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Jemone Paul

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    Packaging Design and Simulation Technology Systems market offers an overview of the existing market trends, metrics, drivers, and restrictions and also offers a point of view for important segments. The report also tracks product and services demand growth forecasts for the market. There is also to the study approach a detailed segmental review. A regional study of the global Packaging Design and Simulation Technology Systems industry is also carried out in North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Near East & Africa. The report mentions growth parameters in the regional markets along with major players dominating the regional growth.
Jemone Paul

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    Global SMS Firewall Market offers an overview of Upcoming and existing market trends, drivers, Restraints and also offers point of view for important Segments. Our organization covers all the key points required for your Research Study. The market research includes historical and forecast market data, demand, application details, price, trends, and company shares of the leading SMS Firewall by geography, The Market Players focused for research analysis are Cellusys (Ireland), Symsoft (Sweden), Route Mobile (India), ANAM Technologies (Ireland), BICS (Belgium), Tyntec (UK), SAP SE (Germany), Mahindra Comviva (India), Tata Communications (India), Twilio (US), Infobip (UK), Syniverse Technologies (US), Omobio (PVT) Limited (Sri Lanka), AMD Telecom (Greece), Cloudmark (US), Global Wavenet (Australia), Mobileum (US), NetNumber (US), Openmind Networks (Ireland), Tango Telecom (Ireland), TeleOSSco Software Private (India), Defne Telecommunication (Turkey), HAUD (Malta), Monty Mobile (Lebanon), NewNet Communication Technologies (US)
Gail Ramsey

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  • Everyone, in the back of his mind, wants to be a star," Hurley asserts for probably the quadrillionth time, "and we provide the audience to make it happen.
    • dracmere
      dracmere on 13 Feb 08
       
      Just by looking at this quote we can see why Youtube is a success. It is true that most people want to be a star and to give them a chance is going to be a hit. Unfortantly, if you watch Youtube you can see that some people should not ever be stars.
    • zimmer67
      zimmer67 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I wonder if youtube will soon be a new recruitment tool for talent agencies. It is afterall a compilation of many different people exhibiting different talents in some aspects.
  • Fragmentation has decimated audiences, viewers who do watch are skipping commercials,
    • goulds28 gould
      goulds28 gould on 14 Feb 08
       
      This is due to programs like TiVo.
    • coffma46
      coffma46 on 14 Feb 08
       
      YouTube very much is like this. People make the weirdest videoes for people just to watch them. I have seen some videos where people were just singing or dancing around in their bedroom.
    • hughes27
      hughes27 on 14 Feb 08
       
      This is what makes Youtube so interesting, alot of it is real stuff with no acting or script involved with the added bonus that others can view your work
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  • Lots of people can now watch themselves on sort-of TV, which is pretty fun in itself. The bonus is that others want to watch them, too.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 12 Apr 08
       
      The question is if there is a danger in this. One of the kids I nanny for is fascinated with The Wiggles. When looking for a Wiggles video for him on YouTube, I cam across a family video of two little kids getting Wiggles toys for Christmas. It may be cute to send this video to the family's friends and relatives, but should the whole world have access to it, too? Everyone tells young people to protect their identity on the Internet, but then YouTube provides unlimited access to so many otherwise-personal videos.
  • NBC used Yahoo to premiere Heroes and AOL to offer sneak previews of its Twenty Good Years and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. And the brand-new CW Network celebrated its debut by posting for free Runaway and Everybody Hates Chris on MSN. Counting cable, dozens of networks are now making programs available online.
    • coffma46
      coffma46 on 14 Feb 08
       
      This is a nice way for people to learn another technology, rather than doing the same thing all of the time, which is just watching the television. Maybe adults of an older generation would like to learn this technology.
  • He insists he can't quite recall, you know, the $1.65 billion moment.
    • sunflower123
      sunflower123 on 14 Feb 08
       
      Yea, you would think that would be the first thing that the founder of U-tube would know. What started your bussiness off is usally an important detail to remember
    • vanamb16
      vanamb16 on 13 Mar 08
       
      it is easy to see how something like this could happen- you start posting funny videos of your friends, they post of theirs, you open it up, and you have a movement...
  • "#2 Everyone, in the back of his mind, wants to be a star," Hurley asserts for probably the quadrillionth time, "and we provide the audience to make it happen. "
    • willis02
      willis02 on 15 Feb 08
       
      We discussed in class why people would want to be on Youtube. This quote here is a great example. People want their five minutes of fame. They think that because other people are watching their videos they are star because they are entertaining them.
  • Third-millennium humanity has demonstrated an interest in sifting through millions of pieces of crap produced by total strangers to discover a few gems – some accidentally entertaining ("Boom Goes the Dynamite"), some breakout performances from the previously obscure ("Treadmill Dance"), and some explorations of a new art form crackling with genius (Ze Frank, Ask a Ninja, and the guys behind Loneygirl15.)
    • maureen
      maureen on 02 Mar 08
       
      Sifting through the millions of piences of crap enables us to accidentally come upon such gems as "Boom Goes the Dynamite", "Treadmill Dane", and Lonelygirl15. Users could possibly feel a sense of discovery when finding such unique entertainment. It's like being on your own personal entertainment expedition.
  • And what if, as a bonus, the medium were able not merely to command eyeballs for marketers but to target content especially relevant to what the marketer is selling?
    • maureen
      maureen on 02 Mar 08
       
      When discussing target content relevant to what the marketer is selling, personal information is getting collected and data possibly being manipulated. Nonopticon surrounds us.
  • Until now, advertisers have underwritten mass media to reach mass audiences. Indeed, they've paid increasing premiums for the opportunity as audiences have shrunk, because even in a fragmented media world, the largest fragment – network TV – is the most valuable. But now they realize that they are losing not only mass but critical mass.
    • Elizabeth Somer
      Elizabeth Somer on 12 Mar 08
       
      I think more money is now put into online advertisements than TV advertisement. Is it fair to say that the computer is almost (that is in popularity and phenomenon (sp?)) as big of a pop culture invention as the TV was in the 50s?
  • Altogether, this stuff constitutes a bottomless reservoir of short-form video content for others to siphon off if they choose
    • Elizabeth Somer
      Elizabeth Somer on 12 Mar 08
       
      What about copy right laws?
  • "Broadcast Yourself."
  • . #7 Fragmentation has decimated audiences, viewers who do watch are skipping commercials, advertisers are therefore fleeing, the revenue for underwriting new content is therefore flatlining, program quality is therefore suffering (Dancing With the Stars. QED), which will lead to ever more viewer defection, which will lead to ever more advertiser defection, and so on.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 12 Mar 08
       
      I agree that advertisers are having trouble with televison. With TiVo and DVRs becoming more affordable, there is almost no need to watch commercials. They make it so easy to skip through a commercial while watching a program. I have recently noticed that advertisers are responding to this by creating more comical and appealing commercials. There are some commercials that I actually like viewing now.
  • Because, at least until recently, the Internet has lacked both the riveting content and ad space inventory to absorb it.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 12 Mar 08
       
      Yes...until recently. Now, there is limitless space on the Internet. Highly viewed websites such as MySpace, Facebook, and You Tube have provide great outlets for companies to advertise. These sites are often viewed more frequently than most television shows, and they are often unavoidable. You can get up, get a snack, or use the restroom during a commercial break on television, but you can't click off an advertisement or an icon while its on a webpage.
  • #4 Lots of people can now watch themselves on sort-of TV, which is pretty fun in itself. The bonus is that others want to watch them, too
    • butler09
      butler09 on 13 Mar 08
       
      This seems to be reflective of everyone's desire for "15 minutes of fame." The internet is making that a reality. The question is whether or not this is a good thing. Yes, it is easy and possible. It is revolutionizing our culture, and people constantly want to search and discover interesting morsels of entertainment. But is it becoming an obsession, especially with some people? With the huge number of broadcasts daily, it makes you think so.
    • Jessica Bloom
      Jessica Bloom on 16 Apr 08
       
      I would personally never put a video on Youtube. However, I have to admit that some of them are extremely funny. This also makes me think, though, of our discussion in class how some jobs look at internet sites and if they see you on them, they are less likely to hire you. So, it just goes to show that we have to be careful with how we portray ourselves.
  • The networks say these are measures to promote the broadcast versions of their shows. The overwhelming probability is that the opposite is true, which bodes poorly for those invested in the status quo. One victim is local affiliates, which get a big chunk of their revenue from selling commercial space within network programs. The Internet, needless to say, bypasses them.
    • butler09
      butler09 on 13 Mar 08
       
      We are in an age of technological advancement. The culture is saturated with it. If networks want to appeal to the generations that have grown up using this technology and prefer it as a mode of entertainment and communicaiton, then the smart business action to take is to begin expanding toward internet broadcasting. The standard television is no longer the central figure in the entertainment and news world, and in order to keep up with it, the networks have to "go with the flow."
    • Jen Fitzgerald
      Jen Fitzgerald on 13 Mar 08
       
      I completely agree with this statement. I personally watch alot of shows on DVR, especially American Idol because I can't stand how they draw out the show with commercials every five minutes. Advertisers have to adapt to the changing marketplaces or else their products will suffer.
  • a spiraling vortex of ruin.
    • Jen Fitzgerald
      Jen Fitzgerald on 13 Mar 08
       
      I completely agree with this statement. I watch most shows on DVR, especially American Idol and fast forward through the commercials. They draw out these shows and make the commercial breaks longer and longer.
  • NBC used Yahoo to premiere > Heroes > and AOL to offer sneak previews of its > Twenty Good Years > and > Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip > . > >
    • Gail Ramsey
      Gail Ramsey on 17 Apr 08
       
      Eventually the technologies will merge fully. You won't have a television and a separate computer. You will have everything all in one. Comcast digital cable has numerous music stations. Look at On Demand, you get to pick and choose when and what you watch. It will all meld together. Instead of previews to programs, it will be whatever you want to see whenever you want to see it. Your TV/Computer will do everything.
  • put fall premieres of shows like Smith and The New Adventures of Old Christine on Google Video
    • Jen Fitzgerald
      Jen Fitzgerald on 13 Mar 08
       
      This is what motivated much of the Writer's Guild strike. The writers wanted to have a share of online revenue when their shows are downloaded, like royalties.
  • #14 Fragmentation has decimated audiences, viewers who do watch are skipping commercials, advertisers are therefore fleeing, the revenue for underwriting new content is therefore flatlining, program quality is therefore suffering
    • daydreamr97
      daydreamr97 on 19 Mar 08
       
      Fragmentation has decimated the audiences of the big networks, but it's also been the reason so many new channels have been created: Animal Planet, the cooking channel, the sci-fi channel. And viewers watching these channels have special interest in the subject, so they are more likely to actually watch the commercials. So it's mostly the bigger networks that are suffering, which explains why there are so many reality TV shows on the major channels now. While they aren't "reality," they don't need a script so much as a situation.
  • dozens of networks are now making programs available online
    • daydreamr97
      daydreamr97 on 19 Mar 08
       
