Innovative media.

Today, Professor Klein discussed some important Web sites for information like Romenesko and I Want Media. These Web sites clearly show how Internet journalism involves the three I's:

• Information
• Interactivity
• Immediacy

Other Web sites we looked at included: nyc24.org or collegeinnovation.org.

Although our generation is fast-paced, we still have doubts when it comes to credibility.

In order to assure the class, Professor Klein made an interesting analogy. "Think of it like an Oldsmobile, it was great until the last one came off the factory line, but no has them anymore," said Klein.

For a split second, I went back to memories of our old blue family car, an Oldsmobile (I forgot which year), that broke down in front of a crazy man's house over a decade ago. The man was yelling racial slurs at us as we walked through the snow home. I remember how I asked my mom to have our aunt pick us up or to at least stay at her house. My mom gripped the hands of my sister and I tighter as we continued the trek home.

The point of that story was that it quickly compared how technology affects us today. We had a top-of-the-line vehicle at the time, yet there were no cell phones in existence.

Today, barely anyone could survive without a cell phone, iPod or another electronic device to provide convenience and security.

It's our electronic pacifier.