To all of my readers, I know I haven't posted in a while but I have been very busy. Juggling school, (I also am taking intro to macro economic), work, and me time isn't easy. So I just want to comment about my participation in social networking sites. I can honestly say that I have been affilitated with Myspace, Facebook, Ebay, Youtube, and Craigslist. So now you know my favorite social networking sites. Now I must admit that I just recently closed my account with Myspace. In my opinion, its so overrated and unsafe. Everybody and their mother is on Myspace and I can't take it anymore. I'm so sick of seeing half naked girls sending their picture to my boyfriends page and sick of random strangers trying to friend me. So I made my boyfriend delete his and I deleted mines. I'm done with Myspace. On a lighter note, I still maintain my facebook account. I like Facebook more. I basically just keep up with old friends and classmates. I use ebay to to check out gadgets and things of that nature. Currently I am searching for a Ninetendo Wii and the yoga board. On ebay I have seen a pack that comes with both for about $250, which is pretty cheap. I know that alot of fake things are sold on Ebay, but i have purchased a digital camera and it looks and works excellent. On youtube, I watch all the lastest videos that people crave about. I have not loaded any videos of myself, but if I did I know it would be the talk of the town. I also watch old school videos that are no longer on television. I also just watched the Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez fued. I haven't been on craigslist in a long time, but when I do go itd usually when I am in search for a job. There sources are very reliable and I actually did go on many interviews based on the website's references.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Topic: About Blogging Review
I really did enjoy reading the articles on blogging, although some where long. I especially liked Celebrity Blogs: The Impact of New Media by Melissa Gerry. This article proves and supports the fact that blogging has become influential in all aspects. Not just in sports or politics, but also in celebrity gossip. Sites such a PerezHilton.com and trent.blogspot.com are giving gossip news shows and magazines a run for their money. I often visit these two websites and agree with the article that these blogs are a key role in providing information to the public. Not only do they have a large amount of news before the magazines, but they are free. I can't imagine wasting $3.99 on People magazine. The Power and Politics of Blogs by Henry Farrell and Daniel W. Drezner is an article that raises the question about weblogs influence on the public in regards to politics. According to this article, even though the number of blogs created is steadily growing, blogs that are geered toward political information attract a small number of readers and do not compare to other media outlets such as the radio and television. I personally disagree, but still liked the article because it was very imformative and was from an opposing stance. I also like the fact that there were charts and graphs to support its statements. Another article that I enjoyed reading was How Can We Measure the Influence of the Blogosphere by Kathy E. Gill. This article illustrates how blogs are very influential in regards to the mass media and public opinion. There are all kinds of blogs geered towards various interest. Most of the bloggers are amatuers, like myself. Anyone can become a blogger. All you need is the passion to do it. Also this articles demonstrates the effects of mass media and politics. It was interesting to find out that after the events of 9/11 there was an extremely large growth in blogs. In regards to measuring blogs, this article points out that blogs are ranked based on how influential it is, how often it is visited. You can go to websites such as technorati.com and blogrunner.com, that watch some 2 million blogs and 250 million links and see how your blog stacks up.
Monday, July 14, 2008
My Name Is........
No need for an introduction. I'm not new to this. If you really care about knowing this girl feel free to revisit my blog as much as necessary because there will be major updates and info added on a need to know basis. My friends and the world knows me as Jasmine. As if you didn't know because if your on here you probably know of me, are in my class, are my teacher, or one of my many "associates".
The world of advertising and social marketing is evolving rapidly; stay on top of it.
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The viral side of music videos just got a bit more so with the advent of SplashCast, a social network gaining traction among the major labels.
SplashCast provides a movable window of a performer’s video with a template to enable messaging. Users can transfer their favorites to a MySpace page and share them. They can post videos, pictures or comments and chat with other users.
The service will soon allow insertion of its advertising into the video streams, thanks to HotSpot technology.
In a nod to the popularity of urban music, SplashCast is setting up a site for an established rap star it declined to identify, and expects he’ll be one among many.
“To date we’ve worked with labels,” says SplashCast CEO Michael Berkley. “Now we’re working with artists themselves, particularly in the urban category.”
The urban music channels created by SplashCast get the most viral distribution. The typical user is a tech-savvy African American ranging in age from 14 to 19. Females are in the majority.
SplashCast already has distribution deals in place with Sony BMG, Universal, EMI, Geffen, Warner Bros., MTV, NPR and PBS.
“It’s all about connecting our conversation,” says David Bell, director of digital marketing for Sony BMG’s Zomba label. “It’s about creating new communities, creating communities of our own.”
Bell says songs usually are a bigger draw than artists. But Chris Brown’s is the most popular of the 40 SplashCast channels featured on Sony BMG’s site. Roughly 40,000 users added it to their MySpace or Facebook pages within a month of its posting. It eventually was embedded in more than 75,000 pages.
Visitors “gobble up immediately” any news about stars like Brown, Bell notes, adding that urban music is the subject of a “huge number” of blogs. He says Zomba hopes to build content sites in collaboration with brands.
SplashCast plans a reality series on its “mystery” hip-hopper’s site.
“Once it’s out there on tens or hundreds of thousands of MySpace pages, the fans will be able to influence the reality show,” Berkley says. “It’s enabling artists to create content in a very efficient, cost-effective manner so they can essentially have a videographer follow them around, create this in real time and edit it.”
