tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73929396084714258622024-03-04T23:18:04.725-08:00Too Many Fying PansShaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-38609917253181034762011-01-18T15:13:00.000-08:002011-01-18T15:14:25.168-08:00Everything is new<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">New year. New resolutions. New classes. New shop. New phone. New roles. New habits. New routines. New you?<a name='more'></a></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">Well, no... not really. Still staying up too late, still doing more than I ought to, still playing cathcup on homework, bills, skipped classes, and family... ouch, I listed family last... (Save the best for last? - nope. Sorry, not buying it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Still, I'm bright and cheery for the best of what</span><span style="color: black;">’</span><span style="color: black;">s around for me. </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Top List</span><o:p></o:p></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="color: black;">New phone - Droid X. My first smart phone ever and I love it!... I'm 50 times more effective using my connected google calendar! Really - believe me - AND professor Burton would be so proud of me by how connected I have become.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">New resolution - gave up sweets/sugar... not really happy about this, but I consider it a personal scientific experiment. So far results show me as more cranky.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">New clothes - eh... maybe they'd look better if I hadn't picked up 15 pounds over the holiday. the weight is new too, though.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">New career improvements - currently cast in two great shows and a short commercial spot as a zombie! </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">New business. Well it's not new, but the location is sort of new and the new year is seeing some real improvements... Red Deli. Check it out: Reddeli.com </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">New connection - to God... really trying to let the big guy drive for a while... My backseat driving skills are pretty good anyway - ask my wife.</span></li>
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My <a href="http://shaunfrenza.blogspot.com/">new blog</a> is at <a href="http://shaunfrenza.blogspot.com/">http://shaunfrenza.blogspot.com/</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/shaunfrenza.com"></a> - It's based more for my interests in film, acting, and business... I plan to use it as a tool to build my own networking.Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-18387799852794217432010-12-17T17:37:00.000-08:002010-12-17T17:52:15.398-08:00Course Reflection...Okay... So, I'm just going to start by saying that I'd like an A... but let's be realistic, I deserve, probably a low B or a C. I missed the final... then the review of the final with the professors... (then I went on to miss two other finals because I wrote the times down wrong - I at least got to make one of them up - and one other final I missed, but I was never worried about that one - it was scheduled the same time as our final anyway...)<br />
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Anyway, It's been established, I took too many credits this semester... The good news is that I wont have another semester above 12 credits for the next two years to graduation - and that's not just because I've learned my lesson... That was the plan... Two years of too much school so that I could have more time for work in the last two years (in my field work - which is better than McDonald's work for 4 years in my opinion).<br />
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What did I want from this class? I have no idea, really. I wanted to learn how to use digital tools for networking and business. I learned a lot on networking and a little about online business, but much more about learning. I fear that I was never "academic" enough to fit smoothly into this program... I had little interest for learning to consume, create, and connect material about history and social development... I still do... To be accurate, I loved consuming the stuff, but very small interest in the following...<br />
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However, it's not an all and all failure of concept connection, because I see lots of different ways to develop the three c's in my field of interest. Networking is on the top of that.... And connecting. Well, here's a list of things I'm interested in doing:<br />
<ul><li>developing a networking site for actors here in Utah</li>
<ul><li>To be further developed into an acting "school" of my own</li>
</ul><li>Blogging creative writing projects - posting pages for review and so forth every day or two...</li>
<ul><li>Which is an interesting concept by itself cause you have to write each 3 pages in sort of a webisode style - a mini story every few pages... or else it would be difficult to maintain interest, right?</li>
</ul><li>Similar Idea of Blogging/Networking, but for script writing</li>
<li>Similar idea of networking for the entire development and production of a film - crowdsource the entire thing</li>
<li>Creating a few video accounts (vimeo, youtube, etc) to post (connect) films and webisodes, etc...</li>
<li>Podcasting instead of blogging </li>
<li>Start a twitter account and start stalking my favorite Hollywood directors, writers, actors, etc...</li>
<li>Direct my blog to start following things that I'm more interested in... coulda done that the whole time.</li>
</ul>Anyway, Dr. Burton said that I seemed to be waiting on marching orders... Not really, I think mostly I have analysis paralysis... I couldn't decided - with my limited time - what direction to go in that would have enough sucess to keep going at it... but I'm pretty dedicated to getting started with it all now (that time is more free). I did throw a party utilizing the social networking stuff... I am still putting together a grouply group for actors... and I have an account (for a webseries I'm in) for Kickstarter to help raise some funds... Plus all the great information I got from the class and the assignments just makes dreaming up new creative things to do much easier - because half of the brilliance of creation is in context and context comes from history and current events.<br />
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But to fulfill the requirements of this assignment here are some highlights and posts:<br />
