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| It's true, it is. I'm 20. GO ME! anywho, back to the questions. I definitely see the "long tail" effect on my own consumption habits. Thanks to the wonderful makers of ebay and amazon, anything I could possibly want, no matter how obscure or weird it is, I will most likely be able to find it on there. Heck, you can even go make customized...well customized anything. Hats, shoes, shirts, you name it. If that isn't a niche, I don't know what is. It's amazing that you can go create a shoe, specifically for yourself, and then actually pay for it and own it. It is an interesting phenomonon. a good one I think, that people can go buy things more to their liking or lifestyle, instead of generic things that maybe dont fully suit their needs or desires. This has a lot to do with writing for the web because writers now have to realize that, they won't always be writing to mass audiences, they do not have to go for mass appeal when they write. If they can target a certain niche, they could easily make a living. And also, writers for the web have to aware of what the product they're selling is. They have to be aware if its a product for a mass audience, and if it's not, they then have to figure out exactly who the product is targeted for. They then have to try to penetrate these allusive niches. That is good and bad for future web writers because its easier to not have to write for mass appeal, you don't have to worry about covering all your bases, but trying to be apart of these niches can be hard. and making a product stand out amongst all these other niche products on this never ending shelf. It's an interesting time for the market place, it all seems possible
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| I was skeptical at first. What is loonie tunes going to teach me about writing for the web and web design? i didn't think i would be able to answer the question.
however, it made a lot of sense.
The main point trying to be put across is that when you are creating a web page, the design and the content (writing) need to go together. They need to play off of one another. You can't be making a site about popcorn and have tons of pictures of candy canes all over. you want your design to nicely compliment what you are writing about.
You also don't want a black design. You can't just have your writing on a white page and expect it to be entertaining, on the other hand, you also don't want to overload your design and end up smothering the content. Too much and too little don't work. You need to find a nice medium. A design, or scenery, that is just enough, and goes with your content.
A general awareness and eye for editing is needed in web design and web writing. You need to be aware of what you are writing, what you are designing and for who. Then you need to be able to look at it and say "this makes sense, these go together, and one is not over shadowing the other"
I think that's what the duck was trying to tell me. lol
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| So oops on my blog timing. I can hardly find a moment to exhale.
Heroin. That's a drug that is highly addictive.
Heroin Content, content on a website that feels highly addictive.
I get it.
I live it.
Some sites that I am addicted to. Sadly, I do have to admit that I am addicted to Myspace, Facebook, and my Yahoo account-also MyNU account too. Pathetic, maybe alittle bit. But its my heroin, I cannot help but log on. Its on my mind, honestly.
Myspace and Facebook are so addictive, for me, because they are based on your friends (and music for myspace). Guess what, I'm addicted to my friends. A lot of my good, good friends are an hour and a half away in Rochester. We all lead busy lives and those places are a way to help me check up on them, see what they are up to, keep in contact with them. See what they're posting, what they're thinking. Its reassuring. I like to know. I'm nosy. And I like keeping up on my music, so I will be on myspace and look at new bands, local and national, and internationally too. Music is a part of who I am. Like my friends. Addictive.
Yahoo I check because its my electronic mailbox. Gotta see what people are sending me, what if its important?
I check MyNU which is my school webpage because college is my life. I do not do anything apart from college, my life is really centered and based on college. All my decisions are based on it. So i need to know who my teachers are, i need to communicate with them. I need to know what I need to graduate, sign up for classes, see what is going on in my college world, which essentially is most of my world-minus my rochester world. Yes, i have seperate worlds. Its confusing, and its hard, but it is how I live at the moment. I choose this life, and it was thurst upon me. Its a double edge sword.
So thats why those sites are my heroin.
How i can make my site more addictive? Apart from posting nude pictures of girls, i have no idea. And that isn't a legitimate idea, i was just kidding. I am not sure how I can make my site more addictive. You would think after all the hours i spend on the computer, I would know. But ha, I don't. I don't know how to make a boyscout site addictive. Keeping an updated calender and photo gallery will help because the calender is something they need access too. and pictures are fun, they're memories. So...we will see, we will see what happens.
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| I am sick of the internet i have decided. thinking about it, writing about it-not using it though. This whole article did nothing because it just reaffirms that everyone has differing opinions, even in their ownselves. Some "writers" love the internet and view it as a new form of writing. Others dispise it and see it as the anti-christ to real prose and writing. Some people think it is both good and bad for writing. And who is to say any of them are right, or any of them wrong? And whose to say that their "writing" is any good either just because it is in print? Some people might think they are terrible and shouldn't be considered writers or make their livelyhood in writing. Maybe there are some great prose writers on the internet. I don't know. Futhermore, I am not sure that I care. My headaches, I still have to go to work today and I just had a meeting with my English advisor funny enough. We shall never answer the mystery of whether the internet is good or writing or writers until it is perhaps too late. "The key is to keep writing, imaginatively. As Ron Sukenick once said: "Use your imagination or else someone else will use it for you." What better way to use it than via writing, and the internet is the space where writing is teleported to your distributed audience in waiting, no?"
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Oh the laughter that ensued when I began reading this article. Much laughter and snickering. To be very blunt with you, this article was just kind of a "duh" article. For those people that think the Web is helping to create literacy, they clearly only do reading off the Web. If one thinks that I will read any article on the Web as closely as I will read a great novel in front of me that I can highlight and write in then they are quite mistaken, and in my mind, quite dumb.
I enjoyed this quote a lot because of its truth"
"they add something else, too: the reading habits kids have developed
after thousands of hours with those same tools in leisure time"
How can you take something that one does in their leisure time and then expect them to switch gears and use it in a productive academic sense. Should I then also bring my favorite television's DVD set into the classroom and start analyze that too? It is absurd. I don't know how teachers or educators could have thought differently.
One quote that blew my mind and somewhat enraged me was by the brilliant Ms. Price:
"The long book may go, Price concluded, but reading will carry on just
as it did before: "The file, the list, the label, the memo: These are
the genres that will keep reading alive."
Wow...did she really just compare memos, lists, and labels to great novels by Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickinson and so forth. Yes, Price, you are correct one must "read" labels and lists but are you really trying to qualify that has any sort of real reading. Reading in a higher, enlightening sense that will better anyone? I'm disgusted. If those are the genres that will keep reading alive then I hope I forget all together how to read.
I understand I sound ridiculous, but to be honest, I'm an elitist. I love great literature. I enjoy analyzing the hell out of poem or novel. My books are lined with scribblings, deciphering and finding meaning in pieces. So for someone to think that Web reading or lists and labels are an acceptable form of reading as long as reading is happening...it...it leaves me speechless.
This article tweaked my mind.
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