I actually saw this video in an e-mail my dad sent me not too long ago. Growing up, I've always loved reading and watching programs about sharks. The Discovery Channel's Shark Week was (mentally) circled on my calendar.
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water"... I also used to think the land was safe as well!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Favorite Website
Here is one new fact you get to learn about me in this post: I am a sports fanatic. I love the atmosphere of watching a game with family or friends either on the big screen or, even better, at the stadium or venue. I can't really put my finger on why I have such a fervent love for the game: most likely, perhaps, because of the ever-present interconnection between sports, faith, and life.
Consequently, rarely a day passes when I have not browsed through ESPN. This site generally provides all the round-the-clock coverage of what I need (okay, want) to know from all sports. However, beyond just the news coverage it offers, I regularly look at the television schedule for the day to see what's coming up. I also enjoy the PR Media Kit which contains company information, biographies of my favorite studio personalities, play-by-play voices, and color commentators. It also has the latest press releases about upcoming event coverage and broadcasting assignments.
I have also been known and even spotted visiting MLB, NFL, and on occasion NBA to gather more specific information.
Consequently, rarely a day passes when I have not browsed through ESPN. This site generally provides all the round-the-clock coverage of what I need (okay, want) to know from all sports. However, beyond just the news coverage it offers, I regularly look at the television schedule for the day to see what's coming up. I also enjoy the PR Media Kit which contains company information, biographies of my favorite studio personalities, play-by-play voices, and color commentators. It also has the latest press releases about upcoming event coverage and broadcasting assignments.
I have also been known and even spotted visiting MLB, NFL, and on occasion NBA to gather more specific information.
Introductions
My name is Mark Ellison and this blog, "Freak Of Nature!," is actually starting as a project for my college course, Digital Media, Blogs, & Society.
I am a senior at the University of West Georgia hoping to graduate in the spring of 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications and a minor in History. I am hoping to go into some kind of media production. I am from Powder Springs, Georgia.
I enrolled in Digital Media, Blogs, & Society at first because it was another three hours I could add to my total graduation credits and also because there were a limited number of classes available when I registered last spring. However, upon reading through the syllabus for this course, I feel that this course is one of the most relevant classes to the present being that it deals with online media and, more specifically, social networking sites. This latest outreach of the Internet is yet another platform for worldwide communication of which all of society can (and already does) benefit from. For businesses, it's a brand new arena for advertisement and customer feedback. Politically speaking, it's a brand new arena for elected officials to reach out to constituents during campaigning (whether for office or policy) or to debate each other during campaigning for office. The most recent example of this would be President Obama and his videos on YouTube as well as the McCain/Obama presidential debates covered by Facebook in partnership with ABC. At the most basic level, it provides an opportunity for individuals to connect with family and friends. My parents, for example, have reconnected with several of their friends from high school a long time ago in galaxy far, far away. I have met members of a branch of my family for the very first time. There are so many, for lack of a better term, "useful" uses with social media. I feel this course has much to offer me.
I am a senior at the University of West Georgia hoping to graduate in the spring of 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications and a minor in History. I am hoping to go into some kind of media production. I am from Powder Springs, Georgia.
I enrolled in Digital Media, Blogs, & Society at first because it was another three hours I could add to my total graduation credits and also because there were a limited number of classes available when I registered last spring. However, upon reading through the syllabus for this course, I feel that this course is one of the most relevant classes to the present being that it deals with online media and, more specifically, social networking sites. This latest outreach of the Internet is yet another platform for worldwide communication of which all of society can (and already does) benefit from. For businesses, it's a brand new arena for advertisement and customer feedback. Politically speaking, it's a brand new arena for elected officials to reach out to constituents during campaigning (whether for office or policy) or to debate each other during campaigning for office. The most recent example of this would be President Obama and his videos on YouTube as well as the McCain/Obama presidential debates covered by Facebook in partnership with ABC. At the most basic level, it provides an opportunity for individuals to connect with family and friends. My parents, for example, have reconnected with several of their friends from high school a long time ago in galaxy far, far away. I have met members of a branch of my family for the very first time. There are so many, for lack of a better term, "useful" uses with social media. I feel this course has much to offer me.
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