Adam Ostrow mentions in his article, "That was quick" after Facebook's one and only Mark Zuckerberg changes the site's Term of Use back to its normal position after trying to defend the uncoherent changes he try to make to the policy. I am not surprised at all that Zuckerberg was forced to immediately change it back to were it was. No official research has be done to find out if people try to escape facebook or delete their account for good, but what I do know it's that he scared away millions of facebook users.
The reason I know that millions of users were scared is becasue not only everyone close to me including myself got scared, but also because Ostrow mentions in his article that the company created a poll to find out what users thought about the controversial changes being made. Not to be surprised at all, 6 percent supported the new changes but 56 percent opposed to them, 38 percent didn't respond.
So what was Zuckerberg force to do after his "plan" completley failed. I call it a plan becasue all hi was trying to do was either tell his users something they wanted to hear or by word of mouth, non users to be alarmed and influenced by the ne terms of use, and join the website. Of course he didn't get what he wanted so somehow he had to send a Terms of Use Update saying that the policy would remain the way it was. He not only did this but also, according to Ostrow's article, he wrote a blog post saying that Facebook is going back to the original terms and that this was the right thing to do due to the overly formal language used in the new terms.
I totally agree with Adam Ostrow mentions at the end of his article about the smart move Facebook pulled out. I beleive they digged out the whole they got into pretty well, and now they are back on track. But what I also beleive is that besides getting back on track by creating the "Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsabilities" option, they ensured that that this issue doesn't plague the social network in the future, Ostrow mentions, something I think the company did very well.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Final Project Update 2
Thursday of last week I finished interviewing past NMC students with Lindsay Schnell's interview. It went very well, she has a lot of experience and from my point of view she is done what it needs to be done in order to succeed in the world of journalism. She had a lot of great quotes and tips that could help current and new media students and of course help make this project even better. I taped record the interview and send the work to Samie and Ryan so they could transcribe it.
We had a group meeting last night in Hoveland Lab and it went fairly well. Everyone showed up with their work. We gathered mostly everything that needed to be done on that deadline. For this week Samie assigned more work to the people that had already finished their work (this includes me). So my job for this week is to voice over quotes from current and past media students in the music lab, I will be working with Tom and the deadline is no later than this Friday.
Looking forward to it!
We had a group meeting last night in Hoveland Lab and it went fairly well. Everyone showed up with their work. We gathered mostly everything that needed to be done on that deadline. For this week Samie assigned more work to the people that had already finished their work (this includes me). So my job for this week is to voice over quotes from current and past media students in the music lab, I will be working with Tom and the deadline is no later than this Friday.
Looking forward to it!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Death of News
Most people already know that journalism itself is in a big crisis. Gary Kamiya mentions in his article that, "daily newspapers are going out of business at an unprecedented rate, and the survivors are slashing their budgets. Thousands of reporters and editors have lost their jobs." She points out a statistic provided by analyst Allan Mutter, that in 2008 was the worst year for newspaper publishers, with an 83 percent dropping of shares. From my point of view, this is something not only journalists are terrified from but also the audience of the newspapers.
If newspapers in a way are vanishing, is the new media going to take over? Well what about reporting? This is the important question we need to ask ourselves, becasue according to Kamiya, "the real problem isn't that newspapers may be doomed, what is really threatened by the decline of newspapers and the related rise of online media is reporting." And yes, I totally beleive this because most of the reporting originates from newspapers, and what if newspapers disappear, then those well trained journalists that work hard towards finding stories with true unbiased facts, will have no place to go.
New media, also known as online media, is what people are now days using to get their news. I am of those thousand of people accessing the web to be updated on what is going on the world. But this is not what we are looking at here, what we are looking at, is how online media is taking away millions of journalist jobs and preventing them from going to certain parts of the world and where actual live, hard work, unbiased reporting is done. I am not saying online media does not have great reliable sources because otherwise online news wouldn't be have much success, but I am certain that all we are going to have are stories written by people who do not have a neutral site posting them online.
Primary reporting will soon be out of the picture if this keeps going the way it has been since 2008. Something needs to be done in order for the online media to go by their business and not interrupt the great work newspaper companies have done for the past decades, bringing people an ink copy of news every morning to their house, so they can enjoy the sunrise and their cup of coffee.