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I don't have to highlight my rant - it seems well known. But there was my post about finally <a href="http://toomanyfryingpans.blogspot.com/2010/12/xtranormal.html#comments">doing something</a> - a remix I actually value. I thought that <a href="http://toomanyfryingpans.blogspot.com/2010/11/water-water-everywhere-so-please-take.html">this</a> was a good example of self directed studying as well as <a href="http://toomanyfryingpans.blogspot.com/2010/10/god-is-highly-evolved-robot.html">this</a> or <a href="http://toomanyfryingpans.blogspot.com/2010/11/cryptography.html">this</a>. I really can't say how much this class has changed me digitally (and with that ought - can I say how excited I am for the new TRON?).<br />
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I will be one of those who continues on to use these tools (I'm super excited for <a href="http://backpack2.wikispaces.com/">backback 2.0</a> and the <a href="http://medicalwebsiteexample.blogspot.com/p/about.html">Webconsulting</a> and <a href="http://leeannelowry.blogspot.com/2010/12/lets-make-website.html">club 2.0</a>!!!) - watch you'll see!!! you'll all see....Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-83951832451268294112010-12-10T09:34:00.000-08:002010-12-10T09:40:15.297-08:00I missed the bus... shoot me.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiInHh7YK1z3Cv8OkEJ4f9bcelb1d4TutA-ZppijPMvqi7FKaF6CMv8sf4jRMfuqktfyCBdnp5nF711feuGESVOitQ8PcgAJvSs528PR8hr8eFveEfmJqIkaCvvhVDKZwwRvhpfYRLfxwM3/s1600/ohno.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiInHh7YK1z3Cv8OkEJ4f9bcelb1d4TutA-ZppijPMvqi7FKaF6CMv8sf4jRMfuqktfyCBdnp5nF711feuGESVOitQ8PcgAJvSs528PR8hr8eFveEfmJqIkaCvvhVDKZwwRvhpfYRLfxwM3/s320/ohno.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>So, I got let out of rehearsals an hour early Thursday evening... about 5:30... So, I thought, I can go home really quick, change, kiss my wife and kids, eat really quick, and then we can all travel to my digiciv final together - I was supposed to meet them there.<br />
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Well, I got home... Like usual my four boys hid really quick and after a short game of "hide and go seek" it was a dog pile in the living room... Shortly after that we had dinner and sank into our usual nighttime routine. I helped Connor do the dishes while my wife helped Zeph clean the table and floors... Isaac ran around and Kalaeus cried for someone to hold him... Then we brushed teeth, got ready for bed, read scriptures, bedtime stories (which Connor reads to his brothers with my help)... then they all go to bed except for Connor who gets to stay up an extra half hour as we read some from the Harry Potter series - he loves that. Then we sent Connor off to bed... <br />
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After that, my wife and I snuggled on the couch and chatted... She was feeling anxious but couldn't figure out why - I was just happy to have my nightly break from a very packed day (every day). Then Conan came on - about 9pm - and my wife asked about the time for the christmas party we have tonite... It was when I said 7-9pm that I realized that I have a class from 7-9pm every thursday!<br />
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But that's not quite it, I always have a class Thrus. 7-9pm - its a class on radio and voice over work... its fun, but I was planning on skipping the last class of the semester for a much more important FINAL EXAM in my DIGICIv CLASS!!!! so, as I remembered my regular class I then immediately remembered my final!<br />
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I had totally missed it... between the two emotions that happen when you miss the bus as a child, my wife and I shared the two over missing this event. She had the fear and anxiety and anger of "why! what are you going to do now?" and I had the depressed, eyore-like, calm of "oh well, can't do anything about it now... might as well go along with my life."<br />
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Anyway, what's done is done... I hope "you" went though, really.Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-74141557546536149892010-12-08T20:35:00.000-08:002010-12-08T20:35:44.804-08:00AHHHHHH!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_efyl-N3-304/TPUesQnjeTI/AAAAAAAAAYs/Wir98MZXGmg/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-11-30+at+8.55.29+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_efyl-N3-304/TPUesQnjeTI/AAAAAAAAAYs/Wir98MZXGmg/s320/Screen+shot+2010-11-30+at+8.55.29+AM.png" width="251" /></a></div>So, I finished one final and I have another tomorrow night! I'm super excited about it and I'm not that excited about many of them...<br />
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This is going to be a great event where we will be showing what he have gained from this digital civilization course... It is absolutely a must go free event! It is at BYU Dec. 9th from 7-9pm... It will be awesome. Check out an update on the event <a href="http://digitalcivilization.blogspot.com/2010/12/producing-event-producing-content.html">here</a>.<br />
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On the other hand, I have opened a kickstarter account and just about to post the project - I need a final okay from the big wig herself... and my social networking for the christmas party is really paying out!Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-9674423282642688292010-12-04T20:06:00.000-08:002010-12-04T20:06:42.585-08:00Well, there go the training wheels... now, to cut off the feet of my pajamas.I have really enjoyed this class... It was quite dificult for me to keep up with it all, but I'm so glad its over! I mean, that I was a part of it...<br />
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To be honest, I'm really excited about the future of my own digital literacy, but I also am afraid of my own laziness without having a class to prod me onward... But I have a secret weapon. I'm going to be taking a course on social network film making here at BYU - its a special projects course...Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-76931918911656615112010-12-04T19:26:00.000-08:002010-12-04T19:26:26.846-08:00XTRANORMALCool online anuimator site... If you're going to be at the Final DigiCiv project you may get a quick snippet of this tool!<br />
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The hope is to take what I made and add in pictures to the whole thing... Could be really cool!!!Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-43716885737637445352010-12-04T18:15:00.000-08:002010-12-04T18:15:55.533-08:00Thank you! No, really, It's too much...So, Nominations...<br />
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1. <a href="http://seanrwatson.blogspot.com/">Uma Pitada de Tolcies</a> by Sean Watson - The Cool Blog Nomination, or history... whatever...<br />
