Swinnerton, B. (2008. June 11). Claypot of gold awaits poetic filmmakers. MX News, p.2.
“Two cuts, three scenes and under three minutes – all on your mobile phone. Duy Huynh, one of the filmmakers to take up the challenge of Mobile Hiaku, drinks to his possible success. The idea originated at Claypots in St. Kilda. Send your entries to clapots@bigpond.net.au”
Interesting news articles that I’ve found on wednesday.
Finally, my website for online documentary is ready.
Enjoy!
YOU NEED QUICK TIME PLAYER TO WATCH VIDEOS ON MY WEBSITE, THANK YOU
Yay, my photo is used for other report of ABC online new again. (:
:same photo but different report
Goals that I’ve made at the beginning of this semester for Transient Spaces Class
Total : 94/100
Overall, my mark for self assessment is 14.1% out of 15%
The some points that I haven’t done well are I didn’t communicate with many bloggers as many as I can. I read others’ blogs and vlogs a lot but I couldn’t make any comments or trackback that I’ve expected before. So I need to be more active for my blogging life I think.
Luckily, I love blogging and I do blogging everyday even though I have more than 3 blogs for myself. I am doing Korean and English blogging at the same time. Blogging is very useful and helpful to communicate with others in different spaces and time. I think blogging is like a ‘encyclopedia’ for these days. I can learn from blogs and some people can learn something from my blogs I hope.
This Transient Spaces class was very useful and helpful for me even though I already knew some parts that I’ve learn when I was doing media Bachelor course. Even though I knew and I learn, I still think there are plenty of things that I can learn in this world. I love learning all the time.
I just want to thank Dean and he helps me a lot for making website and using Dream weaver.
Cyworld is an Internet service that people can create their own home pages called ‘mini-hompy (homepage)’.
People can upload unlimited photos, documents and even videos these days. It is a social network that is similar to The Facebook. People can create their own avatars with their own choices, for example, hairstyle, shape of faces and clothes as well. Cyworld has other functions not only offers mini-hompy but also other activities to communicate with other members. There are ‘Cyworld Club’, ‘Paper’ and ‘Dotori’.
The Cyworld Club is Cyworld’s communities that are made by Cyworld’s members. Anyone can make the clubs and members can join the clubs if they have interests. The Paper is a blog of Cyworld. It is different from mini-hompy because the Paper is more for public rather than private. Through the Paper, members can share the information about certain topics or issues. Finally the Dotori is cyber money that can be used only in Cyworld and its members have to buy the credit to use. They can pay it through their mobile phones or credit card. With Dotori, they can buy music, wallpaper for their own mini-hompy, and they can give Dotori for friend’s birthday present as well. Without Dotori, people cannot decorate their own mini-hompies.
“Up to 90% of South Korean under the age of 20 are reported to be registered on Cyworld.” (Kirkpatrick, 2006)
Cyworld is the phenomenon in South Korea and it happens within only less than 4 years. It is a massive social network among younger people and even older people these days. There was only Korean version of Cyworld before but now there are international versions of Cyworld such as US, Japan, Taiwan, China and Vietnam. The format of international Cyworld has almost as Korean Cyworld’s but the only difference is they all use their own languages.
Young Koreans are addicted to Cyworld and they prefer communicating with their friends in Cyworld rather than offline out of Cyworld. Most of them have their own communities in Cyworld as well. They make friends in Cyworld and they actually communicate with people in online world that is Cyworld. Cyworld is not just a website that people can check their emails, messages or read others’ mini-hompies. People actually communicate with others within the Cyworld and ‘doing Cyworld’ is one of the essential daily routine for young Koreans.
They would like to check their mini-hompies and others’ almost everyday or even every hour. The reason for this they feel that they belong the communication and communities. Cyworld is very important community and communication space for young Koreans in these days.
(The example of ‘mini-hompy’ –my mini-hompy)
Cyworld is a social-networking service and it allows people to communicate with others in cyber space. People create the communities in on-line space and they communicate within it. Cyworld offers mini-hompy (homepage) to everyone who register to Cyworld. Cyworld allows people to communicate with others in on-line spaces easily and individually rather than just sending emails, messages, creating websites or blogs. Cyworld is a space for communication.
