Texting Under the Influence

I was told about this documentary, a short one, but I thought it needed to be shared.

It’s difficult to phathom how technology has become to control our actions further and further. But a short 10 minute film like this one really hits home. I don’t text while driving, and I hope no one else ever does. As important as technology is to us, to drive and text is worse than many other things someone could do while driving. Your phone will still be there when you get to the stop light, the gas station, your destination. But if you risk those five seconds of looking down at the facebook, twitter, message, e-mail on your phone, you might not ever make it there. As important as being up to date and in-the-know on our world and news and friends and family may be, a life is more important. Careful out there, folks.

-Carrie Acree

Belmont Media Day

Today was the practie/media day. The team got to practice onsite at the University complex that will host the first round tomorrow Video of this will be uploaded when I return to Nashville.
Personally, tomorrow and Friday are one of my favorite days of the year because there will literally be basketball on TV all day. Out here, we are in the western timezone, sudden death basketball starts at 9:15 a.m. Loser goes home, and the winner is five games closer to being champions of college basketball. Currently, 64 teams that will play in the next two days. Meaning, 32 games need to be played, 16 of which will be tomorrow (4 here in Tucson). Then by Saturday the 68 team field will be down to the sweet 16. Belmont will play Wisconsin tomorrow at 7:36 eastern. Check out Trutv for the ballgame. Also in Tucson are: San Diego State, Northern Colorado, Temple, Penn State, Kansas State, and Utah State.
Earlier today media day was held for all the teams and the coaches to give press conferences to open the floor to any accredited press members representing their respective media outlets. Going through the massive Arizona weightroom the media tent was fired up. They had rows of desks where journalists sat behind their computers with unlimited information around them. There were rows of media guides for every team, along with, I couldn’t beleive this, a printed sheet of quotes by most players on every team present in Tucson. Stories could be made from anything with information like this. That, and questions were being shot off at coaches and players just on the other side if the black veil seperating them from press conferences.
After the media got its fair share the teams were given a 40 minute alotment of floor time to practice. Belmont did their warm-up amid the lucky 50 fans chanting “Belmont till’ I die” ever so often. I’m excited to hear what it sounds like tomorrow among a full crowd. And also how many Wisconsin made the trip to see their corn-feed boys pursue a sweet 16 spot.

Thanks, Robert

Mashable Mobile Websites

Lately, the focus is shifting from mobile apps to mobile websites. Mobile websites allow a user on any platform iPhone, Android, Blackberry etc to access information in a mobile format.  Here’s what Mashable had to say on the subject.

Some Apps to consider

Mobile Apps to Consider

Bruin Basketball Day 1

Day one of the Bruin NCAA playoff run consisted puerly of a travel day. A couple local news stations saw off the Men’s Basketball team today along with two extra buses full of student pep band members, cheerleaders, and 50 lucky fans joining the team. We are curently residing at the Radisson in Tucson, Arizona. Not terribly far from the Mexican border, but far enough to be comfortable. Over the next few days the weather will be nestled in the high 80′s (sorry Nashville), and we are set two hours behind everyone back home.
The best part of the day has been the ariel view over the heart of the United States. It was a straight shot through west Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and into Arizona. It’s always interesting to see everything from overhead as you fly over the country. The Southwest was plain in comparison to most landscapes for most of the ride, but when the dessert scenery came out it took a completely different shape. These miniature mountain ranges, spotted like heads peeking out of the ground, were everywhere. They rose like islands do out of the sea, but on dry land surrounded by an expanse of flat, arid dust. Some mountains rolled with their peaks; others jut out forming jagged edges. Having never seen many mountains from above they were all uniquely different. They could be castle fortresses, but only worn down by time rather than built up by men.
The region here also gives their friend in the sky a laugh as they fly overhead. One in particular put these “pac-man” shapes into their crops as the corn crop chased what I can assume was the wheat crop around the Texas plains. The stint through West Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona was absoluetly dessert area. For some reason the thought of those explorers pioneering the westward expansion all those years ago hit me, and what a lack of resources they had. I mean there was nothing, just flat, flat, flat; and then a mountain range, and then more flat. Then it was became me saying, “what the hell were they thinking. Stop riding and settle down.” Tomorrow is an off day but there will activity that you’ll hear about.

Thanks, Robert

Pillboxie

Hey guys–

A former coworker of mine just developed and released his own (successful) app called Pillboxie.  It’s basically an app to help one manage medications with custom calendars, alerts, and even customized pills and liquids from a visual standpoint.  Check it out on the if you’re interested–I’ll probably bring it up in class as well, since it seems like a cool success story about the epitome of the type of things we’re trying to come up with.

http://pillboxie.tumblr.com/

 

Tyler

 

 

Socialnomics

Great Video!! Watch if you can… did we watch this in class the first day or something like it?? Either way, it got my attention

Kayla Becker