I listen for the foot steps

Facebook is a very professional site for general use. The chance to meets lots of people from all over the world is presented with easy to use features. The categorical feature gives user friendly opportunities to work other people with similar interest connecting through similarities. This connection turns into the network and become more humanly responsive and available feed back to others categorically who are seeking to interact.
I am set up and operational on Facebook and am looking forward to experiencing the power of this network.

Myspace is ready to help interaction and has setup a good amount of tools to use. This is a very social logical friendly site that is giving a lot in the way of exchanging and exposure for free, It’s the user content that is at the diving force and time is money to give some thing in order to get something back is good for advertising and promotions.. The consumer is diving this vehicle, and as products are gaining market share the advertiser’s line up for Google set up their banners and Oracle for customer relationships. Myspace is by fare more ad orientated than Facebook which has very little if any at the initial level of entry..
The lecture covered user generated content and the attributes of social connectivity in the network system transferring information on a personnel level revealing personal information. Who is looking for our information and how do we protect our private identity from others. The subject of ownership of information regarding personnel private was reviewed in the class. The class preparation for the speaker and social networking provide a good back drop fro the upcoming speaker.
I have Bolgged at several of the site such as Blogger, Myspace, Facebook and wordpress. I am also working my way into using Feedburner to distribute material article and other information regarding the continued development of the emerging Paragon MultiMedia Corporation in Newport Beach, California.
The following are articles taken from the web that discuss in more depth the various attribute of social networking and a contemporaneous fashion.


The number of comments can also indicate a blog's popularity. The posts of distinguished UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong, for example, regularly receive 40 or more comments. Despite its bland title, "Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal" is one of the heavyweights of the blogosphere. It gets more than 10,000 hits per day, is ranked No. 15 on BlogStreet's list of the 100 most influential blogs, and is regularly given props by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. That's partly because DeLong feeds the beast every few hours with fresh snippets of text about politics, economics, and journalism, from all over, framed by often scathing (and screamingly funny) sarcasm.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/10/04_blogs.shtml

http://groups.xanga.com/groups/group.aspx?id=7906

“I find it interesting that the demographic is expanding for sites like myspace and facebook… These sites are are being assimilated into American culture and are becoming a symbol of America itself.”
“UGC takes various forms, some of which may seem more reliable, credible, or even worthwhile than others; however, this is subjective. Ultimately, all forms of UGC serve a purpose for their creator.”
“Content from traditional sources isn't guaranteed to be good— How many TV shows are simply terrible, how many movies are near unwatchable, and how much music just sucks?”

Privacy & Security
“People are curious. They want to know what other people are doing, how they do things, what they talk about, what they care about, and how they interact with one another. Humans are natural students of life and that includes the study of other humans.”
The Basics …
What information do you provide in an online profile?
What does the profile site do with that information?
“Chico State doesn't actively search profiles for incriminating materials, but students who post pictures or commentary about illegal activities could face consequences”- Drew Calandrella, VP of Student Affairs.The Orion: 9/2007
What can you do to protect your image and reputation?
Michael Guinn
Michael Guinn
§23 years old
§Attended John Brown University in Arkansas
§Created a Facebook profile
»Posted pictures of himself and friends
»Some pictures depicted him in drag
“Guinn violated the school's community covenant, a biblical standard of principles and values”
Reed College
Reed College, Portland Oregon
§Denied admission to a student over entries in his LiveJournal blog
Lousiana State
§Two swimmers kicked off the team for criticizing their coach in their Facebook profiles
Jefferson, Colorado
§A 16-year-old boy was arrested after police found pictures on his MySpace page of him holding handguns.
§Police subsequently found the same weapons in his home
Costa Mesa, California
§20 students were suspended from TeWinkle Middle School for two days for participating in a MySpace group where one student allegedly threatened to kill another and made anti-Semitic slurs.
§The student accused of making the threat faces criminal charges and expulsion

Do you think universities, police, etc. are justified in acting upon information obtained from online profiles?
•Yes
•No
•Abstain
Digital Dirt
What information is out there about you?
Have you “Googled” yourself lately?
How confident are you that you have a clean online reputation?
•Very confident
•Unsure
•Not confident
•Abstain
How do you control what is published about you?
Where do you show up?
Who is talking about you?
ExecuNet Survey:
§78% of executive recruiters routinely use search engines to find out more about candidates
§35% have eliminated candidates based on what they have found

Not everything about you online is posted by you.
The more you put yourself out there, the more you have to look for where you appear.
Google Bombing
At one time the search terms “miserable failure” in Google resulted in an interesting result.