Cyworld’s mini-hompy is already set for everyone when people register and they do not need any HTML skills or other technical knowledge to start and run their homepages. Compare with other digital communication methods such as blogging, Cyworld is easy to use for everyone. Actually Cyworld was not easy to use before like these days’ simple system of using mini-hompy. However it has been changed and improved technically for several years. Finally it attracts people to come into the Cyworld because it becomes easy to use for people. I think the social- networking service has to be easy and simple to use for people rather than only for ‘techno-savvy’.
I mentioned before that I am a social networking service lover before. Well, I am using social networking service very well and it helps me to communicate with my family, friends in Korea and even anyone from any countries. It enriches my life a lot and I am using the social networking services everyday.
But I know there are many problems from using those services among younger people. For example. during the lecture, Dean shows us the Second Life videos and he talked about the problems from second life as well. Well, I think Second Life is a brilliant virtual world social networking service and it is amazing. We can do almost same thing as our real life. But there are the problems from ‘unreal’ life such as Second Life.
some new articles about problems of Second Life
The Dark Side of Second Life : Business Week
I haven’t use the Second Life yet but I would like to start the Second Life because I would like to know what’s going on in Second Life. I am a media student and I would like to work in the new media industry and the virtual reality is not a special thing anymore in these days. It is a common thing for us and even younger people. Maybe we are all living in the virtual reality in these days. Think about it. We use mobile phone all the time and we chat each other through Skype or other 3G devices.
The technologies will be improved and developed more, better and even quicker. And we have to accept all these technologies and technology world.
But we have to concern one thing carefully. That is us, Human Being. We have to consider that we are human being and we have to control the technology. Do not allow technology let control us.
If we use the technology wisely we can have enriched life but if not, we will be a slave of the technologies.
I just want to say I like social networking service such as cyworld or flickr. I am a big fan of flickr since 2005 I remember. I love taking photos and actually I had no space to put my photos rather than putting them into my external hard disk or i-photo on my computer.
one of my images from my flickr (click the image then it goes to my flickr account directly)
After I use flickr I can store my photos in it and also I can share my photos with others who love photography. Also I can see others’ works and even I can join some groups that I am interested in such as I Shoot Film. I love new technologies and I use internet everyday but I don’t like digital camera. Well, I’ve got my DSLR and I know it is easy to import photos to computer and it is easy to shoot. I don’t have to worry about developing, film cost and etc. But I love film camera and I am using from 35mm to 120mm film cameras. Even though I am not a professional photographer and also I am not a photography student, I love photography as my hobby.
Anyway, so I shoot film all the time and I put them into my flickr account. I can see others photos and we can communicate with each other through making comments about ourselves’ photos.
Sometimes I get good comments and sometimes not. But I can say that I can improve my photography skill and even creativity for photography through flickr. THIS IS SO TRUE!
I can learn from some professional’s photography and I can even ask them some questions about the photography. Yes, they are not my lecturer or friends but we are ‘CONTACT’ in flickr world.
Also I’ve got very good opportunities from some websites and even ABC online news. My photo is used on ABC online news! and one of my photo was used for children’s book in UK as well. Some of my photos about Melbourne were also used for one of the travel websites in US. This is amazing and very interesting.
I didn’t approach to them but they sent email to ask me whether they can use my photos or not. Then I could get the amazing outcome such as ABC online news. Even though my photo is just small part of the report but where can I get the opportunity like this?
I love flickr and other social networking services because I can actually communicate with people from all different spaces and time. When I think about only good things of social networking service, I can totally say that I am a social networking service lover but I can see some bad points of social networking services.
I will talk about this later.
sometimes, I do like analog.
Yay, I’ve got an email from one of ABC online news reporter about 2 or 3 weeks ago and he would like to use one of my photos from flickr. And today I got an email from him again and he said they used a photo of mine for their report. YES!
I am so happy about this. Few times my photos were used for some websites from US, UK and Australia. I think online is the best place to connect to the world. Well, I haven’t uploaded my photos to my flickr account for ages, it is time to go back to become being mad about flickr again. (:
To visit to read the news report, www.abc.net.au
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