      Yes, a lot of shows are available online anytime, and also on Comcast. So, the big corporations are tryng to deal with the fragmentation. The problem with that is that it's still not exactly interactive, which is the thing people love about YouTube. This still doesn't address the issue that everyone wants to be a star.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 25 Mar 08
       
      I think the fact that many TV shows are now available online is a good sign. The greater U.S. population has been using the Internet for awhile. By putting TV shows online, it shows a good meshing of the two media outlets.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 12 Apr 08
       
      A recurring theme we've talked about in ITW is how some people are hesitant toward change. The want to keep the status quo shows this hesitantion, despite the overwhelming popularity of YouTube.
  • advertisers have been broadcasting themselves for decades and would very much prefer the status quo. The good news is that the status quo isn't long for this world.
    • jc ice
      jc ice on 16 Apr 08
       
      I agree this content is funny and entertaining, but there is social relevance. What do you think will be our legacy when all this is found 50 or 100 years in the future?
  • Everyone, in the back of his mind, wants to be a star," Hurley asserts for probably the quadrillionth time, "and we provide the audience to make it happen. "
  • He insists he can't quite recall, you know, the $1.65 billion moment.
  • He's turning right around in a few hours; he's stuck in yet one more conference room, and his eyes
  • stuck in yet one more conference room, and his eyes have the vacant look of someone whose body ha
  • he's stuck in yet one more conference room, and his eyes
  • CHAD HURLEY SAYS HE DOESN'T REMEMBER. It's two weeks before the announcement of the Google acquisition, and he has just flown the red
  • Everyone, in the back of his mind, wants to be a star," Hurley asserts for probably the quadrillionth time, "and we provide the audience to make it happen. "
    • Joan Vance
      Joan Vance on 17 Apr 08
       
      I find it amusing that Hurley mentions this. We actually discussed this in Creative Writing on Monday. The teacher asked who in the classroom wants to be famous. To my surprise there were only a few of us who raised our hands. As much as I want to be a star though, I wouldnt find posting a video on youtube very successful.
  • But what if there were a means to approximate the reach and mesmerizing power of television online?
    • anita sipala
      anita sipala on 17 Apr 08
       
      The way technology is quickly growing and moving I don't see anything getting in its way. I see the computer replacing other medias.
  • Third-millennium humanity has demonstrated an interest in sifting through millions of pieces of crap produced by total strangers to discover a few gems – some accidentally entertaining ("Boom Goes the Dynamite"), some breakout performances from the previously obscure ("Treadmill Dance"), and some explorations of a new art form crackling with genius (Ze Frank, Ask a Ninja, and the guys behind Loneygirl15.)
    • anita sipala
      anita sipala on 17 Apr 08
       
      If so many people view "You Tube" it must say something about its entertaining value. I am one of those people who shifts through "You Tube" and I have come across many interesting ones.
  • connection to his nervous system. In a word, the dude is fried. Never mind that he's the cofounder of the Next Big Thing and poised to be a total
    • Jennifer Dougherty
      Jennifer Dougherty on 18 Apr 08
       
      I think the advertisers do that. Look at the sig-in page for myspace. It is a virtual billboard. Any given day the entire sign-in page is a new advertisement. Sometimes it is a movie. The other day it was an entire page devoted to crest toothpaste. Once you are on the site, the sidebars are bombarded with schanging advertisements. Vans shoes one minute then after refreshing the page, it is some other product. Maybe we don't pay that much attention or ever click on the link. I know I never do. But clearly the advertisers have achieved at least some of their purpose because I remember seeing thier ad.
Gail Ramsey

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  • As for Sacerdoti's so-called postroll ads, even the most self-satisfied marketer wants to know who in the world would stick around to watch – or, more to the point, who can prove that anyone did.
    • dracmere
      dracmere on 13 Feb 08
       
      This brings up a good point. I do not know of many people that would stick around for a commercial after the video. I usually am ready to click on the next video after the one I am watching is done.
  • Wait until their commercials make it onto YouTube and hope they go viral.
    • dracmere
      dracmere on 13 Feb 08
       
      This option seems to work. I have seen many Superbowl ads make it onto Youtube, which probably allows more people to see them then the Superbowl did.
    • goulds28 gould
      goulds28 gould on 14 Feb 08
       
      Because many people watch the Superbowl only to see the commericals uploading them onto youtube would increase even more the use of the internet instead of television cable.
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      If the commerical is effective enough to capture its audience, then it should no doubt appear on youtube so that people can see it again and again.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      I think this is a good option.
    • coffma46
      coffma46 on 14 Feb 08
       
      When I am watching a video...I don't care for the advertisement even if it relates to the video I am looking at. I usually just want to watch what I have to and then close it out.
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  • As for Sacerdoti's so-called postroll ads, even the most self-satisfied marketer > wants to know who in the world would stick around to watch – or, more to the > point, who can prove that anyone did. >
  • "They've got the audience,
    • sunflower123
      sunflower123 on 14 Feb 08
       
      An the audience today is mostly a younger crowd that is geared more towards technology and watching veidos on computers, what a difference in only five years.
  • YouTube actually encourages this – so long as the free posts are accompanied by paid versions.
    • sunflower123
      sunflower123 on 14 Feb 08
       
      I like the idea that U-tube is welcoming to let others use their site to post commericals
  • A lot of those upload monkeys have a nasty habit of posting clips from TV shows or enhancing their clips by adding music tracks – which, of course, are somebody else's property.
    • willis02
      willis02 on 15 Feb 08
       
      I just finished reading the article assigned next week about plaigerism. It is true that many individuals think that just because it is on the internet and free access does not mean it is free to use. There are a lot of consequences that come along with stealing other peoples work.
    • vanamb16
      vanamb16 on 13 Mar 08
       
      wouldn't the artists be getting more publicity if people put their music/videos online? it's free exposure....
    • coffma46
      coffma46 on 15 Feb 08
       
      Even though these things (music and photos) arent of the person's creation it is something the person admires and they just want to promote it on his/her page.
  • YouTube refused to sell ads appended to either end of a video
    • willis02
      willis02 on 15 Feb 08
       
      I think a lot people come on youtube to watch highlights of their favorite show and not be distrubed by commercials. Everywhere we go we seem to see ads and this is the one place you wouldnt get any annoying breaks or pop ups. I think it would be stupid to start.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      I agree, I think that youtube participation would downfall greatly if commercials were added to the videos.
  • #2 "They've got the audience
    • Elizabeth Somer
      Elizabeth Somer on 12 Mar 08
       
      Though younger crowds are generally geared towards new media, I think older crowds are catching on and are becoming crazed by it as well.
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      As it said in our article about Facebook, the average age of the fastest growing users is over 35 years old.
    • vanamb16
      vanamb16 on 13 Mar 08
       
      they have such a broad audience...my dad is hooked and it seems as though everyday my mom is showing me a funny video that her sister sent her...my brother watches tv shows and my cousin posts videos. it is universal
  • So what about "Evolution of Dance," for instance? To put together this medley, did Laipply license 30 songs?
    • Elizabeth Somer
      Elizabeth Somer on 12 Mar 08
       
      The guy that created "Evolution of Dance" came to Rowan and spoke to us about this. He did have to receive copy right license I believe. The law is the law. The internet is not a "free for all"
    • needle10
      needle10 on 13 Apr 08
       
      What if someone else videotapped his performance and posted it on youtube, could he get in trouble for that if he didn't get permission to use those songs?
  • "I think its the beginning of the end of youtube as we know it," wrote a poster named SamHill24. Another, Link420, declared simply, "ITS OVER!!!! youtube is screwed."
    • zimmer67
      zimmer67 on 13 Mar 08
       
      This was interesting because as we have seen in the history of new technologies there are always many who are just not comfortable with change. As the past has shown, opposition does not always indicate whether something will succeed
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      Even if YouTube is "screwed" there will be a replacement instantly.
  • In short, what if there were a missing link between the old model and the glittering new one? What would happen then?
    • butler09
      butler09 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I want to ask if this is even possible, but then again, look at where we are. Technology is never-ending, and there's no doubt that there will someday be a breakthrough. The question is only when.
  • AS SOMEBODY ONCE SAID, 100 million people can't be wrong. They can, however, be useless. It turns out that success is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent monetization.
    • butler09
      butler09 on 13 Mar 08
       
      Media reflects the desires and whims of the audience. YouTube already has this, but when there's a sharing attitude prevalent that doesn't restrict the everyday, ordinary Joe Shmoe from posting, it's hard to come up with profitable ideas. No one wants to see commercials; that's why internet clips are so popular! People post what they want to see how they want to see it--and they don't stick in a 30-second add for cookies with it!
    • Jessica Bloom
      Jessica Bloom on 16 Apr 08
       
      This statement kind of made me laugh. It is totally true. I guess if so many people are using Youtube, it obviously can not be wrong. Also, I think how they are called useless is funny. As long as people are enjoying the videos, then who cares if they are useless? In their own minds they are successfull and that's all that matters!
  • #11 A lot of those upload monkeys have a nasty habit of posting clips from TV shows or enhancing their clips by adding music tracks – which, of course, are somebody else's property.
    • butler09
      butler09 on 13 Mar 08
       
      This is a major problem. There is a code of ethics that needs to be followed, but a lot of people don't care about that. Maybe some don't realize what they're doing, but still, it's illegal. We inherently accept that lying is wrong, that stealing is wrong, that plagerism is wrong. What's the difference between that and breaking copyright laws? Is that some sort of "golden opportunity" that people can ignore? No! But maybe they just figure they won't get caught. Few others appear to.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 25 Mar 08
       
      I'm suprised YouTube users (and people in general) aren't against this. For that matter, maybe I should phrase it as more people not publically being against this. It seems very sneaky to me to encourage this behavior, especially considering the ethical implications.
  • YouTube refused to sell ads appended to either end of a video
    • richar19
      richar19 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I would think it would be smart of them to sell ads. A lot of people view things on youtube every day and they could make a lot of money
  • As for Sacerdoti's so-called postroll ads, even the most self-satisfied marketer wants to know who in the world would stick around to watch
    • daydreamr97
      daydreamr97 on 19 Mar 08
       
      It's true, most people probably won't watch ads after the vdeo. I can't speak for anyone else, but I usually wont even watch the credits. Maybe if video makers did what filmmakers do now, have a bonus scene after the credits. You would see a video, the credits, a short ad, and final a bonus scene. A lot of people still wouldn't watch, but it's a possibility.
  • Which may suit the users just fine. One of the biggest obstacles to advertising success is the damage that success could inflict on the YouTube experience, till now an oasis of relative noncommercialism in a world of brand inundation
    • daydreamr97
      daydreamr97 on 19 Mar 08
       
      It's a good point. A lot of YouTube videos make use of copyrighted material, and although they credit the original creators, users seem paranoid about what the companies will do to them. By opening the site up to advertisers, it becomes even more likely that the big companies will start censoring what users can post.
  • But speculation abounds that copyright holders have just been waiting for someone with deep pockets, such as Google, to acquire YouTube, whereupon the lawsuits will fly.
    • daydreamr97
      daydreamr97 on 19 Mar 08
       