If newspapers in a way are vanishing, is the new media going to take over? Well what about reporting? This is the important question we need to ask ourselves, becasue according to Kamiya, "the real problem isn't that newspapers may be doomed, what is really threatened by the decline of newspapers and the related rise of online media is reporting." And yes, I totally beleive this because most of the reporting originates from newspapers, and what if newspapers disappear, then those well trained journalists that work hard towards finding stories with true unbiased facts, will have no place to go.
New media, also known as online media, is what people are now days using to get their news. I am of those thousand of people accessing the web to be updated on what is going on the world. But this is not what we are looking at here, what we are looking at, is how online media is taking away millions of journalist jobs and preventing them from going to certain parts of the world and where actual live, hard work, unbiased reporting is done. I am not saying online media does not have great reliable sources because otherwise online news wouldn't be have much success, but I am certain that all we are going to have are stories written by people who do not have a neutral site posting them online.
Primary reporting will soon be out of the picture if this keeps going the way it has been since 2008. Something needs to be done in order for the online media to go by their business and not interrupt the great work newspaper companies have done for the past decades, bringing people an ink copy of news every morning to their house, so they can enjoy the sunrise and their cup of coffee.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Student Suspended for Lewd Facebook Message
This is not a first time thing. I beleive it's occuring quite a lot around schools through out the nation and finally a case has been discovered. An article by Steve Kolowich published in "The Chronilce of Higher Education" website, talks about a Calvin College student that has been suspended from school due to a lewd Facebook message he posted about his ex-girlfriend. This means that he not only commited a crime, but also violated the school's policy.
People, this is very delicate! I know there are people that are experts at hacking systems, but you have to protect your privacy. What I mean by this, is that you have to keep your password to yourself and share it to noone, even the closest person to you, it could be your best friend, your girlfriend or boyfriend and even your parents, what is private, should remain private.
The article states that the student, Mr. Harris, claimed that his girlfriend was the one that logged onto his account becasue she knew his password and supposely posted the message. Town police officers find this, "very unconvinced" Kolowich quotes.
Why does Mr. Harris girlfriend have his Facebook password? Did she steal it or did she get it from him, we don't know this, however the most obvious thing would be to think that the password was given out due to the fact that within the relationship things were very confidential. How confidential can it get though? From my point of view, your password is like you going to the toilette and locking the door because nobody else wants to see your private parts and what you do in there. Your own privacy is very delicate and people need to start realizing that on-line realms are somehow private for you to use, but can also in a way harm your reputation.
People, this is very delicate! I know there are people that are experts at hacking systems, but you have to protect your privacy. What I mean by this, is that you have to keep your password to yourself and share it to noone, even the closest person to you, it could be your best friend, your girlfriend or boyfriend and even your parents, what is private, should remain private.
The article states that the student, Mr. Harris, claimed that his girlfriend was the one that logged onto his account becasue she knew his password and supposely posted the message. Town police officers find this, "very unconvinced" Kolowich quotes.
Why does Mr. Harris girlfriend have his Facebook password? Did she steal it or did she get it from him, we don't know this, however the most obvious thing would be to think that the password was given out due to the fact that within the relationship things were very confidential. How confidential can it get though? From my point of view, your password is like you going to the toilette and locking the door because nobody else wants to see your private parts and what you do in there. Your own privacy is very delicate and people need to start realizing that on-line realms are somehow private for you to use, but can also in a way harm your reputation.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Multimedia...but why?
Why wouldn't you use multimedia if it's probably the people's favorite way to be entretained and influenced. From my personl point of view I beleive multimedia makes everything look more alive and real, the movement of cool looking graphics and sounds catches people's attention in a very different and influential way. In today's world everyone likes to be entretained, and dont't get me wrong, I'm not saying that by reading people aren't going to feel entretained, but I feel and I know that many people feel like by seeing an ad in a multimedia layout it will increase their sense of influence towards what's being advertised.
