One word: Twitter. I can not believe how much I am using the stupid thing. Yeah, I called it stupid. Anyways, Twitter has been taking over my life and I do not know why. Is it the constant exclusive life into Terrell Owens and Alyssa Milano? Is it the sheer selfishness that I want everybody else to know what I am doing at every single moment of my life? I hope not.
I think it is because I realized how great of a social networking tool it is. Makenzie Marineau, newmediamak.wordpress.com, has taught me this. She is an NMC major and she has over 1,000 followers on Twitter. "Are you kidding me?" I asked myself when I saw this.
But then I asked her. She just told me straight up, "I don't know. I guess I am just networking." Then, I realized the true meaning of Twitter. It means different things to different people but to me, that is what it means and it has helped me appreciate the Twitter World that much more.
However, I want to talk about a blog post by Deborah Potter called "Twitter in the Newsroom." This is a perfect example of how Twitter can be used for so many different things. Twitter is being used in the newsroom to break news. That deserves another "are you kidding me?" There are now BreakingTweets, TwitterLocal and CityTweets to update to news stations of the news. Doesn't that sound funny.
To sum this all up, a quote from Patrick O'Brien, the digital development director at WUSA-TV in Washington, DC, says "For instance, if there’s a building collapse, you can search a 5-mile radius where the collapse took place to find anyone who may be twittering updates."
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Our Project is Coming Along!
John, Makenzie, Mahria, Mike and I are running with our project idea. Mike and I are interviewing our favorite man, Dwight Payne, and will be interviewing him again Wednesday. Mahria will be interviewing everybody's favorite professor, Bill Loges, along with other professors and important people we need to interview. Mike has helped the video aspect with Mahria and our logo. Makenzie has also been a huge help. She has interviewed people and helped all of us along the way, including helping me with TWITTER!
This week is going to be important to us. We need to get lots of work done and we will. So, group, let's jump on the train and go along for the ride!
This week is going to be important to us. We need to get lots of work done and we will. So, group, let's jump on the train and go along for the ride!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Worldwide Leader in Sports, and Using Technology to its Advantage
ESPN has made a breakthrough with technology and introduced something extraordinary. They have combined the video game, Madden 09 by EA Sports, with real game footage to create real situations. To break it down, they can now show what might have happened if Tom Brady threw to Wes Welker instead of Randy Moss on a given play. Amazing, eh? (So Canadian).
The writer, Brooks Barnes, is showing us that even a sports television station is dipping into other parts of media to interest their audience, including video game users. To keep the audience interested every week, and every year for that matter, companies need to keep changing aspects every so often. This is what Barnes is showing.
I also want to talk about another blog that no one else knows of. The writer is a former teammate of mine, Alex Williams. He is a great golfer but even a better guy to hang around and be friends with. Alex has a great personality and is incredibly smart. He definitely shows this in his blog.
Alex went to Spain to start a new life. He was kind of sick of practicing golf everyday, to my understanding, and he wanted to do something new and exciting. This is what he chose. His blog is really interesting to read and his brilliance shows in his writing. He is funny, smart, and has a great heart. So you should check out Alex's blog, mrwilliamsgoestospain.blogspot.com, and learn something from his writing. Even if you do not learn anything from it, you will enjoy his fabulous writing. Plus, he is a huge Blazers fan, so of course you should visit his blog! In his profile picture, he is wearing a I love Rudy shirt in Spain.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/business/media/05espn.html
The writer, Brooks Barnes, is showing us that even a sports television station is dipping into other parts of media to interest their audience, including video game users. To keep the audience interested every week, and every year for that matter, companies need to keep changing aspects every so often. This is what Barnes is showing.
I also want to talk about another blog that no one else knows of. The writer is a former teammate of mine, Alex Williams. He is a great golfer but even a better guy to hang around and be friends with. Alex has a great personality and is incredibly smart. He definitely shows this in his blog.
Alex went to Spain to start a new life. He was kind of sick of practicing golf everyday, to my understanding, and he wanted to do something new and exciting. This is what he chose. His blog is really interesting to read and his brilliance shows in his writing. He is funny, smart, and has a great heart. So you should check out Alex's blog, mrwilliamsgoestospain.blogspot.com, and learn something from his writing. Even if you do not learn anything from it, you will enjoy his fabulous writing. Plus, he is a huge Blazers fan, so of course you should visit his blog! In his profile picture, he is wearing a I love Rudy shirt in Spain.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/business/media/05espn.html
Thursday, November 5, 2009
New Media Article Response
This week I am going to respond to the blog post called "Copy and Paste: Enemy of the Web?" It was written on the 10,000 Words site and it a quick and short one to read. For how short it is, it is a very good blog and it is to the point, which is a good thing to do in a blog. The readers do not have that much time on their hands.
This blog blends right into what Pam talks about and New Media in general. The writer mentions Twitter as one of the great social networks to get answers right away. The writer states: "[The] [tweeps] immediate help speaks to the power of crowdsourcing and social networks like Twitter."
In addition, the writer talks about a huge problem in schools everywhere and supposedly now on different blogs: copy and pasting work that is not theirs! The writer does a really good job on telling us what we should do if somebody rips your work off of you. Pam also said to keep our blogs between four and six paragraphs and that is what this writer did.
