WEB 2.0!

The way web 2.0 has changed my life is by letting me communicate to my friends and family without having to call them and speaking. I can just contact them through AIM. I dont have a facebook or myspace but that can help people by just letting people know what you've been up to without actually having to tell them. The way it can continue to change our lives is by having messages online and ads to inform us what's going on without reading the newspaper and watching tv to find out. Everything you need is basically on the internest now and it can save us time by allowing us to check up whats going on anytime we're available. The impact on the news media is that everyone is starting to use the internet to do commercials and ads because they know more and more people are on the internet instead of watching tv and reading. Obama used Web 2.0 because he knows most of the younger generation gets their information from the internet so he was smart to use it because it did get out to the younger generation and I believe it did help him out a lot with the campaign. He was also smart enough to get a lot of the celebrities to help him with the campaign because younger people now a days listen to celebrities more and they helped him mad a ad or commercial and it was posted on youtube so everyone can see it. Sooner or later, most of the media we see now will be accessed on the internet and noone will really need the tv or magazines. Overall, Web 2.0 has helped everyone a lot and it's going to keep helping everyone in the future.

ELECTION 2008!

The results for the 2008 presidential election came out and our new president is Barak Obama. Here are some pictures of him winning. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/04/us/05campaign1050_600.JPG ^Picture

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Some of the California props that passed were 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 12. The way I felt when Obama won was excitment and happiness. The prop that I was upset that passed was prop 8 which was on same sex marriage. I know some people who are gay and they were upset that it passed because what gives us the right to tell gay people if they can marry or not. The way I see it is what they do shouldn't matter to us because you don't see them saying straight people can't marry. It was a dumb prop that passed and I was upset that it did. I hope that there will be another prop to rebuttle it. I'm pretty sure America was happy about Obama winning because we really did need a change. Under the hands of the Republicans, the United States has been under deep boo boo for the past 8 years, starting with the 9/11 attack and now the economic crisis. I'm sure people all around America is really happy with how things went with the election. I learned that democracy can work sometimes and in this election, it showed that it did. Most people wanted Obama, and they got him. I know that the American people were also getting sick of the Republican and how they were running things, I've learned that they can also be smart enough to choose the right president around this time. What I've learned about journalism is that we can write what we like on elections and we can report what happens and how it happened. We can bring people information on what went on and how it happened during the elections this year.