Student: Harry van Haaren (09005201)
Chosen blog: Create Digital Music
Chosen post: Wherein the Wii Waggle is Wanted
The blog I chose for this assignment is the blog found at
http://www.createdigitalmusic.com
The blog was setup by Peter Kirn to inform people of the technological advances made in relation to music technology and digital art. At present many co-authors contribute to the blog, this makes it quite a busy blog, where there are about 2 posts made each day.
The topics covered by the author are quite varied, however they all relate in some way to creating digital music or technologies that can be applied to making sounds.
The main focus of this blog is to bring the newest technologies to the attention of the casual digital artist, presenting them with new innovative products and interesting interviews.
The blog is split into many parts, some dedicated to Hardware Reviews, others to Software,
some even to a discussion forum. The main parts are the News and Feature sections.
The blog is written in such a style that everybody with a slight interest in digital music or media will understand the article. Most posts include at least on photograph of the articles attention, and most have a youtube video embedded which provides a live example of the item in the article.
Each blog post has a comments section, and most technology/innovation based posts have at least 20 or so comments. This discussion after the article often provides as interesting a read as the article itself, as it voices the views of many different people and their perspective usually provides new food for thought.
My favorite post in this blog would have to be this post because I have used a WiiMote controller with music programs, and I find the connection between a physical device, ie: "Instrument" and the sonic effect of it quite interesting. The fact that a controller and its effect is totally undefined means that one (with some creativity) can patch any sound to any input, and thus create a unique and preveiously non-existent link between action and sound. Another reason for my choosing this particular post is that it has inspired a lot of discussion, to which I contributed my own thoughts. In this discussion, many people offered thier opinion on the links between live performance, controllers & controller-ism, and instrumentism, from which I took new insight to what is possible with controllers these days!
My comments on blogs:
Comment 1: Create Digital Music, Conrtollers
Comment 2: Twitter & Google Wave
Comment 3: Google groups is Dead
Comment 4: Guitarix
Friday, 30 October 2009
Turlough O'Shea (09004486)
Student: Turlough O'Shea (09004486)
Chosen Blog: himynameisMARK
The blog that I have chosen to review is himynameisMARK. himynameisMARK is a blog by Mark Hoppus. Mark Hoppus is an artist and producer and also has a great interest in music technology. He is very experienced, and often utilises some music technology in his live performances. He is known best for playing bass in the American bands Blink 182 and +44, but has also produced for a number of bands including New Found Glory and Motion City Soundtrack. He is always striving to please his fans, and design, or come up with new devices.
Some of his posts include pictures from Blink 182's tour, remixes of songs, mash ups of songs, new music technology and interesting news in general. Most of his post would be of photos, or tour news, however, there are many video and technology posts. Some posts include ideas he's had for new equipment, and new equipment he's just acquired.
himynameisMARK's post's aren't the most frequent. He could go about a week without a post, and then have a few in the one day. looking back at his archived posts, I've discovered that the volume of his posts vary. Sometimes there could be posts every day for a few weeks, and then suddenly no posts for a week. I have received 12 posts from himynameisMARK. This was many more posts than Music Technology | News, Multimedia Production and Computer Music Guide, I have received 5 posts in my google reader from Music Technology | News, Multimedia Production and Computer Music Guide. I received these posts every few days.
I would think the chosen audience would range from about 12 to 30 year old. IO think the desired audience would be Blink 182 fans, +44 fans, people interested in music technology and anyone looking for something interesting. The language used is quite simple. There wasn't anything that i wasn't able to understand, with the exception of a few new terms. The design of this blog was quite interesting. There were many embedded videos, pictures and links in some of the posts. To select archived posts, you clicked on the month of the post you wanted. There are many interesting graphics along the sides and on the header of the page. There is also an external Twitter embedded in the side of the page. There is a blog roll of all other similar blogs along the side of the page.
Chosen Post: the Octopus Ears
My favourite post from the blog himynameisMARK is called "the Octopus Ears". The post is about in ear monitors. these in ear monitors are quite good, and have octopus logo's on them. Mark talks about comparing them to his old in ear monitors. He also compares them to his studio headphones. Unfortunately I do not think that Mark posted the results of his comparisons.
My Comments on Blogs:
Octopus flash drives
In ear monitors
+44 docking stations
How Twitter started
Chosen Blog: himynameisMARK
The blog that I have chosen to review is himynameisMARK. himynameisMARK is a blog by Mark Hoppus. Mark Hoppus is an artist and producer and also has a great interest in music technology. He is very experienced, and often utilises some music technology in his live performances. He is known best for playing bass in the American bands Blink 182 and +44, but has also produced for a number of bands including New Found Glory and Motion City Soundtrack. He is always striving to please his fans, and design, or come up with new devices.
Some of his posts include pictures from Blink 182's tour, remixes of songs, mash ups of songs, new music technology and interesting news in general. Most of his post would be of photos, or tour news, however, there are many video and technology posts. Some posts include ideas he's had for new equipment, and new equipment he's just acquired.
himynameisMARK's post's aren't the most frequent. He could go about a week without a post, and then have a few in the one day. looking back at his archived posts, I've discovered that the volume of his posts vary. Sometimes there could be posts every day for a few weeks, and then suddenly no posts for a week. I have received 12 posts from himynameisMARK. This was many more posts than Music Technology | News, Multimedia Production and Computer Music Guide, I have received 5 posts in my google reader from Music Technology | News, Multimedia Production and Computer Music Guide. I received these posts every few days.
I would think the chosen audience would range from about 12 to 30 year old. IO think the desired audience would be Blink 182 fans, +44 fans, people interested in music technology and anyone looking for something interesting. The language used is quite simple. There wasn't anything that i wasn't able to understand, with the exception of a few new terms. The design of this blog was quite interesting. There were many embedded videos, pictures and links in some of the posts. To select archived posts, you clicked on the month of the post you wanted. There are many interesting graphics along the sides and on the header of the page. There is also an external Twitter embedded in the side of the page. There is a blog roll of all other similar blogs along the side of the page.
Chosen Post: the Octopus Ears
My favourite post from the blog himynameisMARK is called "the Octopus Ears". The post is about in ear monitors. these in ear monitors are quite good, and have octopus logo's on them. Mark talks about comparing them to his old in ear monitors. He also compares them to his studio headphones. Unfortunately I do not think that Mark posted the results of his comparisons.
My Comments on Blogs:
Octopus flash drives
In ear monitors
+44 docking stations
How Twitter started
Student: Stephen Savage (09004492)
Chosen blog: Gizmodo.
Chosen post: Ten Really Dumb Old Inventions and Their Really Dumb Modern Counterparts
http://gizmodo.com/5387273/ten-really-dumb-old-inventions-and-their-really-dumb-modern-counterparts
It is a collective blog and therefore has many authors such as Brian Lam, Jason Chen, Wilson Rothman and Jesus Diaz.
Anything and everything to do with gadgets. iPhone apps, Nintendo’s dropping profits, Windows 7, a couple who blogged while capturing pirates, pointless add-ons to pointless gaming systems, there is a very wide array of topics being talked about.
The blog is updated very frequently anywhere from 40 to 50 posts daily. I think that this is simply too much. It’s hard to find the time to read that many posts in a day so you have to just scan over the headings and the pictures and you could miss out on something really interesting because you’re not paying enough attention. Its also very off putting if you don’t get to check your reader for a few days and when you do it has upwards of 100 new posts from one blog alone.
The target audience is anyone with an interest in gaming, cool new gadgets or computing.
In every post there is either a picture or video. The layout of the site is simple. The picture or video is displayed to the left of the writing and if you click on this you get the full post. The side bar on the left has the name and email address of every author making it easy to get in contact with the authors.
I like this post the most because we seem to think now a days that we are somehow smarter than previous generations. That because we are more advanced technologically, we are smarter than previous generations. We forget that without previous generations work and research, we would still be where they were. Also it points out how many pointless things are made each year, but without these eccentrics we would have no progress.
My comments on blogs:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/wink_glasses_to_keep_those_eyeballs_well_lubricated.html#comments
http://www.skinnermike.com/beatstevie/2009/09/polish-queuing.html
I could not comment on my chosen blog as an audition process is in effect.
Chosen blog: Gizmodo.
Chosen post: Ten Really Dumb Old Inventions and Their Really Dumb Modern Counterparts
http://gizmodo.com/5387273/ten-really-dumb-old-inventions-and-their-really-dumb-modern-counterparts
It is a collective blog and therefore has many authors such as Brian Lam, Jason Chen, Wilson Rothman and Jesus Diaz.
Anything and everything to do with gadgets. iPhone apps, Nintendo’s dropping profits, Windows 7, a couple who blogged while capturing pirates, pointless add-ons to pointless gaming systems, there is a very wide array of topics being talked about.
The blog is updated very frequently anywhere from 40 to 50 posts daily. I think that this is simply too much. It’s hard to find the time to read that many posts in a day so you have to just scan over the headings and the pictures and you could miss out on something really interesting because you’re not paying enough attention. Its also very off putting if you don’t get to check your reader for a few days and when you do it has upwards of 100 new posts from one blog alone.
The target audience is anyone with an interest in gaming, cool new gadgets or computing.
In every post there is either a picture or video. The layout of the site is simple. The picture or video is displayed to the left of the writing and if you click on this you get the full post. The side bar on the left has the name and email address of every author making it easy to get in contact with the authors.
I like this post the most because we seem to think now a days that we are somehow smarter than previous generations. That because we are more advanced technologically, we are smarter than previous generations. We forget that without previous generations work and research, we would still be where they were. Also it points out how many pointless things are made each year, but without these eccentrics we would have no progress.
My comments on blogs:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/wink_glasses_to_keep_those_eyeballs_well_lubricated.html#comments
http://www.skinnermike.com/beatstevie/2009/09/polish-queuing.html
I could not comment on my chosen blog as an audition process is in effect.
Student: (Kenneth Baker and 0732281)
Student: (Kenneth Baker and 0732281)
Chosen blog: (Web Designer Depot and http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/)
I have chosen this blog because it blogs about topics that interest me. The blog is a joint effort and collaboration between leading designers around the world which contribute a wealth of expertise on all fields of design, such as coding, typography, Photoshop tutorials and more for web & graphic design. The main author seem to be anonymous but can be contacted by e-mail. There is a new post every 1-2 days. The target audience seems to be web & graphic designers or people interested in design. The blog itself is very pleasing on the eyes. It is a popular blog, on a post that was a day old, there was already 11 posts.
My favorite post is "To School or Not to School" It is a post that I can relate to and shows the advantages and disadvantages but overall it favored "to school". I left a comment on this post http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/to-school-or-not-to-school/#comment-555178
Another post is about Systematizing the Graphic Design Process. It gives good advice on a method to carry out graphic design http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/systematizing-the-graphic-design-process/#comment-555179 Again I commented on this post.
Other comments
3) http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/100-websites-with-outstanding-artistic-design/#comment-555217
4) http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-dazzling-digital-art-of-archan-nair/#comment-555216
Other blogs, that I have followed have included Laughing Lion Design, (http://laughingliondesign.net/blog/) which is an Irish Graphic Design Company from Westmeath, It is a very entraining blog with interesting post about funny images of graphic design like the tube map in london being design using sony earphones.
Another Chosen blog: (Web Designer Blog and http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/) comes from my favorite magazine, Web Designer.
Chosen blog: (Web Designer Depot and http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/)
I have chosen this blog because it blogs about topics that interest me. The blog is a joint effort and collaboration between leading designers around the world which contribute a wealth of expertise on all fields of design, such as coding, typography, Photoshop tutorials and more for web & graphic design. The main author seem to be anonymous but can be contacted by e-mail. There is a new post every 1-2 days. The target audience seems to be web & graphic designers or people interested in design. The blog itself is very pleasing on the eyes. It is a popular blog, on a post that was a day old, there was already 11 posts.
My favorite post is "To School or Not to School" It is a post that I can relate to and shows the advantages and disadvantages but overall it favored "to school". I left a comment on this post http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/to-school-or-not-to-school/#comment-555178
Another post is about Systematizing the Graphic Design Process. It gives good advice on a method to carry out graphic design http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/systematizing-the-graphic-design-process/#comment-555179 Again I commented on this post.
Other comments
3) http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/100-websites-with-outstanding-artistic-design/#comment-555217
4) http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/the-dazzling-digital-art-of-archan-nair/#comment-555216
Other blogs, that I have followed have included Laughing Lion Design, (http://laughingliondesign.net/blog/) which is an Irish Graphic Design Company from Westmeath, It is a very entraining blog with interesting post about funny images of graphic design like the tube map in london being design using sony earphones.
