mock-up

This Mock-up shows the relationship between its producers and readers by portraying the news of the local businesses ( the readers livelihoods) and givingthe readers a chance to comment on all of the articles, not just the ones that are about their business.
The menu allows the reader to choose the page he wishes to look at, read and comment on, therefore the reader is responding/ communicating with the producers of this article as well as the page. Which helps the producers to know what the readers are interested in, what they want to know more about and what they really are not interested in.
I think that knowing what the local communities are interested in is going to be one of the most helpful aspects of this site.
As for where we should focus efforts I would like to see a more uniform site with the bloggs articles alined from top to bottom of the second column, not all over the page.

mock-up

This Mock-up shows the relationship between its producers and readers by portraying the news of the local businesses ( the readers livelihoods) and givingthe readers a chance to comment on all of the articles, not just the ones that are about their business.
The menu allows the reader to choose the page he wishes to look at, read and comment on, therefore the reader is responding/ communicating with the producers of this article as well as the page. Which helps the producers to know what the readers are interested in, what they want to know more about and what they really are not interested in.
I think that knowing what the local communities are interested in is going to be one of the most helpful aspects of this site.
As for where we should focus efforts I would like to see a more uniform site with the bloggs articles alined from top to bottom of the second column, not all over the page.

A suny experience

I really liked seeing what the students at SUNY Cortland where studying. Reading their blogs was fun and I left comments on Aimee and jessica Marocco's bloggs

My part in the CityBlog.

Doc Mara, our Electronic Communication professor has us working on a CityBlog page. I hope to be in on all aspects of the process like everyone in class, but really want to work with the graphics and design parts of the blog. This is where most of my knowledge is. I have already graduated with a Certificate of Diploma for Commercial Art so the design and graphics is something I think I will be good at.
I really like working with Photoshop, Dreamweaver, RayDream, and Illustrator. I think it would be great if I could learn some new programs too.
I know that I will be able to handle the time constraints and responsibilities through Blackboard, the Wiki, class blog pages, and email with my classmates and Doc Mara. I know that Doc and my class are all there to help me if I have questions or need help with anything like I am for them.
I am more of a work on your own person though I like to work in small groups also. I think that the design and graphics part of the CityBlog is more of a small group project because this is a class effort that everyone should have a say in, even if some ideas are not used they all should be considered. I would do that because many times a great idea comes from the parts of many individual ideas.

As for the time constraints, I have a love-hate relationship with them. I love them because I know when I have to have something done, but hate having any restrictions on my time. I like that I can be a part of something like this CityBlog page. It could make a big difference for business in Fargo and that makes me happy. I know though that with everyone working together this should be a great Blog. I am really interested to see how it will turn out at the end of the semester.

you are Cyorg

After reading the “You Are Cyborg” I understand better what Donna Haraway was trying to say in her “Cyborg Manifesto”. It is that we as a society are reliant on technologies. That we have become so dependant on these technologies, that they are a part of us –making us cyborgs. Even though I understand what Miss Haraway was/is saying, I still have a problem with some of the things in her Cyborg Manifesto, such as when she says “…teaching modern Christian Creationism should be fought as a form of child abuse.”
I do understand that she is trying to say that in a technological and scientific world this teaching of creation does not fit.

Making Sense

I found Donna Haraways writing A Cyborg Manifesto made very little sense. She seems to be confused through out the work as to what she is writing about. She travels from topic to topic. Is she trying to write a serious piece on science, technology or socialist- feminism; a serious piece on politics or science fiction and fantasy. Does she want to write about sex or religion?
Her first four paragraphs are like a template for her whole piece. The first one she tries to compare politics to religion. She starts our by talking in circles about blasphemy, saying “more faithful as blasphemy is faithful (p516),” and never getting away from the subject of blasphemy. This causes confusion for the reader from the start because this first paragraph has no connection to the title of the work.
Her second paragraph she tells us that reality is fantasy/fiction, stating that the “boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion (516).” She says that a cyborg is both fiction and social reality and that “social reality… is our most important Political construction, a world –changing fiction” this whole statement is contradictory, how can reality social or political be fiction (not real). That’s like saying you hand is a figment of your imagination. Not only is this impractical it is non-sensical.
From this reality is fiction subject she jumps to the subject of sex and dreams shown by her statements “modern war is a cyborg orgy” and “modern production seems like a dream” in her third paragraph. In this paragraph she attacks heterosexualism saying, “Such nice organic prophylactics against heterosexism. (516)”
Her fourth paragraph is comparing fantasy to politics and talks about utopian traditions. Here in this paragraph she states “the late twentieth century … a mythical time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids … we are cyborgs.” I see no connection between these Fantasy creatures, chimeras and cyborgs, to politics or myself. As for the utopian traditions we have none there has never been utopia so there can not be utopian traditions.
These four paragraphs give us a good snap shot of what Donna Haraways work is about in its entirety. She should have picked a single subject to seriously write about. It is hard to make sense of what she is trying to say about her topics, when she does not seem to know what she is talking about she supplies no evidence. She only compares, attacks and makes contradictory statements.

These are some of the ways a blog enhances me.

My blog page enhances me by allowing me to express my views on any topic, to respond to other peoples views and to respond to the readings for this class. This page allows me to not only express my views but to do so in the comfort of my home or any where I have access to the internet. I do not have to stand up in front of a group of people I do not know and give an address, which cause me and many other people great anxiety. I am able to gather feed back from those that I wish and whose opinions I value such as class mates, friend and professors as well as others who are studying in the same field that I am in. I can add links to other sites that pertain to the topic being discussed giving credit to my view points as well as information that may help others with understanding the topic more clearly. I can also use these links for people to e-mail me or find out about other people who are studying in the same field. I can also use the pictures to portray some aspect of my self such as my personality and my favorite things.

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