Sorry...

for the lack of post or episodes this week. Finals along with grading for me class has just got me so bogged down, but that will all be over by tomorrow morning. Don't worry, I plan on continuing this blog. It's not going to be something that I'm going to just say that I'm done with since the class is. I really want to make this into something. Both with the blog and the pod-cast., and don't worry I plan on making that a weekly event. If i can I want to see if somewhere down the road I can actually get a fan base for it. I guess only time will tell. Well just keep post and I promise this plenty more to come.

Episode #2

Just here posting the Second episode of Kyle1.0
I'll write more about the show later.
Kyle 1.0 #2

The First Official Episode...

Where here we go with the first official or my first attempt at the first episode of Kyle 1.o.
Kyle 1.0 #1

First Experimental 1.0 Podcast

So here is my first attempt at where I may be going with the podcast. I pretty much titled this Kyle 1.0 experiment. This one started out a bit different, but then I put it one hold while I tried another one. The other podcast is considered the First official show and has the format I'm going to try for a while. While I was working on the new one I went back to this one and change it;s format to follow the new one a bit more. I'm calling this the experiment because it's more of an intro to what the show is about, where I next one actually has more of a determined subject. So all i ask is that you guys be gentle with both. I'm probably going to go back and change both of these again, but I wanted to go ahead and try to get some feed back. Screw it I know I said to be gentle, but just rip. Let me know what I need to do differently. Anyway, I hope you guys find some enjoyment in them and here I give you the first Kyle 1.0 Podcast. The next one will follow suit on here tomorrow.
Kyle 1.0 - experimental show

What you'll find in the paper...

So after I finished teaching my class today I decided to take a stroll around campus just to get myself out of the Atec building (which i need to more often). So I hit Johnson and I'm about get on the elevator when I decide to grab the campus paper. On the front page I find an article about how the internet isn't always safe for students due to social networks like facebook and Myspace. I'm reading the article finding out things like how some big corporations are skipping the interview process on some applicants and are checking their facebook sites. If they see and pictures or comments that they don't like, then they decide against them. They had a list of how different students had also lost their jobs due to stuff the either said or posted on there facebook/myspace site. Apparently for UTD even the police are using it to there advantage. The claim they don't check it that often, but they did mention how they are able to keep tabs of parties that are going on on campus due to students posting them on these sites. Some people in the career center have even go as far to advise students that they should watch what they put up on there sites because they never know just how it may end up hurting them in the future. Now I know that people already had to be careful with there sites due to such characters the sick predators that create false accounts just to get close to young girls, but now people are going to have to be careful with there accounts from the other end of the stick, They now have to be careful from people that are there to help us such as job recruiters and the police. I mean these site were created so that students could have fun and keep in touch with there friends, but now it looks that even that could be taken away from everyone.

Columbine all over again...

So I'm pretty sure that you have all heard by now about Virginia Tech. I first saw it around 1:30 when I flipping through the channels. In my opinion it's Columbine all over again, just at a university this time instead of a high school. I will first go off and say that my heart goes out to all of the families that lost a love one there today. I don't know if they have mentioned anything about the gunman yet, but I plan keeping tabs on the news. Well if your about to ask what this has to do with new media, I'm about to tell you. There are two things that I saw that prompted me to write this post when I was watching the news channels. The first was an uncut piece of video that one of the students took during the event. The footage wasn't all that great and was blurry which made me guess that it was shot using his cell phone. Anyway, it was about 30 seconds and you can hear the gun shots up until you hear a cop telling him and others to get out of the area. I really figured that it would be all over youtube now, but before writing this post, I went ahead and did a search for it, and weirdly enough, no one has posted it yet. This does bring me to the second thing. When watching the new-cast on MSNBC, I was reading the text bars at the bottom of the screen, and saw one that said that students were all ready on Myspace and other networks discussing the incident. I was already amazed at how fast information can be transmitted due to media devices such as cell phones how soon it's available thanks to site like Myspace and youtube, but with this situation, I think we are going to find out so much more. I mean when Columbine happened, we didn't have all of this, but now, forget the press. We are going to be able to get the real information almost first hand. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that this whole thing happening was a good thing, but were as in the past we would only get half the truth or what we thought was the truth, with everything that society has at it's disposal, we are going to get the what actually happened straight from the people that had to live through it. I don't know whether to say if the might be good or bad in the long run, but it will defiantly change things for the future.

Well it's started...

Well I can say that apparently my blogs are actually getting read. Two post ago I wrote about the podcast Scriggity and how the original host had left the show. Well I log back on yesterday to find out that the creator of the show Drew, left a comment on my blog. Now if some random reader had left the comment, I probably wouldn't have thought all that much about it, but when the main person for large podcast replies to me, well that is just something else. I originally stated this blog for Dan's class, over the last couple of weeks I thought about it and I think this will be something that I want to continue you with. I mean I don't know whether this will happen again. I mean really, who out there is reading this blog, but since I want to see just how large of a web presence I can create, this really has started me in the right direction.

Well Drew, I'm glad that the split of Shauna from Scriggity has not destroyed both of your friendship, and don't worry because I'm going to continue to watch. I wish you all the best for the show and I hope we do see great things to come.

So this past week...

ended up joining a few new social networks. I now have a 1up.com and a vox.com account. At first i just figured I would just a add to the many pages that I already have, but then I decided to try something different. Last semester, one of my professor's wanted us to put our name in google and see just where we cam up in the list. Some came up on the first page, some a few pages later, others...well they got tired of looking. Weirdly enough my name came up as the first link and the second and third and so on. Well I want to go further. I want to see just how much of a web presence I can get. This of course means interacting and updating all of these site, and lord knows if i will have enough time for that, but I want to try. I want to see just how far I can go. I don't know if this will happen do to my interaction with the different sites, or if I will just need to keep joining a whole bunch more, but the next couple of weeks should be interesting.

scriggity - episode 7 (9/13/06)

You see it happen on TV and now the net. It seems even with programs such as podcast that even their host can't always get along. The first time I heard about this was with the podcast Rocket Boom. The original host Amanda Congdon apparently had a falling out with her partner was the creator of Rocket Boom, and she was let go. She has risen up and made here mark once again in the world of new media. Well yesterday I found out that the same situation happened to another podcast that watch from time to time called Scriggity. The premise of the show is kind of interesting. Instead of talking about the main news, they have people send in their own news such as someone broke up or they've been stung by a bee. Just random crap, but then they make there own little skit by cutting in there own responses as they read the story. Now I will be honest, the real reason I started watch at first was because the main host of the show Shauna was really cute. She made the show enjoyable to a point. So I finally check back in with the cast yesterday only to find out that Drew (the other mind behind Scriggty) and Shauna had split ways and that he was looking for a new host. I tried to do some web research as to find out what actually happened, but apparently both parties are being real hush hush about the subject. It was nice to see that Shauna has her own following of supporters just like Amanda did. Now I have no doubt that Scriggty will still last, but if it will falter any do to the deparcher of Shauna. It also makes me wonder if any other podcast, even more popular ones that people tend to know more about, decided to split. It makes for an interesting thought. I mean what would Ask a Ninja be like without the guy that plays...well the ninja (sorry, don't know the guy's real name)?