You Wanna be on Top??

While surfing the web, I came across what I think is just too much. It's crazy how any hit show, movie, series, etc, is then released as a video game. The next hit show hit the shelves as a video game as well is America's Next Top Model!
The video game has the same structure as the show and is being released by Nintendo on November 7th, 2008. Digital Models will do photo shoots and will get eliminated each week. If you make it to the end than you're on TOP! You'll be the digital Nintendo DS, America's Next Top Model! Crazy! This is just too much. I know the show is has had success in the ratings, but a video game is simply too much. Tyra is really milking this show. Creating a model contest and having your characters compete is not necessarily a game I would want to play. I'm sure there's those that will buy it, but it is really is too much. America's Next Top Model should just stick to being a television show. Who knows, maybe it's actually a good game. We'll have to see Nov. 7th. Good Luck! :)

Grandfather PREGNANT?!

Ok...So I was doing my daily gossip dishing on my favorite blog Perez Hilton, when I came across an interesting article title, "Hospital tells grandfather, 71, that he's pregnant." I was shocked. I had to re-read the title to make sure I read it properly.
I did some investigation and came across the information explaining the title. Apparently this 71 year-old man, John Grady Pippen of Gold Beach, checked himself into a Portland, OR hospital with some abdominal pains and was reported to have been told he was pregnant. SHOCKING! However, the hospital reported that "an errant keystroke caused the hospital's computer to spit out the wrong discharge instructions."
Poor Mr. Pippen, he just wanted to be treated for abdominal pain and he came out thinking he was pregnant!

Blogging Week...

This past week our class consisted of blogging topics and how it's impacted the business world. We discussed just how important and controversial blogging can be for both ordinary people and CEOs. Our professor was able to provide us with examples of official blogs of some major companies like:

• Coca Cola
• Wal-Mart
• Kodak
• Whole Foods.

Blogging has really gotten intense. CEOs of major companies have begun using this new way of technology to build better communication with their community. Although statistics have shown that fewer than 15% of Fortune 500 CEOs blog, sooner or later than will change and more and more CEOs will begin blogging. The future is blogging.

Are you Serious?

I'm not really sure when the R.Kelly interview on BET was conducted but it caught my attention immediately. Every part of the interview is just incredible. The interviewer's face is just priceless. It's pretty obvious that HE can't even believe the answers that he's getting from this celebrity. R. Kelly is just completely clueless. He definitely needs a better publicist. Did he NOT anticipate these types of questions? Could he seriously not come up with better answers?! Did he not learn anything from his trial?!

R. Kelly obviously needs a better PR team. This guy's image may very well be ridiculously at its worst, but, I would assume that he wants to change at, and if he doesn't he definitely should. For the sake of his fans, he should have answered this questions with better answers. A good publicist would have arranged that. A good publicist would have anticipated this precise situation and prepared for it. Obviously he lacks this type of team. I feel bad for R. Kelly. I hope that in the future, his interviews run smoother than this. I truly hope that a apology or some type of conference is held to explain this interview. He NEEDS to do it, to continue with his career.

The Power of 1%

I was sitting in class, while the professor was lecturing on the advances that technology has made and how the public has responded to it. She explained how people nowadays have the option of reviewing, adding, changing, buying, and so forth on the internet. The influence that WE have created is truly astonishing and makes you wonder...what's in store for us later on, if things have already advanced this much? I was aware that people blogged, uploaded videos to YouTube, using MySpace, Facebook, and writing customer reviews, but I was in no way aware at how powerful we have become with just access to the internet.
In our textbook, Citizen Marketers, it describes this era as "the democratization of self expression," in which the public has lots of power with easy access tools that has enabled them to acquired it, as has been for many like Perez Hilton, whose blog is highly recognized for news on celebrity gossip, fashion, and to some extent politics. He even has his own fashion line, now available at Hot Topic stores. It all started with a blog....
Before that cheesy saying "It only takes 1," was something just completely cheesy! But now....it really does only take 1.

Oh, Bill! Oh, Jerry...What next?

Microsoft's 2nd Commercial...
Yeah, a second ad was released on to the media, depicting Jerry Seinfield and Bill Gates interacting with a family in an attempting to make a connection. Their ad, a 4 minute commercial, is not what I expected at all. In fact, I wasn't quite sure what to expect after the first one.
The whole family scenario just doesn't really do much for me. I can see Microsoft's will to strike an effective campaign like Mac has had for the past years, but I just don't see one coming out with these commercials.
The SIMPLICITY used in Mac ads have made them effective. Customers don't have to think beyond what Justin Long is tell them or what they're watching. EVERYTHING IS OBVIOUS, something people like. But, that's not the case for Microsoft. People REALLY have to think about the commercial to try to understand it. THAT'S NOT a GOOD THING!
This just kind of makes you wonder...What's next? How can Microsoft confuse us anymore?!

Wikis: To Trust Or Not To Trust?

Wikis have certainly made their mark in today's technological world. Wikipedia, a highly-recognized, and often overused, example of a Wiki, defines it as a "page or collection of web page designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified mark up language." They've introduced a whole new to look at information and their accuracy. People now have the option of applying their own knowledge and exposing it to the world.
But is that a good thing? Or a Bad thing?

Throughout my college years, the professors advised to not use wikis as a credited source of information, advising us to use other "trusted" sources for our assignments. I've never really found any information to be misleading in the wikis that I have used, which has mainly been Wikipedia. However, it is understandable that uses these forms of information as trusted sources for research papers is not ideal for accurate information. Can we really trust the people who are posted their own insight on things as "trusted?" For all we know the person who posted up the information is a high school drop out with no real knowledge on the topic and chose to write out of boredom. Then again, it could be a doctor, who has expert knowledge in that particular field. Wikis = Risks!!!