      This is exactly the fear of users. They use songs and video clips, and even though they aren't making money for their videos and most of the users do credit the original artists, they know that big companies can come along and tear their work down. Which isn't fair, when you think about it. All art is influenced by other art. In previous generations, it was okay for kids who became artists to begin by tracing and kids who became writers to begin copying other writers' styles, and kids who became directors to use action figures and a script drawn from other scripts. It's how people grow and discover who they are and what they want to say.
  • one killed aborning by copyright infringement issues
  • Photobucket,
  • "we are at the very, very beginning of online video."
    • haines64
      haines64 on 13 Apr 08
       
      Yet Zuckerberg was at the beginning of the social networking when he started Facebook and now look at what has come from it. If anything, it is likely that YouTube had a more direct startup (its target audience was not initially as limited as Zuckerberg's). Despite being at the beginning of online video, YouTube is becoming a social norm.
  • fatally intrusive
    • haines64
      haines64 on 13 Apr 08
       
      One of the things I find most annoying with TV shows online is the pseudo-commercials they include while loading and throughout the programs. If YouTube started using pre-video commercials, I personally would probably use the site less.
    • Gail Ramsey
      Gail Ramsey on 17 Apr 08
       
      If they have to run an ad, I think it should be done at the end or at least have the option to skip it. I think having it at the beginning sometimes hurts things in the end because people are impatient and they may just skip to another video or site else that does not have the ad first.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      This is rather true. Sure, Google is a billion dollar company now, but what will happen five years from now? We live in a world where everything is constanly changing. Technologies are being upgraded and replaced. New companies are putting old ones out of business in a matter of months. No one can predicat anything in the digital revolution.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      This is rather true. Sure, Google is a billion dollar company now, but what will happen five years from now? We live in a world where everything is constanly changing. Technologies are being upgraded and replaced. New companies are putting old ones out of business in a matter of months. No one can predicat anything in the digital revolution.
  • But even 100 million daily streams and $1.65 billion into the evolution of this species, how it will actually thrive is a mystery. "If anybody tries to answer that question
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      This is rather true. Sure, Google is a billion dollar company now, but what will happen five years from now? We live in a world where everything is constanly changing. Technologies are being upgraded and replaced. New companies are putting old ones out of business in a matter of months. No one can predicat anything in the digital revolution.
  • It, too, was a peer-to-peer revolutionary – one killed aborning by copyright infringement issues .
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      I have never thought about this before. This YouTube revolution is very similar to the Napster craze. People who use YouTube post television shows, music videos, songs, and commercials for anyone to access. This really isn't much different from the concept of Napster's music sharing. In fact, YouTube can probably bring up more infringement issues, because it crosses over a wider range of genres.
  • . It, too, was a peer-to-peer revolutionary – one killed aborning by copyright infringement issues .
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      have never thought about this before. This YouTube revolution is very similar to the Napster craze. People who use YouTube post television shows, music videos, songs, and commercials for anyone to access. This really isn't much different from the concept of Napster's music sharing. In fact, YouTube can probably bring up more infringement issues, because it crosses over a wider range of genres.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      have never thought about this before. This YouTube revolution is very similar to the Napster craze. People who use YouTube post television shows, music videos, songs, and commercials for anyone to access. This really isn't much different from the concept of Napster's music sharing. In fact, YouTube can probably bring up more infringement issues, because it crosses over a wider range of genres.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      have never thought about this before. This YouTube revolution is very similar to the Napster craze. People who use YouTube post television shows, music videos, songs, and commercials for anyone to access. This really isn't much different from the concept of Napster's music sharing. In fact, YouTube can probably bring up more infringement issues, because it crosses over a wider range of genres.
  • It, too, was a peer-to-peer revolutionary – one killed aborning by copyright infringement issues .
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      I have never thought about this before. This YouTube revolution is very similar to the Napster craze. People who use YouTube post television shows, music videos, songs, and commercials for anyone to access. This really isn't much different from the concept of Napster's music sharing. In fact, YouTube can probably bring up more infringement issues, because it crosses over a wider range of genres.
  • It, too, was a peer-to-peer revolutionary – one killed aborning by copyright infringement issues .
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      I have never thought about this before. This YouTube revolution is very similar to the Napster craze. People who use YouTube post television shows, music videos, songs, and commercials for anyone to access. This really isn't much different from the concept of Napster's music sharing. In fact, YouTube can probably bring up more infringement issues, because it crosses over a wider range of genres.
  • It, too, was a peer-to-peer revolutionary – one killed aborning by copyright infringement issues .
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      I have never thought about this before. This YouTube revolution is very similar to the Napster craze. People who use YouTube post television shows, music videos, songs, and commercials for anyone to access. This really isn't much different from the concept of Napster's music sharing. In fact, YouTube can probably bring up more infringement issues, because it crosses over a wider range of genres.
  • The second big issue is the nightmare of protecting intellectual property. As eager as Madison Avenue is to push stacks of chips online, in the back of its mind is Napster. It, too, was a peer-to-peer revolutionary – one killed aborning by copyright infringement issues . Nobody wants to invest only to see the fledgling industry paralyzed with litigation, regulation, or legislation. And it is not an idle fear.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 14 Apr 08
       
      I think that protecting intellectuall property is important, very imporatnt.I feel in a way that youtube is like limewire because you get to go on there and look up msuic for free; in the porcess, msuicians and artist alike aren't paid and the rights to their music are completely dimissed.
  • Actually, that's an easy one: Procter & Gamble would be ecstatic
    • anita sipala
      anita sipala on 17 Apr 08
       
      Procter&Gamble is probably the biggest distributor of products, from household products to prescription drugs. This fact makes it a highly advertised company. I guess this would make them very ecstatic.
    • Bianca Pieloch
      Bianca Pieloch on 17 Apr 08
       
      Putting a commercial in the beginning of the video may discourage the viewer from watching it. Is there some way the commercial can come in the middle? Or is that technically impossible? Maybe force the viewer to watch it?
    • Melissa Foster
      Melissa Foster on 17 Apr 08
       
      The idea of intellectual property and copyrighting is something that we discussed in our other two modules, so I found it intriguing that it continues to be such a sticky area. Also, the concept behind lawsuits being driven by the amount of money the company running the site has shows how it may all just be about wealth.
haines64

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  • haines64 on 13 Apr 08
     
    T.H.E. Journal is an educational technology-themed magazine geared toward teachers. The company offers both a magazine subscription (often including articles and research pieces) and an Internet site (includes many articles and resources all about technology and teaching).
Lauren Mecum

Nintendo's Profit Hits Record High - New York Times - 0 views

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  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    It is interesting to see how money and gaming are connected with the new technology that is being developed. So many people are spending so much time in vitual worlds. How far is technology going to take us?
  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    an article about how Nitendo's profits and name is bigger than ever due to the game system the Wii. It talks baout their worth and their plans for the future.
Kelly Burns

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  • $1.65 billion in stock to be the cute little kitty-cat's home.
    • dracmere
      dracmere on 13 Feb 08
       
      Thats a lot of money to earn just for a home made video. I wonder if this means that TV shows that feature funny home made videos are a thing of the past.
    • Bill Wolff
      Bill Wolff on 13 Feb 08
       
      Garfield here is being a bit coy--he means that Google paid YouTube $1.5 billion; the kitten owner didn't get anything but lots of aaaawwwwws.
  • It features a courageous but overmatched freshman named Brian Collins presenting the worst sports-highlight rundown in human history, culminating in the worst sportscaster catchphrase ever conceived: "Boom goes the dynamite."
    • sunflower123
      sunflower123 on 14 Feb 08
       
      I completley agree..it was actually hard for me to watch because I felt embrassed for him! The only time that he actually did sound sure of himself was when he used his very creative phrase of "Boom goes the dynamite".
  • Until about five minutes ago, remember, almost all video-entertainment content was produced and distributed by Hollywood. Period. That time is over. There was a time when advertisers could count on mass audiences for what Hollywood thought we should be watching on TV. That time is all but over.
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  • The price tag for YouTube, just to put the investment in perspective, is what Target paid for 257 Mervyns department stores and four distribution centers in 13 states
    • Bill Wolff
      Bill Wolff on 13 Feb 08
       
      I guess valueing Facebook at $15 billion is a bit too much, too, then? That's what Microsoft valued Facebook at when it bought a less than 2% share....
    • kristen peraset
      kristen peraset on 12 Mar 08
       
      I can see why Youtube is worth what it is - the flow of information is so consistent and phenomenal...I guess no matter what, it's going to be worth a lot
  • Jarvis calls the phenomenon "exploding TV," and YouTube is exploding faster than anything else:
  • And there they are, in the bedrooms and dorms and cubicles of the world, uploading their asses off, more than 65,000 times a day on YouTube alone.
  • be somebody
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      Youtube is also like the fascination people have with blogs, it is a way to get your ideas, opinions, views, and anything else that you, yourself, produce out into the world. Youtube lets you publish for the world to see!
  • But don't sell Google short. Not long ago, all it had was a search algorithm and a cool logo. Now, after reinventing online advertising, it has revenue of $9.3 billion a year and good reason to believe that neither of those daunting prerequisites is out of the question.
    • sunflower123
      sunflower123 on 14 Feb 08
       
      That is unbelievable that google is making that much money a year. What did people do before Google was invented, I guess I can not even imaigine a life with out Google anymore. No body even thinks to use a paperback dictionary or go to the libarey to find information, not when you have such an easy resource like Google ready at all times.
    • casano85
      casano85 on 01 Mar 08
       
      I could never sell Google short. Google is my go to website for EVERYTHING. I use google to search at least twice a day. I use Gmail as my second source of e-mail. I use Google calendar to keep myself organized. I now use Googleblog for one of my classes. I even use the scholarly journal search engine. It's convenient and i always find what I'm looking for.
  • Type in "sweet tired cat" and watch a drowsy kitten dozing off. The clip, which was viewed nearly 2 million times in two weeks, is 27 seconds of such concentrated cuteness that you might actually have a stroke and die. It's that excruciatingly adorable. And, as it turns out, extremely valuable. Google – as you may have read in every publication, online and off, in the entire freaking world – just paid #3 $1.65 billion in stock to be the cute little kitty-cat's home.
    • willis02
      willis02 on 15 Feb 08
       
      This is rediculous. I do not know why everyone is making such a big deal about a cat falling alseep. Yeah the cat is cute but still to be watched 2 million times in just two weeks....what are people doing on their time off!?!
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      I find it interesting to see what some people spend their money on. $1.62 billion could be used for so many more productive things and could help so many people in need, yet they spend it on a video of a cat?
    • needle10
      needle10 on 31 Mar 08
       
      I thought this video was adorable and I'm not even a fan of cats. It's nice to watch something that wasn't rehearsed and is just naturally entertaining. This video is what I call short and sweet.
  • #6 And there they are, in the bedrooms and dorms and cubicles of the world, uploading their asses off, more than 65,000 times a day on YouTube alone. "If you aren't posting, you don't exist," says Rishad Tobaccowala
    • willis02
      willis02 on 15 Feb 08
       