So props to the person who wrote this blog. He/she told us about their story and the person who accused the act of copy and pasting knows who they are, which makes it that much better. The writer kept it short, to the point and knew what point he was trying to do with it. Props my writer. Props.
http://www.10000words.net/2008/12/copy-and-paste-enemy-of-web.html
This blog blends right into what Pam talks about and New Media in general. The writer mentions Twitter as one of the great social networks to get answers right away. The writer states: "[The] [tweeps] immediate help speaks to the power of crowdsourcing and social networks like Twitter."
In addition, the writer talks about a huge problem in schools everywhere and supposedly now on different blogs: copy and pasting work that is not theirs! The writer does a really good job on telling us what we should do if somebody rips your work off of you. Pam also said to keep our blogs between four and six paragraphs and that is what this writer did.
So props to the person who wrote this blog. He/she told us about their story and the person who accused the act of copy and pasting knows who they are, which makes it that much better. The writer kept it short, to the point and knew what point he was trying to do with it. Props my writer. Props.
http://www.10000words.net/2008/12/copy-and-paste-enemy-of-web.html
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
New Media Article Response
The blog I am writing about this week is titled "Social Networks and Kids: How Young is too Young?" on cnn.com. This is a very interesting topic because it is a rather big issue in society today. There are lots of parents out there that do not realize how many people are on facebook or other social networking websites today. They also do not know how "in" social networking is today. If you are a teenager and you do not have a facebook account, people will tell you to make one until you do.
However, how young is too young? This article does a great job of explaining the facts to you and quoting parents who have children around the ages of 10-15 or so. Doug Gross, who wrote this blog, also uses studies and surveys to make his blog that much better. Gross finds that there is a "children's facebook" called KidSwirl and this social networking site is being used by children five years of age.
I think that Gross is trying to make a point. He is saying that technology is ever changing and that social networking is the new craze in the world today but five years old? To me, they are going to make an account on these sites eventually but the parents really need to keep a track of what their five year old child is doing on a site like KidSwirt of facebook. I believe Gross is trying to say the same thing.
Subrahmanyam states at the bottom of the blog that "We've lost the control group. How do you find a group of kids that are not using the computer?" Gross and Subrahmanyam make a great point. I am sure that they can find a lot of families that do not even own in a computer somewhere in the world but this is where our world is heading with all this technology. The computer is changing the world so quickly it is scary and either directly or indirectly, this is what Gross is trying to say and he did a great job doing it.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/02/kids.social.networks/index.html
However, how young is too young? This article does a great job of explaining the facts to you and quoting parents who have children around the ages of 10-15 or so. Doug Gross, who wrote this blog, also uses studies and surveys to make his blog that much better. Gross finds that there is a "children's facebook" called KidSwirl and this social networking site is being used by children five years of age.
I think that Gross is trying to make a point. He is saying that technology is ever changing and that social networking is the new craze in the world today but five years old? To me, they are going to make an account on these sites eventually but the parents really need to keep a track of what their five year old child is doing on a site like KidSwirt of facebook. I believe Gross is trying to say the same thing.
Subrahmanyam states at the bottom of the blog that "We've lost the control group. How do you find a group of kids that are not using the computer?" Gross and Subrahmanyam make a great point. I am sure that they can find a lot of families that do not even own in a computer somewhere in the world but this is where our world is heading with all this technology. The computer is changing the world so quickly it is scary and either directly or indirectly, this is what Gross is trying to say and he did a great job doing it.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/02/kids.social.networks/index.html
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Our Project
People-John Carney
-Makenzie Marineau
-Mahria Zook
-Jonnie Motomochi
Central Story-We are making a once and a lifetime opportunity for elderly folks. We are going to a retirement home and connecting older people to their loved ones, no matter how far or how old. These people, who have never used a computer, are probably overwhelmed with this technology and we are bridging that gap. We want these people to embrace and learn the technology we will put forth.
Components and Media-Video presentation/documentary
-Blogs
-Final written paper
Sidebars-Profiles/interviews of people involved (the backstory)
-Censuses (graphs) of where and when people stop/decline using the computer
-Also, a couple other graphs
Sources-People being interviewed
-US government census site: census.gov
-The staff of the retirement home
-Medical internet sites
-Possibly people in the medical field
-EHow.com
The last part of this will be done in the next few days!
-Makenzie Marineau
-Mahria Zook
-Jonnie Motomochi
Central Story-We are making a once and a lifetime opportunity for elderly folks. We are going to a retirement home and connecting older people to their loved ones, no matter how far or how old. These people, who have never used a computer, are probably overwhelmed with this technology and we are bridging that gap. We want these people to embrace and learn the technology we will put forth.
Components and Media-Video presentation/documentary
-Blogs
-Final written paper
Sidebars-Profiles/interviews of people involved (the backstory)
-Censuses (graphs) of where and when people stop/decline using the computer
-Also, a couple other graphs
Sources-People being interviewed
-US government census site: census.gov
-The staff of the retirement home
-Medical internet sites
-Possibly people in the medical field
-EHow.com
The last part of this will be done in the next few days!
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