Tuesday, February 10, 2009
NMC project Day 2
I went to my NMC teacher’s office today a few times and I found that she was not there. I didn’t get to run my ideas by her until I got to class. In recent events in my films production class I have to make a video about Oregon State and some faction of it. I also have to make an informational and a poster for the ethnic studies department. I thought that I would put all three things together and make a media package for the ethnic studies department. And because I have to have this done by Monday for my class I’m going to do all this by Monday! I brought up the idea of the work for the ethnic studies department in class and the teacher was all for it. But the problem was; if I finish all this by the estimated time I would have nothing to do till the end of the term. So I asked my teacher if I could make a rule book for class as well. And as if I was given a gift from above she said that was ok! Then I went home and found that I had a post on the class bulletin board it was about my blogs… the teacher like the idea of me going back to my home town and having a work shop… I started to feel guilty and told myself not only have I not been home for months but I have yet to do anything for my community in a long time. So I’m going to do all three. And for any one that says I can’t pull this off; you have not gotten to know me yet ^_^
Monday, February 9, 2009
Reaction to: Pew on Social Media: It's Bigger Than You Think
To start I want to echo the phrase It’s not an afterthought. This article is correct about many things; the first being that social media pages are not an afterthought not by a long shot it’s just like the television or the radio or even the phone when first introduced by their inventers they were treated as toys. This article used the idea of making money and increasing the amount of people that get to one web page. The greatest thing about this article is the idea it put out about news reaching more and more people faster. But when I started thinking about social pages and them being used as a source of revenue.
Then my thoughts on that was of a little offended; it is great that networking sights are going to be used more but the idea of adds popping up and interrupting everything that I do online is a reality that I’m not only facing right now but it’s a reality that is going to get worse and worse. In the start the internet’s networking sights where only for young people to connect with each other, then adults started to use it, the next step is the advertisements came because the adults where the ones with money. This pattern is the same one with the television or the radio or even the phone. This pattern follows the same trends till the society at the time is use to it. Social pages are just now being understood as a serious method of revenue because there are people that have money using them. Capitalism is not a bad thing but the corruption might be all too real one day. And that is only because there is a lot of money to be made on the internet and depending on what direction this generation lets the world of the internet take will help shape what it will be like years from now. It will not take long till the marketing department of some branch wants to take control of sights. I can see Pepsi taking over Facebook and posting ads everywhere and people leaving Facebook starting a new thing then Coke a cola taking over that one. But we can fight back and that is by using that initial idea of media news and informing the people of what’s going on. Unless the news get censored then there is no hope.
Then my thoughts on that was of a little offended; it is great that networking sights are going to be used more but the idea of adds popping up and interrupting everything that I do online is a reality that I’m not only facing right now but it’s a reality that is going to get worse and worse. In the start the internet’s networking sights where only for young people to connect with each other, then adults started to use it, the next step is the advertisements came because the adults where the ones with money. This pattern is the same one with the television or the radio or even the phone. This pattern follows the same trends till the society at the time is use to it. Social pages are just now being understood as a serious method of revenue because there are people that have money using them. Capitalism is not a bad thing but the corruption might be all too real one day. And that is only because there is a lot of money to be made on the internet and depending on what direction this generation lets the world of the internet take will help shape what it will be like years from now. It will not take long till the marketing department of some branch wants to take control of sights. I can see Pepsi taking over Facebook and posting ads everywhere and people leaving Facebook starting a new thing then Coke a cola taking over that one. But we can fight back and that is by using that initial idea of media news and informing the people of what’s going on. Unless the news get censored then there is no hope.
