Second Infant Step in to the Blogosphere Introduction

Hi my name is Leif Gurdin and I am from Rochester New York and I am a marketing major at Champlain college where I am a Freshman. I enjoy skiing, playing ultimate frisbee, airsoft, and playing video games. And for the purpose of this blog I will be related my social media experiences I get while playing video games along with other things that I do from skiing to anything i want blog about.

For a recent social a media experience I have been playing Call of Duty Black Ops with my friends from home who are at different colleges to keep in touch with each other and be abe to chat and play together. I have also been playing Mass Effect 2 the newly released BioWare first person shooter RPG for the PS3 I have greatly enjoyed my experience with this game so far and have just started my second play through the story line and I enjoy the combat and leveling system but I enjoy the dialogue between the characters and the may options that you have for each conversation which makes each play through of this game different and unique experience. That I would highly recommend to any one with a PS3.

Things that I do not like about todays culture is mostly that people can not seem to escape from the media I most especially hate smart phones like the three major brands Blackberry , Droid, and iphone. I have never had one of these phones before so maybe I am missing something, but I find them so rude because people are constantly checking them even during conversation. For now I have a Samsung Intensity II which is just a basic qwerty phone and I enjoy texting with it but nothing more I prefer to use my laptop to access my social media.

Also I am an avid skier and I raced throughout high school and my favorite skier is Bode MIller and the picture above racing in his gold medal event the Super Combined.

Has the Super Bowl contenders have been decided the Packers Vs the Steeler we now will look to the Super Bowl ads here his my favorite Super Bowl of all time.





Thank you for letting me introduce myself to you and as a parting note I would like to become a marketing executive for a ski resort or marketing director for a game developer for a company like BioWare.

One small step into the blogosphere

One key concept that I learned that convergence has created a need for less journalist because they can now because of convergence report on multiple plat forms of media which as caused people to have less of a choice in new coverage out lets to choose from.

Key Term: Low Culture is soap operas, rock music, radio shock jocks, and video games. Low culture is also considered popular culture and is aligned with the questionable tastes of the masses.

Five Facts:

1.Obama had 2.3 million friends on facebook while McCain had just 610,000 thousand friends on facebook

2. That in 2009 we spent 1,562 hours we spent watching tv by the average American and when you consider that 16 minutes out of every hour of tv is commercials that’s a lot of commercials time viewed by Americans.

3. 90% of households have internet service and a DVD player.

4. The last telegraph was sent in 2006 by Western Union Telegraph Union.

5. Block printing was first used in China in 1045.

Personal Story: video games play a rather important role in my life I play them almost daily. For the most part I play them to communicate with my friends who are at other colleges. Like on Saturday night while I was sick and not out with friends at college I stayed in and played games with my friends and caught up with how things were in my home town and how things were in college and even got to talk to a friend how I had not seen since 5^th grade. So I use video games for enjoyment and for communication with friends.

now a great Super Bowl ad

and my favorite football team 1. http://www.raiders.com/index.ht

Favorite Skier Bode Miller