Archive for March, 2011

What’s the Difference?

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

I came across this image on StumbleUpon and thought it was a great visual of what we have been learning in class. The pictures above make it clear the difference between the topics but I feel they also illustrate the communication channel. The one individual is trying to encode something to a listener, in order […]

Annoying Ads

Friday, March 18th, 2011

I recently read Mihail Baranovschii’s latest blog post about the annoying ads featured before Youtube videos. The best part of using YouTube is to be able to quickly view and search for short videos, and the use of ads makes the service less appealing. My suggestion to this problem is perhaps shorter ads. This may […]

Is it worth it?

Friday, March 11th, 2011

On March 8th, in a game between the Montreal Canadians and Boston Bruins, Zdeno Chara hit Max Pacioretty which resulted in Pacioretty suffering a cracked vertebra and severe concussion. The NHL decided the hit was not intentional and that the injury resulted from the collision with the glass stantion not the hit itself. No suspension […]

I’m Bi-winning, I win here and I win there

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

By now everyone has at least heard of Charlie Sheen’s latest exploits; as it has been everywhere. From YouTube clips to major news netwoks his name is everywhere at the moment. Moreover, as stated here on AdFreak he has officially become the fastest person to get 1 million followers on Twitter. The company ad.ly asked him […]

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