Folksonomy Presentation

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(This is just the slideshow, obviously we spoke for the duration of each slide)

Just imagine us explaining what is on each slide... 

So being a new blogger I'm still not sure what to write. I suppose I should talk about the Pecha Kucha I presented last week, I was in a group of three talking about Folksonomy. A pecha Kucha if you didn't know is a powerpoint presentation that has 20 slides and each slide is shown for 20 seconds. In our Pecha Kucha however we had 15 slides for 20 seconds.

After continuously rehearsing this presentation it was time to do it for real and of course being in front of people I began to talk faster then I was supposed to, making the 20 seconds seem like a lifetime. I have to admit, when done properly a Pecha Kucha is a brilliant way of presenting a powerpoint, it keeps the audience's attention on what the presentation is about but for me, I did not enjoy doing it. But it's over now and hopefully I won't be doing it in the near future and if I do at least I'll be more prepared. 

In other news, there was a student protest the other day in London, I didn't go myself but had many friends there giving me updates and posting photos on Facebook. It was going all fine and dandy until the last hour when some ASBO youths decided to vandalise the Millbank building... to be fair I'm sure most of them were actual students who wanted to be heard but the violence they caused is now up for debate for the next few weeks. There are enquiries about how the police handled it, how the students reacted, how everything could have been avoided, blah blah blah shoulda woulda coulda.

But in retrospect all that protesting was in vein as what they were protesting the rise in student fees, a rise hat will take effect in 2012 and is hardly going to be cancelled because students have caused a stir for one day. It sad but true, the peoples voice is squandered by the politicians self preservation. It seems that most MP's are only interested in a popularity contest, having 'your mother' style debates in parliament and expressing many opinions but doing no actions. Unfortunately it's been like this before I was born, it's just more televised then before.

 

 "your mothers so dumb it takes her two hours to watch 60 Minutes"

This blog would have been posted 2 weeks ago but with pending problems uploading the presentation slides it was delayed.

New Things

This is the first time I have even looked at blogs let alone created my own account... It feels more like a place where I'm posting my opinions and a deeper insight into the 'What's on your mind?'

As my example explains I am a facebooker WAS a myspace fan but that ended because it couldn't offer what Facebook can, which is a feed page, wall to wall post, mutual friends, tagging...sure Myspace has tried to add things like this but it couldn't be exact due to copyright. It EPIC FAILED. In my opinion anyway, Facebook was able to see what its target audience wanted and provided it whereas Myspace was able to be bought by MediaCorp which means one thing; it's owned by Rupert Murdoch. What I find when talking about Murdoch is that there is resentment towards him, like he is a greedy corporate man looking for the next biggest thing. It gives the smaller companies less chance to succeed and that's not what the internet is for. In my opinion Murdoch should keep to newspapers and television and leave the internet for the 'little' people making it into something big.

SO, lets move away from the whole social networking debate and save that for a more relevant time and not my first post.

After my media lesson where we had to create these blogs I went shopping with a friend from the course, Alia Alhirsi. As we walked and talked we discussed the possible blogs we could write, each idea as funny/ridiculous as the other. There were so many ways I could have written this first post, in fact I retyped this thing about 4 times before this one. There are just too many things I could go off on a tangent to but then this post would be extremely long and ending up with me losing my train of thought_______

I think I will focus on explaining what I plan to blog about, from blogging about the medias effect on me in life to what I've learned about in lectures and workshops. This is a reflective journal on what I know and learn, I may be being told how to set this blog out but when it comes down to it, the content is mine and it is meant to reflect me.

If the Media had taught me anything it's that everyone has their own opinion and a way to express it, whether its ranting on a social network or sending viral videos on YouTube. There is no escaping the public voice which isn't even the public just an individual. The age we live in is technological and more connected then ever we are more alone and more together then ever and I know that's an oxymoron but in laymen's terms that's the internet, one big pile of contradictions and information.

Anyway, I concluded that this is going to be hard for someone like me who has never even read a blog. So it is time for the researching to begin...but don't expect an inquisition or anything :)

WISH ME LUCK!

Ciao