Catch the virus

Wile I was reading  chapter 10 of Paul Gillin’s book “The New Influencers” Got me reminiscing. I remember being totally obsessed with Numa Numa.  My friends and I learned the song and would dance around at school, our houses  and in public. I can still sing most of the words to the song even though I don’t know what they mean. And then it hit me…we didn’t even have YouTube till 2005… I survived the majority of my high school career without YouTube. How did manage that? At this very minute I am watching "Cage The Elephant" songs on YouTube wile I am writing this post.  I probably got a lot more done back then but I’m still very happy to have it now.  

Cheers,

JoJo

PSP: Performing Shakespeare in Public

This week I did something that was more nerve racking than anything I have ever did before. I performed a sonnet and a monologue with the rest of my class in the lobby in front of the Macintosh cafeteria. That’s right on Friday 23, 2009 we shared the bards words with passers by. In the end it was extremely fun and there are going to be more public displays of theatre through out the rest of the year  as part of the new ONU Theatre Company ,and this  public performance was a good way to kick it off. I performed sonnet 10 and a Desdemona monologue from Othello.  Look for our story in the Northern Review and on Cable3.

The Players

Cheers,

JoJo

Social Media is Creepy!

Just in time for Halloween social media finds a way to freak me out. I will start with Facebook. A wile ago my friends and I began to notice that the ads on Facebook seemed applicable to our interests. Then we noticed the tie between our interests that we had listed on our profile pages and the ads popping up.

These are some screen shots of what I’m talking about.

My Interests

The ads I get because of my interests

Since I have certain things listed, like U2 being a band that I like I get ads on Facebook about U2, scrap booking, film making, the list goes on and on. And that’s ok with me. I volunteered that information and I’m sure that there is something in the terms of service that I agreed to that say they can do that. What really freaked me out was this.

It may not seem like much but it did me in. How does YouTube know that I know this person. I’ve deduced that we are both subscribed to a couple of the same YouTube channels of friends from school. Still it is very big brother of YouTube to know who I know… they already know what I watch often and that freaks me out a bit too. What do you think folks, have we given the social networks too much information about ourselves or not.

That’s so last year

This week when I was doing my reading for class I all of a sudden felt like a huge snob. I thought to my self “this book was published in 2007, it’s not accurate anymore, how am I suppose to read this and take it seriously when the information will be even more different next year and then the next year.” In true millennial form I also wondered why there wasn’t a newer version of the book out yet because I want it now! After I had my moment of millennial craziness I calmed down and then got freaked out all over again. How is anything I learn going to help me in life if it’s changing so much, I’ll be 24 and younger kids won’t think I’m cool because I don’t know how to most effectively use my Blackberry… or even worse that I’m so old I have a blackberry  which is so old fashioned to them… is there anyway to win when the world of technology is moving so quickly? Then I heard @alisaagozzino ‘s voice in my head “ it’s all about building the relationships.” We hear this a lot in our social media class.  Even though I won’t be able to keep up with the youngins and their newfangled technologies as long as I keep to the basics everything should be fine.

Cheers,

JoJo 

The State of Our Universe...Kinda

 "The State of the Blgosphere 2009" on Technorati is wort reading. Just like the blogosphere there is an abundance of information in this series. So I picked one article to write about today.
the article Day 1: Who Are The Bloggers? SOTB 2009 talks about.. you guessed it who is blogging. Something that surprised me was that half of bloggers have a graduate degree and the majority of bloggers earn  $75,000 per year as a household. 


Go check out some of the Articles, it's definitely worth your time.


And just if you were wondering Richard Jalichandra says "The state of the blogosphere is strong." 


Cheers


JoJo   

Podcasting!!

Podcasting is crazy!  It's a very cool idea and in theory it's easy. In practice though? If you don't know exactly what you are doing, stop, go find someone who does and then make a podcast.
This is the result of my first attempt. If you would like to download it to your computer click here . IF you want to find it on itunes... well I'm still working on that one.
Here is my podcast that I uploaded to YouTube so it's easy to watch.


Cheers,

JoJo

Podcast

This is a podcast about what Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS  is and how you can help support ONU Theater Company's campaign against AIDS.

Click here  to watch