Cleaning Up Your Online Reputation
#1 Investigate
Search for yourself …
§search.myspace.com
§technorati.com (blog search engine)
§blogsearch.google.com (Google blog search)
§video.google.com (Google video)
§voutube.com
#2 Clean your “Space” and wash your “Face”
“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”- Benjamin Franklin
Recommendations
§Take down any pictures that you may be embarassed about later
§Revise or remove any postings where you “bash” professors, employers, or others who may come back some day and remember you

#3Ask for Help
When you’re not in control …
§You may have written a not-so-politically correct editorial published on the newspaper’s web site
§You may have commented in a blog post in which you are perceived in a negative light
§There may be negative information that someone posted about you
Try to eliminate it
§Ask the site editor or owner to remove it.
»Be specific about the page, entry, or story you want removed
§If you cannot get it removed, be prepared to speak about it if it comes up in an interview
§Legal action can also be taken to have defamatory content removed
Become your own agent
§Create and post positive, accurate information about yourself
»Distribute it across multiple sites
»Keep it current
Represent the “professional you”
§Use your blog to its potential
»Instead of bitching about having to keep a blog, demonstrate you can think and write on serious topics
»Add links to industry news, and research in the field you wish to enter
»Keep in mind, some say that “perception is reality”
Represent the “professional you”
§Create an online photo album using Flickr.com
»Instead of pictures of you doing a keg stand, show your experiences backpacking in Europe
»Show your culture, show your experience, show your personality
»Edit pictures … and choose wisely!
Represent the “professional you”
§If you have videos of you winning awards, giving a speech, playing athletics, upload them to YouTube or Google Video
§If you are a media arts or digital media student, you MUST, MUST, MUST develop an online portfolio using these technologies … show that you are current.
Represent the “professional you”
§Create a profile on a site like iKarma.com
»Ask others to write and post positive comments about you
»Request friends, professors, classmates, and others to write good reviews about you or rate you
Represent the “professional you”
§Use MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, etc. to create informational pages about your personal life
»Demonstrate your people networks
»Be careful not to get too personal
Represent the “professional you”
§Add a link to your best site(s) on your resume or cover letter
»Show them you are technology savvy
»Make it easy for them to find good information about you
»Don’t let them go searching for other information
#5Bury your Skeletons
Make sure your “good” pages and content are easy to find
Tips for increasing search engine relevance and positioning:
§Be sure the text on each page is unique to the others.
»Don’t have the same exact content on every profile if you want search engines to find it.
Tips for increasing search engine relevance and positioning:
§If it’s available, purchase your own domain name.
»Search engines like this
»It appears more professional
»It’s easier to find and remember
§Domain name registrars
»godaddy.com, register.com, dotster.com
Politics
“Getting involved in politics is one of the earliest forms of ‘social networking.’Technology just makes theconnections easier.”
2004 some primary candidates did use social networks.
The Kerry/Edwards campaign used Friendster
George W. Bush was no where to be found in social networking (at the time).
Social Networking is making it easier for people to get information, get involved, get motivated.
“Young people now have an opportunity to engage with politics using the same tools they live with in their everyday lives.”Jeff Berman, senior VP of public affairs at MySpace
Do you currently look at any social networking sites for campaign related information?
•Yes
•No
•Abstain


The Background
§Joe Anthony, a paralegal in Southern CA
»Created the first myspace profile for Barack Obama (Nov 2004)
»Spent 2 1/2 years maintaining the profile
»Was an "enthusiastic volunteer" to the campaign
§Obama's campaign started working with Anthony to maintain and update the page (Feb 2005)
Things Got “Interesting”
§The site "exploded in popularity" with over 160,000 "friends"
§The campaign became concerned about an outsider controlling the content and responses going out under Obama's name
The issue:- The campaign asked Anthony to relinquish controlAnthony asked for $29,000 for his "extensive work on the site" plus up to $10,000 for additional fees
The Issue
§The campaign asked Anthony to relinquish control
§Anthony asked for $29,000 for his "extensive work on the site" plus up to $10,000 for additional fees
The Resolution
§MySpace “reluctantly” stepped in to settle the dispute and decided that
»- Obama should have the rights to control the profile page in his name
»- Anthony had the right to take all friends who signed up while he was in control, and that includes the right to tell them how he feels about the Obama campaign