NMC project day one
My homework this week was to make a blog about what my project is going to be about. The problem was that I have one too many ideas of what it should be on. First of all I know I’m going to be helping out with a class project as the camera person filming interviews for the NMC department. The next thing was the idea that I can use this work alongside with the work from my NMC 201 class and Wright out the story and the idea of my RPG (role play game) game; this idea would let me do work for two classes and be more focused on it. The next thing is make a rule book for my card game (dream come true) because as of yet I don’t have a complete or typed out rule book. The next thing that I was thinking of was making a web page for a television show or Anime. I also contemplated using this project as a workshop teaching people back at my home town about something new or useful being that not many people in my town have computers yet alone how to use basic programs like Photoshop and power point. The next thing that I thought about was the use this project in a way that will help others like make a documentary about a epidemic at Oregon State University but I couldn’t think of any that I could do a full exposé on it in a few weeks. In the next thing that thought was maybe make a Manga, but that would be too much work and I’m not that skilled in real Manga art work. In the end I figured that I would just have to run my ideas by my teacher first. I hope she like my ideas or can give me a good one; because to tell the truth I’m a little lost when it comes to fully understanding what this project should be about. The only thing that I know is that I can and will do that work for full heartily whatever it may be.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Profile: Vincenzo Luvineri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnie_Paz
My assignment was to find any profile that really affected or changed my perspective on someone, I thought that I would do Kurt Cuban or Obama or maybe someone in sports team or the a CEO like Bill Gates. But then I thought, what if someone will do the same one I did? I could see it now a analyzes in class. and a discussion about two different people writing about the same person. I decided to stop thinking about it and put on my headphones and to play some music. As usual I walked home listening to several songs by my favorite band Jedi mind tricks (JMT). By the time I got to my door I still didn’t know who to make a blog about and I could not stop thinking about it. I went on line and had my music running in the background on shuffle and as always it went through more JMT songs. Then it hit me why not do a blog about the lead singer of this group I always listen to but know nothing of! So I started doing research I looked for him and found information about a guy named Vincenzo Edward Pazienza a boxer and I was captivated to think that he was a boxer turned singer. Then I found out that it was not the same person. So I dug deeper and could only find a Wikipedia page. What I found out was astonishing. Despite the fact that his lyrics are focus on religion, personal despair, the government, the war in Iraq and the one in Vietnam and several angry rants about the unjust legal system and the oppression of minorities. He was raised Catholic not Muslim! Along with that he had a lot more songs that I did not know of. He was also known as Ikon the Verbal Hologram; I thought the Verbal Hologram was a metaphor in his songs that talked about darkness in one self but it turns out it was about himself. It also turns out that he has metal plates in his mouth; but how or why they are in there I could not find out. I did more hunting and still ran short but then I went to youtube and found some videos of him but nothing that was not on the wiki page. The most surprising thing of all was about how. He did not look a thing like I thought he did. But still the knowledge I got helped me understand the music I listen to more. And the fact that they are an underground band makes it more likely that no one else did a blog about him for class.
My assignment was to find any profile that really affected or changed my perspective on someone, I thought that I would do Kurt Cuban or Obama or maybe someone in sports team or the a CEO like Bill Gates. But then I thought, what if someone will do the same one I did? I could see it now a analyzes in class. and a discussion about two different people writing about the same person. I decided to stop thinking about it and put on my headphones and to play some music. As usual I walked home listening to several songs by my favorite band Jedi mind tricks (JMT). By the time I got to my door I still didn’t know who to make a blog about and I could not stop thinking about it. I went on line and had my music running in the background on shuffle and as always it went through more JMT songs. Then it hit me why not do a blog about the lead singer of this group I always listen to but know nothing of! So I started doing research I looked for him and found information about a guy named Vincenzo Edward Pazienza a boxer and I was captivated to think that he was a boxer turned singer. Then I found out that it was not the same person. So I dug deeper and could only find a Wikipedia page. What I found out was astonishing. Despite the fact that his lyrics are focus on religion, personal despair, the government, the war in Iraq and the one in Vietnam and several angry rants about the unjust legal system and the oppression of minorities. He was raised Catholic not Muslim! Along with that he had a lot more songs that I did not know of. He was also known as Ikon the Verbal Hologram; I thought the Verbal Hologram was a metaphor in his songs that talked about darkness in one self but it turns out it was about himself. It also turns out that he has metal plates in his mouth; but how or why they are in there I could not find out. I did more hunting and still ran short but then I went to youtube and found some videos of him but nothing that was not on the wiki page. The most surprising thing of all was about how. He did not look a thing like I thought he did. But still the knowledge I got helped me understand the music I listen to more. And the fact that they are an underground band makes it more likely that no one else did a blog about him for class.