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This blog really changed and progressed over the semester, leaning heavily on personal musings... I'm not going to link all these, but, here: Man is Dead, Humans are strange creatures - my soul is endless, Lacking conforming thought, A freedom the soul doesn't soon forget... Obviously a deep thinker, or... well, I'm rooting for. I like the step up he got from the big turnning point, <a href="http://seanrwatson.blogspot.com/2010/11/freedom-soul-doesnt-soon-forget.html">A freedom the soul doesn't soon forget</a>. Now, I don't know if Sean is engaging or presumptuous. He needs to lock onto something and go for it... and I'm waiting for that... In any case, his attachment to historical events and interesting tie-ins to modernday and personal musings is why I nominate him. <br />
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2. <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/">It's a Wonderful Life</a> by Jeffrey Whitlock - Self Directed Learning<br />
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Jeffrey always seems interested and very engaged in the material and wraps it towards his own interests - his <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/2010/10/mormonism-and-humanitarian-aid.html">care for others</a> and interest in <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/2010/10/group-project-suggestions.html">microfinance</a> Plus he <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/2010/10/preview-of-coming-attractions.html">bought a book</a> to further his interests in this course! (by the way Jeffrey, where's the promised info from that book you say you have?) I think he's a prime candidate.<br />
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3. <a href="http://lowdownmo-town.blogspot.com/">The Low Down w/ Mo-Town</a> by Morgan Wills - Computing stuff<br />
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I don't know what it is about truncating a name, but it seems to represent a cultural expression that has no business being applied to a white LDS girl (or boy - I'm not that sexist)! Just because it can ryhme, should it? Okay, okay! despite the rising agitation from the title alone, i think Morgan has a greater handle on what digital culture means today than most anyone in our class... Maybe she doesn't KNOW computers, maybe she doesn't KNOW computing history... But she's tapped into computing culture, foe show... <br />
<a href="http://lowdownmo-town.blogspot.com/2010/12/screen-capture.html">Screen capture</a>, <a href="http://lowdownmo-town.blogspot.com/2010/11/einsteins-smart-and-he-said-we-cant.html">Einstein's....</a>, <a href="http://lowdownmo-town.blogspot.com/2010/11/lyndacom-and-jungs-ideas.html">Lynda.com</a>, <a href="http://lowdownmo-town.blogspot.com/2010/10/gullivers-travels-and-tilt-shift-effect.html">Gulliver's Travells</a>...<br />
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I may not really find much "worth reading" in here and I may get incredibly irked out by the title, but I HAVE TO READ THIS BLOG just to find out what this girl is going to do digitally!Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-23610199672244003372010-11-30T21:55:00.000-08:002010-11-30T21:56:24.348-08:00Web 2.0 - i'm really not even trying anymore...Okay, so due to reading <a href="http://ctcooe.blogspot.com/">Ariel's blog</a> I decided to mesh progressive movements for both my final, some ambitious projects I loudmouthed myself into and the current topic that I should have written on yesterday...<br />
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I'm way tired right now, but thank (insert deity or scientific principle here) for deadlines or else laziness would get the better of me and I would never get anything done at all.<br />
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So, as it is I invited myself to start a kickstarter account for a small web-series I am filming. So... We'll see how that goes... and I have been creating a social networking group for my major... That's building speed... I have a group site on facebook that I want to build into a larger collaboration group - like google groups or something - for the christmas party I'm hosting in a week and a half....<br />
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But the project! I couldn't log in to our website to work on it for a while... So instead I was collecting all these links and thing on an .odt, but then I get an email today saying that the text was the wrong text!!! all that work for nothing!!! and now we're not doing sections but doing a reader's digest version of it? whatever... I'll roll with it of course.<br />
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But Web 2.0... The social network... With the advent web 1.0 and html the desire for the people behind websites to interact with people visiting websites increased... thus the creating of newer and more interactive websites with XML, CSS, improved Javascript, Ajax, etc... Then with social network groups, and Facebook using openAPI (allowing websites to interconnect), the development of web 2.0 where people behind websites can interact with people behind websites and the average person can easily create a website under the umbrella of a site (like facebook) to gain greater interaction for the users - Fantastic... Not quite perfect, we don't have Surrogates yet, but I hear that Bruce Willis has one of the first prototypes.Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-5241853333805423632010-11-26T19:40:00.000-08:002010-11-26T19:40:20.899-08:00Hollidays and StuffWhen you do too much you get into highway hypnosis... I think there'a a better, more "real" name for it, but that's the syndrome you get when you've been driving 70 miles an hour and you're so used to the speed that you somehow forget to slow down when getting off the freeway. The point is, sitting around relaxing is just as stressful as over-working... it's like waking up every 10 minutes from a nap thinking, "I'm late for work!"<br />
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As for some of my ambitious goals... I am collaborating with a friend on a christmas party... we hit the facebook route, but I'm still desirous to make a good social network program and party collaboration site. I still seem to be locked out of fixing the website for my final project... but, I got time to make it work... and I saw Harry Potter, so... I've got some stuff accomplished.Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-10948914855276082522010-11-18T15:30:00.000-08:002010-11-18T15:30:08.641-08:00American World Domination, Hooray!In light of today's lesson I couldn't help bu think of my Honors English class that was all about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization">Globalization</a>. I couldn't help think back then that it was a natural reaction of "the internet" and that as long as we seek for instant knowledge we also need instant context... We NEED that. And in doing so we need to know other cultures... In doing that we make "friends" (basically really good business partners - enemies make for the best business partners or "friends").<br />
