Mark Briggs on Serra Media

Mark Briggs who is actually the co-founder of a software called Serra Media and the author of Journalism 2.0 - How To Survive & Thrive came into class today. He spoke on how his business runs by creating a social mapping platform that allows newspaper to build websites based off of local news. He also discussed another way his company took the software and invested in Bargain Babe which is a local shopping blog. This was huge because now people can know where to go shopping locally for best deals and what not. Mark also discussed different aspects of how companies like this actually make profit and also since he lives in Tacoma he wants to bring this type of community online into the south sound.

Web Designin'

The idea of how to create a website from notepad is interesting. It's not necessary to know how to any more because of new web designs. Its definatlry something i found interesting. I would like to know more about how to take a web design and make it an actual web page adding pictures and links.

21st Century Publishing

News paper companies are constantly making budget cuts this day in age. The news paper used to be the way of communicating through a community. Everything was and still is pubished in the news paper..daily news, articles, games, ads, etc. But with the growth of the internet news papers have been able to post news and articles online on their websites. People find it easier and more convienient to just look online. Also most people's homepages have all the news posted right on the page (ex: yahoo, comcast). The internet has also made many companies start the go green process where everything is now paperless cause we have access to it on the internet. News papers are just not selling except for to schools, and businesses. Really what is the point of paying for the news paper when everything you need is provided on your internet that your already paying for? The one valuable part of the news paper that i enjoy is the sunday paper, but other than that i have no need for the paper.

Emails

I feel that the similarities created between and e-mail and standard mail play major roles in the execution of e-mail. When developing the whole idea it was very smart to make the "mailbox" just like you would have at home. I remember when i first logged on to AOL and that guy said, "you've got mail." It was the start of the whole internet experience for me. When we were taking notes we had spam as a difference. I actually kind of believe it's similar. I don't know about you but when i go home and check my mail i have the letters that i look at immediately and then put the rest of the stuff in the recycle bin.
The strengths of receiving actual mail is recieving photos and receiving documents when need signatures and you can send packages other then text. The strengths of email are that letters can be delivered and recieved in a matter of seconds.