Yes, I am a few days late on celebrating International Women’s Day. Forgive me. I have been seized, quite recently, with a deep, passionate, shout from the rooftops kind of love for the women in my life. In the past 48 hours in particularly, I have been reflecting on the love, kindness and support I’ve […]
Advertising
With Google Adsense installed and accepted, I am faced with a dilemma: to advertise or not to advertise? These days, I feel as though everything is an advertisement. I have to sort through my Instagram feed and must try to distinguish my friends posts from ads, to posts that contain paid promotions. Online, though they […]
A love story.
When Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin split up in 2014, they dubbed it a “conscious uncoupling”, resulting in some serious scrutiny from fans, journalists, and talk show hosts. I thought it was pretty dumb too. It was a break up. Why not call a spade a spade? It’s funny how a bit of experience can […]
No’ Money
I have no money. I work a lot (for a student). I spend sometimes, but not unreasonably. I used to live in an incredibly cheap place, but I no longer do. I try very hard to keep track of what I do and do not buy, what pits my money is falling into, but I […]
Essay 1: False News in the Age of the Internet
One of the most exciting things that came about with the turn of the century was the ability to communicate quickly and efficiently online. With the dawn of the internet, and particularly of Web 2.0, the way people communicated began to change, and with the invention of Facebook in the mid aughts, social networking websites […]
Data Trails
I don’t often give a lot of thought about how much information about myself I am putting out into the abyss of the internet, however I can see the results of it on a regular basis. I’ll occasionally Google myself to ensure that nothing unsavoury would come up if an employer or teacher were to […]
Peer Review: Design
Reviewing a peer in this class is an interesting process because I know that things are always in flux and constantly changing, but I was very excited to explore a fellow classmate’s website and really get into the details of who they are and what is working and what is not. For this project the […]
Design Journey
Talking about design today in class was unbelievably helpful in determining what I wanted to do to change the appearance of my blog. It was great learning about fonts and loading times in the first hour and a bit, and I really learned a lot about what these kinds of things will say about my […]
The First Post
Oh look! A website. Something I’ve been meaning to do for about a hundred years, finally coming to fruition. But, as usual, it is because it was assigned to me in school, not motivated by my own desires to self-promote. That is definitely a bonus though. As a communications student I’m fascinated by our desire […]
Going Offline
Craig Mod’s writings about going offline for a month were rather intriguing, but not enough for me to think that it was a good idea. I didn’t particularly enjoy his writing style, and found it all to be a little bit self-indulgent. I would say attention/attentiveness is a problem that I face on a regular […]