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So, I think that we need to stop fighting it. As things change, things change. The way to win in the change game is to change first so that you get to be the influential movement. Here's a decent video about what Globalization is... it is a somewhat separate topic from Future Shock.uture Shock.<br />
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This is another video about how globalization is being viewed from a group of "english as a second language" students! It's a perfect example of how globalization and "learning outside of the classroom" can be good - if we embrace it.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Dr. Burton got it right when he told me, "it's like you've been waiting for marching orders..." I don't think he intentionally meant to be ironic, but I had just told him that I might be activated for this weekend to do some stuff for the Army National Guard... All around scheduling rehearsals and two midterms, of course.<br />
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As it stands I am excited to do my final project on remixing <a href="http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/">The Cathedral and the Bazaar</a> because I like the idea of being creative and I much more like the idea of publishing my creativity... perhaps making a few new sources of income - eh? Eh? It is something that can show my 3 C's "talents" and something I would plausibly continue in the future. Now I can stop "waiting" 'cause I've found orders I'm ready to march on.<br />
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However, I learned a few other things... I need to start using the 3 C's in areas that I care about. I have felt this whole semester that I haven't had anything worth doing... I haven't had and "class presentations" or social group "things..." Partly, I've been really really too busy. But also I just haven't been thinking creatively about what I could be doing.<br />
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Because I have been so busy - I have felt disconnected from my peers... As a result I have decided to throw a Christmas party. No, you're not invited... it's just for the people in my major. I don't care if you tell you're mom, that's just the way it's going to be... besides, the location can fit only so many people... and if I let you come, then I'll have to let that whiny kid nobody likes... and pretty soon everybody will be saying it's not fair that you and that kid got to come... It's not you. It's me...<br />
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Anyway, in honor of doing the right thing in this class I decided to make a google doc/group for this event, and then some sort of a social invite (and e-vite if you will. I just made that up, right now...) and then I started going crazy and decided that my major deserves its own social network that can be connected to facebook and twitter and what-ever... Like that stupid circle of moms thing my wife has attached to her facebook account that keeps emailing us every-other-day telling me how old my own kids are! Yeah... something annoying like that!<br />
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Ambitious? yes... Unsure of how I'll maintain it? absolutely. Worth the experience? Well, as long as it doesnt end in a crash and burn epic failure, then yeah... I think... most likely, anyway.<br />
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BTW - I'm looking at Grouply and BuddyPress.org - any ideas of the best way to go about this?Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-87264153115539029942010-11-16T17:57:00.000-08:002010-11-16T17:57:44.826-08:00Water, water everywhere, so please... take it for granted.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s1.hubimg.com/u/1433848_f496.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://s1.hubimg.com/u/1433848_f496.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I suppose I'm cynical. I love to take things for granted - ask my wife. I believe that all the "hype" about starvation, poverty, destruction, and destitution are just made up propaganda by a coalition of mothers (probably instigated by my mother) to properly foster an appropriate sense of guilt.<br />
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Well, It seems that there is in actuality a reason to believe that I am, that we are, in fact special. That we are benefited from advanced that many now do not have and that all just a small while ago did not have. Among many things is the advancements of pure, clean, drinkable water available at large - seemingly endless - quantities (to those like myself).<br />
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I am unhappy to report that Mr. Jeffrey Whitlock has confused himself with a conformed George Bailey... His blog is <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/">aptly named so</a>. His posts are <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/2010/11/ai-image-essay.html">full of wonderful graphics</a> and<a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/2010/10/evolution-and-gospel_4776.html#more"> interesting posts</a>. The concepts are full of insight, depth, and articulation. He <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/2010/10/mormonism-and-humanitarian-aid.html">incorporates personal passions with particular post topics</a>. He incites a lot of debate and discussion and is apt to reply and further any debate.<br />
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He seems to be keeping up on the three c's: consuming (including <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/2010/10/preview-of-coming-attractions.html">self directed study</a>), <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/2010/10/frankenstein-prezi.html">creating</a>, and <a href="http://jeffreywhitlock.blogspot.com/2010/09/digital-civilization-reflection.html">connecting</a> (diigi). Well, It seems like he's connecting (at least within the class he is) but he - of anyone in the course - should be branching out to more sources to connect to. His content is strong and interesting, his arguments well worded and accessible, so what's really keeping him from branching out more?<br />