Reaction: Innovations in Storytelling: Using Comics for Journalism
Article: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/09/innovations-in-storytelling-using-comics-for-journalism005.html
I can see that use of comics in Journalism is exciting but with in this article I found a lot more questions than answers. First I don’t remember comics ever not being a part of real news I can open up any news paper and see that there is some form of political comic in it each and every day. so the use of comics in telling a real life situation is not a new one. . I was also wondering how much inside of the comic world this blogger went? I mean has he even read a Manga most are filled with parities of the real world, or are based on what would happen if some advances in technology go to far. Even in American comics this can be seen. And comics were also used in the time of war, I mean was that not the entire idea behind Captain America [my favorite super hero] ? The next question is what would happen to the world of comics if politics took over it? i can see it now a comic based off of john McCain and Barack Obama
To late... The next thing is what if it improves the quality of comics?I mean what if they take a real world problem and take it to the comic world. I did some research and found out that the comic world had already done that and it was the best thing that has ever happened to it with the Civil war:
I think the reason why I’m not liking this article is because the use of comics in Journalism has been around for as long as comics have existed; and this blog might have been better off being about the history of that even not the implication that it is a new meets old or a new way of looking at things because it is not. I took a look at it again and I found that it's saving grace was that at least it talked about the phenomenon because the truth is that his phenomena is so almost never talked about; but I understand how it can been skipped. Comics are not taken seriously at all and worst is how Manga goes hand in hand with that. They may have amazing story lines but no main stream American book chart takes it seriously. I would like to see a novel with as much depth and illustration as Death note the Manga or as much philosophy as Neon Genesis Evangelion. And the encouraging thing is that it seems like this might happen if journalist are starting to use it more.Maybe one day the skill of drawing will go hand and hand with writing.
I can see that use of comics in Journalism is exciting but with in this article I found a lot more questions than answers. First I don’t remember comics ever not being a part of real news I can open up any news paper and see that there is some form of political comic in it each and every day. so the use of comics in telling a real life situation is not a new one. . I was also wondering how much inside of the comic world this blogger went? I mean has he even read a Manga most are filled with parities of the real world, or are based on what would happen if some advances in technology go to far. Even in American comics this can be seen. And comics were also used in the time of war, I mean was that not the entire idea behind Captain America [my favorite super hero] ? The next question is what would happen to the world of comics if politics took over it? i can see it now a comic based off of john McCain and Barack Obama
To late... The next thing is what if it improves the quality of comics?I mean what if they take a real world problem and take it to the comic world. I did some research and found out that the comic world had already done that and it was the best thing that has ever happened to it with the Civil war:
I think the reason why I’m not liking this article is because the use of comics in Journalism has been around for as long as comics have existed; and this blog might have been better off being about the history of that even not the implication that it is a new meets old or a new way of looking at things because it is not. I took a look at it again and I found that it's saving grace was that at least it talked about the phenomenon because the truth is that his phenomena is so almost never talked about; but I understand how it can been skipped. Comics are not taken seriously at all and worst is how Manga goes hand in hand with that. They may have amazing story lines but no main stream American book chart takes it seriously. I would like to see a novel with as much depth and illustration as Death note the Manga or as much philosophy as Neon Genesis Evangelion. And the encouraging thing is that it seems like this might happen if journalist are starting to use it more.Maybe one day the skill of drawing will go hand and hand with writing.
Reaction: Announcing the Reporter Channel
Article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGkstFwJKa8
It is a victory for Freedom of the press. YouTube has announced the Reporter label and now people that do the smallest of local news can make it easier to distribute their news to their public. Without having to pay the fee if they wanted to post something on TV to reach people. This movement of news being broadcasted by anyone is so insuring it makes me prouder to say that I live in the united states where basic right are still allowed. What I mean by that is that we are free here to broadcast print and say what we want and let other people see and listen to what we have to say. And let them, say back what they think about us. Before I saw this I was starting to wonder how we as people are going to fight back the media monster censorship[not saying that all censorship is bad please do not take that out of content]? And the answer youtube movement. Although the counter point can be that youtube can delete your video if it is to offensive. Such as the story of a channel on youtube called “mrblacksmoviereviews” I subscribed to him when he started as a movie reviewer then his tone changed with the rise of the Viacom suet on youtube . video called “END OF INDEPENDENT MOVIE & GAME REVIEWS ON YOUTUBE” [1] the next was a video about the orphan works act. The next thing you know some of his videos that sheds light on subjects that the main stream media is not telling us get brought down, due to copyright infringement accusations. But it was too late to stop him in a few days he allowed his videos to be downloaded and hundreds of people started posting his videos. After this I felt like we as people can win against the media monster censorship. After this happened a few years ago it is encouraging to see that youtube is now playing nice and putting all the reporters in one spot to keep them under one category. Now that I think about it; it was because of “mrblacksmoviereviews” video I started researching about news that was not main stream. I found out about cancer curing tomatoes, rumored television shows such as the terminator live action series and the upcoming star wars live action series; and things about upcoming technologies and more about the war in Afghanistan that I needed to know. And I am still doing that to this day. Sometimes wondering off to Area 51 and illuminati research. On second thought now I am suspicious as to why youtube didn’t have this category before. Well I have no real answer for that other then saying even if a video gets taken down there are enough internet users out there to keep anything alive because no matter how hard the media monster censorship may try to keep the truth from the public they can’t silence all of us. So in the end I leave with this quote:
"This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto." "You may stop me, but you can't stop us all."
