Weekly Blog 10: Should civilians have so much access to War’s Front Lines?

The U.S. sends our young men and women off to war, currently to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. To do tours in various countries including Vietnam or Japan where my cousin is now. Regardless of what we think of war, I believe it is our right to know what happens on the front lines. It [...]

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Response Blog 3: Creative Suite CS5: Product Improvement or more Money to Spend?

So if some of you don’t already know, Adobe released a new version of the Creative Suite software CS5 just a few days ago on April 12th. This comes less than two years after their release of CS4 (and less than 6 months after I purchased the thing).  To my knowledge a lot of people [...]

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Response Blog 2: New Tiger Woods Nike Commercial – Marketing Genius or Cryptic Ploy?

The new Nike commercial featuring Tiger Woods has been a hot topic all week-long with many discussions taking place around the water cooler or in my case at work in the workroom and in my marketing class. I have taken the stance that this commercial is a great example of strategic crisis communications in action [...]

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Weekly Blog 9: Lebanon: ArabNet discussed the future of Arabic Web in English

Last month the tech conference Arabnet 2010 was held in Beirut. It is the first international conference for the Arab web industry with leaders from across the MENA, Europe and Silicon Valley. It was said to be a successful conference yet for an Arab conference why was everything conducted in English? Why will the Arabic [...]

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Weekly Blog 8: Wikipedia Accuracy – Do I still feel the same way?

After last Wednesday’s class on the topic of Wikipedia, I feel I wrote my blog entry based solely on my opinion and my limited knowledge on how Wikipedia actually operates. Since digging deeper into the layers of the tool, I am happy to know that there are actual rules to having a wiki page.  First [...]

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