Another Chosen blog: (Web Designer Blog and http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/) comes from my favorite magazine, Web Designer.
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Student: (Sofia Engdahl 09002763)
Chosen blog: (Hypebot.com)
Chosen post: (Advice For Musicians In 140 Characters Or Less)
The main author seem to be anonymous, but is reachable through email. It is a team of people who are making the blog. There are also several different guest authors.
The topics are as its title says about music, technology and the new music business. For example it takes up news about Spotify, Myspace, Twitter, Facebook and Google Music. There seem to be an ongoing discussion, especially among the guest authors who often are practicing musicians or music workers, about the future of the music industry. They talk about how the new forms of distribution of music effect the people who has made it. Examples of topics are: ”Is Google Music Search A Game Changer?", "5 New Tech Trends You Can't Afford To Ignore"
and "MySpace Music Gets A Major Upgrade".
The blog publishes about 5 to 10 posts per day. With that frequency, the blog is capable of covering most of the things that happens around the world in this field.
The target audience is anyone interested in news about these topics; the music industry with main focus on the digital distribution of it.
The language used is English and it has a journalistic tone, it's not personal but at the same time not completely academic. The main pages posts try to appear objective, while the guest authors posts are definitely not, they are more like chronicles, written from a personal view. The posts are usually pretty short and easily read.
The page layout looks sterile. There are not many adverts and the coloures and fonts are consequent and simple which makes it stylistically pure. The graphic doesn't take the focus from the text. There are a few images, and if there is a connection to the topic there is sometimes videos published.
There are are a couple of comments, and you can easily find the most recent ones in a list on the top of the main page. This also makes it easy to see answers to your own comments or directly go to a specific comment, instead of first finding a post. This is good as the frequent flow of new posts makes it easy to loose track of older ones further down on the page.
My favourite post, or one that I find most interesting is this called ”Advice For Musicians In 140 Characters Or Less”.
Before, they have asked the blogs twitter-followers to give their best advise to musicians, just as the title suggests. Using Twitoaster, ”a free online utility that threads and archives twitter conversations, bringing context and adding stats to your Twitter communications”, they summoned the result and showes some of the comments in the blog. Also, people have made new additions by commenting the blog. Its interesting how they make their readers interact, both in the blog itslf but also using twitter, and they respond by publishing the result. There is a spiral of communication going on, they show that they are interested in communicating with their readers.
My comments on blogs:
1. http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/10/facebook-and-myspace-in-talks-to-connect.html#comment-6a00d83451b36c69e20120a632fb10970b
2. http://justanother24hours.com/media/readers-should-fund-online-media-and-that-includes-journalism-and-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-9993
3. http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/10/the-unoffical-hypebot-reading-list.html#comment-6a00d83451b36c69e20120a6907875970c
4. one of my comments have still to be accepted by the moderator.
Chosen blog: (Hypebot.com)
Chosen post: (Advice For Musicians In 140 Characters Or Less)
The main author seem to be anonymous, but is reachable through email. It is a team of people who are making the blog. There are also several different guest authors.
The topics are as its title says about music, technology and the new music business. For example it takes up news about Spotify, Myspace, Twitter, Facebook and Google Music. There seem to be an ongoing discussion, especially among the guest authors who often are practicing musicians or music workers, about the future of the music industry. They talk about how the new forms of distribution of music effect the people who has made it. Examples of topics are: ”Is Google Music Search A Game Changer?", "5 New Tech Trends You Can't Afford To Ignore"
and "MySpace Music Gets A Major Upgrade".
The blog publishes about 5 to 10 posts per day. With that frequency, the blog is capable of covering most of the things that happens around the world in this field.
The target audience is anyone interested in news about these topics; the music industry with main focus on the digital distribution of it.
The language used is English and it has a journalistic tone, it's not personal but at the same time not completely academic. The main pages posts try to appear objective, while the guest authors posts are definitely not, they are more like chronicles, written from a personal view. The posts are usually pretty short and easily read.
The page layout looks sterile. There are not many adverts and the coloures and fonts are consequent and simple which makes it stylistically pure. The graphic doesn't take the focus from the text. There are a few images, and if there is a connection to the topic there is sometimes videos published.
There are are a couple of comments, and you can easily find the most recent ones in a list on the top of the main page. This also makes it easy to see answers to your own comments or directly go to a specific comment, instead of first finding a post. This is good as the frequent flow of new posts makes it easy to loose track of older ones further down on the page.
My favourite post, or one that I find most interesting is this called ”Advice For Musicians In 140 Characters Or Less”.
Before, they have asked the blogs twitter-followers to give their best advise to musicians, just as the title suggests. Using Twitoaster, ”a free online utility that threads and archives twitter conversations, bringing context and adding stats to your Twitter communications”, they summoned the result and showes some of the comments in the blog. Also, people have made new additions by commenting the blog. Its interesting how they make their readers interact, both in the blog itslf but also using twitter, and they respond by publishing the result. There is a spiral of communication going on, they show that they are interested in communicating with their readers.
My comments on blogs:
1. http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/10/facebook-and-myspace-in-talks-to-connect.html#comment-6a00d83451b36c69e20120a632fb10970b
2. http://justanother24hours.com/media/readers-should-fund-online-media-and-that-includes-journalism-and-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-9993
3. http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/10/the-unoffical-hypebot-reading-list.html#comment-6a00d83451b36c69e20120a6907875970c
4. one of my comments have still to be accepted by the moderator.
Student: Joanne Tobin (09001473)
Blogs Followed: Open Eye Photography Blog http://open-eye-photography.blogspot.com/ Kanye’s Blog http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/
Before Blogs There Was Graffiti http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2009/03/07/before-blogs-there-was-graffiti/
Chosen Blog: Ethan Meleg Nature Photography http://ethanmeleg.blogspot.com/
Chosen Post: Point Pelee National Park & Holiday Beach Conservation Area http://www.ethanmeleg.blogspot.com/2009/10/point-pelee-national-park-holiday-beach.html
Author:
Ethan Meleg is a freelance outdoor photographer from Ontario, Canada. This blog is his photos and adventures from a road trip around North America in a camper van…very brave! It also gives link to his website which is how I found it – www.EthanMeleg.com
Target Audience: The target audience seems to be anyone with an interest in outdoor photography and or him as an artist.
Language Used: The language used throughout is very straightforward conversational, quite casual with some humour as it is his blog about a road trip. There is always an informative caption, usually regarding the location, under each shot which is a gem.
Interaction: Generally they are just his posts roughly every 2/3 days however it does run to a week in parts if he has been busy either uploading/ backing up his ever growing amazing catalogue. Then there are comments from like minded or maybe aspiring photographers or even just his own followers which is quite varied. The fact that each shot has the tech explanation underneath means that he has answered any possible questions regarding how it was achieved before you even ask, very handy.
Chosen Post and Why? I chose the Point Pelee National Park & Holiday Beach Conservation Area as it was almost the end of a journey before his next adventure. He was visiting his mom still took some great shots in her yard! He goes through storing all of his photos and most importantly how he manipulated the image to produce one of my all time favourite shots. These tips are invaluable to anyone who actually wants to further their skill and also the listing equipment and settings means that if you were to attempt to recreate any such effects the trial and error time consuming factor is greatly reduced so nothing is missed.
Comments Left:
Link to comments: http://ethanmeleg.blogspot.com/2009/10/full-year-on-road.html?showComment=1256850796248#c6118639016594222658
http://ethanmeleg.blogspot.com/2009/10/point-pelee-national-park-holiday-beach.html?showComment=1256851570636#c5406659482393764011
Other Blog: http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2009/03/07/before-blogs-there-was-graffiti/
Comment: http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2009/03/07/before-blogs-there-was-graffiti/comment-page-1/#comment-2247
Blogs Followed: Open Eye Photography Blog http://open-eye-photography.blogspot.com/ Kanye’s Blog http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/
Before Blogs There Was Graffiti http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2009/03/07/before-blogs-there-was-graffiti/
Chosen Blog: Ethan Meleg Nature Photography http://ethanmeleg.blogspot.com/
Chosen Post: Point Pelee National Park & Holiday Beach Conservation Area http://www.ethanmeleg.blogspot.com/2009/10/point-pelee-national-park-holiday-beach.html
Author:
Ethan Meleg is a freelance outdoor photographer from Ontario, Canada. This blog is his photos and adventures from a road trip around North America in a camper van…very brave! It also gives link to his website which is how I found it – www.EthanMeleg.com
Target Audience: The target audience seems to be anyone with an interest in outdoor photography and or him as an artist.
Language Used: The language used throughout is very straightforward conversational, quite casual with some humour as it is his blog about a road trip. There is always an informative caption, usually regarding the location, under each shot which is a gem.
Interaction: Generally they are just his posts roughly every 2/3 days however it does run to a week in parts if he has been busy either uploading/ backing up his ever growing amazing catalogue. Then there are comments from like minded or maybe aspiring photographers or even just his own followers which is quite varied. The fact that each shot has the tech explanation underneath means that he has answered any possible questions regarding how it was achieved before you even ask, very handy.
Chosen Post and Why? I chose the Point Pelee National Park & Holiday Beach Conservation Area as it was almost the end of a journey before his next adventure. He was visiting his mom still took some great shots in her yard! He goes through storing all of his photos and most importantly how he manipulated the image to produce one of my all time favourite shots. These tips are invaluable to anyone who actually wants to further their skill and also the listing equipment and settings means that if you were to attempt to recreate any such effects the trial and error time consuming factor is greatly reduced so nothing is missed.
Comments Left:
Link to comments: http://ethanmeleg.blogspot.com/2009/10/full-year-on-road.html?showComment=1256850796248#c6118639016594222658
http://ethanmeleg.blogspot.com/2009/10/point-pelee-national-park-holiday-beach.html?showComment=1256851570636#c5406659482393764011
Other Blog: http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2009/03/07/before-blogs-there-was-graffiti/
Comment: http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2009/03/07/before-blogs-there-was-graffiti/comment-page-1/#comment-2247
Student: Hanna Arfvelin 09002099 (Erasmus student)
Chosen blog: New Art - http://new-art.blogspot.com/
Chosen post: 'Audience' - http://new-art.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-all-about-you.html
I have been following three digital media blogs with their mainly focus on digital art. Although, the one I found mostly interesting and which gave me a big insight of the world of digital art is http://new-art.blogspot.com/. It’s created by VV01, a guy who lives in Warsaw, Poland. In his profile it’s says that he works with art and he also tells the reader about his interests etc. He has been on blogger.com since 2005 and he has about 19 000 profile views so far. His main categories are digital art, music, design, photo and painting. His visual presentations are mostly as photographs, digital and non digital art and music videos and painted images. This graphics are combined with text descriptions. He writes about well-known artiest such as painters and digital media creators and he publish posts about their latest projects and videos etc. But he also seems to be very interested in to lift up unknown people that have created digital pieces.
In his posts, VV01 ask questions to his readers and I assume it’s because he wants to start discussion threads. His use of language in his posts is often on a philosophical level, sometimes they actually can be mistaken for poems, I have also noticed that the readers comment in the same philosophical way. But he does not only publish videos or pictures that he is just impressed of, he also often have a critical discussion about the subject, what it does for the audience and sometimes he compares the present time with the historical days.
It seems like VV01 posts pictures and videos regularly about 2-4 times a week. Although, sometimes he publish many posts on the same day and then he wait a couple of days to post something. Overall, most of the people who are making comments about his posts are people who seem to be very interested in exploring the art world. They are people who have a lot of opinions, tell their views and frequently ask questions to VV01. I have a feeling that these people have a strong passion for art and digital art and they highly appreciate that VV01 posts original videos and pictures of today’s newsfeed of (digital) art and music. The majority have their own blogs linked to their comments.
One of my favorite posts about digital media was published the 7th of October. It’s a video showing a digital installation. The objects change and move their heads to give different characteristics of human behavior Comparing to VV01’s other posts this one hasn’t any description, although he posted a link to one. But I find the video itself extremely interesting because truthfully I haven’t seen anything like it before. It is named ‘Audience’ and was conceived by rAndom International. The use of this digital technology is, to me, a very original concept. It combines digital - and visual art with technological media. I posted a comment about this and asked VV01 if he has seen it for himself. He answered me; “Unfortunately it's yet another case of virtual hearsay...It's quite curious, though, how the things we read about/see videos of have this ambiguous ontological status - they are quasi-real”.
