Closing post- My Youtube videos
After constructing two completely different videos, I have received a total of 260 views, (114 for the older video 146 for the newer one.) Â If you haven’t seen them yet, feel free to check out my youtube channel where you will find both of them.
I have learned SO much from inserting myself into the youtube community. Â Here’s a little summary of the main points:
- Making a video that the world can see does not guarantee that the world will see it
- Creating content can be difficult and daunting for first time users
- Comments and views often must be solicited in order to garner any response
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All Good Things Must Come to an END!!!
Over the last few weeks I have devoted much of my time to Scrabulous and its greater social community. As I have stated in previous blogs the biggest issue with Scrabulous today is its copyright laws. This is where companies such as Mattel and Hasboro are looking to shut the game down due to trademark and copyright infringement laws. In an article I came across the other day, Google’s copyright counsel Bill Patry shed some light on the issue
Copyright in games extends only to the graphic elements and textual explanations, not to the way the game is played.
Or put another way, the expression of the Scrabble rules or the design of the Scrabble board may be protected by copyright, but the implementation of those rules in the Scrabulous game is not.
Scrabulous allows multiple games at once, it allows players to finish games over a period of time and not in one session, these differences are something that cannot be achieved in Hasboro’s traditional Scrabble. In that sense Scrabulous is a transformative interpretation of the game, or as i previously said re appropriated of Scrabble.
Getting on the last Nerve
So for my last intervention on Nerve (which has been sufficiently difficult with financial barriers), I have realized that the site though most often advertised as a a dating website, is in reality a site that “…exists because sex is beautiful and absurd, remarkably fun and reliably trauma-inducing. In short, it is a subject in need of a fearless, intelligent forum for both genders. We believe that women (men too, but especially women) have waited long enough for a smart, honest magazine on sex, with cliché-shattering prose and fiction as well as striking photographs of naked people that capture more than their flesh.â€
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DKIRL: My Meager Contribution to the 8-bit Community
Here goes nothing…click the jump to see the fruits of my labor.
Nerv…ous?
So for this week, I was planning to submit ‘erotic’ photos to Nerve’s photography gallery. After bribing my friend to model for me, I had plans to submit photos of her fully clothed and even overly clothed to their ‘nude females’ section. However, when trying to see how the process of getting photos into the gallery, I was directed to a site asking me to upgrade to a premium Nerve account which required my credit card number. So this plan was clearly unsuccessful.
However, I did stumble upon member’s blogs in which I plan to respond (how, is still an idea brewing). But I also came across a Nerve amateur photo contest which asks for submissions of ‘sexiest photo of someone wearing an apron.’ I am currently looking for an apron which I will buy tomorrow if need be and will plan to submit a rather unsexy photo of someone in an apron. Hopefully this works….
On another note- Mushon, I still can’t upload images on this blog. I am hosting images off of photobucket and none of the codes are being translated into my posts. What do you suggest?
The Nerve!
Off to a rocky start with my 3rd Travelogue as there were some technical difficulties with my screen name and password for my account on Nerve (which was just resolved this past week). So, over break, I spent the majority of my time emailing the customer service representative from Nerve and believing that I was truly missing a bolt in my head. Alas, my account is now up and running again and for this week, I filled out 90% of my ‘personal details’ section of my account and started sorting through and responding to people who have contacted me so far. My plan as of now (that my profile is fuller) is to engage in the community that is Nerve I have gone through the photography section of the site (a huge portion being dedicated to erotic photography) but perhaps not exactly go along with the posts (I will need to creatively think of how to oppose posts and members). I am also thinking of maybe trying to start a post that will be offensive to the site (criticizing the content and reason for the site, as someone who is really conservative) or I could try to contact the makers of the site and complain about the emphasis on sexuality…?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Dating-wise, I am hoping to go through preliminary introductions with members who have already contacted me and start browsing through other members and their profiles myself. Since I haven’t had much of an opportunity to ‘intervene’ in the site, that is my priority for this coming week.
My objectives are to actively establish myself as a member of Nerve by browsing through the links they offer and if possible, responding or initiating my own posts to interact with members. I hope to interact with members in terms of not just interest in ‘dating’ but also to see what the draw of joining an online community like Nerve is (since it’s predominantly advertised as a dating website). Personally, I think there is less of a draw to strict dating websites and more to social networking sites so this seems like a merging of both.
Scrabulous as A ‘cult’
Software? Check. Synth Pack? Check. Talent? Uhh…
Well, over break I attempted to journey into the world of chiptune creation. YouTube was my primary source of information in getting the proper programs to make a quick song, but the process is fairly complicated. Here’s the video I looked at:
As you can probably tell from the somewhat complex appearance of the program, it’s taking me a while to get used to the way things work. Shaping the actual sound wave of the note is a new concept to me, and although the video makes it look easy, I’m having trouble piecing together anything that really sounds like music. To make matters worse, I’m getting all kinds of conflicting results on what the best software to work with is. Itt looks like I could possibly be able to play some chiptunes on my Nintendo DS, with the proper emulators and ROMs, but it could get complicated. As of right now I’m still trying to balance an authentic experience with the amount of talent it’s going to take to put something together.
This is no Traditional Board Game!
 
So its been almost 3 weeks now since I began this new travelogue and it seems that with each passing week I am drawn deeper into the scrabulous hole. There are many interesting scenarios in scrabulous that can all be developed further, however, this week I will focus on just one, and that is scrabulous as a community.
The photograph above shows two individuals playing in a scrabble tournament, I chose to display this photo in order to reaffirm how different the dynamics of scrabulous is from traditional scrabble. The birth of digitlism paved the way for re appropriation like never before, scrabulous is just another example of that. Scrabulous as a community on facebook:
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www.nerve.com
So I have created an account on Nerve which is a social dating site that encourages anything really. The one good thing about it is that it’s entertaining… the site isn’t JUST about trying to meet people online though it’s a large part of the draw but it has a lot of other things to check out (photography, blogs- a lot of interaction is encouraged).
I have an account and it has already selected a handful of ‘potential matches’ according to my NYC area but I have yet to fill out the personal section of my account and add a picture. I’m very hesitant to do this but I think I’ll cave in about 45 minutes (if I need to submerge myself in this).
(My account homepage- I’m really popular already…)
I picked this site because Stephanie is exploring www.chemistry.com and I never received a confirmation email from www.funhookups.com. However, I think this website will be the most fun to explore since it does offer members other options besides browsing personals. I will start the exploring soon and will finish out my profile to see if anyone ‘winks’ at me during break. I don’t exactly know where I’m going with this topic or account but I do know that I don’t plan on meeting anyone for a ‘date’ or breaking any ‘poor guy’s heart’ so no worries there!!