~The Mentor 1986
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMjHKTtP72s
It is a victory for Freedom of the press. YouTube has announced the Reporter label and now people that do the smallest of local news can make it easier to distribute their news to their public. Without having to pay the fee if they wanted to post something on TV to reach people. This movement of news being broadcasted by anyone is so insuring it makes me prouder to say that I live in the united states where basic right are still allowed. What I mean by that is that we are free here to broadcast print and say what we want and let other people see and listen to what we have to say. And let them, say back what they think about us. Before I saw this I was starting to wonder how we as people are going to fight back the media monster censorship[not saying that all censorship is bad please do not take that out of content]? And the answer youtube movement. Although the counter point can be that youtube can delete your video if it is to offensive. Such as the story of a channel on youtube called “mrblacksmoviereviews” I subscribed to him when he started as a movie reviewer then his tone changed with the rise of the Viacom suet on youtube . video called “END OF INDEPENDENT MOVIE & GAME REVIEWS ON YOUTUBE” [1] the next was a video about the orphan works act. The next thing you know some of his videos that sheds light on subjects that the main stream media is not telling us get brought down, due to copyright infringement accusations. But it was too late to stop him in a few days he allowed his videos to be downloaded and hundreds of people started posting his videos. After this I felt like we as people can win against the media monster censorship. After this happened a few years ago it is encouraging to see that youtube is now playing nice and putting all the reporters in one spot to keep them under one category. Now that I think about it; it was because of “mrblacksmoviereviews” video I started researching about news that was not main stream. I found out about cancer curing tomatoes, rumored television shows such as the terminator live action series and the upcoming star wars live action series; and things about upcoming technologies and more about the war in Afghanistan that I needed to know. And I am still doing that to this day. Sometimes wondering off to Area 51 and illuminati research. On second thought now I am suspicious as to why youtube didn’t have this category before. Well I have no real answer for that other then saying even if a video gets taken down there are enough internet users out there to keep anything alive because no matter how hard the media monster censorship may try to keep the truth from the public they can’t silence all of us. So in the end I leave with this quote:
"This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto." "You may stop me, but you can't stop us all."
~The Mentor 1986
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMjHKTtP72s
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Reaction to: Friends, Until I Delete You
Reaction to: Friends, Until I Delete You
Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/fashion/29facebook.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
I was sent a link to a New York Times web page in the fashion and styles section. It was an article about, nothing other than facebook! The article was about how burger king was giving away free whoppers if you did one thing for them and that thing was; delete 10 friends. As I was reading this article it started analyzing why you can and can’t delete friends! “deleting friends does not generate a notification of any sort, leaving members to discover they’ve been unfriended only when they find they no longer have access to someone’s profile.”It even sighted a book about facebook that was on the subject. Hoping that this was a sad joke I had to verify if this was a real web page or not. But it was as I feared it was real. As I finished the article it expressed several reasons on how this could be a bad thing say things such as.
“which was interesting to us because it felt like the virtual definition of a friend became something different than the friends that you’d want to hang out with.”
“It can be a jarring experience, especially considering that the person who dumped you at some point either requested you as a friend or accepted your request (on Facebook, that is how friends are made). But members understand that such selective discretion is critical to the social-networking ecosystem.”