For example, an article published in the blog "10,000 words.net" talks about an issue in a magazine that was advertising Calvin Klein with a timeline of their history using cool titles and pictures of their models. The author of this article asked himself; " Why would this already nicely designed infographic need the interactive treatment?" This made me think for a minute and reflect on it. I kept on reading, and what I thought would be the answer is what the author had answered as well; "to attract more viewers and stand out in a sea of graphics"
This example shows how the interaction and the use of moving cool graphics can portray information in a simple but compelling manner and make it look much more interesting, and as I mentioned before, entretained the viewers as much as you can.
I forgot to mention, the author of this article claims that web users are spending much more time online and are better served with content that will keep them entretained rather than putting them to sleep. I beleive that this is what journalists should be doing and I am glad, based on my research that they are starting to use multimedia to present their news.
For example, an article published in the blog "10,000 words.net" talks about an issue in a magazine that was advertising Calvin Klein with a timeline of their history using cool titles and pictures of their models. The author of this article asked himself; " Why would this already nicely designed infographic need the interactive treatment?" This made me think for a minute and reflect on it. I kept on reading, and what I thought would be the answer is what the author had answered as well; "to attract more viewers and stand out in a sea of graphics"
This example shows how the interaction and the use of moving cool graphics can portray information in a simple but compelling manner and make it look much more interesting, and as I mentioned before, entretained the viewers as much as you can.
I forgot to mention, the author of this article claims that web users are spending much more time online and are better served with content that will keep them entretained rather than putting them to sleep. I beleive that this is what journalists should be doing and I am glad, based on my research that they are starting to use multimedia to present their news.
Guest Speaker; Lindsay Schnell
On tuesday February 10th, 2009, we had a guest speaker in our NMC 301 course. Her name is Lindsay Schnell; a current NMC student at Oregon State that has a passion for sports and journalism (writing). She has been recognize for her good and hard work from many magazine and newspaper companies. She is now doing some work with The Oregonian and has experienced working with the magazine Sports Illustrated through an internship.
During the talk she told us that we needed to be severly passionate about what we wanted to do in life, she added that this is the way to succeed at what you want to in life. When you are passionate about something you will do whatever it takes to accomplish it, you will need to work hard and sacrifice many things.
She talked about a quote that made a lot of sense in my head; "dream big, work harder" I beleive that if you want to reach your dreams you better give it all you have. This is the reason I enjoyed listening to Lindsay speak. Everything she said was very true and got along very well to the way I see things in life, I think we can all learn from her and keep working hard.
During the talk she told us that we needed to be severly passionate about what we wanted to do in life, she added that this is the way to succeed at what you want to in life. When you are passionate about something you will do whatever it takes to accomplish it, you will need to work hard and sacrifice many things.
She talked about a quote that made a lot of sense in my head; "dream big, work harder" I beleive that if you want to reach your dreams you better give it all you have. This is the reason I enjoyed listening to Lindsay speak. Everything she said was very true and got along very well to the way I see things in life, I think we can all learn from her and keep working hard.
Final Project Update
On friday, Samie, Brock and I interviewed Louie in his office. Samie asked the questions while Brock was filming. My job was to go around the room, very quitely, filiming Brock and Samie working on their "jobs", kind of behind the scenes shots. I also filmed Louie from different anlge so we could a variety of shots to choose from. It was a great experience and everything worked out just fine.
Also, I already interviewed a couple of past NMC students, I'm still wating to hear from two more. The responses I thought were very good and complete, I feel that they have a lot of vital information that can help this project be even better, the experience they have from spending time ar OSU its soemthing us as current media students should learn from.
In the next few days I will be interviewing one more past NMC student and hopefully hear back from the ones that haven't replied yet.
Also, I already interviewed a couple of past NMC students, I'm still wating to hear from two more. The responses I thought were very good and complete, I feel that they have a lot of vital information that can help this project be even better, the experience they have from spending time ar OSU its soemthing us as current media students should learn from.
In the next few days I will be interviewing one more past NMC student and hopefully hear back from the ones that haven't replied yet.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
"Facebook for Parents" Course
Is this really a good idea? Many adult parents think it is and are willing to do what it takes to find out what their kids are up to. A recent article posted on a blog reveals that a Stanford University researcher is teaching a "Facebook for Parents" course that teaches them and allows them to access their kids page and navigate through it.
