I don't know if this will count for a blog entry in the class, I hope it does, but anyway, I thought this story was pretty cool. This dog even has his own FACEBOOK PAGE and BLOG tributes (what! lol). The facebook page is awesome, in the top left hand corner of the page the caption reads, "Louk the Riot Dog has been at every recent riot in Greece. Whatever about the politics, Riot Dog is hardcore!" LOL! Awesome. So this dog has been sited at several riots in Greece and people have made a facebook page for social networking about it. It seems like the people on the facebook page were trying to get to the bottom of if the dog was a newer version of a previous Riot Dog that had passed away, as I guess from the facebook page their were two of them, one named Kanellos, and this one Louk; and judging from the YahooNews article, there was a link hinting that it might be several strays just joining in the riots. On the facebook page and blog tributes, people have posted video, pictures, the works. I discovered this story on YahooNews, and then I was able to investigate the story further through the facebook account link, and then found out how people of the world on the 'net felt about the dog through the blog posts. Facebook was acting, in a way, like a form of in depth news coverage. I don't know if y'all went to class, but I remember the girl that was talking about how she found out about Michael Jackson's death on her social networking sites, and how she got the news through facebook before she heard about it through the real news. Also, again I don't know if y'all went to class, but there was another guy who was talking about setting up a joke twitter account for his friend and leaving funny posts. This Riot Dog facebook is similar to that concept, only this one is not for laughs, instead it's just about some awesome dog out there rioting wit his owner probably, or is it a stray, but you'll have to read the comment sections on the blog and facebook pages to find out, check it out and take a look, here are the links:
Riot Dog Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riot-Dog/112204342124708
Riot Dog Blog Tributes: http://www.buzzfeed.com/akdobbins/kanellos-the-greek-protest-dog
On the blog scroll down, the bottom picture wit the dude in the gasmask is the best one IMO; also scroll down towards the bottom of the page and that is where the comments are.
One commentor/blogger posted a pic that was like the AMV, or that Pocahontas Avatar Trailer concept that Professor went over in class. It is a picture of Mad Max from the Road Warrior (Mel Gibson, and if you didn't know that, please slap yourself b/c you know nothing of classic movies), wit the riot dog next to him, and it is a Movie poster for Mad Max 4, like how the AMVs were, same type of concept (Pocahontas Avatar Trailer AMV example).
Also, here is the original YahooNews article link where I found this story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100507/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1963
Joshua Yost
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