      I dont see why someone can say if you are not blogging you do not exist. People have other things to do. Some people enjoy technology and blogging and posting and others dont. Just because someone doesnt like to blog doesnt mean they are not living. Maybe they are more private or scared to post informtion.
  • from a standing start about a year ago to more than 100 million videostreams a day. It was on YouTube, not Saturday Night Live, that the world fell in love with "Lazy Sunday." It was there that we found ourselves smitten, intrigued, and ultimately betrayed by Lonelygirl15. And it is there that more than 65,000 videos go every day, their creators posting what they think are video clips but that are also improvised explosive devices laying waste to the old order.
    • willis02
      willis02 on 15 Feb 08
       
      I think that facts are amazing about how many people are watching these videos. 65,000 videos is crazy I dont see how people can keep up with adding videos or even just watching them on their spare time.
  • evolution of dance,"
    • vanamb16
      vanamb16 on 13 Mar 08
       
      it is funny because as all of these are ;isted, i remember watching them...youtube has become so integrated into my daily life...
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      This comedian preformed this dance at the class of 2011 freshman orientation! He was hilarious and told us to check out his website AND search him on youtube.
    • needle10
      needle10 on 31 Mar 08
       
      I think this video is brilliant because it's original, entertaining, and shows real talent. Videos like this one is worth sharing but you have to sort through hundreds and hundreds of pointless ones to come across one worth your time.
  • "Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for six years." A time-lapse documentary of Noah Kalina over 2,356 days, it's a little thin on plot, but it nonetheless racked up more than 3 million views in six weeks.
    • patunya
      patunya on 16 Feb 08
       
      I think this is a very interesting video, When watching this clip it looks like the room is spinnig back and forth. I have also noticed that he doesn't wear very bright colors and he never smiles.
    • hawtho16
      hawtho16 on 20 Feb 08
       
      This is odd. I don't understand the point of do this. I cannot believe that it was viewed by that many people in six weeks. Why would someone find this cool, I find it weird.
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      I think this is interesting to see but the question remains in my head: where do people find the time to do this?
    • tangoa24
      tangoa24 on 19 Feb 08
       
      I agree that this is horrifying and cruel, but I'm not sure about the hilarious part. I literally cringed for most of the video and had to turn it off after a minute or two. The look on that poor guy's face! It's amazing to see what kind of videos are posted, and I can't even imagine what it must be like to be the person millions of people have laughed at mercilessly.
  • It is horrifying. It is cruel. It is hilarious.
    • tangoa24
      tangoa24 on 19 Feb 08
       
      I agree that this is horrifying and cruel, but I'm not sure about the hilarious part. I literally cringed while watching it, and had to turn it off after a minute or two. The look on that poor guy's face! It's amazing to see the kinds of videos people post. I can't even imagine being the person that millions of people watch and laugh at mercilessly.
  • to step in front of the whole world
    • hawtho16
      hawtho16 on 20 Feb 08
       
      This is why people step on the train of you tube. They want to make something out of them self by stepping out into the world and I mean the whole wide world. Maybe they think something bigger and better will come out of the video or posting.
  • "Numa Numa,"
    • casano85
      casano85 on 01 Mar 08
       
      I only watch videos that are pointed out to me on YouTube, but I never just go searching for videos. This one was hysterical. I have to admit I laughed aloud when I saw it. But then when I think about it, why does someone take the time to make these videos and post them? Yes it's funny, but you definitely have way too much time on your hands to make silly videos like these.
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      I know this video was featured on VH1 as one of the most famous youtube phenomenons.
  • A recent Accenture study of 1,600 Americans found that 38 percent of respondents wanted to create or share content online.
  • "If you aren't posting, you don't exist," says Rishad Tobaccowala , CEO of Denuo, a new media consultancy. "People say, 'I post, therefore I am.'"
    • jrae3388
      jrae3388 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I completely disagree. I have not posted a thing on youtube or virtually anywhere except for this classroom module but I still exist, and the world isn't going to end just because I don't post.
    • zimmer67
      zimmer67 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I found these statements very though provoking. It was previously thought that to exist you needed to make your presence known to mainly those people around you but now with the changing technology has it become necessary to make yourself known to millions of other people you may never directly talk to or meet?
  • But don't sell Google short
  • "Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for six years."
  • #1 It features a courageous but overmatched freshman named Brian Collins presenting the worst sports-highlight rundown in human history, culminating in the worst sportscaster catchphrase ever conceived: "Boom goes the dynamite." #2 It is horrifying. It is cruel. It is hilarious.
    • maureen
      maureen on 02 Mar 08
       
      That is truly ashame. The more he read or attempted to read, the redder his ears became. I like to laugh at people just as much as the next person and, quite honestly, sometimes even more. I can appreciate being irreverent, but this was just too painful to watch. I hope his parents don't ever get to watch this or view the mean spirited comments.
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      I am pretty horrified that they let him suffer like that, especially after you realize he isn't doing too well after the first minute.
    • needle10
      needle10 on 13 Apr 08
       
      I personally did not find this to be hilarious at all. I felt so bad for the guy but it's admirable that he continued with it (knowing that he messed up and wasn't doing well). In situations like these, I put myself in the other person's shoes, which I think everyone should do, and then I bet they wouldn't be laughing.
  • Judson Laipply's seamless sampling of footwork to 30 songs, from Elvis to 'NSync, pretty much is.
    • maureen
      maureen on 02 Mar 08
       
      Funny, entertaining and I can understand why it has gotten 35 million views. I thought is was especially funny when he paid homage to the Brady Bunch!
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      This video definitely brought me back to the days of my middle school dances. However, what is even more hilarious is how many of these dances I still saw recently at my cousins sweet sixteen.
    • zimmer67
      zimmer67 on 13 Mar 08
       
      It's funny that they referenced this particular video. I actually met Judson Laipply, we booked him for freshman orientation this past summer. His act was awesome and really captivated the audience. I also remember hims specifically addressing the fact that you could find this video on youtube and directing the freshman to the site.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      I just made a comment about how I saw him at freshman orientation! Then I read this comment, we said the same thing!
  • 19 Until about five minutes ago, remember, almost all video-entertainment content was produced and distributed by Hollywood. Period. That time is over. There was a time when advertisers could count on mass audiences for what Hollywood thought we should be watching on TV. That time is all but over
    • maureen
      maureen on 02 Mar 08
       
      It's about time that Hollywood and the media elite realize that they do not have the monopoly on video-entertainment. You-Tube provides a great outlet for amateur singers, comedians, writers, and interactive storytellers. It's all part of the technological evolution, which is a force that appears to be unstoppable.
  • Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for six years."
    • maureen
      maureen on 02 Mar 08
       
      Interesting. I think he aged well in six years! The same eye contact, same facial expression, and the gloom and doom music were weird. I don't there there was enough contrast in the environment to appreciate the subtle changes.
    • needle10
      needle10 on 31 Mar 08
       
      I really saw no point for this video. I've seen videos similar to this one that show women during their gestation period with the same concept, a picture is taken once a day everyday. That at least would be a cute keepsake for the parents and child but this video has no purpose, I kept watching it, hoping it would get to a point but it never did.
    • kristen peraset
      kristen peraset on 12 Mar 08
       
      Isn't this what most of YouTube is? People, particularly young adults flooding sites like Youtube with obnoxious videos of themselves singing and dancing - sometimes both? I should know...I'm on there.
  • "boom goes the dynam it > >e."
    • jrae3388
      jrae3388 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I couldn't help but laugh histerically at this video because I know how it feels to be put in the spotlight and freeze all of a sudden. I was in my first pageant my senior year of high school and when I went up for the question, I didn't understand it, so I just kind of stood there, stared at the person who asked me, couldn't make my mouth move and just walked away. Looking back it was hysterical, but at the time I was mortified. This poor guy, he's doing good, he just needs to boost his confidence! He's so stressed!
  • When you put together a million humans, a million camcorders, and a million computers, what you get is YouTube.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 12 Mar 08
       
      I absolutely love this line! It reminds me of the original idea for YouTube and its use. Despite it now being commonly used in educational settings, let's face it - many still use YouTube simply for fun, for sharing, and for expression.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Apr 08
       
      This sentence really sums up what has led to the success of YouTube. It has revolutionize the way that people think and act. We are a "YouTube" society. We love posting our own videos and watching videos that others post. We use it for entertainment purposes and educational purposes. YouTube has become a major part of many people's lives all over the world.
  • So why is it worth nearly six times the gross domestic product of Micronesia?
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 12 Mar 08
       
      It is astounding to actually sit down and think about how much of a "You Tube" country we've become. I, like many others around the world, have probably spent hours in my lifetime searching and exploring videos on You Tube. It is becoming almost a second nature where we have grown to "just go to You Tube" or "just have to see this video." It is really changing our lives.
  • Google has recently bet the equivalent of 257 Mervyns stores that the rise of video-sharing is more than just the latest rage.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 24 Mar 08
       
      In thinking about how much video-sharing has become mainstream, one could compare it to blogging. Just a short while ago, blogging was this 'new' thing for teenagers and young adults, that eventually became a common practice (just look at how many people have a Myspace even, let alone sites dedicated just to blog posting). I think now video-sharing is taking this same path, with more and more people finding it commonplace.
  • "The simple, wonderful, delirious fact is that people like you and me can now make and share content."
    • Jen Fitzgerald
      Jen Fitzgerald on 13 Mar 08
       
      In 2006, Time magazine named YOU as their person of the year. This was in reference to the online boom of sharing, whether through social networks, blogs, or videos. The article talked about the new generation of computer users and their reasons for wanting to share their personal moments so freely. I am still wary of putting everything out there, but I do have pictures on MySpace.
    • Jen Fitzgerald
      Jen Fitzgerald on 13 Mar 08
       
      I think I typed over someone else's comment. I am jgirl0910, not Kimmerz
    • needle10
      needle10 on 31 Mar 08
       
      Youtube.com is enabling everyone to gain their 15 minutes of fame. You don't have to be on television anymore, you just need a camera and internet access and you could become a celebrity.
  • the hitherto futile aspirations of the everyman to break out of his lonely anonymous life of quiet desperation, #11 to step in front of the whole world and #12 be somebody , dude.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 12 Mar 08
       
      I agree with this statement. We are living in a world where we are quite self-centered. You Tube, MySpace, and Facebook provide great examples. We love to post pictures of ourselves for others to see and share with others "how great the party was last weekend". Really, if you think about it, the Internet does provide many with a moment in the spotlight. Even large companies are aware of this by using You Tube videos for advertising purposes. They are much cheaper than paying actors or people to come up with commercial ideas and scripts. Instead, they can underpay people on You Tube to make a much greater profit, without the people even realizing it. They're just happy that their video is on TV.
    • vanamb16
      vanamb16 on 13 Mar 08
       
      same idea with blogging....we want people to read our ideas and see us as humans....we get affirmation from their posts about us
    • daydreamr97
      daydreamr97 on 12 Mar 08
       