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Really, he's pretty much a poster child of the Digital Civilization course... So, I can't complain too much - and I want to... so, Good Work, Jeffy... I'm sure you're doing fine.<br />
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But there's just one thing I'm not getting. You seem to actually enjoy writing about each topic? You don't seem stretched or fatigued at all... Are you in fact human? Are you a hidden professor in the class - like US Marshalls hidden on flights for "your" security? What is the deal... I mean, I'm running at like 20% and I can understand 60-70%, but you seem to be poised to keep this up on your own long after this semester is over. Touche. I am applauding you, sir, slowly... with an arrogant facial expression.Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-66143019839057339492010-11-13T19:31:00.000-08:002010-11-13T19:32:11.548-08:00Mid-term reflectionsSo... I guess It's high time I write my mid-term class reflection... I feel like my earlier rant tell a lot about how poorly I feel that I'm doing... But at the same time I feel like I'm learning a lot... <br />
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What I think is that this class, because it is so expansive, leads some - like me - to be stuck... I mean, am I creating? Well, yeah... I blog... but that's about it... But then again it's not... I am currently part of a Web-series that will be posting episodes soon. I'm stoked for the final, because I like the concept and I think there is a possibility to create some sort of real world result from it. Maybe it is just a cop-out, maybe it is that I should create to create, but I just feel opposed to it. What is the point? I skype to my brother every sunday... I intend to create other things to put online, but I feel that in the context of this class they are trivial... I don't feel like spending time to create a prezzi on the renaissance or scatter words about concept ideas on post-modernism... In fact, I hold very little value for the people who do... Honestly, Some of the stuff we see in class is like, "cool... so."<br />
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Am I missing the point? Maybe... but I can't wrap myself around the idea of doing anything - "creating" anything until I NEED to... If there were mini-projects like final - ones that mattered, then I'd do more, really I would. But I would imagine that I create at least somewhere near what everyone else does.<br />
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Consume - well, that's my problem right there... I consume a lot... I need to be better at reigning it in...<br />
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Connect... - well, this is a problem of mine, I admit it... I still don't know where to begin - It's like this... I don't want to connect to people and places I'll ignore for the rest of my life after next semester... I like the church, but I dont want to make "I'm a mormon" connections. I like the connections I have, and probably it will be that I will turn this blog into a connection resource for what I want to do (films, acting, etc...). But, while interesting and impressive, I don't think that many of them will care to follow what I'm doing now... On the otherhand my subscribed readers (class members) has risen since last midterm - So I am connected a little better - but I have not done much to connect with others...<br />
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I feel very selective of who I do connect with... I just have no desire to connect with people I'm not interested in... That said - I vow to try to start using twitter and blogs and so forth to follow people I care about. For this class it will be meaningless other than getting the experience desired in actually connecting.<br />
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I like this class... I just have a hard time connecting it - it really is two (maybe three) classes in one. There is a very real need to teach students the three c's and help them realize the importance of the upcoming digital age... There is also an age old need to instruct students about history and it's impact on our current sociality. There's also plenty of reason to cover history of computing... I think the integration of the two makes for and interesting and worthwhile class. However, when you add the element of the three c's it becomes pretty overwhelming... <br />
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When you consider that in any of my other courses (including honors) the homework is also designed to be 6 hours of outside classwork (per a 3 credit course). Honors usually takes me 4-6 hours, but regular courses is closer to 1-4... depending on the assignment. This class is a difficult load - I can't seem to keep up. A LARGE part is the learning curve of the three c's... I think every class ought to incorporate that and make their homework have more realistic impact on the digital (and real) world... but still, as of this being my first digital literacy course, it's just been a lot of work.<br />
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I give all I have to give, and therefore feel that I deserve an appropriate grade, but I also know that having a review opportunity makes it possible for correction and improvement which I know I need - I think I'll check out what my reviewer says so that I can see what they think I should do better on.Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-29320981237701909022010-11-12T07:27:00.000-08:002010-11-12T07:27:04.034-08:00CryptographyThis is a quick post to link you to the <a href="https://math.byu.edu/~doud/Honors250/">Cryptography course</a> I've been taking at BYU. Our textbooks are:<br />
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It's been a very fun and interesting class... A lot of "puzzle work." We have a <a href="http://honors250.wordpress.com/">blog page</a> that is definately worth checking out - though it is centered mostly on the lessons and the actual math behind cryptography... but its still very interesting.Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-1432858059468132132010-11-08T13:00:00.000-08:002010-11-08T13:00:48.468-08:00Can you balance my checkbook, Mr. President?John Maynard Keynes (pronounced Kens... like... I have 3 Barbies and 2 Kens - that's not true, I have only 1 Ken because I'm not very fond of playing with boy dolls... I prefer "action" figures). <br />