My comments on blogs:
url: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/12/10/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/#comment-826547
url: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/12/10/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/#comment-826547
url: http://www.ronnestam.com/2009/05/12/tweet-and-we-shall-follow-you-anywhereanyhow/#comments
url: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11074051&postID=1227373457434688087
(2 of my other comments have not yet been approved by the writers)
Chosen blog: New Art - http://new-art.blogspot.com/
Chosen post: 'Audience' - http://new-art.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-all-about-you.html
I have been following three digital media blogs with their mainly focus on digital art. Although, the one I found mostly interesting and which gave me a big insight of the world of digital art is http://new-art.blogspot.com/. It’s created by VV01, a guy who lives in Warsaw, Poland. In his profile it’s says that he works with art and he also tells the reader about his interests etc. He has been on blogger.com since 2005 and he has about 19 000 profile views so far. His main categories are digital art, music, design, photo and painting. His visual presentations are mostly as photographs, digital and non digital art and music videos and painted images. This graphics are combined with text descriptions. He writes about well-known artiest such as painters and digital media creators and he publish posts about their latest projects and videos etc. But he also seems to be very interested in to lift up unknown people that have created digital pieces.
In his posts, VV01 ask questions to his readers and I assume it’s because he wants to start discussion threads. His use of language in his posts is often on a philosophical level, sometimes they actually can be mistaken for poems, I have also noticed that the readers comment in the same philosophical way. But he does not only publish videos or pictures that he is just impressed of, he also often have a critical discussion about the subject, what it does for the audience and sometimes he compares the present time with the historical days.
It seems like VV01 posts pictures and videos regularly about 2-4 times a week. Although, sometimes he publish many posts on the same day and then he wait a couple of days to post something. Overall, most of the people who are making comments about his posts are people who seem to be very interested in exploring the art world. They are people who have a lot of opinions, tell their views and frequently ask questions to VV01. I have a feeling that these people have a strong passion for art and digital art and they highly appreciate that VV01 posts original videos and pictures of today’s newsfeed of (digital) art and music. The majority have their own blogs linked to their comments.
One of my favorite posts about digital media was published the 7th of October. It’s a video showing a digital installation. The objects change and move their heads to give different characteristics of human behavior Comparing to VV01’s other posts this one hasn’t any description, although he posted a link to one. But I find the video itself extremely interesting because truthfully I haven’t seen anything like it before. It is named ‘Audience’ and was conceived by rAndom International. The use of this digital technology is, to me, a very original concept. It combines digital - and visual art with technological media. I posted a comment about this and asked VV01 if he has seen it for himself. He answered me; “Unfortunately it's yet another case of virtual hearsay...It's quite curious, though, how the things we read about/see videos of have this ambiguous ontological status - they are quasi-real”.
My comments on blogs:
url: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/12/10/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/#comment-826547
url: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/12/10/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/#comment-826547
url: http://www.ronnestam.com/2009/05/12/tweet-and-we-shall-follow-you-anywhereanyhow/#comments
url: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11074051&postID=1227373457434688087
(2 of my other comments have not yet been approved by the writers)
Sean Pardue 09005574
Student: Sean Pardue 09005574
Chosen blog: Audio Tuts Prowww.audio.tutsplus.com
I have chosen Audio Tuts Pro as the blog in which to write a description of out of the three I have been following. Audio Tuts + Discusses new releases in the digital music software world and gives tutorials in implementing and explaining different tools and methods involved in the industry
Authors:
Joel Falconer - full time author/editor
The site also encourages users to submit their own articles and is comprised mainly of user generated blogs and tutorials.
Joel’s main categories/topics:
Joel mainly discussed different elements involved within the Logic Pro and Pro Tools music software packages. He explained how to achieve different tasks such as How to group tracks in Pro Tools http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/pro-tools/how-to-group-tracks-in-pro-tools-8/ and How to use Logic Pro 9’s drum replacement tool http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/production/how-to-use-logic-pro-9s-drum-replacer/ Joel presents his posts in a clear and simple manner, providing a very useful help source for the readers.
Main Categories/Topics in general:
As the site is composed primarily of tutorials in the audio world a lot of the posts refer to different things that you can achieve using high end music software and hardware. There are also reviews of new products and topical debates about getting things done and different styles in the music industry.
Frequency of Posts:
The frequency of posts varies from 1-4 or more a day. Article submitters whose articles are published receive $150 so this must contribute to the lower number of accepted posts as there is a very high standard expected.
The posts don’t really vary that much over time and stay firmly focused on their music production roots.
Target Audience:
The target audience is specifically aimed at people with knowledge of using music software and who want to learn new things within the software or improve on certain skills or aspects. The blogs also tend to those interested in reading reviews of new products that are released in the area of music production and reviews of new and current products.
Language Used:
The language used is quite technical as the author expects their readers to have some degree of knowledge in the field but very complex or complicated parts are usually explained in simpler terms so as always remaining helpful to people at all ends of the spectrum.
Graphics:
The site uses has quite a plain and functional appearance. The blog titles are sided by pictures relating to the content, the site is very easy to navigate and find exactly what you are looking for.
Interaction:
The interaction that takes place usually involves users discussing with each other their views on the post and other interaction that would take place would be users asking the authors more in-depth questions or asking them about stuff maybe they didn’t really cover in great detail.
Chosen post: How to Use Logic Pro 9’s Drum Replacer
http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/production/how-to-use-logic-pro-9s-drum-replacer/
I found this to be my favourite post as we are currently using logic pro in one of our modules and I had heard of this tool but wasn’t sure if we would actually cover it in class and was very intrigued by it. The tutorial blog was done in step by step format, easily enabling me to follow along and instantly try out using it. This post also appealed to me as it shows very broad editing possibilities that I had been previously unaware of. When recording it can be very hard to get all the mics placed properly and achieve the sound you want. Although the drum replacement tool would not be a first choice when producing , when left with no other option it is perfect for the job! A good majority of the posts relate to products or software which I don’t have the choice to use or am completely unfamiliar with so when I saw this post I knew I could instantly avail of the information within and got excited at the opportunity to try this out!
My comments on blogs:
The four comments I made are here as follows;
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/10/29/live-u2-concert-youtube-serves-10-million-streams#comment-23959
http://gizmodo.com/ccs?id=16362776&cs=b9b71a70ca7b42b6d23ee1d6a08c93b2
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/10/28/google-introduces-%2526quot%3Bsocial-search%2526quot%3B-feature#comment-23960
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/10/27/nih-grants-help-develop-%2526quot%3Bfacebook-scientists%2526quot%3B#comment-23961
IMPORTANT NOTE: My account has not yet been verified on any of these sites and as a result the posts will not show.
Chosen blog: Audio Tuts Pro
I have chosen Audio Tuts Pro as the blog in which to write a description of out of the three I have been following. Audio Tuts + Discusses new releases in the digital music software world and gives tutorials in implementing and explaining different tools and methods involved in the industry
Authors:
Joel Falconer - full time author/editor
The site also encourages users to submit their own articles and is comprised mainly of user generated blogs and tutorials.
Joel’s main categories/topics:
Joel mainly discussed different elements involved within the Logic Pro and Pro Tools music software packages. He explained how to achieve different tasks such as How to group tracks in Pro Tools http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/pro-tools/how-to-group-tracks-in-pro-tools-8/ and How to use Logic Pro 9’s drum replacement tool http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/production/how-to-use-logic-pro-9s-drum-replacer/ Joel presents his posts in a clear and simple manner, providing a very useful help source for the readers.
Main Categories/Topics in general:
As the site is composed primarily of tutorials in the audio world a lot of the posts refer to different things that you can achieve using high end music software and hardware. There are also reviews of new products and topical debates about getting things done and different styles in the music industry.
Frequency of Posts:
The frequency of posts varies from 1-4 or more a day. Article submitters whose articles are published receive $150 so this must contribute to the lower number of accepted posts as there is a very high standard expected.
The posts don’t really vary that much over time and stay firmly focused on their music production roots.
Target Audience:
The target audience is specifically aimed at people with knowledge of using music software and who want to learn new things within the software or improve on certain skills or aspects. The blogs also tend to those interested in reading reviews of new products that are released in the area of music production and reviews of new and current products.
Language Used:
The language used is quite technical as the author expects their readers to have some degree of knowledge in the field but very complex or complicated parts are usually explained in simpler terms so as always remaining helpful to people at all ends of the spectrum.
Graphics:
The site uses has quite a plain and functional appearance. The blog titles are sided by pictures relating to the content, the site is very easy to navigate and find exactly what you are looking for.
Interaction:
The interaction that takes place usually involves users discussing with each other their views on the post and other interaction that would take place would be users asking the authors more in-depth questions or asking them about stuff maybe they didn’t really cover in great detail.
Chosen post: How to Use Logic Pro 9’s Drum Replacer
I found this to be my favourite post as we are currently using logic pro in one of our modules and I had heard of this tool but wasn’t sure if we would actually cover it in class and was very intrigued by it. The tutorial blog was done in step by step format, easily enabling me to follow along and instantly try out using it. This post also appealed to me as it shows very broad editing possibilities that I had been previously unaware of. When recording it can be very hard to get all the mics placed properly and achieve the sound you want. Although the drum replacement tool would not be a first choice when producing , when left with no other option it is perfect for the job! A good majority of the posts relate to products or software which I don’t have the choice to use or am completely unfamiliar with so when I saw this post I knew I could instantly avail of the information within and got excited at the opportunity to try this out!
My comments on blogs:
The four comments I made are here as follows;
IMPORTANT NOTE: My account has not yet been verified on any of these sites and as a result the posts will not show.
Jenni Murtagh 09006351
Student: Jenni Murtagh (09006351)
Chosen blog: Future Of Music - www.futureofmusicbook.com
Chosen post: 8 Key Trends For The Next 5 Years - http://www.futureofmusicbook.com/2009/05/8-key-trends-for-the-next-5-years/
Author: The blog i have chosen to follow for my assignment is The Future Of Music by David Kusek. Kusek was a co-developer of the revolutionary Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), co-inventor of the first electronic drums at Synare, and founder of Passport Designs, the first music software company. He also runs a consulting business Digital Cowboys providing advice and services to Nokia, Pepsi, AOL, BMG, EMI, A&M Records, Boston Acoustics, Roland, Yamaha, Intel, IBM, Island Music, Nettwerk, Ovation Guitars and others. He is currently Vice-President of the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Topics: The blog seems to centre around the mass-market music industry, with there also being a strong discussion of music formats, publishing, marketing, copyright and creation.
Interaction: The blog was created in March 2005. There has been a steady flow of posts, with at least 10 per month since it's inception.
Target Audience: It's target audience appears to be those heavily involved or interested in the music industry. There are many references to things like companies or formats that would not generally be understood by the mass public. Nevertheless, the blog is written in a very user-friendly way, and i found it enjoyable to read despite my lack of involvement in the music industry.
Layout/Embedded Artifacts: The layout of his page is very well categorized and easy to navigate. The blog often contains videos and pictures, and has a list of links to other blogs of the same interest.
Favourite Post: The post i have chosen is a very interesting post called 8 Key Trends For The Next Five Years. The post is actually based on the ideas of a colleague of Kusek's called Gerd Leonhard. In the post, Kusek and Leonhard discuss 8 predictions for the next 5 years in the area of digital media, explaining and discussing each. While the majority of the trends are a positive step forward, there were two that stood out as a little worrying - the decline of most forms of physical media, and paying for privacy. I don't believe physical media will be abandoned within the next 7-10 years, as suggested by the blog, as i think there is still a generation out there that aren't as comfortable with the digital age as my generation. As for paying for privacy, i can see this happening, and it worries me.
My comments on this blog: http://www.futureofmusicbook.com/2009/05/8-key-trends-for-the-next-5-years/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jenzerr
Chosen blog: Future Of Music - www.futureofmusicbook.com
Chosen post: 8 Key Trends For The Next 5 Years - http://www.futureofmusicbook.com/2009/05/8-key-trends-for-the-next-5-years/
Author: The blog i have chosen to follow for my assignment is The Future Of Music by David Kusek. Kusek was a co-developer of the revolutionary Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), co-inventor of the first electronic drums at Synare, and founder of Passport Designs, the first music software company. He also runs a consulting business Digital Cowboys providing advice and services to Nokia, Pepsi, AOL, BMG, EMI, A&M Records, Boston Acoustics, Roland, Yamaha, Intel, IBM, Island Music, Nettwerk, Ovation Guitars and others. He is currently Vice-President of the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Topics: The blog seems to centre around the mass-market music industry, with there also being a strong discussion of music formats, publishing, marketing, copyright and creation.
Interaction: The blog was created in March 2005. There has been a steady flow of posts, with at least 10 per month since it's inception.
Target Audience: It's target audience appears to be those heavily involved or interested in the music industry. There are many references to things like companies or formats that would not generally be understood by the mass public. Nevertheless, the blog is written in a very user-friendly way, and i found it enjoyable to read despite my lack of involvement in the music industry.