      This relates to the readings we did for Tuesday, too, specifically "We Are the Web." I'm curious what the sample population was. Considering how many people have blogs, YouTube accounts, webpages, and accounts on other subject-specific websites, I would think 38% was rather low. I wonder if they surveyed peope in general, or people using the Web.
  • including, but not limited to, a reallocation of the $67 billion that advertisers spent on TV in the US last year.
    • zimmer67
      zimmer67 on 13 Mar 08
       
      This made me think of the recent switch of political advertisements and commercials shown on tv to now being formatted and constructed to be soley used for youtube and geared towards the youtube audience. Recently, Obama created a video that has received millions of views on youtube and in my opinion it is one of the most influential and most well made political advertisements I've ever seen
  • It is horrifying. It is cruel. It is hilarious.
    • butler09
      butler09 on 13 Mar 08
       
      Plus, it's excruciating! I felt so bad for him that I just wanted to turn the thing off! It has to be so embarrassing! But instead of eventually forgetting about it--or hoping you can forget about it--YouTube makes it public! It makes embarrassing moments that much more horrifying, and I can't understand how people can get such pleasure out of someone else's pain. It's kind of like a visual gossip center on the web, and though some postings are completely innocent (like the sleeping kitty), others are just plain cruel.
    • richar19
      richar19 on 13 Mar 08
       
      This seems like it would be something that would be very stupid to do I would like to know who some of the people are that viewed this to ask them why!
    • alieraisu1
      alieraisu1 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I think youtube IS worth a lot of money. Why? Cheap entertainment.... it's ridiculous but it is true
  • the hitherto futile aspirations of the everyman to break out of his lonely anonymous life of quiet desperation, to step in front of the whole world and be somebody >, dude.
    • alieraisu1
      alieraisu1 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I think this is why Youtube is very alluring to kids and teens. The idea of fame really gets to them. I've seen it personally, and I worry that it is dangerous for them... But the allure of fame is one we can't fight easily against
    • alieraisu1
      alieraisu1 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I just hope this isn't inappropriate...
  • "People say, 'I post, therefore I am.'"
    • alieraisu1
      alieraisu1 on 13 Mar 08
       
      THAT is just scary. What ever happened to "I THINK therefore I am"?!!! Why is it we need to exist to random people that don't exist in our consciousness in order to BE SOMEBODY? It's silly and stupid.
    • Jen Fitzgerald
      Jen Fitzgerald on 13 Mar 08
       
      Maybe I am behind the times, but exactly how does a free website become profitable? Is it just advertising, or is there another way to make money?
  • YouTube's fixed assets pretty much consist of a video
    • Jen Fitzgerald
      Jen Fitzgerald on 13 Mar 08
       
      I need help understanding how YouTube makes its profits. I know advertising, but is there another source of income?
    • Asia Thompson
      Asia Thompson on 13 Mar 08
       
      This is funny because I just added this to my other blog. I love this guy's moves! He almost does the Fresh Prince of Bel Air dances better than Will and Carlton.
  • It's just a little outtake from a Ball State University campus TV newscast
    • Asia Thompson
      Asia Thompson on 13 Mar 08
       
      I feel so bad for this poor guy. It goes from bad to worse. I know what its like to get tongue-tied but the trick is to stay calm. The moment he felt embarrassed he just messed up more and more. Poor guy.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 24 Mar 08
       
      I'm not sure I would go as far as to claim this. Yes, video-sharing and such is and will continue to have a major impact; however, I think watching TV has become too much of a social force with the general American population to say that it is on the brink of ending. New innovations, such as YouTube, may become popular quickly but this does not mean socially-ingrained innovations, such as the 'blue light' of TV, will disappear quickly.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 24 Mar 08
       
      I am not sure I would go as far as to claim this.
    • jc ice
      jc ice on 16 Apr 08
       
      This is so funny. And he really got all the dance moves right! I was actually surprised that he could dance that well.
    • jc ice
      jc ice on 16 Apr 08
       
      Ithought this would have been more interesting if the background would have told a story, kind of like a personality stuck in time in his surroudings. Especially since his expression never changed, it might have added a little more for me than just watching his hair change.
  • Search around some more. Type in " evolution of dance," which has got nearly 35 million views in six months. You wouldn't think "Ohio motivational speaker's grand finale" would equal "mesmerizing," but Judson Laipply's seamless sampling of footwork to 30 songs, from Elvis to 'NSync, pretty much is.
  • "sweet tired cat"
    • Danielle Rabello
      Danielle Rabello on 16 Apr 08
       
      So adorable... even comical (I was dying laughing) But also proves how far youtube has come to where we can post the most ridiculous videos online.
    • Danielle Rabello
      Danielle Rabello on 16 Apr 08
       
      Just as any writer submits work to be published, Youtube can be seen as the 21 century's publishing through video. It is about making yourseld known and sharing your creativity with others. However, not all videos deserve to be credited as creative and meaningful.
  • "People say, 'I post, therefore I am.'"
    • Danielle Rabello
      Danielle Rabello on 16 Apr 08
       
      This sort of evokes the idea of the machine and the person and how they are one in some ways. The idea that we teach the machine. I also find the idea that you must post to exist in the world. Do we really need to post all our ideas on the internet in order to have an identity?
  • "Boom goes the dynamite." It is horrifying. It is cruel. It is hilarious.
    • Kelly Burns
      Kelly Burns on 17 Apr 08
       
      Wow. This was hard to watch! I feel bad for him...but it looks like he did not prepare at all and actually should not continue on in the sportscasting world.
  • "mesmerizing
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      I wouldn't call this "mesmerizing", but it was creative. It reminded me of a scene in the movie Napoleon Dynamite.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      I wouldn't say this video is "mesmerizing", but it is entertaining. I reminds me of a scene in the movie Napoleon Dynamite.
  • It's that excruciatingly adorable.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      This was adorable. Everyone should watch "The Mean Kitty Song" video because it is really funny. Anyone who has ever had a kitten will appreciate this video.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      This was adorable. Anyone that has ever had a kitten should also watch the YouTube video called "The Mean Kitty Song".
  • weirdly fetching Romanian pop song.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      I found this song to be "fetching" also. I have seen other youtube videos with this song playing.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      I thought this Romanian pop song is "weirdly fetching" and I have seen many videos with people lipsyncing to it.
  • When you put together a million humans, a million camcorders, and a million computers, what you get is YouTube.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      True! I like YouTube...I find it very entertaining.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      I think YouTube is a great entertainment site. It is interesting to see what people can come up with.
  • therefore I am
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      "Therefore you are" in the "computer world"...this does not mean that you do not exist in the "real world".
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      This relates to the digital world, but this does not mean that one does not exist outside of that world. This is where I think people are getting confused with what reality really is.
  • Or try the accurately titled "Noah takes a photo of himself everyday for six years." A time-lapse documentary of Noah Kalina over 2,356 days, it's a little thin on plot, but it nonetheless racked up more than 3 million views in six weeks.
    • Joan Vance
      Joan Vance on 17 Apr 08
       
      This was probably the worst video I've ever seen. I can not believe 3 million people actually watched it. How boring. I tried to think of how it would be if I were to take a photo everyday and I think I would actually try to look good for each one and maybe switch up hairstyles and makeup.
  • You'd better also see "Numa Numa," which stars a chubby young man in his New Jersey bedroom lip-syncing to an insipid but weirdly fetching Romanian pop song
    • Joan Vance
      Joan Vance on 17 Apr 08
       
      HAHA...That video was actually funny. I actually saw this one before. I don't watch many you tube videos so I was surprised to see one in this article that I have seen before. I have always wondered do people get paid if their video gets viewed a certain amount of times?
  • "If you aren't posting, you don't exist," says Rishad Tobaccowala, CEO of Denuo, a new media consultancy. "People say, 'I post, therefore I am.'"
    • Joan Vance
      Joan Vance on 17 Apr 08
       
      I didn't even know what a blog was until last semester when I had to do them for Intro to Advertising... according to Mr. Rishad Tobaccowala I didnt exist. Maybe I still dont exist in his eyes because I have never posted anything on Youtube, I barely watch the videos. I can not believe how serious people are these days about the internet. IDK maybe I am missing something....but reality is not inside the computer.
  • Type in "evolution of dance," which has got nearly 35 million views in six months.
    • anita sipala
      anita sipala on 17 Apr 08
       
      I can see way it received nearly 35 million views. It is hysterical. I can remember dancing to these songs and making a fool out of myself. It was great fun.
    • anita sipala
      anita sipala on 17 Apr 08
       
      I can understand why it received nearly 35 million views. I think it is hysterically funny. I can remember dancing to these same songs and making a complete fool of myself. I loved it.
    • anita sipala
      anita sipala on 17 Apr 08
       
      I can understand why "evolution of dance" has gotten nearly 35 million views in six months. It is hysterically funny. I remember dancing to these same songs. I acted like an idiot and loved every minute of it.
  • aspirations of the everyman to break out of his lonely anonymous life of quiet desperation, to step in front of the whole world and be somebody
    • anita sipala
      anita sipala on 17 Apr 08
       
      Everyone longs for their moment in the limelight, their two minutes of fame. It reminds me of the people who try out for "American Idol." They do it for a chance to be on TV. They don't care if they sound horrible. They are like the guy in the "Muma Muma video.
    • anita sipala
      anita sipala on 17 Apr 08
       
      Everyone is looking for their two minutes of fame. It reminds me of the people who try out for "American Idol," they have no talent. They just want to be noticed, like the guy on the "Muma Muma" video.
    • anita sipala
      anita sipala on 17 Apr 08
       
      Everyone is looking for their 2 minutes of fame. It reminds me of the people who try out for the TV show, "American Idol,"they have no talent. They just want to view themselves on TV. The guy on the "Muma Muma video probably did it for his small minutes of fame.
  • OK, guess. But that guesswork begins in a very special, very poignant, and potentially very lucrative place: the hitherto futile aspirations of the everyman to break out of his lonely anonymous life of quiet desperation, to step in front of the whole world
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      This part about anonymous life made me think about Sherry Turke's article, "Who am We?" and the idea that people use anonymity as a disguise. People can be something they are not and take on a whole new identity, whether in a blog or a game.
  • "evolution of dance,"
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      I think videos like this are good for the internet. They are a form of entertainment and can amuse you. I don't think that it is misleading in anway.
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      I think videos liek this are good for the internet because they are used as entertainment. I don't think that they are misleading in anyway.
  • YouTube's fixed assets pretty much consist of a video interface and a cool retro logo. So why is it worth nearly six times the gross domestic product of Micronesia?
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      I personally don't have a problem with youtube making money. I think it is a great source of entertainment and it doesn't mislead viewers as much as other sites. It is all up to the poster. If you post a video on youtube it is your credability. Its like anyone discovering a new invention, I say good for them. It was a good idea and many people enjoy using the site.
  • You'd better also see "Numa Numa," which stars a chubby young man in his New Jersey bedroom lip-syncing to an insipid but weirdly fetching Romanian pop song. Or, what the hell, live dangerously. Type in "sweet tired cat" and watch a drowsy kitten dozing off. The clip, which was viewed nearly 2 million times in two weeks, is 27 seconds of such concentrated cuteness that you might actually have a stroke and die. It's that excruciatingly adorable.
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      It is interesting to see how our entertainment spectrum has changed. Technology has evolved and now allows us to watch videos and tap into the lives of others. Sometimes i sit back and think how my grandmother and dad felt when the telvision first came out. What were they thinking when they could view all sorts of stories. Are their feelings anything different that what we feeling after we watch our youtube videos.
  • t was there that we found ourselves smitten, intrigued, and ultimately betrayed by Lonelygirl15. And it is there that more than 65,000 videos go every day, their creators posting what they think are video clips but that are also improvised explosive devices laying waste to the old order.
    • Melissa Foster
      Melissa Foster on 17 Apr 08
       
