The Good: if my meme works out right, Starting with my first video most likely taped in the Union central in the middle of the day (high traffic=better chances for responce) One person after another will respond, either well or maliciously, it really doesn't matter. The person starting the twerping will speak in only 140 characters, if he's adressing a person, he will say " AT (enter name here)" and continue his message. Using medias around him, like newspaper, computer, phones and the like as inspiration for the twerping should yield in the very least a video that gets a responce. Posting the video online to youtube with tags on twerping, posting to blog AND twitter about this, even creating a facebook page, Then invite as many people as i can to watch it, and make responces. then take the video out further, by doing this in walmart, or in the mall
The bad: On the other hand. Lots of bad responces, at least by management of the marketplace, will probably not take kindly to this. Making us move. We could continue on to other places, like the mall, or if we felt brave, the library. other management buildings won't agree with what we're doing, and shut us down. When it turns out what little footage we got wasn't actually filmed because the lens cap was on, i give up that day and come back to it when i get over what happened.
The Ugly: Quite honestly, this gives me the biggest scare. The ugliest part of getting this meme started is exactly that, getting it started. I will have to post everywhere to get it going good, then hope the sensation takes off. If not i'll end up most likely with a couple of youtube videos that people will occasionally look at and probably write horrible comments on how my life sucks if that's all i can manage for a youtube video. Best worst ever.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
contagious media research for 9/30
drug companies cook books, mislead doctors: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/drug-companies/
the first piece i picked felt off from the normal media pieces. While it did have relavence, it was more of a medical piece than a media piece. The corperations producing medicine have been putting positive spins on medicine that has many bad side effects. Because of this doctors are mis-prescribing patients. Though the data handed out may not be entirely truthful, the medicine might still help patients, but the doctors should have all information needed before they're able to prescribe certain medicines.
I don't feel that in storywise, this won't help my Meme at all. In fact, the idea i got from this was to incorperate news to the tweeting... twerping. the idea is that the twerping doesn't have to be informative, but the idea that it can can also be implimented.
2)all you need to know to tweet on twitter: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/technology/personaltech/07basics.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
i figured i'd pick this read because what better way to research my meme than to look at how twittering works. Since my meme will be a parody of twitter, i thought looking at the different things you could use was kind of interesting to update twitter. It might be interesting to provoke action with my meme via forced interaction (or some planted twerpers), but that still has to be decided upon.
with all the phone apps, computer apps, and apps for your apps, it's hard to not have a way to update your twitter, with this link, i learned many different ways to cover my tweets, through phones, excel, outlook, firefox and dashboard. Each had thier own ups and down, and i may play with the idea of working with some of these in the future.
the first piece i picked felt off from the normal media pieces. While it did have relavence, it was more of a medical piece than a media piece. The corperations producing medicine have been putting positive spins on medicine that has many bad side effects. Because of this doctors are mis-prescribing patients. Though the data handed out may not be entirely truthful, the medicine might still help patients, but the doctors should have all information needed before they're able to prescribe certain medicines.
I don't feel that in storywise, this won't help my Meme at all. In fact, the idea i got from this was to incorperate news to the tweeting... twerping. the idea is that the twerping doesn't have to be informative, but the idea that it can can also be implimented.
2)all you need to know to tweet on twitter: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/technology/personaltech/07basics.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
i figured i'd pick this read because what better way to research my meme than to look at how twittering works. Since my meme will be a parody of twitter, i thought looking at the different things you could use was kind of interesting to update twitter. It might be interesting to provoke action with my meme via forced interaction (or some planted twerpers), but that still has to be decided upon.
with all the phone apps, computer apps, and apps for your apps, it's hard to not have a way to update your twitter, with this link, i learned many different ways to cover my tweets, through phones, excel, outlook, firefox and dashboard. Each had thier own ups and down, and i may play with the idea of working with some of these in the future.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
meme cycle, take 3:
That's how i've got the Twerp Meme figured out. Hopefully this is the right idea.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
readings for sept 23rd.
EA comes under fire for Shady PR stunts: http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/09/11/1610252/EA-Comes-Under-Fire-for-Shady-PR-Stunts?from=rss
EA has been using PR stunts that are very questionable too the public. Dante's Inferno, a game based on the book, was created to have a very anti christian overtone. Many christians, gamers and not found this offensive. But as the fight rose about the game, so did it's popularity. During their time at Comic-Con, they had a contest where you took pictures of yourself commiting "lustful acts" with Booth Babes, and the best one would recieve a date with two models, limo ride, paparazzi and a "chest full of booty." Ironically, the contest winner was from a magazine called "Gay Gamer" as he took a picture with a booth guy to prove a point. EA is targeting the wrong audience with their advertising, and instead of blowing tons of money on PR, they could be putting that money towards a great game. Something EA has lacked for a while.
