It’s Super Tuesday, the seminal day during the presidential primary season where a significant number of delegates are up for grabs.

The results of today will shape the remainder of the primary season, leading up to each party’s convention over the summer. Look for political advertisements to sharpen in quantity and intensity, and watch for each candidate to make subtle shifts in their policies in order to position themselves as more electable.

My predictions on the Democratic side: Clinton will win NY, but will lose her home state of IL to Obama, along with CA, most of the midwest and all southern states. For the Republicans, McCain will make strong showings in all Super Tuesday states, and since the GOP primaries are winner-take-all (unlike the Dem’s proporational delegates), Romney won’t last much beyond tomorrow. Huckabee will win Arkansas, and will also end up bowing up by the end of the week.

The real fun will be at the Democratic convention. John Edwards suspended his campaign, he didn’t end it. After the first round of delegate voting, if no plurality emerges delegates are free to vote for whomever they want (at least that’s my understanding).

Buffalo.com is sponsoring an event at the Buffalo News Auditorium on Wednesday, February 20 at 7 p.m.: The Ins and Outs of Blogging. Learn how, why, where and when WNYers blog and how you can start blogging too.

Admission is free but participants must RSVP by phone at 716-849-4527 or by email to drusso@buffnews.com.

I will reiterate my opinion that any communication student who is serious about a career in journalism, public relations, marketing, and related fields should have a blog in some form through which to showcase their writing skills. Anything less and you will be starting your job search at a severe disadvantage. If you need guidance or suggestions in getting started, contact me (Kara Kane) at webmaster@medaille.edu or Sarah Whitehead at (716) 880-2117.

I’ve got the Super Bowl on the television, and I’m really just waiting for House to come on at 10. In between the football and sports commentary, Fox is showing the so-called “super bowl ads” during this most-watched event of the year .

What were your favorites? Why were they notable? View them all on myspace.com.

Edited to add: (After intermittently watching the whole game, my favorites were Will Ferrell for Bud Light and the E*Trade Talking Baby.)

The deadline for submissions for the 2008 Prelude has been extended to February 14. All text files should be sent in Rich Text Format and all images in 300 PPI to medailleprelude@gmail.com.

The Prelude is always ready to welcome new members. Anyone interested in joining the Prelude can come to meetings held each Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in the Mac Lab, located on the second floor of Huber Hall.

Microsoft is buying Yahoo , or are they? If you google search “Microsoft buys yahoo” you’ll get a whole lot of blog posts about the issue. (Go do it, read some and come back here. Yes, now.) Yahoo is reviewing the bid, and the Justice Department is also interested at looking into it.

Many of you in Com 300 were asking questions about regulation in the media. One regulation issue is who owns who. What are the implications for ownership, how does that affect what is/isn’t presented, and what is best for the society? Anyone have any thoughts?

Cross posted on my own blog, here. (Yes, I have a blog, do you?)

-Sarah Whitehead

I enjoy watching Lost, mainly because so few shows today leave everything so mysterious and suspenseful. Watching Wednesday night’s rebroadcast of the previous season’s final episode treated viewers to something that I predict will become commonplace in the coming years: “enhanced” television, with a crawl along the bottom of the screen providing a running commentary of facts, recaps, internet speculation and teasers for the coming season.

Why haven’t TV networks done this before? With the current writer’s strike in Hollywood I can understand that the writing talent needed to produce that content isn’t available, but once that ends, I would definitely be more inclined to watch an enhanced program.

Which television programs would you like to see enhanced in the same way that Lost was this week?