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After a week of talking about Copyright and Fair Use, this was too good not to share. A mashup of the Disney princesses and Mean Girls. Small chunks of different Disney movies set to the dialogue of Mean Girls. Perfect. 

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This afternoon, while spending my Sunday in the least productive way possible, I experienced some annoyance with my iPhone. While trying to text, my phone wouldn't send and the dreaded message of "Sent as Text Message" kept appearing on my screen. I thought it might have something to do with my wi-fi or the Miami wi-fi. Little did I know that the problem was happening outside the Oxford bubble.

According to Apple's support page, the outage began around 2:45 pm eastern time and continued until nearly 8pm. While Apple couldn't be reached for any comments, the social media world exploded with angry members of Team iPhone. Personally, I just thought it was annoying, but nothing to complain too much about. My favorite outraged tweet was this, thought: "iMessage is never going to work again and i think that we're all gonna have to become pilgrims again and churn our own butter.#thestruggle" Some people feel a little too strongly about their texting habits.

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Despite numerous invalid news reports, Netflix is officially available on Nintendo's new Wii U! Plenty of people flocked to pick up the latest gaming system this weekend, despite rumors that multiple services were to be delayed. Among the pack, Hulu Plus, YouTube, and Amazon Instant Videos are still to be delayed.

What makes Wii U different than anything gamers have ever seen? The GamePad. For those of us who might not be quite as up to date in the gaming sphere, this is the first tablet-style controller for a game system. Combing aspects of gaming, touch-screen technology, DVR, and even social media, the GamePad will support its own social platform, Miiverse. 

But in an age of exponential technology growth, it might not be wrong to ask...what took so long? In fact, Wii U is the first game console to be released from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo since 2005-2006.  Has it really been that long? Nevertheless, the end of the gaming stalemate should definitely help Netflix...a service fighting for dominance in its own technological realm. 

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Social Popularity vs Social Influence

A 2010 study of Twitter influence by the HP Social Computing Lab  showed that the most famous people on Twitter like Martha Stewart and David Gregory were very popular but not very influential.  That is, what they communicated had very little influence on their follower’s actions.  If Martha Stewart says “orange is the new black” nobody goes out and buys orange. The foundational truth we’re not talking about in this discussion of digital influence is that popularity—even subject matter expert popularity—is not a proxy for influence.

As social media marketers, we must recognize the difference between social "popularity" and social "influence" We should strive to strategize our social engagement to build relationships with customers. Disregard Klout scores, because at the end of the day your FB page could have the most likes - but are you seeing a return on investment? 

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This is the infographic that I was planning on presenting in class until we ran out of time, so I decided to use this as a great post topic.  Music Festivals and Concerts have become a living and breathing entity amongst my generation.  Each one has its own personality and its own community that coincides with it.  From the fans to the musicians concerts create a very specific and unique environment that seem to be overwhelmingly attractive to people.  Fans not only flock to the event themselves but they also come together on social networking sites to both discuss feelings prior to the event and to also re-live the event after it has ended.  Being someone who goes to multiple shows a year (most specifically during the summer time) I thought that looking at the best ways to find tickets and what were the most popular shows of this past summer was very interesting to me.  Its cool to see how much the music business and online activity amongst ticket distributing websites gain during the summer months.  

The information is not the only thing that I found intriguing about this inforgraphic.  I also thought that the general layout and the way its presented to the reader directly connects to an inforgraphic that I want to make.           

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Harry Potter come to life: the first real invisibility cloak

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2231674/Scientists-reveal-perfect-invisibility-cloaking-device-admit-Harry-Potter-cloak-way-off.html (11.12.12)

Researchers from Duke University revealed technology that can completely "cloak" any object by using meta-materials to guide electromagnetic waves around an object. The recent version of the cloak reduced any reflections of light coming off of the cloak so that the viewer is not aware that anything is there. 

This amazing research turns an idea we previously thought of as magical into an achievable science. In relation to our recent discussion about patents and open access to education and data, I am curious about how this technology will be used in the future and who will be granted access to it. I hope that someday I can have the chance to own an invisibility cloak. I will no longer have to mourn the fact that I'm not a witch - I can have magic anyway. 

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All of this fighting that is going on in the Middle East has caused all of the fighting to get to a new medium.  Gaza and Israel are now in the midst of twitter war as some may call it. And some are calling it a "new thing".  It has kind of reminded many of how the military used the radio back in World War II and how it has been a crucial development in recording live feedback and news from the site itself. Twitter has been under scrutiny because of the fact they want to be a carrier service and not an editorial service, but most of the users and some of the content that they are posting is mostly because of the war and it is just an opinion on their part.  

I think twitter as the normal medium that is currently in the world, there is going to be scrutiny that comes along with it.  People that are users have to take the necessary means to advise what they are putting on their tweets.  They need to realize that tweets spread and that they are going to have opinions be heard.  Gaza and Israel are having a problem and we are getting tweets from everywhere saying that it is getting worse.  Those live tweets can be interpreted in a way that someone takes wrongly and other rumors would be spread about it.  When is there ever going to be a time when there is going to be peace in this world and when is there ever going to be a time when everyone's opinions are taken to the extent that everyone accepts them?

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Now even though this has nothing to do with technology ( I mean maybe it could), a boy in Utah claimed to have been attacked by a goat name Voldemort on his way home from his paper route.  Say what?  I guess the boy was on his paper route when he noticed something from a far and he thought it was a dog.  He said that the goat just took him right off the bike and trampled him.

Now I am no expert on goats, but seriously?  This has probably been one of the funniest stories that I have heard in a while. Harry Potter goes to the extreme I guess when it comes to its fans.  The owner said that the goat is pretty nice to her kids that she would have never thought that Voldemort would go after another kid.  If it's a pet fish or a pet goat, the love for Harry Potter exists everywhere.