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I think Obama is a Keynesian... I'm not exactly sure he's not a socialist though... But I wonder how "we the people" feel about any basic economic principle... Aren't they all the principle of manipulating the public so that the Nation can regulate and gain wealth off of the people (sure, for the good of the people, right? - maybe...) But what about when the people choose a new model?<br />
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What will happen when/if the social movement turns economics from a model of goods and services for a price to a model of goods and services to be shared by all? This is the dream of socialism, but religiously speaking I see on major flaw to Socialism... The will of the people! Socialists choose (hopefully by majority) to force the entirety into socialism... But this forces people to flow in all of the "negative" streams provided by the socialist strategy... (Keynesian economics has similar problems - Hello, Govt. Job... I do litteraly get paid here to do nothing.) But in a true commonwealth (or whatever - call it the Order if you want), ALL (which means more than 99.0%) choose to give of thier substance and talents to the whole. <br />
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While the models are not exactly that simple - an exchange,if not solely monitary, is made - our digital economics are pushing in that direction much more persuasively than Big (black) Brother (okay, I know - that was racist... sue me... no, don't actually sue me, I... nevermind.). What will that mean for how our Government tries to control National Economics in the future?Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-51675125220823598182010-11-04T15:53:00.000-07:002010-11-04T15:53:36.370-07:00Are Homesexuals Better Code Breakers?...................................................UNDECIDED.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rodney-martin.com/portfolio/sts355/breaking.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="670" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.rodney-martin.com/portfolio/sts355/breaking.jpg" width="175" /></a></div>So, this is a little early I think, but I wanted to talk about good old *GAY* Alan Turing. Okay, that's not politically correct, but its half the premise of <a href="http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/btc.html" linkindex="671"><i>Breaking the Code</i></a> a play by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Whitemore" linkindex="672">Hugh Whitemore</a> written in 1996. <br />
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Turing not only figured out how to break the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine" linkindex="673">German Enigma Machine</a> but also understood the mathematics that would eventually lead to our computers... I love computers. I can't wait for them to be able to drive my flying car and create the matrix and go through time to destroy John Connor. I'm so for the whole thing... but it seems that we want our computers to do everything, including predicting the future. But there are just somethings that we can't do, ever, (like predicting the future) that we can't expect our computers to do either! I refer you to these two blogs: <a href="http://paradigmdare.blogspot.com/2010/11/unsolvable-problems.html" linkindex="674">Unsolvable Problems</a> and <a href="http://lowdownmo-town.blogspot.com/2010/11/einsteins-smart-and-he-said-we-cant.html" linkindex="675">this one</a> (too long of a title) from Morgan.<br />
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Morgan admits that those things that we and computers cannot know or do - God can... Which leads me to wonder what kind of computer He's got - and He running a Windows or a Mac?Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-49169465706887526642010-11-01T20:01:00.000-07:002010-11-01T20:02:01.129-07:00Post-modern worldWow... I'm <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire">Chicago 1871</a> right now. I've been reading all sorts of interesting stuff and I'm left with quoting a few... well, quotes, from Carl Jung that I liked.<br />
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"In [the Middle Ages] they spoke of the devil, today we call it a neurosis." (<i>from "The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man", 1933</i>)<br />
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"A man's foremost interest should be his work. But [for] a woman-man is her work and her business. Yes, I know it sounds like a convenient philosophy of the selfish male when I say that. But marriage means a home. And home is like a nest- not enough room for both birds at once. One sits inside, the other perches on the edge and looks about and attends to all outside business." (<i>from "Men, Women, and God", 1955</i>)<br />
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I have no idea what to say about that or about how it fits into user interfaces... Maybe there's a clever connection between compartmentalizing our minds and our lives and how we compartmentalize computing tasks? <br />
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Figure it out and get back to me.Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-59959417444025966572010-10-28T21:59:00.000-07:002010-10-28T22:00:03.617-07:00Celtx and my digital lab<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.frostclick.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/celtx-logo-200-x-200.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="25" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.frostclick.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/celtx-logo-200-x-200.jpg" /></a></div><br />
So, I presented a digital lab today - hooah! I'm really proud of that, even though I felt my presentation wasn't well received. The one before me was on a program downloaded from Serif (or Sherif? oh, it's <a href="http://www.serif.com/" linkindex="26">Serif</a> - I googled it)... Free stuff either way... I'll be looking into that. The program takes your photos and combines them to make panoramic pictures - real cool. then you have to crop them.<br />
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Mine was on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtx" linkindex="27">Celtx</a>. Celtx is a Free Media Pre-Production program and it does just about everything! <br />