Ads follow web users, get more personal: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/media/31privacy.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1251554625-Y3+OaLtsQzyPS0jcTZtEVg
Using cookies, companies are now customizing advertising by evaluating information you release onto your computer. By collecting this data, the cookies then use your likes and dislikes as a key and lock system, only catering to your absolute interests. for investing companies, this starts to take out the guesswork of where they will want to place ads. Unfortunately, using the internet makes it virtually impossible to go online without getting cookies. Though this may be seen as an imposition of privacy, the government has chosen so far to accept this form of advertising.
"Consumers can avoid cookie-based tracking by deleting cookies from their computers or setting their browsers not to accept cookies. But few do, and privacy advocates say it is easy for companies to add cookies without users noticing."
That excerpt has me wondering how much longer it will be before we end up giving our information away the moment we turn our computer on. In a small matter of time we'll end up with overflows of ads and will be begging for some sort of relief from the onslaught we try to avoid in our life (you may notice the amount of ads in radio/tv...) Someone will have to make an ad blocker, companies will try to ban it, and it'll be up to the government to say yes or no. Unfortuneately we won't be able to decide.
EA has been using PR stunts that are very questionable too the public. Dante's Inferno, a game based on the book, was created to have a very anti christian overtone. Many christians, gamers and not found this offensive. But as the fight rose about the game, so did it's popularity. During their time at Comic-Con, they had a contest where you took pictures of yourself commiting "lustful acts" with Booth Babes, and the best one would recieve a date with two models, limo ride, paparazzi and a "chest full of booty." Ironically, the contest winner was from a magazine called "Gay Gamer" as he took a picture with a booth guy to prove a point. EA is targeting the wrong audience with their advertising, and instead of blowing tons of money on PR, they could be putting that money towards a great game. Something EA has lacked for a while.
Ads follow web users, get more personal: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/media/31privacy.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1251554625-Y3+OaLtsQzyPS0jcTZtEVg
Using cookies, companies are now customizing advertising by evaluating information you release onto your computer. By collecting this data, the cookies then use your likes and dislikes as a key and lock system, only catering to your absolute interests. for investing companies, this starts to take out the guesswork of where they will want to place ads. Unfortunately, using the internet makes it virtually impossible to go online without getting cookies. Though this may be seen as an imposition of privacy, the government has chosen so far to accept this form of advertising.
"Consumers can avoid cookie-based tracking by deleting cookies from their computers or setting their browsers not to accept cookies. But few do, and privacy advocates say it is easy for companies to add cookies without users noticing."
That excerpt has me wondering how much longer it will be before we end up giving our information away the moment we turn our computer on. In a small matter of time we'll end up with overflows of ads and will be begging for some sort of relief from the onslaught we try to avoid in our life (you may notice the amount of ads in radio/tv...) Someone will have to make an ad blocker, companies will try to ban it, and it'll be up to the government to say yes or no. Unfortuneately we won't be able to decide.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
meme cycle revised
this is the basic outline of my meme cycle. It's not completely awesome, but i felt this was better than what i had, and it shows how i'd deliver the meme across the interwebs.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
5 delicious posts, take two
this week i'll start off my 5 posts from the del.ic.ious posts with the social collider
1: social collider
The social collider is a program that maps out tweets on twitter based on what you search for. This then displays the information of linking groups together. Amazingly the search for RIP Patrick Swayze yielded, from my standpoint, a well rounded trace of information. Most of it was at the top center of the map, while fewer strands fell far off, creating some interesting links over a longer period of time, still related to the topic. The farthest back the longest stream goes is 9/11/09, making you wonder why someone had posted something like this so far ahead of the rest of the crowd.
Social collider has been found to not only find many interesting links between different social icons and news, but when it graphs them out, it creates an amazing array of how these things become connected, and has been known to create mapping layouts that look much like art themselves.
2: disney says you WILL watch ads:
Disney struck a deal with Cox communications to offer hit shows and football games on demand in exchange for the removal of fast forwarding features used to skip ads. The deal only affects Cox Video on Demand services, not DVR's ability to fast forward. In addition, they well cooperatively test technology that will place ads based on Zip codes, to "freshen" the ads with new ones every day. While i do like the idea of rotation on ads, making them less of a hassle to watch (the car guy from brewer... i can't stand listening to him every day). But i feel that this might be something Cox Communications might find to be a bane to their productivity. People who use the skip ads fuction generally do so because they HATE watching ads. So when they lose that ability, the cable all of a sudden will lose it's appeal, allowing other companies who might have that ability to step in and take their business. But i suppose with disney backing them up they'll have a long ways to go before they go bankrupt...
