away to.

Web 2.0 came about when Tom O'Reilly and Medialive International began to brainstorm. Tom and Medialive both noticed that the web mattered again and new things were always coming about on the Internet. The 2.0 is basically stating that the web has new features that will continually popularize the Internet.

Web 1.0 is the old version of the Internet that is not as active as web 2.0. Web 1.0 lacks many of the new changes that the 2.0 brought along. Most people consider web 1.0 to be the old way people used the Internet and web 2.0 is the new better version.

I'm not familiar with web 1.0 or 2.0. I just know that I just go with the flow of the new changes of the Internet. The Internet will always change, so before we know it we will be at web 1000.0.