It looks like to me that if MS wants to patent something they will give it their best shot.  However, when I reread the article I referred to in my earlier post, I saw things a little bit differently.  That is, it seems like MS is trying to get their RSS patent by means of […]

This post is primarily one for Dr. C., however I would like to hear from anyone who has thoughts on the subject.  My post concerns an RSS patent.  From my scant research (primarily Google), it looks like Microsoft is involved, or planning to be involved in, patent litigation against other holders of RSS technologies.  Is […]

I’ve been thinking about the metaphor of cuts in a movie being metaphoric extensions of the human heartbeat.  It made me think about all kinds of things.  For example, what would a heart murmur look like in a scene?  My understanding of a heart murmur is that it is an extra sound that is not […]

As simplistic an exercise as it may have seemed in class today, it proved quite helpful to me in understanding what Dr. Campbell meant by the term.  At times I felt myself longing for a “cut,” while at others, I didn’t want another one.  I noticed that sometimes the director cuts while a character is […]

Ok, so, I finally got cable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is nothing in life I can’t conquer now that I have cable.  The sky is the limit.  I think getting cable will even make me a better blogger.  I’ll understand the films I’m watching and be able to say “smart” things in class like everyone else. Dr. C. […]

Coffee and chocolate are the perfect after-Campbell-class apertifs in post-FTC blog discussion requirements.  I’m here at Panera because they have WI FI and I have no internet access at home (hopefully a short-term thing).  Anyway, jumping right into adaptations-they’re incredibly complicated, involved processes.  Since it is impossible to relate an entire novel in the amount […]

I thought our discussion was especially thought provoking because we talked about the ways in which films were a constructed world.  I had never thought of movies of having anything in common with the written word.  However, when Dr. Campbell introduced the concepts of semantic and syntactic relationships, something clicked.  The semantic relationships are easier […]

I have to say that so far, I am enjoying this movie more than the others.  The dialogue seems easier to follow than in “Key,” and there’s no subtitles!  Having to focus so much attention on these things draws my attention away from the film itself.  It just seems like there’s so much to keep […]

Last semester in my Culture, Context and Compositon class we read an essay by Adorno and the Culture Industry.  In his many ramblings regarding the making of a movie, Adorno states that there is nothing unique in a movie.  He says that everything new or novel, such as the way a lock of hair falls […]

I’m just playing around with inserting video clips.  Can someone let me know if it worked.  thanks.  Carmen