It even went on to talk about a situation where some people got in to a fight and deleted each other and how it feels odd to add them again. After taking a step back I asked myself why do I find this so ridiculous and why do I feel like someone out there is thinking this is a ground breaking article? The first thing that came to mind was the difference between what real human interaction was and what facebook does to it. In short I feel facebook disconnects us as people and removes the responsibility of real interaction. In addition it makes the illusion of popularity. Even in this article it described someone with only 100 friends as “they’re trying to limit it to their intimates.” I look at that and asked myself what about the people that do not have facebook and have plenty of friends and do not need a social networking page? Or what about people who never log in but are known by everyone I think it is easy to say that Will Smith is popular and he doesn’t need a facebook to prove it. But the thing that got me the most was how serious deleting was taken by this article, the thoughts I have on this is; why add them if you are not going to keep them on? Another is don’t you think they would drop you if they didn’t care either? I took another step back and asked myself why do I keep a face book or would I care if I got deleted? The first answer is, to me facebook is like a digital address book that you do not need to update. And you have people there that maybe one day I will need to get a hold of them or they will need to get a hold of me from anything from going to the movies to help with Spanish or math homework and the more people you have the more resources you got and the more help you can give. And now going back to “limit it to their intimates.” What if no one you kept as an intimate can help you; do you think it is a good idea to have deleted your old roommate that was a math major when you need help now? Or what if someone had a scholarship opportunity that they knew you would be great for but can’t seem to find you on their friends list. And would I care? The answer is no if they feel like I’m not important enough then its fine. What if they deleted you for a burger? Well to that I would have to say that just add me again and tell me it is not personal I was just hungry, and we can both find ways to take burger king for as many whoppers as possible. What if it was personal? Then it goes beyond the spectrum of facebook it goes in to the real world and the factors that lead to getting deleted must have justified it. But whoever deleted me made up with me later we can add each other again, is that not what making up is all about?
Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/fashion/29facebook.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
I was sent a link to a New York Times web page in the fashion and styles section. It was an article about, nothing other than facebook! The article was about how burger king was giving away free whoppers if you did one thing for them and that thing was; delete 10 friends. As I was reading this article it started analyzing why you can and can’t delete friends! “deleting friends does not generate a notification of any sort, leaving members to discover they’ve been unfriended only when they find they no longer have access to someone’s profile.”It even sighted a book about facebook that was on the subject. Hoping that this was a sad joke I had to verify if this was a real web page or not. But it was as I feared it was real. As I finished the article it expressed several reasons on how this could be a bad thing say things such as.
“which was interesting to us because it felt like the virtual definition of a friend became something different than the friends that you’d want to hang out with.”
“It can be a jarring experience, especially considering that the person who dumped you at some point either requested you as a friend or accepted your request (on Facebook, that is how friends are made). But members understand that such selective discretion is critical to the social-networking ecosystem.”
It even went on to talk about a situation where some people got in to a fight and deleted each other and how it feels odd to add them again. After taking a step back I asked myself why do I find this so ridiculous and why do I feel like someone out there is thinking this is a ground breaking article? The first thing that came to mind was the difference between what real human interaction was and what facebook does to it. In short I feel facebook disconnects us as people and removes the responsibility of real interaction. In addition it makes the illusion of popularity. Even in this article it described someone with only 100 friends as “they’re trying to limit it to their intimates.” I look at that and asked myself what about the people that do not have facebook and have plenty of friends and do not need a social networking page? Or what about people who never log in but are known by everyone I think it is easy to say that Will Smith is popular and he doesn’t need a facebook to prove it. But the thing that got me the most was how serious deleting was taken by this article, the thoughts I have on this is; why add them if you are not going to keep them on? Another is don’t you think they would drop you if they didn’t care either? I took another step back and asked myself why do I keep a face book or would I care if I got deleted? The first answer is, to me facebook is like a digital address book that you do not need to update. And you have people there that maybe one day I will need to get a hold of them or they will need to get a hold of me from anything from going to the movies to help with Spanish or math homework and the more people you have the more resources you got and the more help you can give. And now going back to “limit it to their intimates.” What if no one you kept as an intimate can help you; do you think it is a good idea to have deleted your old roommate that was a math major when you need help now? Or what if someone had a scholarship opportunity that they knew you would be great for but can’t seem to find you on their friends list. And would I care? The answer is no if they feel like I’m not important enough then its fine. What if they deleted you for a burger? Well to that I would have to say that just add me again and tell me it is not personal I was just hungry, and we can both find ways to take burger king for as many whoppers as possible. What if it was personal? Then it goes beyond the spectrum of facebook it goes in to the real world and the factors that lead to getting deleted must have justified it. But whoever deleted me made up with me later we can add each other again, is that not what making up is all about?
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