Layout/Embedded Artifacts: The layout of his page is very well categorized and easy to navigate. The blog often contains videos and pictures, and has a list of links to other blogs of the same interest.
Favourite Post: The post i have chosen is a very interesting post called 8 Key Trends For The Next Five Years. The post is actually based on the ideas of a colleague of Kusek's called Gerd Leonhard. In the post, Kusek and Leonhard discuss 8 predictions for the next 5 years in the area of digital media, explaining and discussing each. While the majority of the trends are a positive step forward, there were two that stood out as a little worrying - the decline of most forms of physical media, and paying for privacy. I don't believe physical media will be abandoned within the next 7-10 years, as suggested by the blog, as i think there is still a generation out there that aren't as comfortable with the digital age as my generation. As for paying for privacy, i can see this happening, and it worries me.
My comments on this blog: http://www.futureofmusicbook.com/2009/05/8-key-trends-for-the-next-5-years/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jenzerr
Student: (Ronan Goodwin (09007923))
Chosen blog: (www.techcrunch.com)
Chosen post: (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/live-from-hollywood-googles-music-onebox-debuts-powered-by-myspace-and-lala/#comment-3065027)
The blog i have chosen was posted by Jason Kincaid on the techcrunch site. The topic is about a new google app called google's music onebox. Basically you can type the lyric's of a song and the results will give you the Artists name,song and album where you can listen to it or purchase the song or album.
The blog has only been up sense the 28th of oct and sense then it has had about 27 comments. The time differance of each post varies from minutes to a couple of hours.
The targeted audience seems to be the average music lover. The language used is pretty basic and it also has screen shots and a video which takes you through the app step by step.
This is my favourite blog because i think it's a really cool app. I cant wait for it to launch full because there has been many a time i have heard a song and been driven crazy trying to figure out who it was. Now i can just log onto the net on my phone and just type in some of the lyrics and not only find out who sings it but also have the option to buy the song or the full album.
My other comments
www.kotaku.com
http://kotaku.com/5392289/this-enormous-dsi-lens-is-not-necessary#commentform
www.gizmodo.com
http://gizmodo.com/5392667/ericssons-spider-pc-concept-projects-the-keyboard-and-screen
www.techcrunch.com
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/its-almost-here-exclusive-video-of-lalas-upcoming-iphone-app/#comment-3065006
Chosen blog: (www.techcrunch.com)
Chosen post: (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/live-from-hollywood-googles-music-onebox-debuts-powered-by-myspace-and-lala/#comment-3065027)
The blog i have chosen was posted by Jason Kincaid on the techcrunch site. The topic is about a new google app called google's music onebox. Basically you can type the lyric's of a song and the results will give you the Artists name,song and album where you can listen to it or purchase the song or album.
The blog has only been up sense the 28th of oct and sense then it has had about 27 comments. The time differance of each post varies from minutes to a couple of hours.
The targeted audience seems to be the average music lover. The language used is pretty basic and it also has screen shots and a video which takes you through the app step by step.
This is my favourite blog because i think it's a really cool app. I cant wait for it to launch full because there has been many a time i have heard a song and been driven crazy trying to figure out who it was. Now i can just log onto the net on my phone and just type in some of the lyrics and not only find out who sings it but also have the option to buy the song or the full album.
My other comments
www.kotaku.com
http://kotaku.com/5392289/this-enormous-dsi-lens-is-not-necessary#commentform
www.gizmodo.com
http://gizmodo.com/5392667/ericssons-spider-pc-concept-projects-the-keyboard-and-screen
www.techcrunch.com
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/its-almost-here-exclusive-video-of-lalas-upcoming-iphone-app/#comment-3065006
Alan Massey (09001982) chosen blog: modulate this!
Student: (Alan Massey 09001982)
Chosen blog : Modulate this here
Chosen post : Soniccharge synplant here
The blog I have chosen to follow for my assignment is modulate this. This blog was created by Mark Mosher a part time professional electronic musician, composer and sound designer . Based in Louisville Colorado, he has twenty years experience working with midi, synthesizers, samplers, drum programming and sequencing.
The content of his blog reflects his area of expertise. There are numerous articles on virtual instruments, musical hardware and everything in between. I like the fact that as well as reviews he posts tutorials on how to use music software live abelton live. In one post he goes through a track he made in abelton step by step.
The posts on this blog are fairly infrequent compared to the other blogs I followed, two to three posts a month at most.
The target audience for this blog would be people who are interested in music technology and its applications, for example someone who composes electronic music.
The language used for the most part is clear, concise and easy to understand. When dealing with the technical side
of things he keeps the technical jargon to a bare minimum.
The graphics and images for the most part are contained within the articles themselves. On the right hand side of the page there are links to products reviewed or discussed in the main articles, there are also links to other blogs of interest. Links are also to be found in the main articles these vary from audio samples to information pertaining to the article.
Chosen post :
My favourite post on this blog was about a soft synth called the synplant. Differing from other soft synths it offers a novel way of synthesizing sounds. Instead of creating patches the traditional way, turning knobs and dials. Synplant lets you make sounds in an organic way by planting seeds and watching them grow into synth patches. Having never heard of this synth I was intrigued by its uniqueness and exited to get my hands on one, to see what unexpected creative avenues it led me down.
Comments:
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Chosen blog : Modulate this here
Chosen post : Soniccharge synplant here
The blog I have chosen to follow for my assignment is modulate this. This blog was created by Mark Mosher a part time professional electronic musician, composer and sound designer . Based in Louisville Colorado, he has twenty years experience working with midi, synthesizers, samplers, drum programming and sequencing.
The content of his blog reflects his area of expertise. There are numerous articles on virtual instruments, musical hardware and everything in between. I like the fact that as well as reviews he posts tutorials on how to use music software live abelton live. In one post he goes through a track he made in abelton step by step.
The posts on this blog are fairly infrequent compared to the other blogs I followed, two to three posts a month at most.
The target audience for this blog would be people who are interested in music technology and its applications, for example someone who composes electronic music.
The language used for the most part is clear, concise and easy to understand. When dealing with the technical side
of things he keeps the technical jargon to a bare minimum.
The graphics and images for the most part are contained within the articles themselves. On the right hand side of the page there are links to products reviewed or discussed in the main articles, there are also links to other blogs of interest. Links are also to be found in the main articles these vary from audio samples to information pertaining to the article.
Chosen post :
My favourite post on this blog was about a soft synth called the synplant. Differing from other soft synths it offers a novel way of synthesizing sounds. Instead of creating patches the traditional way, turning knobs and dials. Synplant lets you make sounds in an organic way by planting seeds and watching them grow into synth patches. Having never heard of this synth I was intrigued by its uniqueness and exited to get my hands on one, to see what unexpected creative avenues it led me down.
Comments:
comment 1
comment 2
comment 3
comment 4
Aaron Lipsett 09006894
Student: (Aaron Lipsett 09006894)
Chosen blog: (Audiolemon http://audiolemon.blogspot.com/
Chosen post: "Talking Piano" http://audiolemon.blogspot.com/
The authors: There are two posters on this blogspot. There names are 2bit and audiolemon and they are from belfast and dublin respectivly. Unfortunatly i could'nt find there real names.They are both djs and obviously have a deep knowledge of what they are posting in the blog so this helps.
The topics posted are all music related and there are also some interactive electronic products on view. The posts generally consist of a youtube video and a small piece of writing.Some posts contain no writing as the videos speak for themselves.In certain posts links are given where the viewer can interact with the product themselves.
The post frequency is generally every 2 to 4 days although this can vary immensly as there are only two authors. As there arent much posts it is possible that you wont miss any unlike other blogs where there are 20 bloggers and new posts hourly
This blog would be very useful to people interested in electonic music, particularly djs hoping to broaden their musical knowledge with the latest instruments. Some of the posts however are easy going with the odd funny video or universally interesting product that non music fanatics could watch or learn.
The commenters are generally other musicians, usually djs and they mainly ask questions about the product eg price, where to purchase etc. The authors are very helpful with the comments and will reply to any questions asked straight away. There dosent appear to be any "cliques" posting so its very approachable and a high level of musical knowledge is not needed to ask questions.
The layout of the blogspot is very simple and easy to find what your looking for. On the top left are links to the authors myspace pages so you can converse direclty with them that way if you prefer. A very helpful and my favourite part of the blogspot was on the right of the screen where there are plently of links to free software and other helpful websites. the main area ie. the middle of the screen, is where the posts are and they are generally quite short. The language may be quite tough for people that dont have a clue what the authors are talking about, but again this comes with the territory.
I had many favourite posts but the one i found most intersting was a post about a speaking piano , posted on october 10th 09. It features a video of a moterised piano that sounds like it is speaking.The piano is hooked up to lots of little motors that push the keys down in sync until it sounds like words. This video depicts the piano saying the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009
Chosen blog: (Audiolemon http://audiolemon.blogspot.com/
Chosen post: "Talking Piano" http://audiolemon.blogspot.com/
The authors: There are two posters on this blogspot. There names are 2bit and audiolemon and they are from belfast and dublin respectivly. Unfortunatly i could'nt find there real names.They are both djs and obviously have a deep knowledge of what they are posting in the blog so this helps.
The topics posted are all music related and there are also some interactive electronic products on view. The posts generally consist of a youtube video and a small piece of writing.Some posts contain no writing as the videos speak for themselves.In certain posts links are given where the viewer can interact with the product themselves.
The post frequency is generally every 2 to 4 days although this can vary immensly as there are only two authors. As there arent much posts it is possible that you wont miss any unlike other blogs where there are 20 bloggers and new posts hourly
This blog would be very useful to people interested in electonic music, particularly djs hoping to broaden their musical knowledge with the latest instruments. Some of the posts however are easy going with the odd funny video or universally interesting product that non music fanatics could watch or learn.
The commenters are generally other musicians, usually djs and they mainly ask questions about the product eg price, where to purchase etc. The authors are very helpful with the comments and will reply to any questions asked straight away. There dosent appear to be any "cliques" posting so its very approachable and a high level of musical knowledge is not needed to ask questions.
The layout of the blogspot is very simple and easy to find what your looking for. On the top left are links to the authors myspace pages so you can converse direclty with them that way if you prefer. A very helpful and my favourite part of the blogspot was on the right of the screen where there are plently of links to free software and other helpful websites. the main area ie. the middle of the screen, is where the posts are and they are generally quite short. The language may be quite tough for people that dont have a clue what the authors are talking about, but again this comes with the territory.
I had many favourite posts but the one i found most intersting was a post about a speaking piano , posted on october 10th 09. It features a video of a moterised piano that sounds like it is speaking.The piano is hooked up to lots of little motors that push the keys down in sync until it sounds like words. This video depicts the piano saying the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009
Luke Lacey (Create digital music)
Student:
(Luke Lacey 09005785)
Chosen blog:
Create digital music (http://createdigitalmusic.com/)
Chosen post:
Subcycle: Multitouch sound crunching with gestures, 3D waveforms (http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/15/subcycle-multitouch-sound-crunching-with-gestures-3d-waveforms/)
The blog I have chosen for my assignment is create digital music. This blog is based solely on everything and anything to do with digital and experimental music the blog was made by Peter Kirn.
Peter Kirn is a composer/musician, media artist, educator, and technology writer based in New York City who is currently a PHD student at the City University in New York graduate centre. He is the author of real world digital audio from peechpit press, a comprehensive book on producing music with computers and digital technology. His own music and digital art has been displayed in many places such as the U.S., Korea, Canada, France, and Bulgaria. He often collaborates with dance and other media art forms, including working with famous choreographer Christopher Williams on the Bessie Award-winning Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins. As well as this he writes for popular magazines like Macworld, Make, Keyboard.
I really enjoyed following this blog as there was constantly new interesting and fun digital instruments and technologies being posted on the blog and there was a great variety of topics and discussions. Some of the categories peter had on his blog were:
News :
Where he would talk about all the latest news to do with all aspects of digital media.
Reviews:
Where peter would review the latest releases of digital instruments and software so that buyers can first weigh up the pro’s and con’s of the item buy veiwing the review.
Hardware:
Where he takes a hands on look at all the newest hardware from keyboards to sound cards that are on the market.
Software :where the latest software is announced and reviewed
In general there are about 2 to 3 posts per day on the blog and all of them are very interesting and enjoyable to read.
