Japan Devastation Through Flickr

Flickr is a very interesting website that I had never visited before this assignment. While looking around Flickr it became very apparent that the site has many positives.

Anonymity

Anonymous posts are still a very relevant topic on the Internet as shown with this assignment. With Christopher "Moot" Poole's talk on the subject a couple weeks ago at the SXSW conference. On the subject of anonymous comments I tend to disagree with Poole. I still tend to believe that people are more true to who they are when their name is attached to their comment. Poole was quoted as saying "“Anonymity is authenticity, It allows you to share in a completely unvarnished, unfiltered, raw way.” With this quote he has a point, I believe in a persons ability to leave a comment with anonymity but for me I rather visit a website where comments are left with a person backing them up. I believe that when a person sticks by there comments a better conversation stimulates and you have an overall more informing experience.

Call To WEEI

For the assignment to call into a talk radio show I chose to call into WEEI. I am an avid listener of all shows on WEEI and really enjoy and appreciate sports talk radio. I really like the new Big Show and it generally carries over to Planet Mikey which I also enjoy. I was listening last Wednesday the day of Randy Moss' comments on how he would love to be a Patriot again and I found this to be the perfect opportunity.

Wikipedia

The Wikipedia assignment for this week was different. I had never posted on Wikipedia before and actually had no idea how to do it. After I quickly signed up for an account on the Wikipedia website it was really quick to post something on an existing page. 

The portrayal of people who call in to talk radio

In Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian there is a dumbed down sense of people who call into the radio station and the show "Night Talk" with Barry Champlain.

Is Talk Radio Journalism

For this week we were asked to view a few segments of certain radio talk shows from across the nation and decide if talk radio is a form of journalism.