The Effects of Multimedia

Multimedia is a wicked thing, it can do just about anything in the cyber world to make our lives entertaining, informational, insightful, and easy. Multimedia has encouraged both the older generation and the younger generation to bridge the gap and create a world that does not discriminate against age, gender, nationality, or race, and if you have no idea about how things work it is so simple to find out how thanks to YouTube and other video search engine sites to show you a way to do everything you can come up with or even think about trying to do. That, is the beauty of multimedia, the fact that we can search and figure out how to do something so simple within minutes is both mind blowing and inspiring to take it up to the next level and create a cyber world for anyone to collaborate on or share their own techniques and ways to do something.

Thanks to this site, Educational Technology Resources, you can view many different way to figure out how to record your very own pod casting which can then be used to add to a blog, Facebook post, Twitter tweet, and just about anything you want thanks to Garage Band, and you can of course watch the video below just to see what it is about and how to use it, happy singing and instrumental playing guys and gals!

Or, perhaps you are like me and have not heard of a few up and going multimedia programs, like Glogster, well that too can be viewed in just 90 seconds with great banjo background music that is always inspiring which you can see below! 

Oh and one last one, what about movies? Making and creating your own movie is always a great way to spread the word about your own life or your own business if you happen to want to be professional, or perhaps use it in order to do your own business, for example, someone who videos weddings and wants to create a memorable movie out of all the outtakes...well of course it can all be done on iMovie, and here is how...

It does not matter what you decide to do or use, there is usually always a way to find out how to do it if you are unsure or do not know, and thanks to Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and several other Search Engines as well as YouTube, you can now view alternative ways as well as the most popular way to use certain or any multimedia program and outlet!

OH, and another thing, Feliz Dia de los Muertos! 

Analyze This

I have been a Hi-Fructose fan for years. In my early years of college I used to go to the local Barnes and Noble store to pick up the latest issue, which they would release once a month, and pick it apart from cover to cover, as well as hang up many of those images of great surreal contemporary art up on my wall in my dorm room. 

Thanks to Justin Page, an artist and blogger, I am able to keep up with each volume and the take on its contents for that month. For example, his Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine Vol. 33, it allows anyone who is Hi-Fructose overloaded to see a point of view from an artist.


First, lets look at the layout of his blog. It is simple by Justin using a white and green color scheme that does not wash out, or over do the imagery from the art or the context. It is simple and easy to scan, and read through, the examples of the art that he uses have symmetry and are laid out with precision and used appropriately for the viewer to see without straining their eyes. Plus, you have widgets to other social media sites that are easy to locate, as well as tweets, and other popular posts for the week on the right hand side of the blog, and of course advertising which is usually there for exchange of your use of a platform.

Second, what is Laughing Squid? Laughing Squid is a blog host that showcases a daily variety of unique art, culture and technology from around the world. They are a cloud-based web hosting service with a particular focus on WordPress hosting. Laughing Squid was created in 1995 by Scott Beale and as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the blog he has a great crew working with him as bloggers.

Third, Justin Page does a great job of getting the Hi-Fructose nerd something to look forward to by adding word from the Hi-Fructose headquarters about what is coming up in volume 33, as well as giving names of the artists depicted in his blog. Although his blog is short and sweet, it does the effect it is created for, to get you interested and into the magazine Hi-Fructose, as well as give you a behind the scenes scoop that many magazines are unable to dish out to their readers and fans.

The only thing I would change about this blog in particular is the fact that it is so short. I would have tried to have given a more lucrative opinion about the up-and-coming magazine rather than just give a quote from Hi-Fructose and show some great art. Other than that, I think the layout and the insert alone are great and strong pieces to this blog puzzle, because a lot of people just scan over to see what is expected mostly. I appreciate this blog for giving me a heads up on the next great volume of the Hi-Fructose Magazine! 

Joe Paterno: Staying Alive Through Social Media

On January 22, 2012 Joe Paterno gave up the good fight and decided to move on and coach the angels in a brand new league. 

Joe Paterno, a husband, a father of five, a former football player, and the Coach of Penn Sate. When you think of Joe Paterno what do you think of the most? What will Paterno be remembered for? Paterno was a small man in stature, with a giant resounding personality, and a smile that is only a fragment of a strong and powerful man within that small stature, who changed lives across America through a common ground such as football.

Paterno sat at the dinner table with many on Thanksgiving, as well as opened presence with several around America on Christmas. Through coaching and football as a forever strong and growing past time, Paterno is sure to live on and on thanks to social media and the ability to record games as well as have playbacks of those wonderful plays the Penn State team dished out on the football field.

Along with Penn State fans there is a family who will forever hold the Paterno torch and keep his memory flowing both in the sports world and within their own lives on a day-to-day basis. Some may never understand just how important sports are to America and around the world. 