3: gender ads project
This projects measures the depiction of ads through the generations, and points out some interesting facts. Many of the ads based on men make them masculine, strong hearted, bad ass, gun slinging "hotties" who knows what to do in any given situation. On the other hand, Women in ads tend to be very sexual. Trophies for men to fight for, nothing more than to be proclaimed. It's interesting to wonder what would happen if the idea was inverse. Sure, a few ads have gotten away with doing so, but they merely show that they're doing it in jest of the situation. But it's all more interesting to watch as people bicker back and forth about who is sexist, and why today's commercials are so wrong to project these claims.
4.Self Control
This is a nifty little program that will block you from certain things for a time limit. So if you want to block yourself from your mail for 2 hours, you would put in the time and start it. The One flaw, if you can really call it that, is that you cannot undo what you've done once you hit the start button. while this can sometimes be frustrating, i can see how this is a sensable leave out on the software. This can take you off of your computer and push you even further into either getting work done or finding a social environment to stay in.
5: cryptographic tools to keep you hidden on facebook.
On account of the large amount of personal information on social networking sites, a tech review from slashdot has found an article on tools to hide your activity on facebook. this browser plug in will replace sensitive information in a user's profile and news feed with meaningless text that can only be unscrambled by trusted friends or contacts. The data will stay private, at least what the assisstant professor of computer sciences of UWaterloo, Ontario.
"You feel like you are talking to a friend casually in a conversation, but in reality you are publicizing information in a forum where it will stay for a long time," Acquisti says. "Privacy is not the first thing you think of when you use a social network."
It's something to think about next time you decide to skip school or work and then facebook it.
~josh~
1: social collider
The social collider is a program that maps out tweets on twitter based on what you search for. This then displays the information of linking groups together. Amazingly the search for RIP Patrick Swayze yielded, from my standpoint, a well rounded trace of information. Most of it was at the top center of the map, while fewer strands fell far off, creating some interesting links over a longer period of time, still related to the topic. The farthest back the longest stream goes is 9/11/09, making you wonder why someone had posted something like this so far ahead of the rest of the crowd.
Social collider has been found to not only find many interesting links between different social icons and news, but when it graphs them out, it creates an amazing array of how these things become connected, and has been known to create mapping layouts that look much like art themselves.
2: disney says you WILL watch ads:
Disney struck a deal with Cox communications to offer hit shows and football games on demand in exchange for the removal of fast forwarding features used to skip ads. The deal only affects Cox Video on Demand services, not DVR's ability to fast forward. In addition, they well cooperatively test technology that will place ads based on Zip codes, to "freshen" the ads with new ones every day. While i do like the idea of rotation on ads, making them less of a hassle to watch (the car guy from brewer... i can't stand listening to him every day). But i feel that this might be something Cox Communications might find to be a bane to their productivity. People who use the skip ads fuction generally do so because they HATE watching ads. So when they lose that ability, the cable all of a sudden will lose it's appeal, allowing other companies who might have that ability to step in and take their business. But i suppose with disney backing them up they'll have a long ways to go before they go bankrupt...
3: gender ads project
This projects measures the depiction of ads through the generations, and points out some interesting facts. Many of the ads based on men make them masculine, strong hearted, bad ass, gun slinging "hotties" who knows what to do in any given situation. On the other hand, Women in ads tend to be very sexual. Trophies for men to fight for, nothing more than to be proclaimed. It's interesting to wonder what would happen if the idea was inverse. Sure, a few ads have gotten away with doing so, but they merely show that they're doing it in jest of the situation. But it's all more interesting to watch as people bicker back and forth about who is sexist, and why today's commercials are so wrong to project these claims.
4.Self Control
This is a nifty little program that will block you from certain things for a time limit. So if you want to block yourself from your mail for 2 hours, you would put in the time and start it. The One flaw, if you can really call it that, is that you cannot undo what you've done once you hit the start button. while this can sometimes be frustrating, i can see how this is a sensable leave out on the software. This can take you off of your computer and push you even further into either getting work done or finding a social environment to stay in.
5: cryptographic tools to keep you hidden on facebook.