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There's also forums and community stuff - and you and ANYONE can download this free software, start an idea, and share everything with anyone allowing for some great collaboration (for free). There are other "screen-writing" programs (<a href="http://www.finaldraft.com/" linkindex="28">Final Draft</a> - the industry standard - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles_%28software%29" linkindex="29">Sophecles</a> - which has shut down - and <a href="http://www.screenplay.com/p-29-movie-magic-screenwriter-6.aspx" linkindex="30">Movie Magic Screenwriter</a>) but these are "Pay for" programs and they don't do anything much more than writing and related to writing tasks.... There is also <a href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/index.html" linkindex="31">Scrivener</a> which is like Celtx, but it is pay for and will remain a Mac only format until 2011! Celtx is cross-platform, open-source, do everything! And for everything that the other guys can do - it just takes enough people to collaborate to make Celtx better than anything else on the market. - Bad point is that "the industry" uses Final Draft for scripts and last that I knew it was terribly difficult to convert Celtx to Final Draft, but I think easier to import Final Draft into Celtx...<br />
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Cool to me...Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-3386605708190712272010-10-28T20:50:00.000-07:002010-10-28T20:57:14.089-07:00Modernism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUfzz1idkTeAKuIm8ZoZ5Q4d7mq8P5ZHgrOJxexArxNHqwCFGI_0ksRT6cW0ip1zee-K_PJN7ryPSmn66m3l3feOIgYiHPq7j9IRexmmV2J47z3ctKyjEBRgd9PnrunmFZ3zE5JpZMRkH0/s1600/www.artsmia.org+2010-10-28+20-55.png" imageanchor="1" linkindex="25" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUfzz1idkTeAKuIm8ZoZ5Q4d7mq8P5ZHgrOJxexArxNHqwCFGI_0ksRT6cW0ip1zee-K_PJN7ryPSmn66m3l3feOIgYiHPq7j9IRexmmV2J47z3ctKyjEBRgd9PnrunmFZ3zE5JpZMRkH0/s320/www.artsmia.org+2010-10-28+20-55.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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This is a cool website about Modernism in home items through America and Europe that I found researching the period.<br />
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And I found an interesting site... not interesting as in I dig it, but interesting as in I can see why you would take this view point. This post is a proclamation that <a href="http://godhatesicy.blogspot.com/2010/10/did-you-know-nietzsche-was-satanist.html" linkindex="26">Nietzsche was a Satanist</a>. <br />
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Modernism was a large questioning of Faith. With new warfare, machines and chemicals destroying the body and warping the mind, the world no longer felt real. These non-human entities that could so easily corrupt the human being left men feeling empty and unsure about their relationship to others and about the truths the felt they had known before. The same old answers from Christianity still left humanity questioning its humanity and new forms of defining spirituality resulted. Many of them were ardently anti-religion.<br />
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Actually, I don't feel like waxing theoretical or eloquent with all this... "Behold, the <sup>a</sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/13/20a" mark="a" title="Alma 14: 1 (1, 8, 14); TG Scriptures, Value of." type="C">scriptures</a> are before you; if ye will <sup>b</sup><a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/13/20b" mark="b" title="2 Pet. 3: 16; Alma 41: 1." type="A">wrest</a> (<a href="http://bycommonconsent.com/2006/11/27/wresting/">link</a>) them it shall be to your own destruction" (<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/13/20#20">Alma 13:20</a>). <a href="http://toomanyfryingpans.blogspot.com/2010/09/writing-is-on-bathroom-wall.html">I've said plenty already</a> about how I feel the computing world can be dangerous. Surely, the list of dangers is not exhausted, but I haven't the mental desire to go there...<br />
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What I do think is why do we act like such passive creatures? Are we not Children of God with the Holy Spirit to guide us? Have we not been commanded to Ask and Receive all things by His hand? Why do we then talk so much about how things "affect us?" I got it, I totally understand, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud">Artaud</a>, everything affects you whether you want it to or not, whether you meant to be influenced or not, whether you agree with it or not. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Cruelty">You are corrupted (or improved) by the very association with the thing</a>.<br />
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But, why consign to be influenced? Especially with the concepts of this class, why not be CREATORS. Now the whole missionary thing - the Skyping - the online converting - that's clever, that's fun, but that's obvious!!! But what about this concept that media just it that way... Unless someone goes out to CREATE worthwhile media that can change the experience we must be influenced by. What about the way we interact with the digital world - and the horrible things it can bring - Why just be on the defensive trying to avoid it? My friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke">Burke</a> is often quoted with this,<i><i> <b>"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"</b> </i></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">(<a href="http://www.padfield.com/1997/goodmen.html">link</a>)</span><i><i>. </i></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Wikepedia claims it was JFK's slogan - either way it is true.</span><i><i></i></i><br />
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A list could easily continue about things that we should do - I have Grandiose visions of changing films and media - and with God as my guide this world will be better for my children and better prepared to meet Him when I die. What are you going to do? What is your calling? What is your cross? Where can you fall in on the line to fight?<br />
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But... like I said... I haven't got much I want to say on all this.Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-59775878431761813682010-10-26T10:46:00.000-07:002010-10-26T10:46:06.261-07:003 ideas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/images/pcd2202/ideas-3.3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" nx="true" src="http://philip.greenspun.com/images/pcd2202/ideas-3.3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have 3 Ideas I'm interested in for the Final Project...</div><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>So, I really like the idea of Remixing <a href="http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/">the Cathedral and the Bazaar</a>. Maybe I am niave, but I think it would be fun and interesting. I can see this continuing beyond the class, but I could aslo see it quickly loosing my interest afterwards - I suppose that would depend on how the project would effect me personally - I'm pretty sure it would continue on without me though... It's a great idea.<br />