Personally, when I first got a friend request from my dad I was kind of hesitant, but then I thought; it's my family I don't mind if they know what I am up to. I trust in them and they trust in me. Actually, I beleive that them being able to see to themselves what I am up to and who I hang out with will bring them more calmness and confidence about their kids. I say this because I am very careful of what I post and write on facebook. Even when I get a pictured tagged from a friend, I take a look at it and see if its appropriate or not.
Many kids don't do this, actually most of them that have accounts with Facebook don't do this. They just want to post everything out there, put their faces out there so that everyone can see who you are and what you are up to. They don't realize that there is some stuff that shouldn't be posted on such public online social-network.
According to the article, one of the instructors for "Facebook for Parents" course, Linda Fogg Phillips quotes that "it depends what age group they're in, there are appropriate times to back off." This quote relates back to what I've been trying to explain. Younger kids don't have such thorough understanding that posting too much on Facebook can somehow damage their reputation. I beleive this is what started the interest of researchers and parents to spy on their kids. Why not take a look and what you're kids are up to when its all right there on a website. But wait, many parents don't know how to do it, so that is why this course was created and I beleive is very productive.
Personally, when I first got a friend request from my dad I was kind of hesitant, but then I thought; it's my family I don't mind if they know what I am up to. I trust in them and they trust in me. Actually, I beleive that them being able to see to themselves what I am up to and who I hang out with will bring them more calmness and confidence about their kids. I say this because I am very careful of what I post and write on facebook. Even when I get a pictured tagged from a friend, I take a look at it and see if its appropriate or not.
Many kids don't do this, actually most of them that have accounts with Facebook don't do this. They just want to post everything out there, put their faces out there so that everyone can see who you are and what you are up to. They don't realize that there is some stuff that shouldn't be posted on such public online social-network.
According to the article, one of the instructors for "Facebook for Parents" course, Linda Fogg Phillips quotes that "it depends what age group they're in, there are appropriate times to back off." This quote relates back to what I've been trying to explain. Younger kids don't have such thorough understanding that posting too much on Facebook can somehow damage their reputation. I beleive this is what started the interest of researchers and parents to spy on their kids. Why not take a look and what you're kids are up to when its all right there on a website. But wait, many parents don't know how to do it, so that is why this course was created and I beleive is very productive.
Monday, February 9, 2009
How Not To Lose Face on Facebook, for Professors
Jefrey Young points out a very good example of how Facebook can damage people's face in a matter of seconds. In this case Young is talking about professors, and how posting comments or information can affect their jobs. One night, a religion professor at Dartmouth College updated her profile saying that she had consulted an online encyclopedia to get ready for next days class. The problem here was that she thought that the Facebook account she set up was only to be seen by people she added or confirmed as friends, but she made a mistake; she had no idea that her Facebook was set up for anyone to see and access.
Blog reports including shots of the professor were posted from students at Dartmouth and before you know it linkage from this blogs were past on to many people. Imagine how this professor felt like? Young points out that for years college administrators have warned students to watch carefully what they do in online social realms, to no post too much that might hurt their reputation, now, Young says that due to the catching fever of Facebook from professors and administrators, they should have their own advice.
I totally agree with what Young is trying to get across. I believe Facebook's power to get people to get an account it's incredibly persuasive, who would of thought that adults, parents, professors would begin to encounter in such social realms. It has become a part of people's lives and many of us are using it a wrong way. Young's example of the professor at Dartmouth College says it all. Students have been advice by the school they are attending, not only Dartmouth but many more around the nation, how to use Facebook in a moderate way. I think adults such as professors in this case, come up with their own advice so they don't embarrass or hurt students and especially parents that are paying for the education.
One of the big problems Young points out about adults using Facebook is that they do not know how create an account properly. By properly, I mean to pay attention to every detailed option you have to choose from and set your settings they you want them to be, in this case make it private for random people to check out and public for those you know and have relationships with. This is the mistake the religion teacher at Dartmouth committed that cost her almost to lose her face around campus.
Young in this article has a paragraph that guides you step by step on how to set up your private settings. You should check it out.
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