Man posts ex-girlfriend's nude pics on Facebook, gets convicted

We just discussed something like that in last week's class.  Here is the article, enjoy, and don't do anything stupid!

Mashable - the blog about social media

     Mashable is a Scottish-American news website and Internet news blog founded by Pete Cashmore. The site's primary focuses are news related to the social media, but it has several divisions where you can browse, too, such as Tech, Entertainment, and Business. 

Celebrities Read Tweets About Themselves

If this doesn't convince you that Twitter is great, nothing will.

Technology Entertainment and Design – the video site

First of all, I must lay down TED is a global set of conferences that would like to bring together the 3 fields: technology, entertainment and design. One of my favourite websites’ aim is to make the audience acquainted with big ideas. Operators and participants of the site passionately believe in the power of ideas that can influence – moreover, even change (!) – our world. That is why conferences were born and took it upon itself to disseminate clever, entertaining ideas word wide.

Some facts:

• Originally, it was founded as a one-off event in 1984.
• The conference was held annually from 1990.
• Since 2006, talks have been available online through the websites: TED.com, YouTube, iTunes. As for the next step, events have been offering live streaming of talks since 2009.
• Nowadays over 1,050 talks can be found on the site for free. According to data, videos had been viewed 50 million times by January 2009. And what is more, the viewing figure stood at more than 500 million in June 2011, which reflects a seriously growing global audience. à It clearly shows us the webpage managed to hit the target and it proved to be an effective way of online communication. 
• TED staff is headquartered in New York City and Vancouver.
• Talks address an increasingly wide range of topics, thinkers are challenged to present their ideas in the most innovative and fascinating ways in 18 minutes or less. Every single talk is subtitled in English and translated into a number of languages – over 300 translations were done by volunteers.
• TED Prize was initiated in 2005. There is a performer every year who is given the opportunity to make a “wish to change the world” and $100,000 for starting his revolution. 

On the site you can choose from hundreds of videos by topic, speaker, length, etc. I prefer the ones under the ‘funny’ label; still, this time I would like to show you something else. If you have 19 mins, watch this talk on flow by the Hungarian psychology professor Mihály Csíkszentmihályi. Enjoy!

Just a random comment

So while I was doing research for my BA thesis today, I came across an interesting sentiment in one of the books I was reading about New Media. It reminded me of what Anna Vera had written about her reasons for not registering on Twitter. She claimed that even without doing that, she had completed half of the assignment: she was completely aware of the different uses, advantages and disadvantages of Twitter.

So here is the excerpt. David Gauntlett (author, Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster) is listing the key points of an outline for Media Studies 2.0 (in contrast to 1.0, which lacks an appropriate assessment of Web 2.0).

“The patronizing belief that students should be taught how to 'read' the media is replaced by the recognition that media audiences in general are already extremely capable interpreters of media content, with a critical eye and an understanding of contemporary media techniques, thanks in large to the large amount of coverage of this in popular media itself.” (David Gauntlett in Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media, 2009: 8)

Comment if you will, I just thought it was an interesting viewpoint, worthy of sharing. (And I haven't posted anything here in a while now, so this totally came in handy.)

And here's an awesome gif of Troy and Abed sitting in a blanket fort.

Tupac Back!

Tupac Amaru Shakur, better known as 2Pac is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential rappers of all time. The Harlem born and Oakland bound artist/poet/actor/activist was named on the list of 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time by Rolling Stone magazine and enjoyed massive critical and commercial success. Numerous classic albums, over 75 million records sold. An undisputably legendary legacy. 

On the night of September 7, 1996, after attending the Tyson - Seldon fight in Las Vegas, Tupac Shakur was shot four times in a drive-by. Six days later, he died of his wounds in the hospital leaving the music industry and millions of fans in deep sorrow.

Thanks to modern technology; however, Tupac's back. On April 15, 2012, a hologram of Pac performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in front of a crowd of more than 100.000 people. During a show headlined by Dr. Dre, who was the visionary behind the tribute, the legend rapped two of his most popular songs: "Hail Mary" and "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" featuring Snoop Dogg. A truly emotional, yet spectacular moment and an unforgettable salute to the true master of the game.

Is it possible that we have witnessed a future trend?

Celebrity juice. Not from concentrate.

Perezhilton.com is all about celebrity gossips written by the homosexual Mario Armando Lavanderia who also craves the limelight. 

The site is pink and flashy and divided into 2 columns and many sections. Honestly, I took me a while to make sense of every little boxes. 

The blog is mainly about gossips, but there are sections which deal with fashion (cocoperez), fitness and health (fitperez), celebrity kids (perezitos) and animals (teddyhilton). Of course he has twitter and facebook accounts and even a shop where fans can buy his shirts or bags, incredible! 

He also likes posting pictures decorated with paint. 


Actually, I do not know who read this blog since there are not many comments or likes. Celebrities even hate Perez Hilton because of his cruel remarks.