On account of the large amount of personal information on social networking sites, a tech review from slashdot has found an article on tools to hide your activity on facebook. this browser plug in will replace sensitive information in a user's profile and news feed with meaningless text that can only be unscrambled by trusted friends or contacts. The data will stay private, at least what the assisstant professor of computer sciences of UWaterloo, Ontario.
"You feel like you are talking to a friend casually in a conversation, but in reality you are publicizing information in a forum where it will stay for a long time," Acquisti says. "Privacy is not the first thing you think of when you use a social network."
It's something to think about next time you decide to skip school or work and then facebook it.
~josh~
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
the project:
Real time Twitter
The iDea:
to make a satirical poke at the idea of the uses of twitter, and how a large number of people use it.
Required elements:
A video recording device
several areas to do the recording in
phone (prop)
computer with twitter account up (prop)
another person to post tweets on the above forementioned account
a mic hidden on twittering person/persons
Description:
Much like a “real life facebook friend” movie module from an earlier class I took. The idea is you film people “tweeting” out loud. Things said can’t be more than 140 characters long. The videos are trying to catch responces of others around the tweeter, maybe get them to join along.
direction: Vertical distribution
circulatory system: Posting videos up on Youtube, college humor, facebook and sending links through emails would be the easiest way around getting it out.
Hook: many video posts of live tweeting in different scenarios. seeing what expressions get out of it.
Payroll: Gaining a catch phrase or term based on live tweeting.
recognition: Youtube rating, website of collaborated videos of live tweets.
Real time Twitter
The iDea:
to make a satirical poke at the idea of the uses of twitter, and how a large number of people use it.
Required elements:
A video recording device
several areas to do the recording in
phone (prop)
computer with twitter account up (prop)
another person to post tweets on the above forementioned account
a mic hidden on twittering person/persons
Description:
Much like a “real life facebook friend” movie module from an earlier class I took. The idea is you film people “tweeting” out loud. Things said can’t be more than 140 characters long. The videos are trying to catch responces of others around the tweeter, maybe get them to join along.
direction: Vertical distribution
circulatory system: Posting videos up on Youtube, college humor, facebook and sending links through emails would be the easiest way around getting it out.
Hook: many video posts of live tweeting in different scenarios. seeing what expressions get out of it.
Payroll: Gaining a catch phrase or term based on live tweeting.
recognition: Youtube rating, website of collaborated videos of live tweets.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
welcome to the first post!
So i start my blog with note that this is started for NMD 405. Meaning, this blog is for that class, but i may use it from hereon if i see fit for other needs. But lets start with the 5 readings and paragraphs...
1: Google algorithm predicts when species will go 404
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/googlefoodwebs/
this article peaked my interest because it talks about something that's a problem with our growing society. If a species goes extinct, what could happen to other species in relation to that species. Using the Google Pagerank algorithm, scientists have been able to accurately map which animals are most beneficial to the food web. Ecologist Stefano Allesina of the University of California in Santa Barbara said this about the use of the technology, "In PageRank, you’re an important website if important websites point to you. We took that idea and reversed it: Species are important if they support important species."
I find this intriguing because for one, we can map out what creatures are most important and ensure to protect them for use in future generations. The technology maps not only the direct importance, but relavent importance along with it, giving you a clear idea of how quickly the ecology could collapse if, lets say the honeybee went extinct. another good use of this technology in this format allows the scientist to track how much matter flows from one species to the next. So if one species tends to stop being useful, the project then maps accordingly to the projections.
2: EA spends 3 times more on marketing than development
Now, there wasn't a whole lot of story on this. Maybe more like a small blip. But comments made are where the meat of this is. My stand with the video game industry is that games should be produced with the public in mind. Meaning games should be cheaper, and deliver a rich experience. EA, who has a hit and miss record with this sort of thing, has done little to prove there's any real reason for the way they spend their money.
While it's true that pharmisuticals among many others do the same with their own products, It's a shame people have to pay large sums of money for the ads they see, and not the pills they use. As a commenter put it, marketing needs to be kept in check with what it does with it's money. Sure we could use another brand of drug that's completely identical, but why not take the less expensive way and get generic brands by word of mouth, or by cutting back on how much they spend on these advertisements. People don't have a lot of money to play with, so if there's something identical for cheaper, unless they've had trouble with other drugs before, most would probably buy it.