The target audience was mainly people who have strong interest in digital music but also digital art and other art forms. The user does not have to be too familiar with blogs as the blog has a very user friendly interface and is laid out very well.The language used on the blog was generals very casual and again very user friendly
My chosen post is the Subcycle: Multitouch sound crunching with gestures, 3D waveforms it is simply amazing technology it isa touch screen that gives you the capability to twist and morph waveforms from a track. Three-dimensional forms morph and vibrate using visuals programmed in Processing, making shapes and spaces that really begin to “look” like sound. The post features a video demo of the instrument being played which makes this post all the more enjoyable and the feedback from viewers was great. This post was heavily discussed and admired by viewers and was in my opinion the most ground breaking post i came across in my time of following this blog.
http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?s=Subcycle
The layout of the page is excellent the ads, website links and subscription icons were in a confined space alone the right hand side of the page , the top of the page is taking up by images and links to different pages of the blog while the newest posts were all down the middle and left of the page with embedded images and video’s accompanying them. The video’s are a great idea with this blog as almost every post has a video of the instrument or technology with it so you can see the item in action.
My comments:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/21/going-mobile-velocity-sensitive-touch-pads-on-an-iphone-igog-says-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-986609
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/28/performing-audiovisualists-visionsonic-festival-france-streaming-live-29th-31st-october/comment-page-1/#comment-986607
http://kotaku.com/5391734/new-star-trek-online-screens-fresh-off-the-replicator/gallery/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/19/the-sonic-manipulator-bizarre-wearable-musical-inventions-stolen-from-space-aliens/
(Luke Lacey 09005785)
Chosen blog:
Create digital music (http://createdigitalmusic.com/)
Chosen post:
Subcycle: Multitouch sound crunching with gestures, 3D waveforms (http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/15/subcycle-multitouch-sound-crunching-with-gestures-3d-waveforms/)
The blog I have chosen for my assignment is create digital music. This blog is based solely on everything and anything to do with digital and experimental music the blog was made by Peter Kirn.
Peter Kirn is a composer/musician, media artist, educator, and technology writer based in New York City who is currently a PHD student at the City University in New York graduate centre. He is the author of real world digital audio from peechpit press, a comprehensive book on producing music with computers and digital technology. His own music and digital art has been displayed in many places such as the U.S., Korea, Canada, France, and Bulgaria. He often collaborates with dance and other media art forms, including working with famous choreographer Christopher Williams on the Bessie Award-winning Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins. As well as this he writes for popular magazines like Macworld, Make, Keyboard.
I really enjoyed following this blog as there was constantly new interesting and fun digital instruments and technologies being posted on the blog and there was a great variety of topics and discussions. Some of the categories peter had on his blog were:
News :
Where he would talk about all the latest news to do with all aspects of digital media.
Reviews:
Where peter would review the latest releases of digital instruments and software so that buyers can first weigh up the pro’s and con’s of the item buy veiwing the review.
Hardware:
Where he takes a hands on look at all the newest hardware from keyboards to sound cards that are on the market.
Software :where the latest software is announced and reviewed
In general there are about 2 to 3 posts per day on the blog and all of them are very interesting and enjoyable to read.
The target audience was mainly people who have strong interest in digital music but also digital art and other art forms. The user does not have to be too familiar with blogs as the blog has a very user friendly interface and is laid out very well.The language used on the blog was generals very casual and again very user friendly
My chosen post is the Subcycle: Multitouch sound crunching with gestures, 3D waveforms it is simply amazing technology it isa touch screen that gives you the capability to twist and morph waveforms from a track. Three-dimensional forms morph and vibrate using visuals programmed in Processing, making shapes and spaces that really begin to “look” like sound. The post features a video demo of the instrument being played which makes this post all the more enjoyable and the feedback from viewers was great. This post was heavily discussed and admired by viewers and was in my opinion the most ground breaking post i came across in my time of following this blog.
http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?s=Subcycle
The layout of the page is excellent the ads, website links and subscription icons were in a confined space alone the right hand side of the page , the top of the page is taking up by images and links to different pages of the blog while the newest posts were all down the middle and left of the page with embedded images and video’s accompanying them. The video’s are a great idea with this blog as almost every post has a video of the instrument or technology with it so you can see the item in action.
My comments:
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/21/going-mobile-velocity-sensitive-touch-pads-on-an-iphone-igog-says-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-986609
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/28/performing-audiovisualists-visionsonic-festival-france-streaming-live-29th-31st-october/comment-page-1/#comment-986607
http://kotaku.com/5391734/new-star-trek-online-screens-fresh-off-the-replicator/gallery/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/10/19/the-sonic-manipulator-bizarre-wearable-musical-inventions-stolen-from-space-aliens/
Student: Paul O' Byrne (09006483)
Chosen blog: Kotaku
Chosen post: Candles? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Candles
The author: The blog is maintained by a team of ten writers from around the globe so as to keep updates frequent and steady throughout the day. The blog’s Editor-in-Chief Brian Crecente is aided by two Deputy Editors four Contributing editors a Correspondent and two Columnists . They are spread around the globe with most of them in America, with others in places such as Australia and Japan.
Main Topics: The main topics of the updates on this blog are all related to video games in some way and can easily identified by the grey box that accompanies each update. The topics range from game reviews to console previews to development news to rumours. Many updates are simply video or pictures with minimal writing that the blogger has found on a different site and wish for his reader to see (Example) while others, mostly the game reviews, are in-depth pieces with many pictures and screenshots and a much higher wordcount.
Post Frequency: Updates are posted every twenty minutes to hour, this frequency I expect would be much higher during large events such as ComicCon or e3. One downside to this high frequency of posting is that it almost becomes a chore to look through every one. If I missed a day checking the site I could have anywhere up to 100 posts to check the next day and I’d prefer not to miss any news when all I have to do is scroll down to see it.
Target Audience: The target audience is people who like to play video games and who like to keep up to date with current development news or people who just want another opinion before they buy a game.
Language, Graphics, Embedded Artifacts: The language is quite casual and friendly. This makes it much less intimidating to comment on updates as there is no apparent difference between the language of the bloggers and the language of the commenters, it much more conversational, or at least as conversational as text can be.
The graphic design is simple and effective with four areas on the main page that are easily distinguishable:
The days ‘headlines’ on the top of the page, each with their own picture and title
A more mysterious bar containing a comment bar, presumably to comment on the site itself rather than specific updates or perhaps to let the team know of a piece of news they may have missed
Then on the left under this is a description to the blogging team complete with e-mail addresses and twitter pages
And finally the piece which takes up the largest part of the screen, the updates themselves each distinguishable from the others by their title and grey box containing a hash tag.
Embedded on the page there is usually at least one picture or video (youtube.com etc.) for each update. These are usually screenshots from a game or photographs of upcoming technology. A popular feature is the side by side comparison videos between different platforms running the same game allowing people to argue about which they feel is better (usually the one they own).
Interaction: Comments can be found on every update and as it is required that you audition to be able to comment the quality and relevance to the topic is always very good. On many updates you can see that conversations start between commenters as they reply to each others comments. This creates an almost forum-like feel to the comments section of the blog. I have a bad habit of not actually reading who posts the comments and so am unable to say how much the bloggers themselves reply to the comments on the blog.
Favourite post: My Favourite post is this post regarding the carving of pumpkins into famous videogame characters, namely Pac-Man and his ghosts. Wakka Wakka
It shows very well the humour of the blog and it target audience
Chosen blog: Kotaku
Chosen post: Candles? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Candles
The author: The blog is maintained by a team of ten writers from around the globe so as to keep updates frequent and steady throughout the day. The blog’s Editor-in-Chief Brian Crecente is aided by two Deputy Editors four Contributing editors a Correspondent and two Columnists . They are spread around the globe with most of them in America, with others in places such as Australia and Japan.
Main Topics: The main topics of the updates on this blog are all related to video games in some way and can easily identified by the grey box that accompanies each update. The topics range from game reviews to console previews to development news to rumours. Many updates are simply video or pictures with minimal writing that the blogger has found on a different site and wish for his reader to see (Example) while others, mostly the game reviews, are in-depth pieces with many pictures and screenshots and a much higher wordcount.
Post Frequency: Updates are posted every twenty minutes to hour, this frequency I expect would be much higher during large events such as ComicCon or e3. One downside to this high frequency of posting is that it almost becomes a chore to look through every one. If I missed a day checking the site I could have anywhere up to 100 posts to check the next day and I’d prefer not to miss any news when all I have to do is scroll down to see it.
Target Audience: The target audience is people who like to play video games and who like to keep up to date with current development news or people who just want another opinion before they buy a game.
Language, Graphics, Embedded Artifacts: The language is quite casual and friendly. This makes it much less intimidating to comment on updates as there is no apparent difference between the language of the bloggers and the language of the commenters, it much more conversational, or at least as conversational as text can be.
The graphic design is simple and effective with four areas on the main page that are easily distinguishable:
The days ‘headlines’ on the top of the page, each with their own picture and title
A more mysterious bar containing a comment bar, presumably to comment on the site itself rather than specific updates or perhaps to let the team know of a piece of news they may have missed
Then on the left under this is a description to the blogging team complete with e-mail addresses and twitter pages
And finally the piece which takes up the largest part of the screen, the updates themselves each distinguishable from the others by their title and grey box containing a hash tag.
Embedded on the page there is usually at least one picture or video (youtube.com etc.) for each update. These are usually screenshots from a game or photographs of upcoming technology. A popular feature is the side by side comparison videos between different platforms running the same game allowing people to argue about which they feel is better (usually the one they own).
Interaction: Comments can be found on every update and as it is required that you audition to be able to comment the quality and relevance to the topic is always very good. On many updates you can see that conversations start between commenters as they reply to each others comments. This creates an almost forum-like feel to the comments section of the blog. I have a bad habit of not actually reading who posts the comments and so am unable to say how much the bloggers themselves reply to the comments on the blog.
Favourite post: My Favourite post is this post regarding the carving of pumpkins into famous videogame characters, namely Pac-Man and his ghosts. Wakka Wakka
It shows very well the humour of the blog and it target audience
Student: (simon harper 09001971)
Chosen blog: (Zoriah-photojournalist
Chosen post: (war photography )
Ive chosen to cover the blog of freelance photojournalist Zoriah Miller (who goes by just his first name Zoriah).He has an incredible CV
and travels the world where he specialises in covering natural disasters, conflict and humanitarian crises.
His blog is a mixture of his photo work and personal descriptions (in English)of what he has witnessed.He tends to put up new posts of various sizes about once a week-sometimes he will post a large number of his photos, others just a few lines about what hes doing or where hes off to next. His blog often feature a collection of photos from a country, while they may also be shown as a collection with a similar theme-ie army tattoos, wall graffiti, portraits ,Cuban workers etc. Certain photos will also have a technical note attached explaining camera settings, equipment used etc. his blog is layed out in a long page format-where the viewer scrolls down through posts and photos along with their descriptions if included. the target audience would be quite varied-as he writes about his own thoughts on where hes been so anyone who's looking for a eyewitnesses account of events in Iraq or Lebanon may find his blog of interest, photographers of course would be interested in seeing work from rather unconventional, even hostile places..he also has quite an anti war, anti poverty stance which would include an extra demographic for this blog to be aimed at.
Many of his post contain comments and its very well set up site with plenty of links to other sites as well as easy navigation through his many collections.
Thisis one of my favourite posts and one that initially attracted me to his blog, the striking photo-which upon initial viewing left me with my own thoughts as to what was happening-then when reading on i got a totally different series of events..aside form the great photo i also liked how he talked about the days events, not putting a strong anti war tilt on things but emphasing the chaos of war.
My comments on blogs:
brilliant Halloween photo shopped images
Bush toilet graffiti
Obama
Cuba condoms
Chosen blog: (Zoriah-photojournalist
Chosen post: (war photography )
Ive chosen to cover the blog of freelance photojournalist Zoriah Miller (who goes by just his first name Zoriah).He has an incredible CV
and travels the world where he specialises in covering natural disasters, conflict and humanitarian crises.
His blog is a mixture of his photo work and personal descriptions (in English)of what he has witnessed.He tends to put up new posts of various sizes about once a week-sometimes he will post a large number of his photos, others just a few lines about what hes doing or where hes off to next. His blog often feature a collection of photos from a country, while they may also be shown as a collection with a similar theme-ie army tattoos, wall graffiti, portraits ,Cuban workers etc. Certain photos will also have a technical note attached explaining camera settings, equipment used etc. his blog is layed out in a long page format-where the viewer scrolls down through posts and photos along with their descriptions if included. the target audience would be quite varied-as he writes about his own thoughts on where hes been so anyone who's looking for a eyewitnesses account of events in Iraq or Lebanon may find his blog of interest, photographers of course would be interested in seeing work from rather unconventional, even hostile places..he also has quite an anti war, anti poverty stance which would include an extra demographic for this blog to be aimed at.