I know from my point-of-view that my coach during my high school years was a huge inspiration just like Joe Paterno is and will forever be in the lives of the Paterno family and his Penn State players, students, fans, and rivals.

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Joe Paterno will forever be remembered through Social Media. His life will carry on and on in loops played throughout the world in memory of his great coaching techniques but also his giant resounding personality.

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The world will never be the same.

In the 1970's the first email surfaced thanks to computer engineers seeking a way to send data from one computer to another, trying to make life magical and easier, with cyber mail particles traveling through space and landing into your computer database. 

Then in 2002 Social Media was brought to life thanks to Myspace, Facebook (my Facebook), Twitter (my new attempt at Twitter, check it), Pinterest (my attempt at Pinterest), Foursquare and the social media chain goes on and on in the gigabyte world.

Snail mail is no longer seen as the only way to communicate to your sweetheart or sending documents to another client or co-worker to sign and send back. Weeks turn into a few minutes thanks to internet, social media, phone apps, text messaging, e-mails, fax, and my personal favorite Google Docs. 

Along with these massive changes you have technology and devices trying to catch up with the internet, you have Comcast, At&t, Time Warner, Windstream, Bell South, Alltel, and loads of other service providers trying to make a way in the virtual world to create both quick, easy, and accurate access to the net, along with all its many accessories known as mobile apps on mobile devices, video search engines like YouTube, photo sharing sites such as photobucket and flickr, widgets on blogs and other websites to make it quick to get what you want whenever you want it. I could keep going with all the new ideas popping up around every millisecond, but you get the idea.

So, with mobile apps, you have the world at your fingertips that can call, view, scan, copy, take pictures, ask you questions on what to remember and remind you about later, or what to have for diner, and who is hot in the news, as well as something as simple as Doctor on Demand. With Doctor on Demand you can connect within minutes to a real live breathing physician face-to-face to help diagnosis you or answer any questions you may have without even having to leave the comforts of your own home.

The world is ever growing and ever changing and all we can do is try to understand all the possibilities, and we are able to do that through these apps, search engines, and emails and so forth. Widgets to give someone a quick overview of what they can access is seconds, social media by allowing us to view, watch, and follow others with the same interests or quick and instant messaging, and mobile apps for on the go people around the world with on the go attitudes.

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Can a Computer Replace Your Doctor?

We have all seen it, heard of it, thought about it, and wondered if a computer could actually replace those long and drawn out visits to your physician. When we think of how awful we feel, and how bad we look when we are sick, along with those embarrassing questions, we often hope that we could just remedy the situation ourselves or without going into public. Have you ever seen articles like this, asking a question about medical and technology, wondering if this is the solution we have been waiting for all our lives? Have you ever stopped to double check those sources that you are reading about, or if the author is credible and has the ability to question a certain topic, and lets not forget to look at their credentials and background to see if what they are covering really is in their domain of topics to be very knowledgeable about?

Lets break down this article from the New York Times written by Elizabeth Rosenthal, a former physician who does have the knowledge to back up her criteria on the topic of whether a computer can in fact replace a doctor (the medical side), the only aspect of it that she is missing is the technological stand point, meaning she has no background in technological architecture. To break down an article and its contents you first have to look into the author for further knowledge and understanding of where they are coming from, their expertise, and their credibility to write on certain topic such as health, medical, and physicians.

Just looking at Rosenthal's background is very impressive and in fact shows that she does have the authority to write about medical views in the media and news, it also shows how wide and varied her research and topics are on the New York Times staff, it shows that she is eligible to write about medical and those who are reading her articles can take her word for it knowing that she is a physician herself along with her journalism awards such as, Asia Society Osborn Elliot Prize, the beat reporting award from the Society for Environmental Journalists, and multiple citations from Newswomens' Club of New York. Rosenthal has also been a Poynter Fellow at Yale and a Ferris Visiting Professor at Princeton, as well as an adjunct professor at Columbia University. It does not stop there, Rosenthal also has schooling behind her craft from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biology, and Cambridge University with an M.A. in English Literature as a Marshall Scholar, along with Harvard Medical School where she got her M.D. and trained at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in international medicine. It is without a doubt that Elizabeth Rosenthal has the credentials to back up her medical articles.

Since Rosenthal has a M.A. in English Literature I am sure that she knows about doing the research to cover a topic along with how to find credible resources and knowing the true need to show those resources to her public readers in the New York Times. On top of this she includes Vivek Wadhwa, an academic, researcher, writer, and entrepreneur in the world of technology as a visionary of what the future can hold when it comes to technology and science in medical. 