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However, my real passion is in the idea I <a href="http://toomanyfryingpans.blogspot.com/2010/09/eyes-bigger-than-my-stomach.html">posted earlier</a> of using croud sourcing to create an opensource movie... It's not as simple as it sounds - not in my mind... The idea would take social networking, croudsource funding, open voting on each step of the film making process, and then some sort of viral distribution of the end product... It would have to consider new business models for each step of the industry... I'm really excited about this project... I just have <a href="http://toomanyfryingpans.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-do-i-do-that.html">a few concerns</a> that I would be overwhelmed to over come by myself. But this is something that I would do all I could to make it last beyond my grave.<br />
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The last idea could easily be converged with the first... I have already been talk to about remixing or creating a video based on some aspect of our class. I like the mormon messages idea or any other possible film contest... I feel almost just as overwhelmed with this idea as I do with the second one, but without the drive to have it be a continuing project like with the second idea...Shaun Frenzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11241230946557305862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7392939608471425862.post-44078356644275620562010-10-26T10:43:00.000-07:002010-10-26T10:43:00.773-07:00How do I do that?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.352media.com/rantingandraving/CMFiles/Images/oddmanout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nx="true" src="http://www.352media.com/rantingandraving/CMFiles/Images/oddmanout.jpg" /></a></div>A few of my main desires of this class were to develop a community of like minded people who want to do what I want to do... My problem is that I still haven't a clue on how to do that!<br />
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Maybe its solely because I'm afraid to fail... I admit that... I'm also afraid that if I shave my head I'll look like Mr. Clean.<br />
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But I want to be able to draw a crowd... I don't know how... I want to start a project and get it funded... So I could go to Kickstarter, but how do I get people (other than my mom) to go contribute? How do I get my project out in front with lots of views and generate interest without putting funds/time towards advertising?<br />
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If I get funded, how do I get people together to help me work on my project? I know a lot of people, a lot of busy people... but I don't know enough to do much of anything... ex. If I send out a facebook invite of something - one time it was for free food at a restaurant I was promoting - and 1% of my "friends" even replied... 0% took the time to drive 7 blocks to the particular restaurant and get some FREE FOOD... no purchase necessary, free food! If you can't get a response from something like that than how do you generate it for a project that will actually require someones time?<br />
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I'm all for crowdsourcing... for saying, "this is what we need to do - split it up - pass it around - and come back with some solutions/products..." but how do I find those people - I can't even get all 20 something people in my blogging class to subscribe to my blog! Seven of you might pop on if the headline is interesting enough... but otherwise...<br />
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I seriously want to know... power used to be in knowlege. Power is now in knowing how to connect people who have knowledge and direct them in the avenue of your choosing. How do I do that? Seriously.<br />
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If I can figure those two things out I think I would be a different kind of person on line... But there are so many people barking for a crowd to follow with nothing to show for it, how do I justify "trying things out" when I forsee a waste of time? If I had "steps" - proven "do this" and you will suceed things, then I would definately take the plunge.<br />
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If you have some proven ideas give me some direction in these areas:<br />
<ul><li>How do I draw a following... infact a sizable following... on my blog (do I have to start twittering? cause I really am not good with that whole idea...)</li>
<li>How do I draw a following with my ideas... like a group that all wants to contribute to the same goals willingly... or a group that wants to help recruit others to our group and draw support?</li>
<li>How do I ensure a following on Kickstarter, Youtube, Facebook, etc... How do I get people interested in being interested in what I'm doing? Do I have to be really interesting or just know how to get people's attention?</li>
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So, I took a class on Science and the Restoration that expanded my understanding of how the gospel and science fit together... Then, I got a hold of this interesting book... True or not, it sold me on the idea that I could not determine of my own mind that God was not allowed to utilize the scientific concept of Evolution to create man... Let him figure out the complex intricacies. I'll simply believe that it was done by his hand... Then, I remembered something Spencer W. Kimball said in The Miracle of Forgiveness. In the sake of laziness (check it as you like) Pres. Kimball made the connection with technology's ability to "see all" to God's ability to also see all. Could there be a connection between technology and the omnipotent (all powerful) nature of God? <br />
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Then I found this and though... perfect... eventually we'll all be Cyborgs that cannot die... Which was spawned on a search about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Toffler">Alvin Toffler</a> and his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Future-Shock-Alvin-Toffler/dp/0553277375">Future Shock</a> (more specifically I was checking out the Youtube links of a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ghzomm15yE">documentary on the book</a>). And just for another awesome look into what may be in the future (singularity) <a href="http://singularityhub.com/2009/01/20/motorized-nanobot-to-swim-through-human-arterieswe-dont-think-so/">check this site out</a>. <br />
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