Many of his post contain comments and its very well set up site with plenty of links to other sites as well as easy navigation through his many collections.
Thisis one of my favourite posts and one that initially attracted me to his blog, the striking photo-which upon initial viewing left me with my own thoughts as to what was happening-then when reading on i got a totally different series of events..aside form the great photo i also liked how he talked about the days events, not putting a strong anti war tilt on things but emphasing the chaos of war.
My comments on blogs:
brilliant Halloween photo shopped images
Bush toilet graffiti
Obama
Cuba condoms
Student:
Niall Bromell (09003996)
Chosen Blog:
Just Another iPhone Blog
Other Blogs Followed:
TechCrunch, Sony EU PlayStation Blog
Number of Posts a Day:
5-10
Authors:
The blog is written by a number of authors.
Patrick Jordan
Josh Gard
“Thomas”
Diego Petrucci
Target Audience:
Users of the iPhone (and to a lesser extend, iPod Touch).
Language Used:
The language is mainly casual and simple. Humour is often used, and in one particular post, reviewing the “CameraReporter PRO” app, the article is less a review than the author mocking the poorly worded description of the application given by the developers, for example;
This camera app, which timestamps all of your pictures as you take them, gives you all the tools to “show them you was really there”, “show them how high you was”, and best of all…”shock your friends that you something really did”. I often have a lot of trouble shocking my friends and proving that I something really did (why don’t they me believe?!), so I think this app could be a real life-saver for me.
Layout & Embedded Artifacts:
The design of the page is for the most part, clear. The articles are kept on the left hand side of the page, with the vast majority of the advertisements taking up a smaller space on the right of the page. It can be difficult to go through older articles however, as they are bunched together at the bottom of pages. The blog doesn’t generally seem to embed any videos, though they do provide pictures of the various apps they are reviewing.
Interaction:
There is a good amount of interaction taking place on the blog between the authors and the readers. Though they do not reply to every comment, they do reply to most of them, although some posts require the reader to be registered, and all posts require validation by the authors.
Chosen Post & Why I liked It:
“LogMeIn Ignition – Remote Access To All Your PCs, Macs, & Servers From Your iPhone – And It Works!”
I chose the post because of all the apps reviewed by the blog, this one interested me the most. Despite the high price of the app (listed by the blog as $29.99) I think that it may be one of the most useful apps to come out for the iPhone. The app allows the user to log into their own computer (as well as any other computer that has authorised your account) and use its programs, features, and correct any possible problems that the computer may be experiencing.
For example, the author of the post , Josh Gard, explained how he managed to log into his mothers computer from his iPhone while suck in a traffic jam in order to fix a problem that he had been unable to talk her through over the phone. He said “What would have taken me 20 minutes or more to walk her through verbally, I was able to accomplish in under five minutes with LogMeIn on my iPhone.”. He also used a second example - where he was able to solve a problem with his company’s database while waiting in line for coffee, using his iPhone, and was able to get the faulty application back online as he waited for his coffee, which shows the power of the app. He also mentions that while it is expensive, it is worth every penny.
Comments Left:
Camera ReporterPRO
Wordpress 2.0
Reel Director Video Editor
D-Day For Facebook App Developers
Niall Bromell (09003996)
Chosen Blog:
Just Another iPhone Blog
Other Blogs Followed:
TechCrunch, Sony EU PlayStation Blog
Number of Posts a Day:
5-10
Authors:
The blog is written by a number of authors.
Patrick Jordan
Josh Gard
“Thomas”
Diego Petrucci
Target Audience:
Users of the iPhone (and to a lesser extend, iPod Touch).
Language Used:
The language is mainly casual and simple. Humour is often used, and in one particular post, reviewing the “CameraReporter PRO” app, the article is less a review than the author mocking the poorly worded description of the application given by the developers, for example;
This camera app, which timestamps all of your pictures as you take them, gives you all the tools to “show them you was really there”, “show them how high you was”, and best of all…”shock your friends that you something really did”. I often have a lot of trouble shocking my friends and proving that I something really did (why don’t they me believe?!), so I think this app could be a real life-saver for me.
Layout & Embedded Artifacts:
The design of the page is for the most part, clear. The articles are kept on the left hand side of the page, with the vast majority of the advertisements taking up a smaller space on the right of the page. It can be difficult to go through older articles however, as they are bunched together at the bottom of pages. The blog doesn’t generally seem to embed any videos, though they do provide pictures of the various apps they are reviewing.
Interaction:
There is a good amount of interaction taking place on the blog between the authors and the readers. Though they do not reply to every comment, they do reply to most of them, although some posts require the reader to be registered, and all posts require validation by the authors.
Chosen Post & Why I liked It:
“LogMeIn Ignition – Remote Access To All Your PCs, Macs, & Servers From Your iPhone – And It Works!”
I chose the post because of all the apps reviewed by the blog, this one interested me the most. Despite the high price of the app (listed by the blog as $29.99) I think that it may be one of the most useful apps to come out for the iPhone. The app allows the user to log into their own computer (as well as any other computer that has authorised your account) and use its programs, features, and correct any possible problems that the computer may be experiencing.
For example, the author of the post , Josh Gard, explained how he managed to log into his mothers computer from his iPhone while suck in a traffic jam in order to fix a problem that he had been unable to talk her through over the phone. He said “What would have taken me 20 minutes or more to walk her through verbally, I was able to accomplish in under five minutes with LogMeIn on my iPhone.”. He also used a second example - where he was able to solve a problem with his company’s database while waiting in line for coffee, using his iPhone, and was able to get the faulty application back online as he waited for his coffee, which shows the power of the app. He also mentions that while it is expensive, it is worth every penny.
Comments Left:
Camera ReporterPRO
Wordpress 2.0
Reel Director Video Editor
D-Day For Facebook App Developers
Student: Davis Gould-Duff
Student id: 09007494
Blog: In Bloom On The Double: [http://www.podcomplex.com/blog/in-bloom-on-the-double/ ]
The blog that i have chosen to review is "In Bloom On The Double" by Podcomplex. Podcomplex is a web site edited and managed by Dan Foley. Dan Foley is a musician, producer, writer, designer and webmaster from county Offaly Ireland. he is currently working as a search marketing consultant for a multinational internet company in Dublin, and he runs Nantiploop recording studios. he has a masters degree in multimedia systems from TCD and a primary degree in communications studies from DCU. He produces music as Canabrism, and manages a number or websites in addition to podcomplex. he is also an author of his own book called "Antistar".
The web site podcomplex is dedicated to preaching the latest news about music technology, production and handy tips for getting the most out of your studio as well as the latest in music software and hardware. There are a lot of different techniques covered on the blogs that are used in production, Some of these techniques covered are mic set-up and positioning, doubling, and how to release the songs in the end. With everything covered from mp3 files to chocolate records!! no your not going mad, i said CHOCOLATE records!!
The web site releases roughly 10 posts a week in the "music technology" part with more being released in the "digital arts workshop"," digital music", "live performance" and the "sales and promotion" sections of the website. I only followed the music technology side of podcomplex because i have a higher interest in this section than any of the others on podcomplex. I think that the website is aimed at people over twenty years old who have a good music background and/or a high interest in music and music theory. it also has a very user friendly layout and easy to understand language with plenty off videos and pictures.
The blog that i picked is about a production technique that Butch Vig used when he produced the Nevermind album by Nirvana. The production technique that Butch used is called "doubling".
Doubling is where the singer sings one track of there song and then they record a second track of the same some. when it is done correctly and the to tracks have similar timing, then both tracks are played at the same time with one being paned hard left and the other hard right. A bit of delay can be added to create more of an effect. This naturally adds a lot of depth, width and texture to the song.
The most famous example of doubling with the singers voice would be in the song "In Bloom" by Nirvana, in this song both Kurt Cobain's and Dave Grohl's voices have been doubled. But doubling is not restricted to singers voices, in fact it can be used on any instrument, there are many examples of this shown on the blog just from the Nevermind album. Doubling is now a very popular technique used in pop vocals and many other areas of music.
my comments:
Gizmodo:
for some reason my 3 comments on gizmodo where never posted because they haven't been auditioned yet.
Student id: 09007494
Blog: In Bloom On The Double: [http://www.podcomplex.com/blog/in-bloom-on-the-double/ ]
The blog that i have chosen to review is "In Bloom On The Double" by Podcomplex. Podcomplex is a web site edited and managed by Dan Foley. Dan Foley is a musician, producer, writer, designer and webmaster from county Offaly Ireland. he is currently working as a search marketing consultant for a multinational internet company in Dublin, and he runs Nantiploop recording studios. he has a masters degree in multimedia systems from TCD and a primary degree in communications studies from DCU. He produces music as Canabrism, and manages a number or websites in addition to podcomplex. he is also an author of his own book called "Antistar".
The web site podcomplex is dedicated to preaching the latest news about music technology, production and handy tips for getting the most out of your studio as well as the latest in music software and hardware. There are a lot of different techniques covered on the blogs that are used in production, Some of these techniques covered are mic set-up and positioning, doubling, and how to release the songs in the end. With everything covered from mp3 files to chocolate records!! no your not going mad, i said CHOCOLATE records!!
The web site releases roughly 10 posts a week in the "music technology" part with more being released in the "digital arts workshop"," digital music", "live performance" and the "sales and promotion" sections of the website. I only followed the music technology side of podcomplex because i have a higher interest in this section than any of the others on podcomplex. I think that the website is aimed at people over twenty years old who have a good music background and/or a high interest in music and music theory. it also has a very user friendly layout and easy to understand language with plenty off videos and pictures.
The blog that i picked is about a production technique that Butch Vig used when he produced the Nevermind album by Nirvana. The production technique that Butch used is called "doubling".
Doubling is where the singer sings one track of there song and then they record a second track of the same some. when it is done correctly and the to tracks have similar timing, then both tracks are played at the same time with one being paned hard left and the other hard right. A bit of delay can be added to create more of an effect. This naturally adds a lot of depth, width and texture to the song.
The most famous example of doubling with the singers voice would be in the song "In Bloom" by Nirvana, in this song both Kurt Cobain's and Dave Grohl's voices have been doubled. But doubling is not restricted to singers voices, in fact it can be used on any instrument, there are many examples of this shown on the blog just from the Nevermind album. Doubling is now a very popular technique used in pop vocals and many other areas of music.
my comments:
Gizmodo:
for some reason my 3 comments on gizmodo where never posted because they haven't been auditioned yet.
Student:Andy Connolly - 09001950
Chosen blog: Future Music - http://futuremusic.com/blog
Chosen post: http://futuremusic.com/blog/2009/09/25/richie-hawtin-releases-twitter-dj-for-traktor-pro/
The blog I have chosen to write about is Future Music (futuremusic.com/blog), a blog dedicated to advances in the world of electronic music creation. The author(s) have chosen to remain anonymous, presumably to facilitate honest and unbiased opinion. Given the nature of the blog it is quite possible that the authors work within the industry and do not wish to compromise their future/current job prospects with negative reviews/controversial opinions.
I also followed Mashable! (a general technology based blog, focussing more on social networking media and advertising) and Pipomixes(a resource for hip hop culture, posting out of print music and videos relating to DJ/Producer culture, including occasional posts relating to digital media relevant to DJs/producers). I found Mashable! interesting but of little personal relevance and Pipomixes of huge personal relevance but of less interest in relation to digital media.
Topics on Future Music vary from a new model of headphones to software updates to new digital interfaces for music creation. It is a huge area of interest and I feel that the blog covers many bases with very little "filler" content. The language used is rarely overly "techy", i.e. anyone with a basic knowledge of digital music creation should be able to understand the posts. It is definitely aimed at the electronic music producer and DJs although the readership is hard to quantify as commenting is not available. This is the only negative aspect of the site in my opinion.
The topic I most enjoyed was news of the development of Ritchie Hawtin's (legendary electronic producer/DJ, records under the names Plastikman and F.U.S.E, owner of the Minus and M - Nus record labels) Twitter application that runs in conjunction with popular DJ software interface Traktor. The app allows for publishing the names of tracks the DJ is playing on to his Twitter account, which can in turn be broadcast on screens in realtime. As a gimmick, this is mildly interesting. As a cataloguing device however, the app has the potential to revolutionise the paying of royalties to artists.
All venues that play music pay an annual fee to their national licensing agency (IMRO in Ireland), in theory this revenue is distributed among the artists whose music was played. In reality however, venues do not catalogue the music DJs play and the money is split up between the top selling artists in the country (slight variations exist from country to country but this is the general situation worldwide). The Twitter/Traktor app, which could be modified to run with any digital DJ program, would allow for clear and easy cataloguing of music played in theatres, clubs and pubs thus ensuring the artists get their dues.
