Blog #16

Pandora and LastFM were music sites I never seen or heard of before. Pandora was probably the one I liked the most from both of the sites. The only part I did not really like doing was the part was we had to register before creating a playlist. I have heard and used other sites such as dogpile and myplaylist to create a music list. Pandora allows you to see the different types of genres of music and you can even create your own station which is pretty awesome to me. LastFM was really slow and I think other students and I were having trouble on finding what we wanted to find. For instance it was slow and every time I would put a name of a certain song I wanted to hear it would lead me to another type of band that was almost like the one I wanted to hear first. There were some similarities between Pandora and LastFM. They are both music websites, they both wanted you to register before going onto their websites which was pretty weird to me because like I said I don’t really like signing up for websites if I know I am just going to use the once or twice. The other similarities were that both of them had all types of music they had everything that anyone could listen to. There are other similarities but I can not really think of them so that is my fault. Along with the common things there are differences. One of them that I noticed right away was that LastFm was slower than Pandora. Like I said earlier I was having trouble with it so that wasn’t cool. I did not really get enough information on LastFM so I can’t really say anything about it. Except for the fact it did not get me to where I wanted to get. Every time I would click for a song all it would say was error or something else. I wouldn’t recommend LastFM but I would be sure to use Pandora and recommend it better than the other one. I know I would use Pandora more than once or twice instead of using other sites that I have been using.

Blog #13

What we did in class on October 2nd was we had to create a timeline for our descriptive essay which is the one were we had to write about the vlog that we had chosen. The timeline has about five parts to it sometimes six depending how long you want your paper to me it is better if it is a six paragraph paper just for the fact that it is longer. The beginning that explains what the introduction is going to be about including the thesis statement. The second part of the timeline will talk about the first paragraph which concludes the first part of the vlog. In the middle line will be about what was going on during middle of the vlog. Then the fourth line will discuss the third paragraph. Last the fifth paragraph also known as the conclusion. The timeline can include feelings like what the person or what I was feeling during the time of watching the vlog, emotions could be what was the emotional feeling the vlogger felt or what looked like they felt, sound (noises that you can hear in the background), background for example the person can be talking and while they are talking you just notice a big picture frame behind them. The background is also who the vlogger is basically what you do is describe what they look and sound like. This helped me plan my essay in many ways because first of all I didn’t really know how to get started on this essay even people that worked at the writing center couldn’t understand the assignment. The timeline helped me put everything in order and what needed to be filled out in those areas. I never thought it would have been so helpful but it did really get me what I needed to for me essay because I can not really break everything down even if I wanted to I just have trouble doing it. I think it would have helped me if we had more examples of what had to be done such as getting the story and breaking it down into parts. Other than that I did get some answers to my questions.

Blog #14

When we were first told to comment on each others blog I was thinking to myself oh no I don’t really like when others read what I wrote only my instructor because I get afraid of what they might think. When I started to read other students blogs I started to get comfortable with everyone reading mine because all of us have different thoughts, ideas, and opinions that each of us have. I felt that my blogs would be to boring or get to a point that no one would want to read or comment on them. Then there was one part were I thought it was funny because I’m not the only one who hasn’t completed their blogs and there were some that I could find similarities to my blogs because I feel that everyone wants feedback on what they are writing about because to some of us we think that what we write isn’t good enough. I also feel that commenting on each others blogs helped each of us out one way or the other. There were blogs that I had done where I had asked for opinions or suggestions on some of the assignments. I know I need the help on what I am doing.

Blog #12

Our class was assigned to choose a vlog to write about for our descriptive essay. At first I didn’t know what a vlog was till our instructor explained it. To me it is just like blogging except the vlogger talks about themselves through a webcam instead of typing it all down which is probably an easier way to talk about you. The vlog I have chosen to write about is about this 19 year old, Caucasian blonde, hair blue eyed male named Tyler Oakley. I picked this one out because to me it was interesting, not to boring, and pretty funny. However there is a point during the video where he does not know what to talk about so he just starts talking about random things such as buying glasses that make him feel like Kanye West. Then there is the part where Tyler lists his movie collection movies like Mean Girls, Sister Hood of the Traveling pants, and Legally Blonde. In the beginning he talks about how he got started on doing his first vlog. He likes being called the “other Tyler” since there is another famous man named Tyler Oakley who happens to be one of the inspirations on why he got started on vlogging. Another inspiration to him is D cool W just because of watching his vlog seemed real interesting to him. Tyler also talks about his background for example where he works and lives. He lives with his grandparents and works at starbucks from 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. I think that is ridiculous if someone works at that time because I myself am not a morning person and wouldn’t be able to do that. This vlog is a four minute and about thirty seconds long. If anyone wants to watch this vlog the link to it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iu8M6IYQyE. Personally I think it is weird to do a vlog because your giving out information about who you are threw millions of people you don’t even know. Then again that is just my opinion. Dome people like to blog and some people like to vlog but I think vlogging is the new blogging.