Monday, January 19, 2009

Semester Two Blog Post One

Many people are currently writing about Obama, the inauguration and America. Or maybe it is Barack Obama announcing on his first day in office Wednesday that he is freezing the pay of the about a hundred White House employees who make over $100,000 a year. Or President Barack Obama's first acts as president was to order federal agencies to halt all pending regulations until his administration can review them. Or maybe even the swearing in slip up.

But today we will talk about the antithesis of importance.

Yes.


For those who have lives outside a computer Zero Punctuation is basically a short, ~weekly, video game review. Self described as "
Gamers love it, developers fear it. Zero Punctuation tears videogames a new one every Wednesday as Yahtzee boldly goes where everyone else is afraid to. Including your mum's knickers. " Zero Punctuation is a brutally honest and humorous review.



Why is this "blogworthy"? It just is. Consistently funny and always offering a different viewpoint than commercial game review while still pulling thousands of viewers is blogworthy. And he speaks fast like.

But we cant leave readers with a short post on "Video Game Reviews" while there is so much world news. Or can we...?

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Next Post Which Numbers Would You Like

1. A print advertisement
2. A commercial
3. A political cartoon
4. An op-ed piece from a major newspaper, journal, or magazine
5. A journalism piece
6. A podcast
7. A radio show
8. A lecture
9. A t.v. show or film
10. A play
11. A museum: artwork, installation, sculpture,
12. An eyewitness event

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