The site is quite basic in design, possibly created from a standard blog template. This does ensure the blog is easy to navigate and read but might frustrate those who like their blog experience to be visually stimulating. Pictures and links to videos are included in the vast majority of posts to further illustrate the topic in question.
Comments - As mentioned above, Future Music would not let me comment, nor could I find evidence of any other comments. Links to my comments on Pipomixes and Mashable! located below.
Mashable!
http://mashable.com/2009/10/28/droid-phone/?dsq=21202122#comment-21202122
http://mashable.com/2009/10/27/dj-hero/?dsq=21204949#comment-21204949
http://mashable.com/2009/10/27/myspace-music-msn/?dsq=21205716#comment-21205716
http://mashable.com/2009/10/27/lawfirms-icoyote/?dsq=21206841#comment-21206841
Pipomixes
http://pipomixes.blogspot.com/2009/10/dj-nuts-mini-set-and-studio-footage.html
http://pipomixes.blogspot.com/2009/10/mobys-drum-machine-collection.html
http://pipomixes.blogspot.com/2009/10/edan-rapping-and-mixing.html
Chosen blog: Future Music - http://futuremusic.com/blog
Chosen post: http://futuremusic.com/blog/2009/09/25/richie-hawtin-releases-twitter-dj-for-traktor-pro/
The blog I have chosen to write about is Future Music (futuremusic.com/blog), a blog dedicated to advances in the world of electronic music creation. The author(s) have chosen to remain anonymous, presumably to facilitate honest and unbiased opinion. Given the nature of the blog it is quite possible that the authors work within the industry and do not wish to compromise their future/current job prospects with negative reviews/controversial opinions.
I also followed Mashable! (a general technology based blog, focussing more on social networking media and advertising) and Pipomixes(a resource for hip hop culture, posting out of print music and videos relating to DJ/Producer culture, including occasional posts relating to digital media relevant to DJs/producers). I found Mashable! interesting but of little personal relevance and Pipomixes of huge personal relevance but of less interest in relation to digital media.
Topics on Future Music vary from a new model of headphones to software updates to new digital interfaces for music creation. It is a huge area of interest and I feel that the blog covers many bases with very little "filler" content. The language used is rarely overly "techy", i.e. anyone with a basic knowledge of digital music creation should be able to understand the posts. It is definitely aimed at the electronic music producer and DJs although the readership is hard to quantify as commenting is not available. This is the only negative aspect of the site in my opinion.
The topic I most enjoyed was news of the development of Ritchie Hawtin's (legendary electronic producer/DJ, records under the names Plastikman and F.U.S.E, owner of the Minus and M - Nus record labels) Twitter application that runs in conjunction with popular DJ software interface Traktor. The app allows for publishing the names of tracks the DJ is playing on to his Twitter account, which can in turn be broadcast on screens in realtime. As a gimmick, this is mildly interesting. As a cataloguing device however, the app has the potential to revolutionise the paying of royalties to artists.
All venues that play music pay an annual fee to their national licensing agency (IMRO in Ireland), in theory this revenue is distributed among the artists whose music was played. In reality however, venues do not catalogue the music DJs play and the money is split up between the top selling artists in the country (slight variations exist from country to country but this is the general situation worldwide). The Twitter/Traktor app, which could be modified to run with any digital DJ program, would allow for clear and easy cataloguing of music played in theatres, clubs and pubs thus ensuring the artists get their dues.
The site is quite basic in design, possibly created from a standard blog template. This does ensure the blog is easy to navigate and read but might frustrate those who like their blog experience to be visually stimulating. Pictures and links to videos are included in the vast majority of posts to further illustrate the topic in question.
Comments - As mentioned above, Future Music would not let me comment, nor could I find evidence of any other comments. Links to my comments on Pipomixes and Mashable! located below.
Mashable!
http://mashable.com/2009/10/28/droid-phone/?dsq=21202122#comment-21202122
http://mashable.com/2009/10/27/dj-hero/?dsq=21204949#comment-21204949
http://mashable.com/2009/10/27/myspace-music-msn/?dsq=21205716#comment-21205716
http://mashable.com/2009/10/27/lawfirms-icoyote/?dsq=21206841#comment-21206841
Pipomixes
http://pipomixes.blogspot.com/2009/10/dj-nuts-mini-set-and-studio-footage.html
http://pipomixes.blogspot.com/2009/10/mobys-drum-machine-collection.html
http://pipomixes.blogspot.com/2009/10/edan-rapping-and-mixing.html
Gizmodo (Conor Keane 09003855)
Student: Conor Keane (09003855)
Chosen blog: Gizmodo
Authors
Gizmodo is a community blog with many contributing authors including:
Editorial Director: Brian Lam
Editor: Jason Chen
Features Editor: Wilson Rothman
Senior Contributing Editor: Jesus Diaz, Mark Wilson (Reviews)
Contributing Editors:
Matt Buchannan
Adam Frucci
Sean Fallon
Jack Loftus
John Herrman
Dan Nosowitz
Chris Mascari
Danny Allen
Columnist: Brendan Koerner
Target audience:
Gizmodo targets all fans of technology, from the layman to the über-geek.
Topics
Tech news including new products, policies and concepts.
Language, graphics, and embedded artifacts:
The language on the site varies with the topic of the posts, most of which can be understood by the common user. Most, if not all, of the posts utilize pictures to showcase the subject matter and many involve embedded video from popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube or Vimeo
Frequency of posts:
50 - 80 a day
Chosen post:
Still don’t know what Google Wave is all about? This two minute animation might help.
This is by far my favorite post out of the three weeks I was following Gizmodo.
I have been hearing about Google Wave for a while now and the videos Google had produced were too long and technical for even the most technical layman like myself to understand just exactly what it is…
So a simplified explanation of the basics was presented in this post via a YouTube video and it really made sense to me after I watched it…
I now understand Google Wave to be Google’s re-invention of the e-mail, utilizing “cloud” computing to share documents, files, and emails with a number of users in one centralized location instead of a plethora of forwarded and replied-to emails to sort through…
I look forward to being able to utilize this new tool in my daily life.
My comments (All Gizmodo):
There was one problem with making comments on Gizmodo:
They make you audition your account before they will approve your comments.
I started making comments 3 weeks ago and I am still waiting for my account to be approved on the site, which is why you will not see my comments until they change my status.
Comment 1
Comment 2
Comment 3
Comment 4
I also followed these blogs:
UberGizmo
-Very similar to Gizmodo but with less writers and posts.
iPhoneSavior
-Mainly iPhone products, apps, and some quirky Mac related links too.
I am looking forward to my continued subscription to these blogs…
Chosen blog: Gizmodo
Authors
Gizmodo is a community blog with many contributing authors including:
Editorial Director: Brian Lam
Editor: Jason Chen
Features Editor: Wilson Rothman
Senior Contributing Editor: Jesus Diaz, Mark Wilson (Reviews)
Contributing Editors:
Matt Buchannan
Adam Frucci
Sean Fallon
Jack Loftus
John Herrman
Dan Nosowitz
Chris Mascari
Danny Allen
Columnist: Brendan Koerner
Target audience:
Gizmodo targets all fans of technology, from the layman to the über-geek.
Topics
Tech news including new products, policies and concepts.
Language, graphics, and embedded artifacts:
The language on the site varies with the topic of the posts, most of which can be understood by the common user. Most, if not all, of the posts utilize pictures to showcase the subject matter and many involve embedded video from popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube or Vimeo
Frequency of posts:
50 - 80 a day
Chosen post:
Still don’t know what Google Wave is all about? This two minute animation might help.
This is by far my favorite post out of the three weeks I was following Gizmodo.
I have been hearing about Google Wave for a while now and the videos Google had produced were too long and technical for even the most technical layman like myself to understand just exactly what it is…
So a simplified explanation of the basics was presented in this post via a YouTube video and it really made sense to me after I watched it…
I now understand Google Wave to be Google’s re-invention of the e-mail, utilizing “cloud” computing to share documents, files, and emails with a number of users in one centralized location instead of a plethora of forwarded and replied-to emails to sort through…
I look forward to being able to utilize this new tool in my daily life.
My comments (All Gizmodo):
There was one problem with making comments on Gizmodo:
They make you audition your account before they will approve your comments.
I started making comments 3 weeks ago and I am still waiting for my account to be approved on the site, which is why you will not see my comments until they change my status.
Comment 1
Comment 2
Comment 3
Comment 4
I also followed these blogs:
UberGizmo
-Very similar to Gizmodo but with less writers and posts.
iPhoneSavior
-Mainly iPhone products, apps, and some quirky Mac related links too.
I am looking forward to my continued subscription to these blogs…
Student: Anett Michael (09002155)
Chosen blog: Pixel Publishing Ireland
I have chosen to review the blog Pixel Publishing Ireland (also headlined SabrinaDent.Com: Sunshine and Lollipops since 1996) by Sabrina Dent. On the cover page of her blog Sabrina Dent labels herself as a freelance web designer, internet marketer and sometime journalist. Further information about her and her work can be found on the subpages of the weblog titled About, Portfolio, CV, Disclosures and Contact.
The categories used on the blog are Activism, Advertising, Boot Camp, Cork, Crankypants, Design, Domesticities, Events, Interpipes, Ireland, Marketing, Politics, Portfolio, Second Life, Social Networks, Sunday Style and Technology. For almost every entry there are more specific tags listed underneath the particular posts. Sabrina Dent mainly blogs about web design and other internet related topics. During my three weeks of following the blog she especially wrote about site launches she did (filed under the category Portfolio). She also wrote about an event she visited and about personal experiences she gained in connection with it.
When Sabrina Dent writes about her work she does not get bogged down in details about what she changed on the websites using too difficult specialist terms etc., but just tells about the highlights. The entries about site launches are usually not longer than two or three paragraphs. Blog entries about her personal experiences or opinions and advices about internet and web design related topics are often longer and more detailed. Interesting anecdotes and her often ironic, sometimes even cynical writing style make the posts quite amusing to read. Her journalistic writing skills might help her to make her ideas understandable and attractive to a broad public. However, the main target audience might contain people with interests in web design and internet issues. I think the blog shall also address possible future employers and clients as it contains a portfolio of her previous work, a considerable CV and contact information on its subpages.
In recent times, the author is blogging once or twice a week, mostly in the end of the week. Some months ago Sabrina Dent’s blogging behaviour was less regular. In August this year, for example, she only published one entry, whereas from the 24th till 28th May 2009 she blogged at least once a day.
The embedded artifacts Sabrina Dent uses most of all are pictures. She almost always starts her entries with an eye-catching, grey framed graphic or photograph (size: 415 pixels × 175 pixels) that is related to the topic she writes about. Sometimes she uses further pictures (such as screenshots or photographs), YouTube videos or slideshows to illustrate her ideas and give vivid examples. I like the banner-like, well designed and consistently formatted graphics Sabrina Dent uses for her blog posts. However I find it a bit confusing that they are provided with a mouse over effect (the grey frame changes its colour into a lighter grey), but nothing happens when you click on them. They look like they are containing links but they are not. Another design aspect that took me getting used to was that it is not so easy to get back to the main page. Therefore, I normally click on a website’s banner, but Sabrina Dent’s blog does not have one to click on. So one has to use the pretty small Home button on the navigation bar. Other than that I like the design of the blog very much. The bright grey, white and bright coloured text Sabrina Dent uses on a dark grey and black background as well as the sanserif font used for the main text are very eye- and reader-friendly. The more cheerful font the blogger uses for special matters like the headings of the different link lists on the right-hand side of the blog matches the also cheerful and decently girly background image and bullet point design very well.
I also like the commenting system of the blog. Only the first comment posted by a user must be confirmed by Sabrina Dent, but is already shown to the commenter. So your comments do not disappear like on Gizmodo where you never know whether and when your comments get approved and where also nobody seems to answer the questions you sent to the extra e-mail address for comment and account questions they have. After Sabrina Dent confirmed your first comment any further comments can be made without additional approval. The list of commentators is shown on the right-hand side of the blog being headlines gossip mongers. Sabrina Dent also interacts with her readers by often answering some of the first comments left on her articles.
Chosen post: Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Design
Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Design is my favourite entry because Sabrina shows very well how websites with a bad design can become very hard to handle even for just slightly handicapped people. She herself suffers from Dyslexia and Dyscalculia. As she says in the entry her particular instances are pretty mild. Anyway, she lists lots of examples of everyday life situations (especially those connected with numbers) that become problematic for her. Then she shows examples of complicated logins, long and bad structured telephone numbers and confusing booking calendars from different web pages that make her struggle when using them. As the user comments on this entry show, other people have similar problems with these things, too, and agree in the entry’s conclusion that a good design makes a website easier to handle for everyone. A simple and user-friendly design is better than trying to provide a special user interface (that confuses people more than helping them). Probably, her mild Dyslexia and Dyscalculia make Sabrina Dent a better web designer because she knows from her own experiences very well how a website has to be structured to be easy to handle for nearly everybody and what might cause problems.
