Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Courtney, Jamie, Eric

Eric,

I think what you have so far is really good. I've never really thought about all the sites we can get news from. Digg.com and Reddit.com are two things I have never explored before and now thats something I'm interested in checking every once in a while. I really don't have any suggestions for this paper other than I'd love to see some statistics. I don't know what you statistics you can find about interactivity but thats my only suggestions.

Courtney,

Your paper is pretty much complete and I do have to admit I'm jealous. I think this paper is well written and very in depth. You did a great job starting out describing care pages and their purpose. I really liked that you stated your method but what I thought was really awesome was that you gave specific examples. My uncle currently has cancer right now, and he actuall updates his own care page. He won't give my aunt his password right now because he believes he won't get sick enough for her to have to write for him. It's a great way for people to keep updated on their loved ones and vice versa.

Jamie,

I think the start of this paper is so far so good. You did a good job describing PostSecret. I also really liked how you went into the description of expressive writing and the history of it. My only suggestion is what if you gave more examples of sites where people use expressive writing? I mean if you decide that you want to just focus on PostSecret thats fine but I think some other examples might help.