My Research Paper

So my research paper in about facebook and myspace. In my proposal, I said I would be addressing questions such as: Why did this phenomenon take off and become such a hit? How are these sites affecting advertisers and their campaign strategies? What are the dangers in these kinds of blogs as opposed to “regular” or “real” blogs on Web sites, for instance, Blogger.com?

and I also said I would focus a lot of the paper on advertsing effects from myspace.


The feedback I got was that it was a good paper topic, but there are too many questions being addressed and I need to organize it around one central claim instead.

I want to talk about all of these questions I wrote down, how do I tie to them all in? My thesis could be something like "Myspace and Facebook sites have changed/affected they way the world and people work" something to that affect, and then I could give my examples from above.


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meercats!

kay

i just realized something. whenever i'm on our group blog at school.. there's a tab at the top that says 'edit HTML'. but it's not on my comp at home.

so then what?

whacky bear

Camera

Hey guys... should I take a video so that we can load it from my camera to the computer during class...

And also, I am bring my computer, cuz i don't know if my software has to be installed on the schools.... anything else, just let me know.

question

should i bring in my camera and cord too on monday with a video on it? should i follow the steps below and post my video somewhere or are we going to do that in class?

also about presentation..

so will those steps (assuming they're right) work for facebook or myspace too? just wondering because we can also mention that in class. also, i know a few people use livejournal.. would it work for that as well?

our presentation on monday

nick this is mostly for you to check.. but i'm posting it on our group blog instead of emailing you so rachel and lea can see too.

POSTING VIDEO (RIGHT? VIDEO?) FROM A DIGITAL CAMERA ONTO A BLOG:
1. make the video on your camera
2. plug in with USB cord (or whatever came with your camera) and download to hard drive
3. upload your video into pantherfile (this is accessed on the UWM account)
4. go to cit.ucsf.edu/embedmedia and select your video type (ex. quicktime)
5. press submit and type in your webserver (uwm.edu/~*username*) and file path (the name of your video file)
6. copy the code that's given and paste it into your blogger account, or whatever account you're posting the video on

okay, so there may be some mistakes on there because the second half of our directions were from when we were gonna use the FTP software and all that. so how does this look?

oh ya, and rachel.. don't forget to bring your camera and cord to class on monday. i'm gonna bring mine too.

paper idea

so now that we have actually been forced to talk about what our papers will be on I think that I will try and stick to my blogs focus on open-source and write about blogs parallels and applications to the open source community based media and all that good stuff

Confusion sets in

Hey group:

I've been thinking about our class demonstration next week, and I am really SUPER confused as to what we are doing. Nick, you tried explaining it last class, but I am still lost. If there is still time in today's class, can we go over it remedial style for me, so I have even the slightest clue as to where we are headed?

Paper Topics

Hey guys:

I really like the idea about using thefacebook and myspace as a paper topic because I am also really attached to them.

I think it's the sheer joy of reading about other people's lives without them knowing it... kind of like tabloid magazines.

On my trip I was brainstorming ideas about this as a paper topic, and I wanted to discuss the different aspects of each site and ultimately linking it to blogging that we've read or done. Kind of a compare and contrast if you will.

Let there be Sound!

Whoa, I was very confused with why there was music playing each time I opened the group blog. But silly me, I didn't scroll down to check it out and I finally realized where it was coming from.

Nick, you're a genious. How do you know how to do all this stuff?

Anyways, I haven't really come up with any more topics for the paper, does anybody else have any suggestions? Let's get the ball rolling!

um?

where is the rest of the group? i tried to hold off until other people posted. but i like where lea was headed with the note idea. otherwise the camara or phone video/camera tool idea was cool.

other ideas are welcome!