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Final Digital Project: Part Two

For my Computer Information Systems 3810 final digital project, I used a program at Storify (www.storify.com) in order to create a digital story compiled of tweets, pictures, videos and commentary.  The focus of the digital story was the New York Knickerbockers during their post season pursuit of the National Basketball Association championship.  I  chronicled the New York Knickerbockers, the #7 seed, through their first round NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Series against the #2 seed Miami Heat.

My story covers games 4 and 5 of the Knicks-Heat playoff series.  A good writer should know a lead when it appears, but I dropped the ‘ball’ on this possession.    I didn’t even come up with the idea to create a digital story following the Knicks.  My input was that I like sports.  Credit for this idea goes to Professor Mikhail Gershovich and Dr. Luke Waltzer.   When I picked up the lead on making this story the series had already proceeded through 3 games with Miami leading 3-0.  Initially, I was to cover the game 4 match-up using combinations of tweets from Twitter, pictures from websites (like Google, Instagram, Flickr), and videos from YouTube.  Once the Knicks physically stepped up (Rise Up) and won the game, I was allowed to continue tracking the digital dialog of New York’s travails for the rest of the series.

I appreciate the Storify format of revealing a story using tweets, images and writing.  It presents a stage where any user becomes the author of published material.  Once you decide on your topic, find supportive information using tweets or pictures, and arrange the text in a likable order-press publish!  It compliments the ability of online creativity in an organized manner, while lending credibility to the productive usefulness of the internet.  I have now contributed my ‘five minutes of game’ to the millions of human thought hours of  cognitive surplus.

I hope you like it.  Thanks.

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Final Digital Project: Part One

For my final project I will use the qualified capabilities of  online messages in order to report on the relevant topics of the current season.  I will specifically rely on the unique resource of instant messaging to produce a different perspective on an interesting topic.  It is not something that I came up with on my own.  I would not have even thought to do something of this type.  I thank Professor Gershovich and Mr. Luke Waltzer for helping me to come up with an idea for my final digital project.

My final digital project involves something that I find interesting.  It involves sports.  I don’ t get to follow sports as much as I used to, on a day-to-day basis.  Between school full time and studying for classes, including finals, the time literally runs away.  However,  through the use of a growing business, I have been introduced to a different perspective on sports.  The venue is not new to me, but the method of implementing the process is brand new.

My final paper has not been started yet.  While I find the idea of another report daunting, it is what it is.  At least it has something to do with sports, which I still like.  The point is to find something that you like and work on it.  If you find it interesting, then it won’t be considered work.  I just hope that the information is not too outdated by the due date.

Commentary on ‘Journalism and the Internet’

I agree with John MacArthur about print advertisements compared to online advertising.  I find that print ads are available, clearly presented, and visible.  The  action of the intended point is controlled in the image-a still photo-and after you browse it you simply turn the page and move on.  Online  ads are not as simple.  The movement, the attention grab factor, the continuous play-either in replay or new varying catagories-makes for an un-appealing situation (for me).  As for moving on to other sites, it is nearly impossible!  There are pop-ups before the website appears, pop-ups after the site appears, sometime 3-4 moving ‘commercials’ at once. Not even TV can do that!  I relate more to print ads because I  can control the medium, print, more.  That way, if the marketing has its effect on me, I will remember it more.  The rate at which online advertising flows does not allow for much more than a moment of memory impact (for me) before-purposely yet aimlessly-rehashing the same trend with the next product.  It makes for a distracting time online.

I like the idea of free content, within reason.  I find that the internet allows an ability to find the necessary content you are searching for in a short time frame with less hassle and multiple resources available simultaneously.  I also respect the copyright privilege that some publishers and authors seek.  If I were the author producing works for sale, I would be angered by the availability of my work online without permission.  However, I should not have to pay for everything that I search online.  If each time someone researched a topic for a course paper (college/highschool/?junior high) they had to pay a fee for the service, there would be a lot less use of online services.

Finally, I agree that writing is work.  Writing is hard work. Not manual labor hard, nor giving birth labor hard, but mentally hard.  For instance, with four papers to write this past week-including three for this CIS course, there was not much time to study for a finance test immediately after today’s class.  This is not a adequate reason (excuse) to upload the material on a website and use a paywall as access for each ‘hit’ on the site.  On the other hand,  if you are talented, creative, and produce important or marketable information, you are within your rights to charge whatever price you want.  I won’t be buying.

Themes

Good morning to all my fellow bloggers.  After some trial and error on my blogsite, I found a platform theme preferable, however I am not able to construct it to a preferable format so I will retain the default theme setting for now.  The URL is: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/blogc.