Bloggers Code of Ethic/Journoterrorist

I read this article called "Bloggers Code of Ethic" and it is interesting to see what kind of items that should be left on a blog, but are not.  For instance, when most people write a blog or post a video, in my sakes (i have my own YouTube account), you always get those people who feel the need to write a comment on your source and criticize it.  Most of the time you think "wow what an idiot" and delete the comment, but what a true blogger should do is leave it.  Everyone is entitles to their own opinion and you should not change what your blog looks like for the sakes of your dignity.  People might not like the thing you wrote so you know what to do next time.  The biggest thing though I read was restricting access and cite sources.  Blogging is a way for people to write what they want to say or new they have heard and sometimes, the news is fake.  I think that they should be forced to always source if they post a story they heard.  That will ensure the information people are receiving are true.  Restricting access is another thing that people should not do.  Why grant only a certain person to see your blog or watch your videos?  The more people that see what you are working on the more input and more idea you will get from it.
As for the journoterroist, it takes about the career of a journalist from a college students point.  They list number of things that a school tries to do, like believing what your school sells you, tell you not to work on the paper till you're a senior, and some other things.  It is interesting because with the one about being a senior, I would have told them not to wait.  If you wait till the last minute, why would they hire someone that is only going to be there for a semester or two and then graduate?  They won't.  If you get in there early, you are more likely to get to be a better writer and also maybe land a great job!  The blogger part was interesting too.  They say if you have time to maintain a blog, go and find work for an existing media operation.  That will give you another person to put on a resume and also might give you a hook up for a job later in life.

Powerpoint by Jim Disrude

On Wednesdays class, a former student, now teacher at UWW, came into our classroom and gave us a speech about research papers, how to come up with questions, ideas, and everything to do with our final research paper.  I thought it was a great idea to have someone that has done this before come and and help the students, like myself, who really haven't made a good research paper in the past.
His paper was about Facebook and how the way someone looks can affect how students feel about them, like the competence, caring, and character.  I thought it was interesting on his results.  He took one of his friends facebook pictures and made two different profiles as different people.  One guy was this cool teacher who went out partying and smoked cigars, while the other had one picture of himself and he was well dressed and looked good.  Save to say though, most of the students picked the party guy.  It was surprising, yet not at the same time.  I thought the students were going to pick the well dressed guy as someone that would have more character, that he was more caring, but nope!
I think that it is funny how people judge others by just looking at their profile pictures and reading what they have on their Facebook page.  People need to see that in order to really know someone, talk to them and do not judge a book by its cover.  I really enjoyed the powerpoint Jim shared with us.  I will definitely use some of his knowledge in order to make my paper a success.

From Innovation to Revolution

Clay Shriky wrote an article, "The Political Power of Social Media", where he tries to look and see how the internet has changed the way retail stores have been affected.  But Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the article I read, says that it has actually not affected it this much.  He talks about a story where he went to a store, Land's End in Wisconsin, and talks to them about the internet.  They say that it has changed, but not that way Clay Shirky has put it.  It is about the same affect as taking someone call than it is over the internet.  Clay Shirky had to put his two thoughts in again.  He claims that what he meant is that it may not affect the retailers, but the competitors of the retailers.  Shirky says, "clothing firms now have to compete with Zappos, bookstores with Amazon, newspapers with Craigslist, and so on."  I agree with this.  All these companies that are now online are one of the most searched business on the whole internet!  It may not help the little companies, but it is sure helping the big ones.

Other Blogs Relating to My Research Topic

When I started to search around for other blogs relating to "losing communication", it was very difficult.  I did not know how to search on the web for my topic, but i thought of the phrase "how has technology changed the way we communicate?".  I searched that a found a few interesting blogs.  In on of the blogs, Angies Blog, she says, "To me, the obvious answer as to whether or not technology drives/determines the way we think, read, and communicate is, "yes, of course." However, I think the more difficult question is how does technology determine or change the way we communicate and portray our thoughts?".  I thought about what she was saying and I think I know what she meant.  To me, this means different technologies are used for different thoughts.  For instance, people underage would not put that "they are going out" on their facebook because they could get into trouble.  They use other ways of technology, like texting to say the same answer, just to a different person.  She also said, "Overall I think that we definitely have an altered sense of communication now that the use of technology is becoming more second nature than picking up a book to read."  You can relate this to how we communicate between each other.  We always text or Facebook people now more than we actually talk to people face-to-face or hear their voices.  We choose the easy way and not the friend way.  I think that we are losing the sense of a friendship because we don't seem to talk to these friends in real life, but more on the Facebook life.


The next blog I thought related to my paper was on radsmarts.com.  It wasn't the blog, more the conversations that were going on between the writers and the article writer.  He asked questions like In your opinion, has technology (e.g. mobile phone, Internet) changed the way we communicate with each other?  I said yes, and for the worse.  We don't like seeing peoples faces now.  We would rather send a text to our love ones than hear their voices over a phone call.  We are losing the sense of love and relationships and it really sucks.  To read more about the article, click here and read my comment.  It is very interesting to read other peoples views on communication and how it has changed over the years.  

Is Facebook the New Media?

This article asks you to ponder questions like 'Is Facebook the New Media'?  And I personally think that it really is.  Companies are actually starting to resort to Facebook to advertise their new products or newspaper companies start posting their papers on Facebook for users to read.  Hot Dish is one of the companies that started posting on Facebook to get their papers out and mndaily is a paper that a college put on Facebook for people of the college to find the good news around.  To me, Facebook is the way of the world right now, and it is still rising.

Attracting A Young Audience

This article was actually very touching.  It talks about how a girl, Rachell Hoffman, went missing and they did not know how to reach out to people.  They used social media to reach out to the younger audience.  They started with a facebook page that her friends made, then a twitter account, and lastly a YouTube channel.  I think that this is the best idea to get through to people.  Facebook just broke the 500 million mark a little while ago.  That is a great portion of the population in the world.  The article was saying that most people don't read the papers and they reach out to people through social mefia. 

Village Phone

The reading "Village Phone" was quite a story to read.  While I was reading it, I was thinking about 5 different aspects that were included in the story.  These aspects include morals, social media, forgiveness, group action, and police.  To start out with morals, they said it right in the reading.  If you find a ten dollar bill on the ground, you think "finders keepers, losers weepers" but when you find a 300$ dollar phone and you have contact information to find out whose phone it is, return it.  It is not yours to keep.  Be a good person and return it to the right person.  The second one is social media.  When Evan first found out who had it, he went straight to the media to tell other people what had happened.  He made a website, a bulletin board (actually three which all failed cause of the traffic going to the board), and even was shown on Digg.com.  Countless people go on Digg a day and with enough views, people will spread the word and try to help someone out.  Forgiveness is the third one.  Evan eventually got his phone back and Sasha, the girl who took it, was arrested.  When it came time around to press charges, he decided not to because he got his phone back.  If he would have pressed charges, he could have really screwed up that girls life for good.  He decided to be the bigger person.  Fourth, group action.  When started the website and it was posted on Digg, he was getting ten emails A MINUTE!  That is a whole lot of emails.  People were spreading the word, probably by other different means of media, to try to help some person, most who have never met, find a phone that belonged to them.  Lastly, the police are terrible.  When he reported the phone, they put it under "lost" and not "stolen".  How could they do that?  Phone records show that it is his phone, that Sasha didn't buy it, and other common sense ideas.  That is why the police should not be handled with all situations.