3: a quantitive study of how memes spread
having read the article and original source "charles darwin tagged you in a note on facebook", i found that meme evolution to stardom to be an amazing thing. The 25 things about me servey that was used as an example was a great show of how it worked. It started as 16 random things, but as more and more people used it, boundaries were moved. Soon different notes with 20, 35, or 14 random things about me came out of it. It was interesting to see that as people played with the border, it sort of destroyed the idea behind the note posting. The more people fiddled with the rules of the note, the different versions found themselves dying off. The most balanced one, the 25 random note, found it's way into the spotlight, pushed the others aside and blew up into a facebook phenominon. and the way this was looked at as a disease spreading across a body or country made the whole viral motion make a lot more sense.
4: the bubble project
After watching the slideshow on the bubble project, i found a great appreciation for what they did. Taking the comic voice bubbles and slapping them on signs, advertisements and pictures to make hilarious remarks or serious statements out of what was seen. The bubble project felt very much like a lifehack meme that only took some tape and paper to get a great responce out of passerby's. the idea can hit global audiences, and still make sense to those who see it. Many good responces came out of the project, and i felt the ideas shared were all relavent to today's issues.
5: Kurt Cobain suicide letter vs. google ads
This story suprised me a bit. Having not known google ads pull from words on the page for their ads, i can see how this page might have been offensive to many. The last letter Cobain wrote, telling how he really felt about what was going on in his life, and then to have the words transformed into ads is akward. Granted, once a site holds google ads, it's not up to google what goes into the ads, as the ads are generated from words on the page. At least google had the sense to take their ads down on that page.
1: Google algorithm predicts when species will go 404
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/googlefoodwebs/
this article peaked my interest because it talks about something that's a problem with our growing society. If a species goes extinct, what could happen to other species in relation to that species. Using the Google Pagerank algorithm, scientists have been able to accurately map which animals are most beneficial to the food web. Ecologist Stefano Allesina of the University of California in Santa Barbara said this about the use of the technology, "In PageRank, you’re an important website if important websites point to you. We took that idea and reversed it: Species are important if they support important species."
I find this intriguing because for one, we can map out what creatures are most important and ensure to protect them for use in future generations. The technology maps not only the direct importance, but relavent importance along with it, giving you a clear idea of how quickly the ecology could collapse if, lets say the honeybee went extinct. another good use of this technology in this format allows the scientist to track how much matter flows from one species to the next. So if one species tends to stop being useful, the project then maps accordingly to the projections.
2: EA spends 3 times more on marketing than development
Now, there wasn't a whole lot of story on this. Maybe more like a small blip. But comments made are where the meat of this is. My stand with the video game industry is that games should be produced with the public in mind. Meaning games should be cheaper, and deliver a rich experience. EA, who has a hit and miss record with this sort of thing, has done little to prove there's any real reason for the way they spend their money.
While it's true that pharmisuticals among many others do the same with their own products, It's a shame people have to pay large sums of money for the ads they see, and not the pills they use. As a commenter put it, marketing needs to be kept in check with what it does with it's money. Sure we could use another brand of drug that's completely identical, but why not take the less expensive way and get generic brands by word of mouth, or by cutting back on how much they spend on these advertisements. People don't have a lot of money to play with, so if there's something identical for cheaper, unless they've had trouble with other drugs before, most would probably buy it.
3: a quantitive study of how memes spread
having read the article and original source "charles darwin tagged you in a note on facebook", i found that meme evolution to stardom to be an amazing thing. The 25 things about me servey that was used as an example was a great show of how it worked. It started as 16 random things, but as more and more people used it, boundaries were moved. Soon different notes with 20, 35, or 14 random things about me came out of it. It was interesting to see that as people played with the border, it sort of destroyed the idea behind the note posting. The more people fiddled with the rules of the note, the different versions found themselves dying off. The most balanced one, the 25 random note, found it's way into the spotlight, pushed the others aside and blew up into a facebook phenominon. and the way this was looked at as a disease spreading across a body or country made the whole viral motion make a lot more sense.
4: the bubble project
After watching the slideshow on the bubble project, i found a great appreciation for what they did. Taking the comic voice bubbles and slapping them on signs, advertisements and pictures to make hilarious remarks or serious statements out of what was seen. The bubble project felt very much like a lifehack meme that only took some tape and paper to get a great responce out of passerby's. the idea can hit global audiences, and still make sense to those who see it. Many good responces came out of the project, and i felt the ideas shared were all relavent to today's issues.
5: Kurt Cobain suicide letter vs. google ads
This story suprised me a bit. Having not known google ads pull from words on the page for their ads, i can see how this page might have been offensive to many. The last letter Cobain wrote, telling how he really felt about what was going on in his life, and then to have the words transformed into ads is akward. Granted, once a site holds google ads, it's not up to google what goes into the ads, as the ads are generated from words on the page. At least google had the sense to take their ads down on that page.
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