So who won the first presidential debate.. the polls point to Obama

With Round 1 of the Presidential Debates complete, it is now time for the countless hours of analysis and more debate about which candidate performed better. Well, according to the new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, Sen. Barack Obama was the resounding winner.
Here is the article: Round 1 in debates goes to Obama, poll says.

Now this poll did not surprise me one bit. It is obvious that Sen. Obama is by far the better public speaker. I feel that most of the debates will probably result in the same feelings and sentiments. If it came down to just who was the best speaker, we might as well crown Sen. Barack Obama as our next president of the United States. This is not the case, though.

One poll fact I did find very interesting was this: "More than two-thirds of debate watchers agreed that both McCain and Obama would be able to handle the job of president if elected." With many other polls that I have seen in the past, the numbers have been far different from these results. I think it is just the fact that the majority of the American public has grown extremely tired of the Bush regime. It appears that people will be happy with almost anyone in the presidency besides President Bush.

I'm looking forward to hearing more about the debates and I am anticipating more of the same cut-throat debating during the next two debates before the election.

MySpace to the rescue!

As I was browsing the RollingStone Web site I came across a very interesting article about MySpace and the music industry. Here is the article: MySpace Music Readies for Liftoff

So what does this mean for the music industry? There's really no say as to what may happen. With the way in which our world is today, people are accustomed to downloading free music. From Limewire to Bit Torrent, it has become so easy to access and acquire music that buying the products has almost become something we do not even think about anymore. Why buy it when we can just get it for free from our computers? In this article, MySpace states that they are going to offer streaming music for free on an ad-supported system. They will also offer the music for purchase through Amazon MP3. Many in the music industry are very skeptical that MySpace can help what has been a suffering business. In my opinion, MySpace is in a win-win situation here. It appears that they are getting money from each of the major music labels to put their music on Myspace's site, they are receiving money from the advertisements which are paying top dollar to be present on the site and they are going to make a percentage of money from the music that is purchased by the consumers. In my opinion, the music industry is the group that should be worried about making money. I thought this article made a great point. Why, when people are so used to just listening to streamed music, are people then going to buy the music? The music industry is being killed by the era of free downloads. But what other options do they have? At this point, the music industry has to do whatever they can to stop the bleeding. If that means selling out to the world of MySpace, then that is what the music industry has to do. Hey, it's all just business.

This is just the beginning...

My name is Ryan Lytle. I am the creator of this brand-spanking new blog. In this great country of ours, a blog has become a typical sight. Every day, thousands of new blogs are created and monotonous words of drivel are spilled on our computer screen. Many of these blogs cover a person's personal life. Other blogs are a way for people to complain about their favorite sports teams and give their own advice about what they would do if they were the coach or manager or coordinator, etc. This blog will be none of the above! As the title of this blog states, it will be my take on the ways of the world. Now you may be asking yourself, "now Ryan, what does that mean?" Let me tell you now, it can mean anything you think it could mean. This blog will be used as a tool to highlight my feelings on anything from interesting news stories, to a hot new movie and, yes, even my own babble about things going on in my life. To take a quote from Stephen Colbert, while reading my blog "you will laugh, you will cry, you will lose 15 pounds"! This blog will be informative and hopefully entertaining. Lets not forget the underlying reason I am creating this blog from the get-go. I will use this site to showcase the skills I have learned at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Hopefully, in the near future, this site may quite possibly assist me with finding a great career in online journalism. I truly hope that is the case or else this is all just a colossal waste of time. Just kidding. I write because I love to. And as another great mind in history once said, "If you love something, you hold on to her." If I do recall, Kevin Arnold said this about his crush Winnie Cooper in the famed 80's television show, "The Wonder Years". That was a classic. I can only hope that in the future, this blog will be held in the same esteem as "The Wonder Years".