My comments on blogs:
(I commented under the pseudonym GirlFromM4rs.)
Pixel Publishing Ireland:
comment on Site Launch: FarmVille Village
comment on Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Design
Pixelsumo:
comment on The fun theory
comment on The Marshmallow Test
Gixmodo:
As I mentioned above, Gizmodo is not very commenter-friendly. I tried to comment on Mozilla Whines About Apple Being First in Microsoft's Web Browser Ballot Screen and iREV, the Bumper Boat With a Built-In Grill, but Gizmodo did not approve my comments and did not answer my questions about when they will confirm my comments and if not at all, why not. In my opinion a website that does not allow user comments or censors them in an inappropriate and unjustified extent cannot be classified as a real blog.
Chosen blog: Pixel Publishing Ireland
I have chosen to review the blog Pixel Publishing Ireland (also headlined SabrinaDent.Com: Sunshine and Lollipops since 1996) by Sabrina Dent. On the cover page of her blog Sabrina Dent labels herself as a freelance web designer, internet marketer and sometime journalist. Further information about her and her work can be found on the subpages of the weblog titled About, Portfolio, CV, Disclosures and Contact.
The categories used on the blog are Activism, Advertising, Boot Camp, Cork, Crankypants, Design, Domesticities, Events, Interpipes, Ireland, Marketing, Politics, Portfolio, Second Life, Social Networks, Sunday Style and Technology. For almost every entry there are more specific tags listed underneath the particular posts. Sabrina Dent mainly blogs about web design and other internet related topics. During my three weeks of following the blog she especially wrote about site launches she did (filed under the category Portfolio). She also wrote about an event she visited and about personal experiences she gained in connection with it.
When Sabrina Dent writes about her work she does not get bogged down in details about what she changed on the websites using too difficult specialist terms etc., but just tells about the highlights. The entries about site launches are usually not longer than two or three paragraphs. Blog entries about her personal experiences or opinions and advices about internet and web design related topics are often longer and more detailed. Interesting anecdotes and her often ironic, sometimes even cynical writing style make the posts quite amusing to read. Her journalistic writing skills might help her to make her ideas understandable and attractive to a broad public. However, the main target audience might contain people with interests in web design and internet issues. I think the blog shall also address possible future employers and clients as it contains a portfolio of her previous work, a considerable CV and contact information on its subpages.
In recent times, the author is blogging once or twice a week, mostly in the end of the week. Some months ago Sabrina Dent’s blogging behaviour was less regular. In August this year, for example, she only published one entry, whereas from the 24th till 28th May 2009 she blogged at least once a day.
The embedded artifacts Sabrina Dent uses most of all are pictures. She almost always starts her entries with an eye-catching, grey framed graphic or photograph (size: 415 pixels × 175 pixels) that is related to the topic she writes about. Sometimes she uses further pictures (such as screenshots or photographs), YouTube videos or slideshows to illustrate her ideas and give vivid examples. I like the banner-like, well designed and consistently formatted graphics Sabrina Dent uses for her blog posts. However I find it a bit confusing that they are provided with a mouse over effect (the grey frame changes its colour into a lighter grey), but nothing happens when you click on them. They look like they are containing links but they are not. Another design aspect that took me getting used to was that it is not so easy to get back to the main page. Therefore, I normally click on a website’s banner, but Sabrina Dent’s blog does not have one to click on. So one has to use the pretty small Home button on the navigation bar. Other than that I like the design of the blog very much. The bright grey, white and bright coloured text Sabrina Dent uses on a dark grey and black background as well as the sanserif font used for the main text are very eye- and reader-friendly. The more cheerful font the blogger uses for special matters like the headings of the different link lists on the right-hand side of the blog matches the also cheerful and decently girly background image and bullet point design very well.
I also like the commenting system of the blog. Only the first comment posted by a user must be confirmed by Sabrina Dent, but is already shown to the commenter. So your comments do not disappear like on Gizmodo where you never know whether and when your comments get approved and where also nobody seems to answer the questions you sent to the extra e-mail address for comment and account questions they have. After Sabrina Dent confirmed your first comment any further comments can be made without additional approval. The list of commentators is shown on the right-hand side of the blog being headlines gossip mongers. Sabrina Dent also interacts with her readers by often answering some of the first comments left on her articles.
Chosen post: Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Design
Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Design is my favourite entry because Sabrina shows very well how websites with a bad design can become very hard to handle even for just slightly handicapped people. She herself suffers from Dyslexia and Dyscalculia. As she says in the entry her particular instances are pretty mild. Anyway, she lists lots of examples of everyday life situations (especially those connected with numbers) that become problematic for her. Then she shows examples of complicated logins, long and bad structured telephone numbers and confusing booking calendars from different web pages that make her struggle when using them. As the user comments on this entry show, other people have similar problems with these things, too, and agree in the entry’s conclusion that a good design makes a website easier to handle for everyone. A simple and user-friendly design is better than trying to provide a special user interface (that confuses people more than helping them). Probably, her mild Dyslexia and Dyscalculia make Sabrina Dent a better web designer because she knows from her own experiences very well how a website has to be structured to be easy to handle for nearly everybody and what might cause problems.
My comments on blogs:
(I commented under the pseudonym GirlFromM4rs.)
Pixel Publishing Ireland:
comment on Site Launch: FarmVille Village
comment on Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Design
Pixelsumo:
comment on The fun theory
comment on The Marshmallow Test
Gixmodo:
As I mentioned above, Gizmodo is not very commenter-friendly. I tried to comment on Mozilla Whines About Apple Being First in Microsoft's Web Browser Ballot Screen and iREV, the Bumper Boat With a Built-In Grill, but Gizmodo did not approve my comments and did not answer my questions about when they will confirm my comments and if not at all, why not. In my opinion a website that does not allow user comments or censors them in an inappropriate and unjustified extent cannot be classified as a real blog.
Student (Kathleen Berns 0847461)
Chosen Blog (MediaShift - Your guide to the Digital Media Revolution)
Chosen Post (Record Labels are Losing Power to Fans, Artists http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/10/record-labels-are-losing-power-to-fans-artists282.html)
Over the past few weeks I have been following various digital media blogs. My goal from the get go was to find a blog which really interests me and one which I would enjoy following long after this college assignment was submitted.
Mark Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. (MediaShift 2009)
He is also the host of the digital media blog I am focusing on in this article.
MediaShift is a fascinating blog with content from a number of different bloggers for example Simon Owens, Steven Davy, Susan Currie Sivek and of course Jason Feinberg who authored my most-liked post “record Lables are Losing power to Fans, Artists)
The post is a follow on piece to “What will record labels look like in the future” and it discusses issues in the music industry such as Digital sales verses physical sales and the revenue being lost. “Sales of digital music have not come close to replacing the revenue lost from the decline of physical sales.” (Feinberg 2009)
The blog also gives information from Paul Resnikoff, founder and publisher of music industry news site Digital Music News who gives valuable feedback from the industry as well as Fanscape CEO Larry Weintraub is an industry veteran with 25 years of marketing experience and the Artists perspective from guitarist Steve Vai.
I really liked this blog as the whole record label and digital music downloads debacle has been a subject that has interested me greatly for quite a while. To be honest the fact that this blog also included the opinions of the musical genius that is Steve Vai made this post a clear winner in my eyes.
My Comments
(MediaShift)
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/10/record-labels-are-losing-power-to-fans-artists282.html
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/09/what-newspaper-cartoonists-can-learn-from-web-comics273.html
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/09/local-politicians-use-social-media-to-connect-with-voters272.html
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/10/did-the-web-kill-gourmet-magazine299.html
(uberGizmo)
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/guitar_hero_played_without_guitars.html?dsq=21112491#comment-21112491
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/apple_offers_cheaper_ram_and_processor_upgrades.html?dsq=21112819#comment-21112819
[http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/vioguard_uvkb50_self-sanitizing_keyboard.html?dsq=21113142#comment-21113142 ]
[http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/sony_ericsson_kurara_being_worked_on.html?dsq=21113413#comment-21113413 Comment 4]
Chosen Blog (MediaShift - Your guide to the Digital Media Revolution)
Chosen Post (Record Labels are Losing Power to Fans, Artists http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/10/record-labels-are-losing-power-to-fans-artists282.html)
Over the past few weeks I have been following various digital media blogs. My goal from the get go was to find a blog which really interests me and one which I would enjoy following long after this college assignment was submitted.
Mark Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. (MediaShift 2009)
He is also the host of the digital media blog I am focusing on in this article.
MediaShift is a fascinating blog with content from a number of different bloggers for example Simon Owens, Steven Davy, Susan Currie Sivek and of course Jason Feinberg who authored my most-liked post “record Lables are Losing power to Fans, Artists)
The post is a follow on piece to “What will record labels look like in the future” and it discusses issues in the music industry such as Digital sales verses physical sales and the revenue being lost. “Sales of digital music have not come close to replacing the revenue lost from the decline of physical sales.” (Feinberg 2009)
The blog also gives information from Paul Resnikoff, founder and publisher of music industry news site Digital Music News who gives valuable feedback from the industry as well as Fanscape CEO Larry Weintraub is an industry veteran with 25 years of marketing experience and the Artists perspective from guitarist Steve Vai.
I really liked this blog as the whole record label and digital music downloads debacle has been a subject that has interested me greatly for quite a while. To be honest the fact that this blog also included the opinions of the musical genius that is Steve Vai made this post a clear winner in my eyes.
My Comments
(MediaShift)
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/10/record-labels-are-losing-power-to-fans-artists282.html
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/09/what-newspaper-cartoonists-can-learn-from-web-comics273.html
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/09/local-politicians-use-social-media-to-connect-with-voters272.html
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/10/did-the-web-kill-gourmet-magazine299.html
(uberGizmo)
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/guitar_hero_played_without_guitars.html?dsq=21112491#comment-21112491
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/apple_offers_cheaper_ram_and_processor_upgrades.html?dsq=21112819#comment-21112819
[http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/vioguard_uvkb50_self-sanitizing_keyboard.html?dsq=21113142#comment-21113142 ]
[http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/10/sony_ericsson_kurara_being_worked_on.html?dsq=21113413#comment-21113413 Comment 4]
09003466
Student ID: Jennifer Agstrand 09003466
Chosen blog: Amy M. Burn´s Blog http://amymburns.musiced.net
Chosen post: Absolutely Brilliant http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/15/absolutely-brilliant/
My comments on blogs
The author: The author for the blog that I have chosen is Amy M. Burn. She is an elementary general music teacher at an independent school in New Jersey, US. She is also the President-Elect of the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME). Besides the blog she also has a webpage and she uses Twitter.
ULR: http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/15/absolutely-brilliant/#comments
Main topics: The blog is all about elementary music and music technology. The author posted her bloggspost in seven different categories that she has named; Blogrolls, Books, Lesson plans, Methodology, Reflections, Software and You can find me here. She writes about her daily life, her work and ideas that she has. She advices people about things in the world of music technology that she think is intresting.
The frequency of posts: In the “about my blog” the author says that her plan is to blog three times per week and I would say that she does that more or less. Sometimes it is some days between the post and sometimes she post a new blogpost a few days in a row. This blog also contains a variety of links to other blogs and websites such as other bloggers, YouTubevideos and Facebook groups.
The target audience: The target audience, as the author describes it as, is other elementary music educators and teachers. The author wants to achieve and to encourage teachers to enhance their music curriculums with new music technology.
The language used: The author use language that makes the reading easy and fun to read. She uses a language that is readable and interesting and it gets to you. She makes you want to find out more about the topics.
The graphics: the graphics are of a professional standard but simply and suggestive.
Embedded artifacts: She uses some embedded artifacts, like some links to some websites and a blogroll.
The interaction taking place: There is not that much interaction taking place on this blog but there is a few comments from people who are mentioned in the posts and you can find some information contributed by readers
Favorite post and why: My favorite post is the one of the post that I commented on. The author has named the post “absolutely brilliant” and she posted it on October the 15th in 2009. The post itself does not say that much but the author posted a link to youtube with a fantastic videoclip. The author describes that the video originally romancing your soul and when I looks at the video I thought that it is fascinating.
My comments.
http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/15/absolutely-brilliant/#comments
http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/15/absolutely-brilliant/#comments
http://amymburns.musiced.net/2009/10/18/new-music-education-major-facebook-community/#comments
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