Perspectives
Anthony wrote on his MySpace blog that he was heartbroken that the Obama campaign was "bullying" him out of the page he built.
The campaign's fight drew widespread criticism among leading liberal bloggers who question why they would treat a volunteer like Anthony with such disregard.
The Aftermath
§The Obama campaign had to rebuild his friends network from scratch and was up to more than 20,000 by Wednesday evening after the decision was made.
»Today he has over 313,000 friends.
§Joe Anthony has a new myspace page with over 1800 friends.
Do you think MySpace did the right thing in turning the profile over to Obama?
•Yes
•No
•Abstain
Reminder: Social Network Profile Analysis
By March 13th
Submit your profile URLs via Blackboard Vista
In your blog this week …
• Reflect on topics related to image, professionalism, and privacyOR2) Discuss how you (personally) see social networking impacting the 2008 election

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

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From The Times
March 22, 2008
Social network goes on the London stump
Martin Waller: City Diary
A bunch of anonymous business types have put together £50,000 of funding that will allow someone - anyone, actually – to stand in the elections for London Mayor on May 1. They have created a website, Londonelectsyou, which allows any member of the public over 18 and a registered London voter to enter a poll. The candidate who gets the most e-mail votes is handed the cash to fund his or her campaign. The site has, inevitably, attracted some deeply weird people, including a poet who is urging his supporters to open as many e-mail accounts as they can and vote early, vote often and is doing rather well.

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Published: March 20, 2008

MARK CUBAN, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has a full plate. Besides his basketball team, the busy billionaire also owns part of a media company, and serves as chairman of the TV channel HDNet. He recently competed for five weeks on “Dancing With the Stars” on ABC. How on earth does he find time to blog?

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Glenn Reynolds, a law professor, with a page from his blog, Instapundit.com.

Yet his site, blogmaverick.com, is one of the top 1,000 Weblogs, according to the search engine Technorati. Thousands read Mr. Cuban’s posts every single day. If he can do it, why can’t you?

“Don’t go into blogging to make a living,” Mr. Cuban warned in an e-mail message. Still, he and other top bloggers with day jobs agree most people could attract a following on the Web. And whether a person blogs to make a little money, to influence opinion or just for sheer ego gratification, amassing a large audience is the goal.

Here’s what a number of successful bloggers with successful nonblogging careers say are the ways to think about getting into the business of blogging.

Don’t expect to get rich. You can easily place automatically served ad banners from Google or AdBriteonto your blog. It is as simple as signing up with an ad service and placing a snippet of HTML code into your blog. Many of the ads will be specific to the topic of your posts and the service will credit your account whenever a reader clicks on one of the ads. You get a check only if the account builds to a set amount, $100 in the case of Google.

But Philip Kaplan, president for products at AdBrite, cautions that only one in six blogs draws even 500 page views a day. At that pace, you would make at most $45 a month, even if the site were decked out with full-page ads. Mr. Kaplan estimates only 3 percent of active sites make more than $1,000 a month from advertising.

“In 3.5 months we made $9.47,” complained one blogger, Ted Dziuba, who yanked the automatic ads off of his site, Uncov.com.

Write about what you want to write about, in your own voice. Mr. Dziuba, a software engineer at Persai, a Web news filtering service, began blogging out of sheer frustration with buggy, overhyped Web 2.0 applications. Uncov.com became a magnet for techies with similar complaints, and unintentionally raised awareness of Persai. Thousands of Uncov readers signed up for a test of Persai’s service. Eventually, even advertisers took notice. “Once I started getting 2,000 to 3,000 page-views per day,” he says, “advertisers started coming to me.” He says advertisers have contacted him directly with offers of $750 for a month of display ads.

Mr. Cuban said: “Blog about your passions. Don’t blog about what you think your audience wants. Post because you have something you are dying to write about.”

Fit blogging into the holes in your schedule. “Deal with the rest of your life first,” advises Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee who posts constantly throughout the day on his site, Instapundit.com. The volume and regularity has helped make his political opinion site one of the most popular on the Internet. “The blog is best handled by inserting it into the small bits of free time that rest among the bigger chunks of your work.” Mr. Reynolds slips in posts between classes, as a break from writing law review articles and during slow time at home.

