Gotta Catch 'em all!

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/10/pokemon-feature/RBI

Pokémon? Isn’t that so 10 years ago?

Games like Super Mario Bros., Bomberman and other old time hit games might not be familiar to some people, but not Pokémon. In its various incarnations as a cartoon, Nintendo game and trading cards, the franchise has maintained its popularity. By some measures, it’s bigger than ever: The latest games, Pokémon Black and White, were the first to sell more than 1 million units in their first day of availability in the United States when Nintendo launched them this March. In Japan, the games sold 2.6 million copies in the first two days.

Before, Pokemon was about a boy who was on a journey to catch all the Pokemon he sees. Now, Pokemon has trading card games, game console games, movies, TV episodes; and even clothing franchises. Pokemon became a big hit worldwide. But it doesn't stop there. The Pokemon franchise is creating new ways for people who wants to battle others worldwide. It's a very good online community than any other Nintendo game can boast.

A lot of games and game consoles get pretty famous once in a while. But Pokemon never gets old. It always has this new creatures or new features that makes the game a lot better than the previous versions. Junichi Masuda, one of the company's first hires, said in an interview with Wired.com earlier this year: “With Pokémon, what we concentrate on is that the gameplay is really solid — like a sport, like soccer or basketball; It’s a game that people can play on and on, and not get bored of it.”

Photo Essay - All About Nikes

Creative Commons is an organization where people can share their knowledge and creativity in a legal way throughout the world. Creative Commons have licenses that shows what you can and cannot do with a product. These licenses are Attribution, Share-alike, No Derivative Works, Non-Commercial and Illustration.

Here are photos showing Nike shoes that have Creative Commons' licenses:

 http://www.flickr.com/people/chrishimself/

 http://www/flickr.com/people/sneakphotography

 http://www.flickr.com/people/timm3h/

 http://www.flickr.com/people/visioninvisible/

 http://www.flickr.com/people/ironmanixs/

 http://www.flickr.com/people/achimh/

Blogs and their purposes.

Blogs get more popular everyday. And through blogs, we see the different uses of it. I have a blog and I use it to share my creative ideas, listen to music and meet new people. Others use blogs whether to entertain, to inform or to persuade people. I put some sites on the given purposes to show how one purpose differ from another.

To Inform : When you are writing to inform, you are presenting information that the reader is interested in. This writing is purely for the sake of information and should avoid bias, opinions, or subjectivity. One site is about celebrity news and opinions about the news. It informs people about recent activities celebrities do.
http://popeater.com/
http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/

To Persuade: When writing to persuade the writer tries to convince the reader of a fact or
point of view. Persuasive writing can include reasons that support an idea, or information presented with bias to convince the reader of the writer's view. The site opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/ gives us the freedom of speech; to make an opinion on local news and/or articles throughout the world.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/
http://lifehacker.com/

To Entertain: Writing that is designed to entertain creates an emotion in the reader.
Entertaining writing is usually funny, interesting, weird, or even sometimes sad. The text is
created so that the reader will enjoy what is written. These sites show latest release of video games and movies online. It it also shows the description of the games/movies.
http://www.eurogamer.net/
http://www.slashfilm.com/