Medium is the message.

Medium is the message,
At first when we learn't about this in class, I could not figure out for the life of me what in the world this meant. As I thought about it more and more I came to the conclusion that the medium ( the actual means of communication and the ways we do it, such as the new technology) IS the message, that the message to the audience is the technology. I think you said it well today when you said that ''what impacts people more is the technology to actually get the message out as opposed to the actual message''.
Also, you said that the audience is the content. For me, this is difficult to understand but my guess is that the audience for the technology and ways of communication is the content, or rather ''what is being put into the medium in order to communicate it with the rest of the world''. This seems like a bunch of rambling on, but It startig to make sense and I just thought I'd write it out.
Writing my journal entry on my blog is very new for me, I've always been old fashioned when it comes to means of communication. I still have msn and facebook that Im signed into a good majority of the time, but I don't ''talk'' and type like my friends do, I try to have good grammar and proper speech as opposed to ''whaddyat by'' which is what most of my friends say.
I still write letters every week to correspondences in Germany,Halifax,Alberta etc.. although writing a letter is more work then typing a few words on an email, I like it better because I can decorate the letter however I want and It just seems more personal and fun. I have a book called ''the sisterhood of the traveling book'' with four of my closest friends that is written in and sent to each person because two friends are in university and the other friend is in Labrador, It so nice to see that book waiting for you when you get home from a long day of school, we have rules and we add pictures etc.. although it takes forever it write in, its so much fun and a lot more rewarding. I love getting ''old fashioned'' mail.
To be writing a journal for marks on a blog that could potentially be visited by other students is very different than a few years ago when this probably wouldn't have happened, Its exciting to be living in the technology age that is progressing faster than we can blink one eye but at the same time we can't forget to interact on a personal level and not with a computer in the way.
p.s. I wanted to ask why you got out of journalism and decided on education instead?
See how the computer makes it easier for me to ask?

You love me!

so,
This is definatly new for me. Im trying to think of what purpose this will be to me, maybe I'll make it my art blog or something and update it with my new art work..or I'll write pointless blogs that people won't read. who knows.^^

Love, Danielle-xx