Friday, November 16, 2007

17th Century Englishman Blog

In the Post by Pepys Diary i think it conforms very well with blogs today. the only exception would be the way that he is speaking. Since he is from the 17th century his vocabulary is much diffrent than what we use. also i dont think there is really a wrong way to write on the web. this diary is writen well and i think it adapts to the internet form, since there is no "standard" to write online. since this was also a personal diary written by pepy, the diffrence would be that he tells alot of himself and not many people today have personal diarys of them selves for every to see, and post comments on what they think.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Body Parts

In the article the author tries to say how games are just developing over exaggerated features for gamers to get hooked on the game. when you design to make a game, you want it to sell. so if by doing this it will sell games then why not do it. why would someone try to make something and not want to make money? if you don't sell then you would spend ton of money on something that fails. this is also what gamers want. they want to fantasize on things so let them do this. even though they are not really allowed to fantasize bc the game makers only give them some options. the article also talks about the game WoW but there are many other games that give users tons of options to change their characters. this game is not only popular by how their avatars look but by possible on the game play. this also plays a major role in attracting users