How to train a cat

The cat video series belong to the Expertvillage, I actually got the videos from YouTube. Because I recently have had a new kitten and just want to learn more things about how to take care of her. The "How to train a cat" videos are hosted by professional vets. At the beginning of the video, the host introduced herself as a professional vet, who owned a veterinary clinic, in this way, audiences will think the content more credible. The whole cat series has 14 videos, which teach how to take care of cats from different aspects. Other than training cat series, this channel has more than 100,000 videos, which are all about different experts teach you different skills or knowledge for free.



However, the channel is not very highly rated by its audiences. The biggest problem with this channel is that all the videos are too short, which makes videos not very professional, although many videos were done by professionals. I read some comments that people post under the video and many of them mentioned that the videos are too short and broken. I would agree with them. But this channel still has lots of followers. It has 634,271 subscribers. I guess this is because it has variety of topics (from kittens to ipad!) and it is free!






Since I have never had a cat before and recently got a new kitty, and the videos from this channel is just handy and easy to get I would subscribe from this channel. Moreover, it provides many other videos about different topics, I would like to know different tips and to use them in my life. The most recent posting videos are about ipad, I will watch them and expect some thing about iphone 4 from this channel!

Save Kangaroos!

Recently, Australia launched another permit to kill the kangaroos because they have threaten the safety of the local people. This permit again puts killing kangaroo issue into the intense discussions. I’ve found two web 2.0 applications are talking about this issue. Both of them are against killing and want to stop kangaroo hunting. One of them is the website of Animal Friends Croatia, an animal protection organization. The other is a Facebook group--Stop Kangaroo Hunting.

Coverage

Compare to the facebook group, the Animal Friends Croatia website has fuller coverage. It talked about the reasons for killing Kangaroo, the procedures of killing and also gave the solution of how to against killing (boycotting Adidas!). Many pictures were posted to show the cruelness, so people could realize the problem. However, Facebook provides less background information concerning the whole issue, so people may not understand the previous stories. But with the posting of its members, people can see pictures, videos, and news stories to understand and can understand the current stories.

Connection

No doubt, Facebook group has much more connections than the web page. This group has 185 members, which means all of these people care about this issue, talk to each other, and posting materials of this issue. The latest wall posting of this group was just 10 hours ago. Although the web page gives people opportunity to facebook, twitter, myspace and digg it, there is no interaction available on the page. So the it has very limited connection.

Credibility

The web page is run by an organization. Therefore, it has more source credibility. The pictures on the website also adds more credibility. However, on the Facebook group, members post a large amount of materials from Youtube and News websites. These videos, stories, pictures give the group more material credibility. Moreover, it provides different perspectives to see this issue because many people join the discussion. So I will consider both of them are credible.

Inside the Middle East

I am not sure if I like this blog, but things happened in Middle East always confuse me, so I would like to read this blog to know a little bit more .....

This is a current event blog that talks about the news in Middle East. It has multiple authors, and also the reporters, producers, cameramen, and editors will regularly add to this with colorful behind-the scene stories.

This blog is updated quite often by these authors, sometimes, a couple times a week, sometimes, several times a day. I think it mainly depends on what happened in Middle East and how many things happened there.

I don't find other multimedia available on this blog, but other than words, it does have videos! That makes it more credible, because people can actually watch what happened in the Middle East, and make judgement by themselves.

Overall, I think this blog is quite credible. First of all, it is a CNN's blog, so there is an authority news organization behind it. Second, it is updated often! That means people take care this blog all the time. Third, it has many news videos uploaded, readers not only accept the information from the blogger's side, they also get direct information by watching these videos, and evaluate the news from their own understanding!

Privacy and Public

Jessie Lunderby is a 21-year-old Arkansas correction officer, who posed nude for Playboy's June 7th Cybergirl of the week. After her bosses learned this news, she was put on administrative leave Sunday by the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Fayetteville, Ark.


However, Jessie believed that she didn’t do anything wrong, she said, “They knew about it, I informed them about it. They had plenty of time to say no...They never said no.” And the Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder responded that, “What she did wrong is up for debate. That includes bringing down the reputation of the law enforcement division in the eyes of the public.”

This issue evoked intense discussions online, some people believed that what she did was right, she shouldn’t be fired by the Department. However, others agreed she should be fired – “not only for posing for Playboy - but for her disrespectful attitude toward her superiors which she publicly expressed.”


The discussion put pressure on both Jessie and the Department. This issue was supposed to be a private issue between Jessie and the Department, but now, be benefited from the web2.0 technology, audiences could participate in the news discussion by adding comments on the official news website, and the discussion actually made this issue more public and controversial. Sometimes this kind of online discussion could be very powerful and influential in real life.



Web2.0 application on journalism makes citizen journalists become possible. Audiences not only look at news stories from professional journalists’ perspective, they also can see other audiences’ opinions on the same issue by reviewing the comments under each piece of news. More important, they can actively engaged into the news by posting their own thoughts on the comments section. At last, the news websites also provide many other ways (Facebook, Twitter and blog) for people following the news and conducting further discussion.

Michelle Phan’s YouTube Channel

Who is Michelle Phan?

A 22-year-old professional makeup artist.

A spokesperson for Lancome.

The most popular makeup artist on YouTube.

Why is Michelle Phan's channel popular?

Michelle's how-to videos have been viewed more than 180 million times and she has more than 780,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel.

Michelle uses her YouTube channel to post videos of makeup tutorial and connect people who are interested in beauty together.

What else?

You can also follow her on Facebook!

The 4Cs

Communication

Michelle’s channel allows people (not only followers) to post comments, and other related videos. By adding comments and other information, people can communicate and share thoughts with each other.

Cooperation

Michelle, as other YouTube users, uploads videos on YouTube, but she is not required to post certain numbers of videos everyday, she doesn’t have a clear job duty, but she needs to follow some basic rules of YouTube in order to upload her videos. In this way, she cooperates with other users on YouTube.

Collaboration

Michelle provides other channel links on her own channel and leads people who are interested in watching beauty videos to other related channels. In this way, she promotes her beauty commitment.

Connection

Michelle uses her channel to connect her and her viewers together, so they can find each other easily, and they are also be connected via Facebook.

Let's check out one of her videos.

Lady Gaga Bad Romance Look!