      When I watched this, I couldn't help but think of the scene in "Napoleon Dynamite." Still, I thought it was pretty interesting how he really did show a kind of chronological "evolution of dance."
    • Melissa Foster
      Melissa Foster on 17 Apr 08
       
      The whole idea of "being somebody" on YouTube brought to mind those six girls and two boys in Florida who attacked another girl on video. When I first read that news story, I was appalled by their behavior and curious as to whether the concept of Internet fame had desensitized them to their deplorable actions.
    • james caposele
      james caposele on 17 Apr 08
       
      I have been watching Sportscenter since I was born. This is by the far the worse commentating job I've ever seen. He was only a freshman but come on! They left him out to dry, it should have been stopped after the "dynamite" comment.
    • james caposele
      james caposele on 17 Apr 08
       
      My cousin showed me this awhile ago. It is really funny but I have to give respect to the guy...he can dance. Elvis and MC Hammer would be proud.
  • When you put together a million humans, a million camcorders, and a million computers, what you get is YouTube
    • james caposele
      james caposele on 17 Apr 08
       
      Youtube is the best website ever created. If my friends and I are bored Youtube is always there with ridiculously funny clips to keep our amusement for hours.
  • Type in "sweet tired cat" and watch a drowsy kitten dozing off. The clip, which was viewed nearly 2 million times in two weeks, is 27 seconds of such concentrated cuteness that you might actually have a stroke and die. It's that excruciatingly adorable.
    • Jennifer Dougherty
      Jennifer Dougherty on 18 Apr 08
       
      I get that this is cute. I will grant that. But what is the point? I don't understand why so many people watch this video. At least the Numa Numa guy is entertaining.
    • Jennifer Dougherty
      Jennifer Dougherty on 18 Apr 08
       
      Ok, this guy is really creepy. Who thinks to take a picture of themself everday for 6 years. Who has that much free time and dedication. More importantly, who thinks this is interesting? I think it is a great idea for a child to chronicle growth, but this is weird.
  • But that guesswork begins in a very special, very poignant, and potentially very lucrative place: the hitherto futile aspirations of the everyman to break out of his lonely anonymous life of quiet desperation, to step in front of the whole world and
    • Jennifer Dougherty
      Jennifer Dougherty on 18 Apr 08
       
      Just like blogs have made writers publishers, YouTube has made the average person a film maker. Think about, everyone looks for their 15 minutes of fame. YouTube grants them access to the entire world. I'd say that gives them more than 15 minutes.
  • A recent Accenture study of 1,600 Americans found that 38 percent of respondents wanted to create or share content online.
    • Jennifer Dougherty
      Jennifer Dougherty on 18 Apr 08
       
      There are plenty of people, myself included, who have this creative side. This need or desire to "make" something meaningful. For me, it is to write. Most of us don't think we have an outlet for our creativity because, afterall, we are not gifted writers, film makers, and thespians. YouTube gives us an outlet to express ourselves. I believe that is why YouTube and, for that matter, blogs, have taken on a life of their own. It is a catalyst for creativity for the every day person.
  • jc ice on 16 Apr 08
     
    Ithink the point is that there is still a light coming out of the window. So is YouTube the remediation of TV?
  • Kelly Burns on 17 Apr 08
     
    entertaining videos, dancing, life on video
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  • Beckett had met him through a friend and wanted to make sure Lonelygirl15 didn't get them sued for deceiving the public
    • dracmere
      dracmere on 13 Feb 08
       
      This was a good idea on their part. It would be bad if they were successful and then got sued for something.
    • Jessica Bloom
      Jessica Bloom on 16 Apr 08
       
      Is it even possible to get sued for deceiving the public? So many shows today are fake, do they have a problem as well?
  • But the series he created shows that Internet TV has arrived. The phenomenon is partly driven by technology – Lonelygirl15 wouldn't exist without the explosion of broadband and the advent of YouTube – and partly by the appeal of a hybrid form of storytelling.
    • sunflower123
      sunflower123 on 13 Feb 08
       
      I just find this kind of sick and twisted. I remember hearing about this a few months ago but didn't think much of it. But this type of fake story telling only shows people how easy to is to be fake by using technology and that is not right. It is just scary to think that you never know who you are really talking to, taking advice from or if any facts are real, and Lonelygirl made that even more clear...lonelygirl would not exist either if someone didn't make her up.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      I hadn't heard about this until now, but I agree, it is VERY sick and twisted! It makes me sad to think it exists, because this happens, it's real life.
  • In the process, the series is helping to invent the rhythm, grammar, and style of online storytelling
    • sunflower123
      sunflower123 on 13 Feb 08
       
      If they admitted from the beginning that they were just trying to make an non-fictional online story, then that would be one thing. But they lied so it makes it werid.
    • Gail Ramsey
      Gail Ramsey on 17 Apr 08
       
      This is not really a new concept, just an old concept displayed in a new technology. Not that the stories were the same but there have been radio programs and movies that originally ran as real but were fake.
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  • In short, they were planning to exploit the anonymity of the Internet to pull off a new kind of storytelling, and they worried they were on shaky legal ground.
    • sunflower123
      sunflower123 on 13 Feb 08
       
      If they had any bad feeling about it at all, that should of told them right there not to do it.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 13 Apr 08
       
      It may not be illegal, but it is unethical. Unlike a real movie or TV show, these men where purposefully exploiting viewers online. There would have been no reason for the viewers to think the videos were fake (unlike when we go to a movie and know the characters are played by paid actors). Since there is no universally accepted ethical guidelines for online postings to sites like YouTube, I guess the creators thought their actions could be justified. However, I still think that creating a massive plan to deceive countless viewers like they did is not a good way to represent YouTube and similar spaces.
  • Plastic surgery might be an essential part of the entertainment industry, but he wanted more. He wanted to direct.
    • goulds28 gould
      goulds28 gould on 14 Feb 08
       
      very strange switch in professional fields. Is plastic surgery that closely linked to the entertainment industry in the first place?
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 29 Mar 08
       
      i dont think they are THAT closely related to make such a drastic switch...kind of creepy in my opinion
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      Interesting switch in fields.
  • Now, as a result of Lonelygirl15, he's represented by a top-tier Hollywood talent agency and has been interviewed on MTV, CNN, and NBC Nightly News. He even has business partners: a former doctor named Miles Beckett and husband-and-wife lawyers Greg and Amanda Goodfried. Together, with next to no budget, they have created a show that illuminates the future of television.
    • willis02
      willis02 on 15 Feb 08
       
      That is crazy. It's weird to think little ideas like this really could go a long way if you are talented enough. This "lie" changed his life. Good for him.
  • So today, two weeks after the revelation that the show is fictional, Flinders is filming the 45th two-minute installment of the series and pushing into new territory. What began as a quirky story about a religious girl fighting with her strict parents and her boyfriend is poised to break out of the bedroom and into a full-blown international thriller.
    • willis02
      willis02 on 15 Feb 08
       
      It's amazing at how far this guy went to make this Lonlygirl15 happen.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      Seems harmless enough.
  • Last week, he spotted his neighbors – two Playboy playmates – and invited them in. They glanced at his room, got suspicious, and quickly left.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      I completely agree. What would you think if you walked into a set like that?
  • It's all the more engrossing because viewers can correspond with the characters and even affect the plot.
    • Joan Vance
      Joan Vance on 17 Apr 08
       
      Why wouldn't anyone like a show in which they can relate to? This is why I read certain books, because I can relate to the characters in some way. Reality TV has really became a hit in the US. I actually do enjoy some of these new shows.
    • Gail Ramsey
      Gail Ramsey on 17 Apr 08
       
      Most of the reality shows are extreme case setups. I wonder if that encourages people to react extreme in life. They put you on an emotional overcharge to keep you viewing. Reality is a very lose term for them and even with LonleyGirl they admitted they didn't get the big hits until they made it "emotional".
  • Welcome to the set of Lonelygirl15, the breakout Web hit that, in September, was unmasked by fans as a work of fiction. What nearly a million people thought was the room of a sweet, charismatic teen named Bree is actually the Beverly Hills bedroom of Lonelygirl15's cocreator Mesh Flinders, an unshaven 27-year-old who is fighting the flu and running a fever of 101. He hasn't left this room for more than 24 hours. "I've got no reason to leave," Flinders says, rubbing his bloodshot eyes and then blowing his nose. The room smells like sweat. "I write the scripts here, we shoot them here, and I sleep here. Why leave?"
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      He clearly has something wrong with him. This is not only unhealthy but a bit scary!
    • alieraisu1
      alieraisu1 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I agree with kaeanne... something's wrong... and creepy here
    • james caposele
      james caposele on 17 Apr 08
       
      This guy is a mess...a smart mess though. Does he make a lot of money off this? It has always blown my mind that you can come up wiht such a simple idea and get all the media coverage for it. I'm still waiting for my big break.
  • A Hollywood movie is understood to be fictional. Vlogging on YouTube is not.
  • But this isn't what it appears to be: Almost everything in the room was bought from Target on the same day, and the price tags are still hanging from some of her stuff. The closet is filled with men's clothing, and in the corner two guys huddle around a laptop and stare at the webcam feed.
    • hawtho16
      hawtho16 on 20 Feb 08
       
      This paragrapgh really got me thinking about the videos we watched on Lonely Girl. I didn't even seem to pick up on what was hanging in the closet or that things still had price tags on them. Can you see those details from the videos?
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      It makes you think about the discussion we had in class the other day about people portraying themselves as whoever they want to be portrayed as. It is amazing that you could think something that seems so real, like an ordinary girl with boy problems, can actually be completely fake!
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      It just proves that things aren't always what they seem to be. This is a huge problem with the freedom that the internet provides to those not mature enough to use it responsibly.
    • Kelly Burns
      Kelly Burns on 17 Apr 08
       
      I never knew that it was a fake scene! It reminds me of the discussion we had in class the other day about how people can fake their identies. Most the people in the class just kept using the words, "It's weird" and "Creepy", and that is the only way I know how to describe the crazy phenomon about how people can change who they are and portray themselves as completely different people on the Internet.
    • james caposele
      james caposele on 17 Apr 08
       
