Wrap it Up

So, as The Net Presence Class comes to an end, I'd like to say a few words. First and foremost, I've only just turned in my iPod, and I miss it already. It's evil to give a person several months of iPod time and then take it away. The only bright spot is that it's almost Christmas time and I'm graduating. Hopefully my parents have been getting all my hints and I'll be getting an iPod of my own soon. Smart of Apple too. To let a class of college students use iPods and then take them away. A great marketing strategy. Secondly and more importantly, I really enjoyed the class and hope everyone has a wild and crazy winter break!

Blog 3: Commercial

I always read an online newspaper every morning. While grazing through the Denver Post, I discovered they have a commercial blog called Blog House. The blog reminds me of the editorial page of the actual paper. It's a forum for invited writers to share their thoughts and feeling on current news topics. In the words of the blog itself, "think of this place as a funky old apartment building where a lot of different personalities live and hang out." Each writer for the blog appears to have a specialty. For instance, Lou from Littleton, in Lou's insider, typically comments about the sports world and Alex Ooms and Heather Lamm, in FoodMod, talk about new restaurants and recipes. It's like a blog that combines the blogs of others into a blog version of the editorial page. And seeing as I love to read the editorial page, I can spend quite some time going through all the entries.

Blog 2: My Fav

Postsecret is probably the most interesting and innovative blog I've come across. People send in post cards with their secrets, usually creatively done, and they are posted on the blog. Apparently, the blog became so popular that they created a book with copies of the postcards in it as well. The cards range from funny to down right suicidal. Why would someone create a blog like this? I'm not sure, but wanting to know about other people's secrets and wanting to share your own secrets is sort of a baseline human emotion. The need to share and the want to know things that you shouldn't. It also seems to be a sort of therapy for some people, being able to get things off their chest without people knowing who they are.


I personally feel drawn to the site. The range of emotions contained in the postcards is interesting and as a psychology student I enjoy looking at the post card art and analyzing it. Many of the cards are funny, some disgusting, and some depressing. The suicide cards get to me every time I read one. Makes me wonder if the people who control the project have so type of responsibility to help those people. The only complaint I have about the blog is that there is no archive, so you can only view 5-7 current post cards at a time.