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[banxx]

I was up on a ladder today, painting the top trim on our house. I've never used a ladder before, I've always been too afraid of them, but after today I can honestly say I'll NOT be doing it again anytime soon cuz FUCK THAT NONSENSE! #spenttwohoursonthatladder#didnotlike

[brionnan-blog]

Swales Discourse Community

I think that this was a very dryreading and the terms and ways he talked about his information was kind of confusing. I had to read it 3 times to really understand some things and I still didn’t get a full understanding. I also don’t like how he wrote it only for those with certain word or phrase knowledge it made the reading harder and elongated also it was so hypocritical. Swales spent valuable pages arguing against these communities or the things involved with them but then goes and writes in a sense only understandable for some. I think that this article could have gotten the message across a lot better and more efficient but that’s the way he chose to do it. I learned the information relatively well and think I learned a few things about the development and pieces of a discourse community. After talking about this in class and reading the 6 defining characteristics I was able to get a better feel of what a discourse community really is.

[elequigan]

If this is the future of Social Media sponsorships - I'm quitting tomorrow.

I get selling a few pics to a magazine.  I get letting a brand send you a few items and showing them off in a few choice instagrams, I can also understand proud celebrity parents wanting to share a few shots of their most intimate of moments - but there is no way I get having full "sponsorship" of your baby's first few months.

From asking people to follow the brand to get pic updates (For the first pic of #BabyJonas follow Dreft - REALLY?), to posting videos using the advertised product (an app, but still...), this baby had no choice in the matter.  Attaching a new born to surface wipes via world of amazing gentle clean?  ARE YOU ACTUALLY SERIOUS?

Urgh honestly, this whole thing makes me feel incredibly uncomfortable - if this is the branded social media future, I want no part of it.  Examples straight from Dreft's Twitter page follow.

[elequigan]

Original Source - Purple Ginger

I often wonder what goes on in creative brainstorms, presentation setups and client meetings.

I'm sure it's got to a point where every brief wants to be "the next ..." or "must include social", "must be viral and shareable".  These elements all make sense but sometimes it mashes into something ridiculous.

My questions for this piece of work are

- If you're watching it on YouTube, are those Thumbs up Thumbs down counted?

- The whole premise feels really long winded, I was bored by the time the shower started, why not in half the time?

- What do the sounds have anything to do with the products included?

I can understand what they are trying to do - similar to "choose our next flavour" and activate the audience to think about their shower time, but I'm questioning exactly why a user would vote (is there a competition?  Do I win shower products?) when the content doesn't have any particular content/reason to share it?

With the purple ginger one specifically - how does having someone repeat ginger repeatedly create some kind of smell association with a shower and convince someone to share it?

The sound design is pretty cool, but from an overall campaign perspective, I'm not convinced.