Just post it already! The hurdle that stops many would-be bloggers is fear of clicking the “Publish” button. Xeni Jardin, who juggles blogging at the quirky alternative-news siteBoingBoing.net with a career as a freelance journalist for NPR, Wired magazine and others, resists the urge to polish her blog prose the way she would a radio script. “Don’t bottle up your ideas forever believing you have to hit the same kind of mature, complete, perfect point as you would with a magazine or newspaper article,” she says. “Blogs are always in progress.” Boing Boing’s bloggers are known for going back to posts to update them, adding new information and striking out factual errors.

Keep a regular rhythm. Bloggers disagree on how often they should post. Mr. Reynolds and Ms. Jardin post several times a day. Mr. Cuban and Mr. Dziuba will go a week without a post. What matters, they agree, is that you establish a reliable rhythm for readers, so they know they can rely on you to have new material for them every so often.

Likewise, there’s no one right length for blog posts, but the most successful sites seem to have their own reliable formats, just like most professional publications. Mr. Reynolds rarely goes beyond two or three lines per post. Boing Boing entries run one to three paragraphs each, always with a photo. Mr. Cuban’s Blog Maverick entries can take up the entire browser window — when the guy’s on a roll, he’s on a roll.

Join the community, such as it is. There’s an unwritten rule — actually, it’s written about a lot on blogs — that you should always link back to bloggers whose ideas you repeat, or from whom you get a cool link to another site. Don’t use other bloggers’ photos or excerpt their writing without a prominent link back to the original. When in doubt, give credit.

More to the point, linking to other bloggers is the best way to get them to link to you. Links from other bloggers increase your readership two ways: they send readers directly from other sites, and they raise your ranking in search engine results. A blogger who posts about a hot topic like Eliot Spitzer’s secret life, but has no inbound links, will lose out to one who already has dozens of inbound links from other sites.

Plug yourself. That’s what all the name-brand bloggers do. It’s not bad form to send a short note to a prominent blogger drawing his or her attention to a really good blog you wrote. Some bloggers place links to their sites in comments they write on more established blogs. (And some bloggers are on to the trick and refuse to allow it.)

A more direct way to draw a crowd is to submit your blog posts to news aggregation sites like Digg, Fark and Boing Boing. Readers vote on how much they like the posts and new readers are drawn to the list of most popular posts. Granted, it helps if your blog post includes a home video of someone being attacked by a cat or really arrogant e-mail messages from a hedge-fund manager. Those get passed around virally in an instant.

Allowing readers to post comments on your blog not only increases readership, it provides a sense of live interaction with the rest of the world. But beware: the insulting comment is an Internet art form. “There’s a big difference between being flamed on someone else’s blog, and having them come do it in your own home,” Ms. Jardin said.

In the end, the biggest threat isn’t that you’ll fail to learn to blog. It’s that if you blog regularly for long enough, and begin to get comments and links from other bloggers, you’ll have trouble doing your day job.

“I can’t stop reloading,” confessed a colleague over IM after a post of hers began to attract dozens of comments. “I should be working, I know,” she added a few seconds later. “I have an unhealthy obsession.” Isn’t that the whole idea?

Roundtable 2007

The event which my team was assigned ‘Freshman Fears: Bugs, Beer, Bullets, and Belly Bulge’ became a leading the roundtable conversation with Kasee Kinzller, Suzie Nubez, Gib Azevedo, Caitlyn Henderson and Monika Polt who gave an individual session discussion involving all of the students cramed into an over crowed room in 120 at the O’Connell building. These student from English 130 did a very nice presentation using verbal and multi Media techniques. Their subject matter was well researched and many relavent facts were brought into the community for discussion. Each of the presentors used about five minutes to forward the messages and show visuals of the ideas which they were sending to the audence. The audence then began to interact wth personnal experiences and questing concerning the topics. The audeces was reminded that this was an open forum and encouraged partispation for conversation amoung the presentors and attendees. The discussion stayed focused durning th e conversations. M team then scribled down our opinions in a collaborative statement and preceded to the next assignment.

The Act of Persuading

The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action (suasion).
We are forwarding our learning in a message stressing the state of radical environmental rhetorical issues which claim global warming as a critical issue in the U.S. agenda. We feel a collaborative position is needed to define our position and will use doxa and stasis to explore our theme in a classical since of Kairos as well as Carters essay position in the world wide dilemma of global warming. Using optional readings of Kinneavy to support our theses premises of ecological activism and laying the ground work for a supposition this short essay will find critical points which combine to form a purpose of need to take action on important issues. We believe that there are many environmental issues which need to be attended to and need to be fairly addressed.
Some of the effects as seen by Al Gore and others are issues which we will be addressing in the paper in response to the rhetorical methods used in several essay which have lead to this paper number four.

