Gawker.com, Gawker uses a mixture of sarcasm and wit to attract their readers. They seem to aim at A list celebrities and what happens in their everyday lives, from mishaps to funny stories. Gawker is a good read but you need to take it all a bit tongue in cheek because it is very exaggerated but very funny. There is a section specifically for Tom Cruise which follows the exploits of Tom and his antics.
DIYlife.com, This is the Internet nuts guide of how to. From how to turn a mattress into a sofa to how to how to design your own scrap paper using your own computer. Everything is handily categorised and there are some lovely things that you can make for friend and family in the Gifts section. DIY blogs is run by Weblogs Inc which is now owned by AOL and was originally created by Jason Calacanis.
Uncrate.com, 'A web magazine for guys who love stuff.' this is an online magazine of all the useless things that guys seem to like such as the bacon cookbook and the Evergreen wallet which is made of- what else- Wood. Bizarre! However there are also a few bits that guys and girls alike will love such as the Lego icecube tray and matching accessories.
Friday, 22 February 2008
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Time again....
My comment piece was influenced from a story I read in the telegraph on the 15/02/08 about what could be the end of glastonbury festival and then another story on the BBC website about Reading and Leeds festivls. Link to the story telegraph HERE and to the BBC site HERE
It’s that time of year again, the sun is trying to peep around the clouds a bit more often and we don’t have to have to central heating permanently turned to MAX just to stop us freezing to death in our sleep. It’s also the time of year when me and my boyfriend start our annual discussion of what festivals we will be attending in the summer.
I’ve been attending festivals since I was about fifteen and try to get to at least one of the major ones every year. I live about 30 miles away from where Leeds festival is held in Bramham park and it was one of my first weekend festivals that I attended. However that was five years and when we got back home last year I said that I’d never go again.
There was a multitude of reasons for my decision but it all came down to one thing, commercialism. When I first started going tickets were around £100 for a weekend ticket and you could go in the knowledge that you were going to have a good time and see a few good bands. But not anymore, tickets for 2008’s Leeds and Reading festivals are over £160 plus an extra £5 ‘handling fee’ and £5 postage charge. Now I’m not really convinced that a £5 handling charge on every ticket is very realistic,
Leeds festival accommodates around 85,000 people every day so they’re average earnings for handling charges for one day of the three day festival is £425,000. Now times that by three for each day of the festival and you’ve got a staggering £1,275,000. FROM HANDLING CHARGES!!! (This amount does not take into consideration that Leeds and Reading festivals are twinned and that Reading is not included in these findings or that Reading can hold more people than Leeds.
Am I wrong to think that this is a ridiculous amount of money that mean fiddler and ticket master (the main ticket sellers for the festival) are pocketing because people want to enjoy the august bank holiday weekend??
However, when I got an email telling me about tickets coming on sale I was straight on the phone and pre-ordered two weekend tickets, because no matter what we say when we get home dirty, tired and VERY grumpy every year both me and Stewart know that we look forward to Leeds every year because its not all about the cost it’s about the atmosphere, the music and the fact that it’s the only time every year when we see all of our friends together as a group as we used
to be.
This video was shot by my friend who won a competition to shot the festival and have his video shown on television, see if you can spot me!
It’s that time of year again, the sun is trying to peep around the clouds a bit more often and we don’t have to have to central heating permanently turned to MAX just to stop us freezing to death in our sleep. It’s also the time of year when me and my boyfriend start our annual discussion of what festivals we will be attending in the summer.
I’ve been attending festivals since I was about fifteen and try to get to at least one of the major ones every year. I live about 30 miles away from where Leeds festival is held in Bramham park and it was one of my first weekend festivals that I attended. However that was five years and when we got back home last year I said that I’d never go again.
There was a multitude of reasons for my decision but it all came down to one thing, commercialism. When I first started going tickets were around £100 for a weekend ticket and you could go in the knowledge that you were going to have a good time and see a few good bands. But not anymore, tickets for 2008’s Leeds and Reading festivals are over £160 plus an extra £5 ‘handling fee’ and £5 postage charge. Now I’m not really convinced that a £5 handling charge on every ticket is very realistic,
Leeds festival accommodates around 85,000 people every day so they’re average earnings for handling charges for one day of the three day festival is £425,000. Now times that by three for each day of the festival and you’ve got a staggering £1,275,000. FROM HANDLING CHARGES!!! (This amount does not take into consideration that Leeds and Reading festivals are twinned and that Reading is not included in these findings or that Reading can hold more people than Leeds.
Am I wrong to think that this is a ridiculous amount of money that mean fiddler and ticket master (the main ticket sellers for the festival) are pocketing because people want to enjoy the august bank holiday weekend??
However, when I got an email telling me about tickets coming on sale I was straight on the phone and pre-ordered two weekend tickets, because no matter what we say when we get home dirty, tired and VERY grumpy every year both me and Stewart know that we look forward to Leeds every year because its not all about the cost it’s about the atmosphere, the music and the fact that it’s the only time every year when we see all of our friends together as a group as we used
to be.
This video was shot by my friend who won a competition to shot the festival and have his video shown on television, see if you can spot me!
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Why??
Do people inthe libary have to listen to their music so loudly that I can hear it across the room!!! Come on people have some consideration!!
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
You Tube Video's
I decided to use the video for Soulja Boy because it seems to have sparked a wave of copy cat clips on you tube by people who either like the lyrics to the song of the dance or maybe both. When I did the original search for the video I asked You tube to find ‘Soldier Boy’ which brought up 5260 related clips but then when I did a search for words and phrases related to the original video I found 24,700 ‘related’ clips and although not all of them were connected to the original music video I think that over 90% of the ones that I looked through were. The clips that are connected to the original video seem to be mainly made up of people copying the dance or adding their own dance to the original song. There are also a lot of videos where people have taken characters like Sponge Bob Square Pants and Alvin and the chipmunks and set them to the soundtrack. I will try to embed the original video and another video showing people how to do the dance, this will show how big the video had become because if people wantto learn the dance then it must be really popular!!
Friday, 1 February 2008
Who's online in 2008?
Over the past decade internet usage around the world has exploded, worldwide there are around 450 million people with internet access, however they are not all regular users.
Nearly 167 million Americans have internet access but only 105 million are regular users. over 34 million people in the UK have internet access (15 million households, this is a staggering 63.8% of population. In the past year year internet usage has risen by 16%.
To read some more interesting internet figures click on the highlighted link: More Information
Analysts say they expect the internet population to continue growing for the foreseeable future.
Nearly 167 million Americans have internet access but only 105 million are regular users. over 34 million people in the UK have internet access (15 million households, this is a staggering 63.8% of population. In the past year year internet usage has risen by 16%.
To read some more interesting internet figures click on the highlighted link: More Information
Analysts say they expect the internet population to continue growing for the foreseeable future.
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