Also Rosenthal includes a lot of examples of the technology that can attach to your devices such as the iPhone or computers to show you what you or your children could have when sick. "There was certainly plenty of innovation on display at the conference's rooftop reception, called "Health by Numbers": One device attaches to your iPhone and turns it into an otoscope so you can see if your child has an ear infection; another allows it to check your blood alcohol level. Attendees could check out home cholesterol test kits, and a wearable device to track the "quality" of their breathing." Each example is located on the Health Guide in the New York Times with references from Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults, Semenkovich CF. Disorders of Lipid Metabolism, and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for Screening for Lipid Disorders in Adults, and all of these references are reviewed by David C. Dugdale, III, MD, and David Zieve, MD, MHA.

Rosenthal even includes Steven Van Kuiken, who studies both health care and technology which balances her references and sources when it comes to the technological and medical combined and that makes a huge difference in her article that will absolutely make a difference to the reader of the New York Times who is interested in both health and technology in regards to one day having an in home solution to sickness. 

Rosenthal does well of being objective, although in the beginning her comment of "As a former physician, I shivered a bit when I heard Dr. Vivek Wadhwa say he would rather have an artificial-intelligence doctor than a human one. “I would trust an A.I. over a doctor any day,” he proclaimed at a recent health innovation conference in San Francisco, noting that artificial intelligence provided “perfect knowledge.” When asked to vote, probably a third of those in attendance agreed." Does show a bias view on this question, but later on in her article she even addresses the question of how technology that can help us medically become better appreciated so that they do not become discarded Christmas presents and actually work with regards to the attention span of many hen it comes to technology because they are always upgrading and having new technology every three years therefore what will stick around for the long run both medically and technologically.

The list goes on and on, with all the changes and false myths of health where it is now, it can be a challenge in the health world and in the technology world. It all has to still be tested and Rosenthal shows this in the end, that yes it does sounds like the best idea since sliced bread, but there are still mishaps that need to be fixed, tested, and approved. It all has to be a trial and error type of deal, as it is with everything in our science and virtual world.

Is Social Media Credible?

How do you know what you know? (Eileen McLaughlin, Southern New Hampshire University, 2014) 

Well, that is a question that would send a paranoid conspiracy theorists into panic attacks.

What a question!

How do I know what I know? 

Is it the time I put into the research on a topic, reading up on everything and checking at least 10 sites or more for a reasonable answer to a question? For example, why is the grass green, or pale green, or even brown? Do you take into account the cause and effect of why the grass is green, or do you just take a simple moment in time when the grass is for certain green and go with that for the meantime. Or do you take into consideration who is looking at the grass and what they are seeing? For example, those who are color blind, or even blind, and maybe even those that always seem to view everything through rose colored glasses, oh and we cannot forget the nay sayers who always view things with dim desperation. You have one who may not even see the grass as green but grey thanks to being color blind, you have another who does not see the color of the grass but is instead told what color the grass is and even then who is telling them what the grass color is? Along with those rose colored glasses who may see the grass as teal or blue green instead of just green, and that nay sayer might see the grass as dead or brown and not growing with plush life. 

How do we know what we know? Well one way is to collect all sides and test them all out, you can test them all out by interviewing people who are stating the data or better yet you can write your own point of view and check out the response and see what others think, and if they are right there along with you and your view on things, and then there is personal experience. Maybe you sat there for a whole year 24/7 365 days (if it isn't a leap year) with pen and pad and even a camera taking pictures and recording the seasons and the colors. There really is no clear cut way to know what you know other than trial and error and comparing notes with a diverse landscape of people with all types of backgrounds. 

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I am aware of all the types of Social Media there is, but I am not social media wacked, meaning I am not living and breathing social media, but I do enjoy it for entertainment and fun. I do not state my facts from social media, but I do however check it all out for myself, if I did not check it all out then that would make me a very lazy professional in the blog, media, and marketing field as well as a person who values opinions and options.

This is how I make social media credible to me and for me, and then if I have found something that needs a different perspective I can state those facts I found as well as some facts that still need to be proven or looked into on a higher scale. I use Facebook the most, this is my source of Social Media, considering there is Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare, and many that are not as popular as Twitter or Facebook. 

Today I used my Facebook to find music and entertainment. I enjoy reggae, rockabilly, and from time to time hip hop, so with Facebook I am able to "like" music pages that are both mainstream and underground and therefore find a band or genre that speaks to me personally. 

For example, 22tracks.com, this is a great overseas source of music. I do love artists from the awesome U.S. of A., but I want a variety that I have never even explored or heard of and so I found 22tracks thanks to Facebook. I know this is credible because I have checked it out, it promised to be a great new way of finding underground inspired and renewed music and it was indeed just that, and I challenge you to go and check out 22tracks for yourself to give it your own credible stamp of approval!

I used my source on Facebook, who is a friend, a hip hop lover, music enthusiast, and a break dancer at the Jinx on every Tuesday for Hip Hop Night, known as KT. Therefore, since he is a break dancer and knows great beats when he hears them I knew he was a credible source to rely on when it comes to new music for me to enjoy, not only that, but I have seen KT in action on the dance floor and wow, just wow. This is how I know 22tracks, via KT, on Facebook, is a credible source and worth sharing to others.