Energy Policy Act 20005

U.S. Energy Policy, an Environmental Essay
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This research, survey and report, focus is on the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and to a lesser extent the ‘Hydroelectric Licensing under the Federal Power Act’, by probing the definitions and analyzing its provisions academically contrasting the 500 pages of the Act in such a way as to value of the ecological, environmental and social effect. The terms contained in the Act are what make the laws of the Act a prescription as to their meaning. The implied codes of such an enormous statement as this (500 pages) normally applies to sections and sub section as evidence to the user and parties of interest such as the sovereign Indian Nations. Therefore, the following pages will sort out only a small part of these codes from the Act contained in the pages and to some extent determine the pretense of environmental activism this would engender. As to the intent of Congress, we will discern to some extent what future consequential resulting impact may be. This analyses will forward these findings in context to be viewed as good faith as to the effect of the agenda for this public Act intended; to provide affordable energy for the general public and industrial complex in the U.S..

Have the sites

I have setup shop at the Bloggs, Word press, myspace, facebook and feedburner.

I found that Myspace offered and lot of features and was easey to find the url and setup a webpage.

The Facebook signup was easy enough and the featues offered for free were nice to browse and got the Bloges ready to use and need to generate some content.

Wordpress is simple enough pretty much the same as the others and has offered some software and other encougement for setting up and spewing content, but very exciting to get this far into the subject matter, Jon is a great insructor.

Virgo

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Virgo
Analytical Virgo, as the sixth sign of the zodiac, you represent purity, perfection, and practicality. Virgos put things in order to unify the world. Mercury, the planet of mental and intellectual principles, and ruler of Virgo, makes you a methodical and organized worker who brings an analytical, systematic approach to all facets of life. You project a serious image overall, one only strengthened by your problem-solving skills and fastidious refinement. Yours is the second of the earth signs, which makes you a dependable, responsible individual. You are reserved and modest in your behavior, and discriminating in your choices. You connect strongly to Mother Earth, and are therefore extremely health-conscious. As a Virgo, you rule the sixth house of the horoscope, associated with the quality of work. Furthermore, this section of the chart shows how you analyze, deal with, and communicate details. The sixth house also involves health matters in general. Virgo mode is mutable, which means that you are a levelheaded communicator who makes sure that whatever is being discussed is precise and accurate. Your role in a team is that of quality control. Your strengths lie in your sharp mental powers, especially in scientific, or technical areas. You are well spoken and witty, and have a good understanding of other people's problems. Above all, you're a great problem solver, providing clear analysis to complex issues. Your weaknesses are that you tend to be too much of a perfectionist, which can lead you to pedantic, petty, or schoolmasterly behavior. Your critical and sometimes negative outlook on life can be a downer for others, who may describe you as reserved, overly critical, and timid.

Myspace, Facebook, Feedburner and Wordpress

I have been Blogging for number of years starting with my Bulletin (Polynet) Board in 1993 and on into the present day effort.
Myspaces blog has been up since 2006 and should still work with my pass word and I plan to explore is soon. I had to get a update several months ago. The reason is that I have not been using the Blog and some how it got lost or deleted, never the less I can say soon after signing on I started receiving inquiries and invitations. Very socially interactive nice social protocol but I didn't respond nor did I focus on that site and moved on to more of a read only stage of usage swifting through page after page. I can see now how it never worked well in read only for me, nevertheless I kept the pass word etc.
I faced THE sign up on facebook the other day but didn't have time to go with the ID stripping, but need to go back, and use this assignment as an excuse to spend time on face book.
Wow! a lot of back office working's to engage these sites and produce interviews with marketing directors at Myspace, the viddeo was insightful and informative I'm glad I spent the time to view it.
The Google open social software is interesting and I will be exploring this feature for Blogging the open source application developer opening wider social interactions.

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Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fourth Edition)
W3C Recommendation 16 August 2006, edited in place 29 September 2006
This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml
Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PER-xml-20060614
Editors:
Tim Bray, Textuality and Netscape
Jean Paoli, Microsoft
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, W3C
Eve Maler, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
François Yergeau
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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML.