Reflections of a Vegan Lifestyle

     Incorporating twitter into our second project has been an interesting process. If nothing else it has forced me to become more active with my twitter.

       Having to tweet definitely got the ideas jogging in my head concerning a topic. I was also able to see what other people were thinking and how they were working with their projects.

       Sometimes I would get frustrated because the hash tags weren’t always working.

       Also, I think it would have been better if we were all bouncing ideas off each other more. It seemed that it was like we were all just trying to get our own tweets out there and not really having any sort of discussion.

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This week I used a vegan recipe for my photo post.

I got a vegan recipe for scones and took pictures throughout the process.

I have mixed feelings about this assignment. 

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       The two photo stories that really caught my attention are, “Kazakhstan’s Radioactive Legacy” and “Afghanistan, October, 2009”.

       What caught my attention most regarding these two stories was the shock value of the pictures and the ‘human element’ (as my photojournalism teacher likes to say) each provides. 

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                Last Wednesday I woke up to my roommate knocking on my bedroom door. I stumbled out of bed half asleep and opened my door. My eyes barely open, I took one glance at her and instantly knew what was wrong. She was sweating yet wrapped in a blanket. Her skin was pale and splotchy. She body was shaking and her face expressed misery.

                She was, as I like to say, ‘swining’.

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           Call me ignorant or maybe just completely over whelmed with midterms, but when we got this assignment I was instantly anxious because I had no idea that the elections were taking place on November 3^rd. However much of what I observed on these three sites did not pertain to the content of the elections but rather the set up, and coverage strategies.             

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       After doing my  story fragment piece, I went looking for a referential piece. I was having trouble so I went back to Gawker assuming I could find something there. Of course I found a piece, ironically it was about the David Letterman scandal. The short article on Gawker ,More Tales of Creepiness and Terror from the Letterman Staff, is a referential piece, referring to a recent vanity fair article which expressed the stress female employees on the Letterman staff feel.  The article interviewed Nell Scovell, a former writer for the LEtterman show. She claims to have left for several reason but does note that the sexual tension and stress was one factor. 

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            I’m sure by now most of you have heard about the David Letterman sex scandal. On October 1^st 2009, David Letterman opened his show with a story which inevitably led to a confession. Lettermen had been black mailed and was being threatened by a man who had evidence of Letterman’s affairs with female members of his staff. Letterman when on to admit to his affairs. After the confession, the show went on as usual after a brief commercial break.

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I just read the three posts from the same site that were posted on the class blog.

Although the three posts all come from the same site, they are all very different.

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Okay, so I think i’m stuck in a blogging rutt.

I feel like I need to put so much time into a post that I keep pushing it off until I have a few hours and now I seem to be way far behind and I’m trying to play catch up.

I think I’m just over thinking it and making the posting processs seem so long and drawn out.

I’m wondering how long everyone else typically spends on one post for the masslive website?

I finally made my first contribution to the Masslive!

I feel so relieved to finally be inspired to write posts. I was having the worst case of writers block ever and now I just feel like I have so many different things to write about.

Tonight’s class was very helpful to me in clarifying small details about the Masslive system that I was confused about. I now understand tags, video uploads, links and block quotes. 

Now that I’ve finally got my blog underway I’ll be much more active on the personal class blogs