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Social media is definitely a great source for credible research, I say this with the hopes that others will know that they will also have to double check it, just like anything else whether it is social media or not. Social media has so many different avenues and paths to go down, you can find just about any and all topics on Facebook. Therefore due to its variety and dynamics I would suggest using it because you can find people to interview or ask questions about a topic and source, communication is open and free without charge, and it also depends what you are searching for on social media. 

What is your topic? What is your hopes in finding information for this topic and who are you going to share it with? If you give a social media source acknowledgement will people laugh you off your pedestal or will they agree? Not only this, but you can chat about it in real time and this can be valuable along with just about everyone having a social media account. So, perspective plays a role in social media sometimes being credible, and research, tons of research because you should always check things out for yourself and not always take someone's word for it, no matter how famous or well liked the person or organization is in the public eye. 

So go forth, and dip your quill into the knowledge pond, known as the Internet, and begin writing your own gigabytes of knowledge for everyone else to read, view, and watch! 

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Media Wacked

I'm Facebook wasted, Twitter crazed, a Pinterest pinhead, Foursquare cubed, Hi-Fructose overloaded, and YouTube funny. 

All of these are an everyday ritual in my life. I feel like a machine that must rise up again for another day of posting things that can sometimes be pointless, yet it makes me feel complete in a certain way, all because I have the power to post whatever I want in a social media frenzied virtual world. 

Today, I am no longer having face-to-face conversations, they just don't appeal to me anymore, and those dates I used to take in order to find Mr. Right, well those are pretty much done through dating sites like okcupid, Match, and eharmony, and if I ever get that knack for being creative, well I can just post it all on a virtual board online and say "Le Vie."

I am not against technology or the Internet, I love it actually. I am just trying to find my own balance between sloppy drunk Facebook posts and checking in at McDonna's on 51st street for everyone to see and know where I am or what I have done. 

Checking Facebook has become a morning ritual for me that fits somewhere in between brushing my teeth and creating a super wonderful breakfast to later post on Facebook and Twitter. Did I create this perfect omelette to eat or post? That is the question I find myself asking once it is all up for everyone in their own New Feeds and I have 15 likes after just 10 minutes. 

I can either use my social media as a waste of everyone's time by posting chain posts about if you agree reshare, like, and repost, or I can go all political and harp on Obama and the world over seas, or I can write sappy love notes or say how much I miss my ex Travis. It can all happen on my Facebook wall and the News Feed, but then I have come to think that I want to kind of sound intelligent, and that I want my posts to bring new ideas and concepts to the digital table. 

For example, I wanted to express the idea of a Xenophile and what it means, how to be one, and where to start. Most people would skip right on by my posts about how we should get to know other cultures by finding something in common that brings us together and breaks down barriers, like tattoos, that can bring my American culture together with the Indian culture. So, I would catch their attention with a photo that is a tattoo and henna at the same time, like a Henna Tattoo, and then place the word Xenophile, hoping to get comments on what it means or maybe someone will research it, which would show common ground among two different cultures. It is all about perspective and if you want to get that idea out there you have to think the way your viewers think and start from there. 

Xenophile

Social media has become something I look at to find out who died, it is like a dynamic obituary that lets you know all the celebrities that have passed on and even old friends or family members. It also shows me who has a new single out in the world of music and entertainment, and how Mimi made out on the TV show Love and Hip-hop. I am not into shows like this, but I have many friends who are and therefore I catch up on the show through their own posts about the show and I find myself laughing out loud and giggling at the goofiness this show brings to me, and I have never even seen one episode. I have only watched it through their eyes and through their comments, the same goes for the show Scandal. I have never even seen one minute of the show, yet I already knew everything I pretty much needed to know thanks to the posts on my Facebook news feed. Another thing I see a lot of is political views. I am all for freedom of speech, but sometimes it is pretty harsh, and I find myself skipping over it, or if it is that bad I hide their posts from my own news feed and let life take effect, because I have that ability and so do my fellow Facebook and Twitter friends.

Social media can be viewed as negative, but I like to see it as positive in my case, because when I see things that I find myself asking, "is that true", I then wind up doing my own research and discovering a new side to the story or perspective. All of these posts make me want to either play the devil's advocate or view it in a new perspective which I think is a good thing because it has got my attention and it has made me do my own research. 

Either way, Facebook is both negative and positive and it is shown through the Facebook fights with harsh words slung around, and it is positive through the sweet baby pictures and the ability to stay connected with your Aunt Millie in Chicago or your Uncle Lou in Washington State. All of social media keeps us connected and well i have to say that that is very worth the incoherent Frey that you can sometimes find yourself sucked into through all types of social media. 

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