Blog Post 2: Web 2.0 Video

In this video, I feel that they were trying to send a message to a large audience. And it helped with the way the material was used, and also the music helped as well, to stay focused on the video. Audience would be the biggest thing I would say this video improvised. Like I said, with the constantly changing words, and screens, it kept the audience on their toes while they watched. Wondering what was going to appear next. This video, I felt was very exciting. Also, it kept me intrigued. I even showed my roommate and friends! As far as the arrangement of the video. I felt for as fast pace as it was, it was very well put together. As it went back and corrected things, here and there. I know I repeat myself a lot, but it was just so fascinating to watch. Basically, thats all I can really think about. It just had a great context, that kept you interested the whole time. Unlike the first video we saw, with the old English teacher, lecturing to us. I would have fallen asleep, if we had to watch all of that film. Luckily, we moved right along to this one. Where you never really think to yourself "Man, when is this torture going to be over?" At least I know I didn't. LIke I said, I made my roommate and our friends watch it.

Blog Post 1: Quotation on Writing

"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs." - David Ben Gurion

You can't change history, it's preached everyday in millions of classrooms around the world. You can't change the fact that you were born to your parents or your strange relatives either. But, if you actually took the time to write down events in your life, I'm sure you would juice it up or play it down just a little bit. Would you write that you wrecked your family van into a parked flat bed pick-up while talking on the phone, or would you write that the brakes failed to work and it wasn't your fault? Would you tell that you hold three school basketball records, or would you say that you were and all American? Would you say that your parents are divorced, or would you say that your parents are still happily married? Would you write that you were on the honor roll all four years of high school, or that you had a straight 4.0? Something you don't think about until you start writing down your memoirs. Some people consider these things to be little white lies, true, but, they also are false and did not happen. Which in turn means you are rewriting history. Although this does not change the fact that Christopher Columbus founded the new world in 1492, it still is changing the events that have happened in the past. Which in turn could be considered rewriting history. Your history!

Further more, this quote tends to reach out to the audience in a way that most quotes do not. The purpose here is to make people think. Not only about what it means, but also how they would want people to remember them, and maybe they wouldn't want their audience to know everything about them. Also, it does serve a lot of purpose. To me, this quote is probably one of the best that I've seen. It's simple yet complex. Simple in the sense that its short and sweet and to the point. Complex in the sense that it makes you think almost automatically, "Hm, I wonder what he means?"

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