I was poking around news sites to find events I might want to cover for this assignment. Lo and behold, I found out that Toronto was going to host its first “cat video festival.” What’s more, none other than the Prime Minister’s wife, Laureen Harper, will appear at the event.
I made this short commentary in Zeega about the news and reaction to the news.
I also collected reactions on Twitter using Storify.
Here are some highlights:
Notes about process: Both Zeega and Storify were extremely intuitive and easy to use. I do, however, regret the fact that I could not embed cat videos in Zeega.
Great topic :D. I remember reading the write-up of the first cat video festival at the ‘serious’ art institution the Walker and being very delighted – http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/movies/at-cat-video-film-festival-stars-purr-for-close-ups.html.
I think Ethan hit it on the head in the class by saying that the Zeega can serve as the start of an experiment in itself by sharing and seeing what the spread and reaction was to an op-ed done in that style. Seems like a cat video style op-ed is the right way to respond to this thing, or at the very least is a necessary response among more serious op-eds.