      I spoke to soon in my previous sticky note. I didn't fully believe her when she said that she only had one friend. Does it say gullable on the wall? I think it does..
    • Jennifer Dougherty
      Jennifer Dougherty on 18 Apr 08
       
      This doesn't actually bother me. I am a huge fan of reality TV, which we all know is HEAVILY staged and scripted. Who cares that this is too. It's entertainment. Remember how we are always taught not to believe everything we read? That we are to approach everything we read with a critical eye? The same goes for these videos. If we question what we see, the validity of it and the impact we as the viewer choose to assign it to our lives, it shouldn't matter if the video is real or fake.
  • When the show started in June with a two-minute YouTube posting by Bree – played by actress Jessica Rose – Flinders would rearrange his room after each shoot.
    • Melissa Foster
      Melissa Foster on 17 Apr 08
       
      I thought it was crazy how it was all shot inside of his own bedroom. What's more is that it seems to have made him a bit of a recluse.
  • When the show started in June with a two-minute YouTube posting by Bree – played by actress Jessica Rose – Flinders would rearrange his room after each shoot. >
    • hawtho16
      hawtho16 on 20 Feb 08
       
      I cannot believe that someone would think of such a show. Who has that much time on their hands? Just to think a two-minute posting turned into something everyone talked about.
  • So today, two weeks after the revelation that the show is fictional, Flinders is filming the 45th two-minute installment of the series and pushing into new territory. What began as a quirky story about a religious girl fighting with her strict parents and her boyfriend is poised to break out of the bedroom and into a full-blown international thriller.
    • hawtho16
      hawtho16 on 20 Feb 08
       
      It just boggles my mind how one video turned into 45. I wonder what made him do this, did he want the attention? Where did the story line come from?
    • jrae3388
      jrae3388 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I heard of LonelyGirl before and saw some of her videos and it intrigued me because it was kind of Degrassi-esque, but I really wondered if it was true or not because it shows her being kidnapped and I was wondering why there wasn't an outcry because she was kidnapped, but I had a suspicion that this was all fake, just like all the other shows out there. One thing I have learned over the years is dont believe everything you say/hear.
  • He'd take down the pictures of Rose as a baby, stash the stuffed animals, and swap out the girly bedspread for his more masculine blue-and-white-striped blanket. Now, three months into the project and with hundreds of thousands of regular viewers, he doesn't bother
    • Elizabeth Somer
      Elizabeth Somer on 12 Mar 08
       
      I think this is "genius." Who would think to create a mini, self-run almost TV like series?
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      I wander how many times he actually retransformed his room, it seems way too tiring for me. I have a hard enough time cleaning my room and taking the stuff I need to take home for a weekend.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      I think this is pretty creative.
  • He wrote short stories about her, and when he tried to make it as a writer in Hollywood, he put her in his screenplays.
    • Elizabeth Somer
      Elizabeth Somer on 12 Mar 08
       
      Some books today are written in the form of IM/Blog conversations. I think this is more personal way of writing and communicating
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      Is he trying to compensate for his short comings now? Is Lonelygirl really a success for him? Well, I guess that's the way he sees it.
  • As a camp counselor, he told fireside tales about her experiences.
    • kimmerzx0 C
      kimmerzx0 C on 12 Mar 08
       
      So lonelygirl seems to not only be his story, but also his obsession. It is like the characters people create in MUDs and then they become obsessed with them.
  • Welcome to the set of Lonelygirl15, the breakout Web hit that, in September, was unmasked by fans as a work of fiction. What nearly a million people thought was the room of a sweet, charismatic teen named Bree is actually the Beverly Hills bedroom of Lonelygirl15's cocreator Mesh Flinders, an unshaven 27-year-old who is fighting the flu and running a fever of 101.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I have never heard of Lonelygirl before, but it is interesting to think about. Today's Internet capabilities allow people to portray themselves in a quite deceiving mannner. This is what's part of the dangers of the Internet. We believe that just because someone has a video or picture, what they post is automatically true. However, this can be quite far from the truth.
    • zimmer67
      zimmer67 on 13 Mar 08
       
      It really makes me wonder what type of research if any he conducted to make it believeable to an audience that a 27 year old male knew the thoughts of a young teen girl? Its very weird and a little disconcerting.
  • He got picked on for being small, and there was no escape: The children attended classes taught by the adults of the commune, which was isolated in the windswept hills of western Sonoma County. When he turned 14, Flinders was sent to a Catholic high school, where he was regarded as a hippy devil worshipper, beaten up, and thrown into a dumpster.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Mar 08
       
      This is an example how the Internet allows people to create false identities and new "selves". In this case, an unpopular, awkward young man grows to be a "needed" and "wanted" person on the web. This show has given him tremendous opportunites, far from what he experienced growing up.
    • zimmer67
      zimmer67 on 13 Mar 08
       
      This also relates to Sherry Turkle's article about creating characters on the internet. It becomes a fantasy world and a new way to explore life for some people
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 17 Apr 08
       
      It seems like these types of people always come up with smart or creative ideas that somehow bring attention to themselves.
  • He thought that a dramatic story from the point of view of a video blogger would be more captivating. Flinders, it turned out, had the perfect character.
    • zimmer67
      zimmer67 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I really don't think she was the "perfect character" by any means. The inticing aspect is that some can relate to her but her character is very plain and is seen all over the televsion. The reason this is such a hit is the new medium of tv online not because of the character herself.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 29 Mar 08
       
      i agree, i don't find her amusing, i find her annoying. i don't get what all the fuss is about?!
  • Beckett ordered a pitcher of margaritas and explained that they wanted the vloggers of the YouTube community to believe that Bree was real.
    • Jen Fitzgerald
      Jen Fitzgerald on 13 Mar 08
       
      I agree. I was watching and wondering if people really thought this girl was for real. I mean I know it's fake now, but I feel like I would have thought that had it not become public. I still haven't figured out how people can become obsessed with these bloggers or vloggers. Get up and do something!

  • When he got to college, Flinders dreamed up an alter ego – an awkward, geeky homeschooled girl.

    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      This only proves many comments made earlier...CREEPER, disturbed, twisted, sick. This is bizzare.
  • commune
    • Jessica Bloom
      Jessica Bloom on 16 Apr 08
       
      II wonder if where he came from really has anything to do with his werid idea to start this Lonelygirl15 internet explosion.
    • Gail Ramsey
      Gail Ramsey on 17 Apr 08
       
      I am sure it had something to do with the individual he became. Maybe that was why he was more successful dealing in an online world where he could stay "behind the scenes".
  • Plus, to fully harness the medium, they intended to carry on email correspondences with YouTubers while posing as Bree.
    • mccrar25
      mccrar25 on 13 Mar 08
       
      This just seems so strange to me...I can't imagine hosting a fake show in my bedroom, and then responding to e-mails as this fictional person. This is, in fact, kind of creepy. I would feel wrong doing this and very uncomfortable.
  • Flinders rationalized the deception, noting that viewers wouldn't expect Mark Hamill to point out at the beginning of Star Wars that he wasn't Luke Skywalker.
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      I believe this is a good point but just put way out of context. The author didn't have to explain hidden ideas, because film is seen as an art form. People are used to having a suspension of disbelief when watching a film. Video blogging isn't an art form and people don't know the difference between real or not real yet. Others on the internet truly use blogging as a personal outlet. People may now find all blogs to be misleading, the writing space may lose its verisimilitude due to this controversy.
    • daydreamr97
      daydreamr97 on 13 Mar 08
       
      This is an interesting point about society and art. We place a lot of value on nonfiction now, much more than we used to. People are getting caught writing "fake" memiors and getting in a lot of trouble for it. We might not expect actors who play the parts to be the real characters, but we often do expect characters to be real.
  • Flinders shrugs it off; the room is an upgrade. Six months ago, he was living with his 96-year-old grandmother in rural Central California. Now, as a result of Lonelygirl15, he's represented by a top-tier Hollywood talent agency and has been interviewed on MTV, CNN, and NBC Nightly News. He even has business partners: a former doctor named Miles Beckett and husband-and-wife lawyers Greg and Amanda Goodfried. Together, with next to no budget, they have created a show that illuminates the future of television.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      Does this make it O.K.?
  • "It's the producers from Law and Order," she says. "Do you want me to answer it?" "Let it ring," Flinders tells her.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 13 Mar 08
       
      They probably want to make an episode dealing with an issue similar to this because of how twisted it is!
  • Beckett says. After four years of medical school and a year of residency, the 27-year-old dropped out of the
    • richar19
      richar19 on 13 Mar 08
       
      I think that this was a big risk he quit a job that he could have made a a lot of money for one were he could have failed.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 29 Mar 08
       
      doesn't this tell us something?!
  • Lonelygirl15 is a mashup of homemade video diary, soap opera, and mysterious, hint-laden narrative like Lost
    • Jen Fitzgerald
      Jen Fitzgerald on 13 Mar 08
       
      Many of the "reality" shows we watch today are scripted and not real at all. This makes the lonelygirl situation more understandable, but no less creepy just because it seems as if one guy decided upon this himself. I wonder how much input the actress had, since she is a girl and all.
    • haines64
      haines64 on 13 Apr 08
       
      I can understand the appeal of the Loneygirl15 "show" in relation to it being Internet TV. But I still think it is a little creepy that we are willing to accept this guy's lie and justify it as TV itself, even going as far as to identify the genres it fits into.
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      I believe that the producers should have come forward and said that the blogs were a ficticious story. I don't feel it is right to use people as guinea pigs when they have no recollection of it. Stories like this make me personally not trust the internet.
  • it's a thrillingly uncharted creative landscape, and he has no interest in abandoning it for the tired conventions of film or television
    • Jessica Bloom
      Jessica Bloom on 16 Apr 08
       
      Right now, I don't know how I feel about this online show, so to speak. I think it is extremely weird, since I have not had enough time to become accustomed to it. Hopefully, after I continue reading, I will understand where this man who created Lonelygirl15 is coming from.
  • Flinders himself is startlingly uninterested in traditional TV. He grew up without it and rarely watches it now.
    • Danielle Rabello
      Danielle Rabello on 16 Apr 08
       
      I find it very interesting that he grew up without television and has sort of moved on to television on the internet. It depicts how technology has changed over time, and sort of hints that television on the internet could ultimately take over. In a way, it already has for Flinders.
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      The producer had never been exposed to much televisiona nd its amazing that that is all he is consumed in today. He doesn't like traditional television, but i feel there is something more honest about television. As viewers we have a suspension of disblief when we watch fictional stories on TV. The people watching lonelygirl blogs didn't know what to believe.
    • james caposele
      james caposele on 17 Apr 08
       
      A lot of people don't have time to sit down and watch an hour show on television. With the expansion of computers and internet videos people can watch 15 two minute videos just on their lunch break.
  • Plus, to fully harness the medium, they intended to carry on email correspondences with YouTubers while posing as Bree. In short, they were planning to exploit the anonymity of the Internet to pull off a new kind of storytelling, and they worried they were on shaky legal ground.
    • Joan Vance
      Joan Vance on 17 Apr 08
       
