Thursday, January 30, 2014

"The Dream of Life"

If you haven't noticed yet, I love these kinds of videos.  To some they might be corny, but I love the messages they give. Look up Alan Watts to find more of his speeches, and learn about him, he had a lot to say and was very interesting. 


*Note this video is from Youtube and does not belong to me!*

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

"What is the work you can't not do?" 
                                         -Scott Dinsmore


       I found this video that talks about doing something you love.  I personally am a huge advocate for this because I was going to school for something others wanted me to.  It is a long story, but basically I took advantage of my own life and realized what I really wanted to do.  Check this video out, he makes a lot of good points.


       Just a neat short video I found! Check it out it's about a person who is a filmmaker and traveler.



Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Writing Exercise

Amber Alert in Vermont


An amber alert  has been initiated as of Monday evening January 27th, for a 12-year old boy named Zachary Lee who never made it into his foster home on North Road in Sunderland, VT after school.

Zachary Lee has recently arrived to the United States from France, and authorities are suspecting his mother, Patricia Kane (49 years old) has taken off with him.  Patricia has a past history of unstable behavior and of attempting this same act when Zachary was in the custody of the Republic of France. 

Zachary was last seen wearing a black winter coat with white accents, blue and black sneakers, jeans, and a sweater.  He is described as a young white male, 12 years of age, weighs 95 pounds, 5 foot tall, has brown hair, and brown eyes.  

Patricia can be described as an older white female, 6 foot tall, weighs 125 pounds, blonde hair and brown eyes.  Her and Zachary also speak with French accents as well.  

If you have any information on this search for Zachary, please contact any of the following: call at 802-442-5421; submit a tip at www.vtips.info; and/or text "CRIMES"(274637) using the keyword VTIPS.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Ever Get the Travel Bug?

       Ever get the travel bug to just go everywhere and see everything?  This guy did, and his has yet to end!  I stumbled upon it while looking around about traveling.  It is pretty cool to check out!

Check out "Wandering Earl" and his journey that started back in 1999:
 http://www.wanderingearl.com/



Photo belongs to: http://www.wanderingearl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Help-Wanted.jpg

"Pimp My Blog"

Hi Readers!
    
     My blog is definitely still in the making and I am hoping to make improvements as I go on.  So far I have added some features/widgets and have made a few posts so far to hopefully start getting activity on the blog!  First of all I chose the layout I did just because I thought it was visually appealing, I played with the layouts for awhile until I found a look I liked.  I wanted my navigation side to be on the left side just because I thought it would be one of the first things readers would see.  In this naviagtion area, readers will find a search box where they can search within my blog.  They will also find a blog archive where they can go through past posts.  I also included a "Share it" and the google +1 feature.  I added the Share It feature in hopes that if readers see something they like, they would obviously then share it and more people would see it!  I added the google +1 feature so people could follow the blog and "like it" essentially.  I also put the about me on the left side so people could learn about the person behind the blog pretty easily.  I added a contact form at the bottom of the page so readers could send in messages or their information if they wanted!  I hope to definitely make the blog look more professional in the future.  I'm planning to learn as I go and make this into something that I will benefit from!  That is pretty much why I chose how I did my blog!  

Daily Dose of Inspiration

One of my favorite videos, Steve Jobs was iconic and inspirational.  Check it out!



Hello All!

     Hi everyone!  My name is Holly Cannon and I am currently attending Lyndon State College for Electronic Journalism Arts.  This blog is a part of a course I am taking, but I hope it becomes more than just that and really contributes to my future journalism career.  I am hoping to either become a reporter/anchor or producer in the future!  This is just the start of it all, stay tuned to see what more is to come!

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give" 
                                      -Winston Churchill

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Blog Critique

      For this assignment I chose to search for blogs about travel on technorati.com.  I found a blog called "Traveling In Europe: The Joys of Living in Europe."  The blogger is Robert Rapier, and in his bio about himself he does not mention anything about the blog or the purpose for it.  To find the purpose and reason for this blog, you have to go back to the archives page to the first ever blog post.  Once there, I found out that in 1999-2001 Rapier and his family lived in Germany, and they received six weeks each year for vacation benefits.  He goes on to say that the purpose of this blog is to write about the experience they had all around Europe and North Africa, and that he hopes it will help readers who are interested in planning a trip to Europe.
      As I went through his blog posts that started in 2006, I read that at one point his family and himself actually left Germany and moved to Scotland.  It seems to me that this blog was more for fun, than for professionalism.  I spent a good amount of time going through his posts, and I did find things I liked and disliked.  I liked how he really was telling his personal story through his writing.  He wrote about how they visited and lived many places, and what his experience was in each place.  His blog seems more of a personal account of his everyday life in Europe compared to an actual informative/travel guide to famous sites/sight-seeing.  I think his purpose of the blog had good intentions, but I do not think it is being completely fulfilled.  With that all being said, I did really like how he had his own photography with every blog posts.  I did not like that there were only pictures and text however, I wish there were videos of some sort or more pictures rather than just one or two small photos for every post.  The ratio of writing to a photo was a little over powering.  I did not like how he had a lot of text compared to other forms of media.  To a reader, I do not think it looks that appealing.  I also did not like how color less the blog was.  I think he should add some color and use different texts/formats just to make things stand out and spruce it up a bit.  I also noticed how he has not posted since November 7th, 2010 which means the blog has been forgotten or he ran out of stories!  I also noticed how he did use tags and links to try to get more traffic on the blog which was a good idea.  However he has gotten little traffic I believe, just because there are very little comments on each post.  He also mentions in his last blog post, that the title of his blog is now irrelevant because he has been posting about places outside of Europe.  That is something I did not like because he should not say he should change the title, he should actually change the title so it is not misleading.
     I found some other travel blogs while stumbling upon this one.  I found one called http://www.traveling-savage.com/ and it is put together very nicely.  It has a lot of pictures, good amount of readers, and is very appealing!  If Rob ever wants to spruce up his blog and increase traffic, this one would be a great one to look at for ideas!  That is all I have for now, I hope you enjoyed my blog critique!

To visit Robert Rapier's blog: http://traveling-in-europe.blogspot.com/

-Holly Cannon