Hello Everyone
Please find an invite for Combined Youngmen to attend the Special Bishopric Activity, Tuesday 29th September at Redcliffe chapel starting at 7.00pm, Come along even though it is school holidays.
It is themed FEAR FACTOR and intends to be an intense activity.
SEE you there if you DARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Michael Jackson’s death came at a time when the singer was preparing for one of the biggest endeavors of his career: a series of 50 final concerts called This Is It. It was supposed to be one final crescendo in Jackson’s career, but due to his untimely death, it wasn’t meant to be.
However, the footage from the preparation for this event was collected and turned into a documentary called Michael Jackson’s This Is It. The trailer for the upcoming movie, slated for an October 28 release, was first shown at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 14th (luckily, it wasn’t interrupted by Kanye West)
Now, MySpace has debuted a HD version of the trailer. We’ve embedded it below, but for a choice between several resolutions, including 1080p, check out MySpace’s Trailer Park.
Tags: michael jackson, myspace, This Is It
Back in July, we reported that Facebook had become the Internet’s ultimate time waster, with users spending an average of 4 hours, 39 minutes on it per month, more than any other site on the Web.
Since then, however, that number has only gone up. According to numbers from Nielsen Online, users spent an average of 5 hours, 46 minutes on Facebook in the month of August. To put that in perspective, that’s triple the amount of time they spent on Google!
In fact, the next closest site in Nielsen’s top 10 is Yahoo, which, despite still having huge traffic in time consuming areas like news, sports, and financial data, could only get users to stick around for 3 hours and 14 minutes on average during the month. YouTube, surprisingly, only occupied 1 hour and 17 minutes of the average user’s time.
Of course, one of Google’s stated philosophies is that they “may be the only people in the world who can say our goal is to have people leave our homepage as quickly as possible.” However, that ethos was set in stone long before users started spending an inordinate amount of time on social sites – sites that now want to compete in search.
For now, Google’s answer seems to be extending its reach in search through other products – primarily its Chrome web browser and upcoming OS. But not having a strong presence in social networking remains the company’s Achilles’ heel, becoming ever more apparent as Facebook pulls away from the pack in usage stats.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, hidesy
It’s clear to most in the media industry that journalism is undergoing a radical transformation. Newspapers are dying as journalism moves towards the web. That change has led to a social media revolution in the industry as top writers and editors embrace Twitter and Facebook to engage their audience and build up a stronger readership.
While we’ve covered the basics of using social media in professional writing in The Journalist’s Guide to Facebook and The Journalist’s Guide to Twitter, you can only cover so much in an article. Luckily, I had the opportunity to discuss social media, Facebook, and journalism in-depth on a panel for the Columbia School of Journalism.
The webcast, entitled “Advanced Facebook for Journalists,” was a discussion on how Facebook has transformed the entire media industry as well as practical tips for any journalist. The panel consisted of:
- Arik Hesseldahl, Senior Technology Writer at Businessweek.
- Brandee Barker, Director of Communications at Facebook (Product/Platform)
- Barry Schnitt, Director of Communications at Facebook (Privacy/Policy)
- Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs and Professor of Digital Media at the Columbia School of Journalism
- Me
It was a great discussion led by Sree covering everything from Facebook’s new features to the #1 reason why a journalist should be using Facebook at all.
If you’re interested, we have embedded the audio (courtesy of BlogTalkRadio) below. The discussion, including questions, lasted for about an hour, but every minute is chock full of information:
Tags: Columbia, Columbia School of Journalism, facebook, journalism