      It didnt even cross my mind at first that this may not be legal. If the men were so worried that it would be illegal, maybe it should be. I mean they were trying to pretend to be a 15 yr old girl and talk to people. Not only are Hollywood movies known to be fictional, none of the characters hold conversations or email its viewers. I think that underneath the video it should have stated this is not a true person, everything you have seen is fictional, or something of that nature.
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      It is alittle upsetting that these producers where making money and fame off of something so misleading. Many people invested they time and feelings into lonelygirl and never knew that she was fake. They would give advice and truly felt for her. I don't know if it's right to make money off of a lie.
  • But nobody bought his scripts: Agents and producers didn't think much of the character he had created.
    • Lauren Mecum
      Lauren Mecum on 17 Apr 08
       
      I find it interesting that agents and producers didn't find much in his stories or scripts, but so many people tuned in all the time to see lonelygirl's blogs. You never know what the public will see as entertainment.
    • Bianca Pieloch
      Bianca Pieloch on 17 Apr 08
       
      Viewers love being in control of the plot. We love to see things go our way, the way we want it. It is so frustrating when you have to go along with the way the editors want the show to go.
    • Melissa Foster
      Melissa Foster on 17 Apr 08
       
      I have trouble deciding whether I would feel betrayed or not had I caught onto the LonelyGirl15 phenomenon earlier. I think the craziest part is the elaborate set up of her e-mail responses and so on.
  • The room behind her could be anywhere in America – there's a pink floral-print bedspread, a half-dozen stuffed animals, and a framed picture of a rose on the wall.
    • james caposele
      james caposele on 17 Apr 08
       
      I think this is what makes lonelygirl15 so interesting. I see her as represent all of teenage amercian boredoom. Small town, one friend and a stuffed animal. When I feel lonely, I write. When she feels lonely, she blogs.
  • It's too much work, even though it has blown some great opportunities for him.
    • james caposele
      james caposele on 17 Apr 08
       
      Too much work? Is this guy serious? He never leaves the room, it is not that much work to make a bed and hang a few pictures. I think the success is going to this guy's head.
  • After working a few years as an assistant to an independent director
  • After working a few years as an assistant to an independent director
    • Jennifer Dougherty
      Jennifer Dougherty on 18 Apr 08
       
      This is exactly the point I was trying to make about YouTube-that it turns the average person, in this case he struggles to become a director, into just that, a director. He created this set and these characters and put them out there. Millions of people followed. Isn't this his dream?
  • Kelly Burns on 17 Apr 08
     
    information about lonelygirl, youtube
broder07

About Writing Technologies - 0 views

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  • Writing Technologies is an online peer-reviewed journal which publishes research on the relationship between technology and textuality.
    • broder07
      broder07 on 03 Mar 08
       
      Definition of writing technologies.
haines64

Assistive Technology Tools: Writing - 0 views

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assistive technology

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  • haines64 on 13 Apr 08
     
    From Schwab Learning, an extensive list of assistive technologies to help people with disabilities in writing.
Jen Fitzgerald

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - 0 views

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  • he was creating demand for disposable blades.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 26 Mar 08
       
      this makes sense. i always find myself questioning which would last longer, disposable razors or replacable. his idea was smart.
  • the original "free lunch" was a gratis meal for anyone who ordered at least one beer
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 26 Mar 08
       
      how annoying are offers like that. i wanted the victoria's secret promotional giftbag and my mom had to buy $30 of merchandise to get it. it's very frustrating!
  • Thanks to Gillette, the idea that you can make money by giving something away is no longer radical.
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  • The Web has become the land of the free.
  • He sold razors in bulk to banks so they could give them away with new deposits ("shave and save" campaigns).
  • Milton Friedman himself reminded us time and time again that "there's no such thing as a free lunch. "But Friedman was wrong in two ways. First, a free lunch doesn't necessarily mean the food is being given away or that you'll pay for it later — it could just mean someone else is picking up the tab. Second, in the digital realm, as we've seen, the main feedstocks of the information economy — storage, processing power, and bandwidth — are getting cheaper by the day. Two of the main scarcity functions of traditional economics — the marginal costs of manufacturing and distribution — are rushing headlong to zip. It's as if the restaurant suddenly didn't have to pay any food or labor costs for that lunch. Surely economics has something to say about that?
  • Chris Anderson (canderson@wired.com) is the editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail. His next book, FREE, will be published in 2009 by Hyperion.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 26 Mar 08
       
      i thought that was funny!
  • Virtually everything Google does is free to consumers, from Gmail to Picasa to GOOG-411.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 26 Mar 08
       
      i agree, i use google several times a day and i know friends who depend on it!
  • But tell that to the poor CIO who just shelled out six figures to buy another rack of servers. Technology sure doesn't feel free when you're buying it by the gross. Yet if you look at it from the other side of the fat pipe, the economics change. That expensive bank of hard drives (fixed costs) can serve tens of thousands of users (marginal costs). The Web is all about scale, finding ways to attract the most users for centralized resources, spreading those costs over larger and larger audiences as the technology gets more and more capable. It's not about the cost of the equipment in the racks at the data center; it's about what that equipment can do. And every year, like some sort of magic clockwork, it does more and more for less and less, bringing the marginal costs of technology in the units that we individuals consume closer to zero.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 29 Mar 08
       
      I agree...no matter how many times i re-read this, i fail to comprehend what is going on.
  • From the consumer's perspective, though, there is a huge difference between cheap and free. Give a product away and it can go viral. Charge a single cent for it and you're in an entirely different business, one of clawing and scratching for every customer. The psychology of "free" is powerful indeed, as any marketer will tell you.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 29 Mar 08
       
      nothing may be free, but they do a great job of convincing us it is. by having us believe and buy into their ploys they make more money and their bussiness grows.
  • this business model is now the foundation of entire industries: Give away the cell phone, sell the monthly plan; make the videogame console cheap and sell expensive games; install fancy coffeemakers in offices at no charge so you can sell managers expensive coffee sachets.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 29 Mar 08
       
      i can completely relate to that! consumers are willing to pay whatever they have to so they could have state of the art merchandise, when it required a fraction of the cost to produce it!
  • Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
  • As much as we complain about how expensive things are getting, we're surrounded by forces that are making them cheaper.
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 29 Mar 08
       
      i found that ironically valid as well!
  • What does this mean for the notion of free?
    • kaeanne
      kaeanne on 29 Mar 08
       
      the notion of free is different to everyone. however everyone shares the same "i want it, and i want it now" attitude. having it for free is icing on the cake
  • kaeanne on 26 Mar 08
     
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  • Jen Fitzgerald on 27 Mar 08
     
    This is an article we read in class about the price of web services and the how business is changing
Gail Ramsey

BTW, teen writing may cause teachers to :( - CNN.com - 0 views

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btw cnn.com education emoticons english formal_writing im technology writing writing_styles

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  • Gail Ramsey on 27 Apr 08
     
    The effect of technology on the written language of the younger generation. Language may change in the future.
Lauren Mecum

Robby Redcheeks Photography - 0 views

www.robbyredcheeks.com/portfolio.php

bands; hardcore; music; photography; robbyredcheeks;

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  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    This is my brother's photography website. He has been involved with photography all my life and I have become to appreciate the art. He enjoys all types of photography but he mostly does band photography. He is a popular name in the Hardcore music industry of Philadelphia.
  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    My brohter knows a great deal about how technology can take a hold of your life. He begin taking pictures with a manual camera, but his photography has stemmed to digital. He is constantly researching and finding new technologies that can benifit his art. He feels hardcore music and band photography don't get the credit they deserve. Technologies, like the Internet, lets bands and hardcore music expose their talent to the world and open peoples eyes to something different.
Lauren Mecum

Hannah Couzens :: Professional Freelance Photographer - 0 views

www.hannahcouzens.com

and commercial; couzens; hannah landscape photography; portraiture; still travel

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  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    One of my favorite photographers and a friend. She is a freelance photographer who enjoys all types and styles of work. She grew using a manual camera and now she has gone to digital. She knows a great deal about corporate pressure and staying on top of technology.
  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    When i think of technology advances I think of people like hannah who make a living trying to stay ontop of all the advances. Her art depends on a tool and writing space. Photography has been remediated over and over again, it just must be tough to rememeber the difference between making a living and doing something you truly enjoy.
Lauren Mecum

Making Money, the How-To Way - New York Times - 0 views

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google; how kedersha; kip money; myspace; technology; to; video; yahoo; youtube

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  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    This article talks about how Kip Kedersha is make How to video that millions of people watch daily. You can learn how to chill a coke in two minutes, turn a flashllight into a light saber, and simulate a gunshot wound. His ideas have been making him money and the article compares him tot he likes of martha stewart.
  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    People can make money from nothing. Anything broadcasted on the Interent can be the next big thing. This how to ideas have made him a profit. We have discussed in class how and why these videos become popular. I still don't completely know why but it still is really interesting.
Lauren Mecum

Google Introduces Brand-Image Ads for Cellphones - New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...tech-google-advertising.html

brandimage; cellphones; google; new technology the times; york

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  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    I think that is is pretty scary. Google already controlds the Internet now they are going to take over the phoone. I honestly dont want to go on my phone and have all kinds of advertisements popping up. When will the consumer get a break?
  • Lauren Mecum on 24 Apr 08
     
    The article talks about how google is making brand-image ads on the cellphone to start expandning from the Internet. They want to begin advertising on phones and open a whole new market.
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How Entrepreneurs Can Benefit From Machine Learning? - 0 views

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#MachineLearning #DataScience #MLAlgorithms #Algorithms #DataScientist #Technology #FutureTechnology #GlobalTechCouncil #BigData

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  • helloglobaltech on 01 Aug 19
     
    Now, we already use these technologies in our day-to-day lives. Think of Alexa, Google Home, and Siri. All these personal assistants are developed using the concepts of artificial intelligence and machine learning. While these are still extreme examples of months of hard work, we have simpler implementations of AI and ML too. Amazon's recommendation bar, for instance. Based on your buying patterns and recent searches, Amazon creates a recommended list for you to find what you are looking for sooner than later.
Jemone Paul

Global Residential Construction Market Analysis 2020-2026 : Country Garden, DR Horton, ... - 0 views

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Global Residential Construction 2020 2026 forecast stydy tools resources Technology Science Google marketing social media internet education NEWS blog size shares Price Demand Trends Revenue industry growth opportunities market research syndicatemarketres

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  • Jemone Paul on 12 Nov 20
     
    Residential Construction Market Report Providesthe qualities of this study in the industry experts industry, such as CEO, Marketing Director, Technology and Innovation Director, Vice President, Founder and Key Executives of key core companies and institutions in major Residential Construction around the world in the extensive primary research conducted for this study we interviewed to acquire and verify both sides and quantitative aspects. The main sources are industry experts from the Residential Construction industry, including management organizations, processing organizations, and analytical services providers that address the value chain of industry organizations. We interviewed all major sources to collect and certify qualitative and quantitative information and to determine prospects.
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