Mundane Day

It's weird how a very mundane day like today can get so interesting.

So way too early today I got woken up several hours before my alarm went off because one of my roommates forgot how my room shares a wall with the laundry room. As I lay in bed I thought I was going to have a terrible rest of the day. That did not happen.

I am still not sure why I had such a great day today, but I am extremely glad it happened.

It was interesting. I worked all day today and any other regular day I would have been so upset.

I really hope more days like today happen more often.

Actually no, they will happen more often...I'm sure of it.

Blogger

This whole blogging thing seemed a little sketchy at first, but now that I've been experimenting with the website and looking around it for the past week or so I think I'm finally getting the hang of it.
It's really interesting how we can all just speak freely on the internet and virtually get away with it.
I mean really think about it. We all can be whoever we want on the internet. But the truth of the matter is I will be the same online as I am in real life.

I am a very simple person. I work for a "mega-church" in Chandler, Arizona as a video guy (I don't really know my real title). I enjoy working with video production. I've been working in this field for about 7 years now. I've worked on numerous commercials and music videos ranging from Nelly, The Killers, wii commercials, etc.
I enjoy my job field and can't wait to work more in it after college.

That's enough for now, I will definitely write more later.

Cyberspace Mayhem/Independence

Barlow and Whalen's articles were very interesting.

Barlow was predominantly talking about how the Internet is the only thing the government can't really control. Barlow also stated how Cyberspace is a great way to utilize the freedom of speech we were all meant to have.

Whalen's article on "jamming" the media seemed very appealing. Whalen talked about a man named Joe Matheny and what he was doing to get advertiser to stop shoving ads/billboards/any other media type publicity down his throat. What Matheny would do along side many other people was change billboards to say something more clever. Granted a lot of the companies who had their billboard vandalized received more sales coming in because it made the public remember that item being advertised.

The internet seems way different now compared to the mid to late 90's. But at the same time the internet hasn't changed much. For example, when Barlow wrote "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" he was just writing freely. He was speaking his mind and recommending everyone to speak freely on the internet just because it is out of the governments jurisdiction.

Nowadays everyone is constantly expressing themselves freely on the web. I'm even doing it right now with this blog. The internet is a wonderful tool for people to talk to each other about theories, ideas, and thoughts.

Whalen and Barlow knew exactly what capabilities the internet had for freedom of speech.