Finally it's Spring Break but I have one last post before I am free. I was reading the blog of my teammate Mike and I thought this one was pretty interesting. I read the article about the YouTube awards as well and was surprised that such a new industry has made so many advancements in such a short span of time. The awards just prove how big YouTube has become.

Wiki edit

I had some time to kill between dinner and dance so I figured I would be productive just one more time before spring break. I added more information about the outreach programs available through the Boston Ballet on their Wikipedia page. The programs were mentioned in the old version but I though more information would be useful to anybody reading the site and may bring a program into consideration. You can read my update here or by clicking on the link to the Boston Ballet on the left of my blog.

VALS from class

Since we talked about the survey some in class and it just may be on the exam I figured I would learn more about it by taking the survey. According the online version I am an experiencer with some underlying achiever aspect. I never really believe in these personality survey things because the descriptions are vague to include a large amount of people. Whether it be the VALS survey, my horoscope, or a myers-briggs test I'll take them because its required or just for fun but for the most part I doubt that information will ever become incredibly important

Light Computers

I've been catching up on the articles in our required blogs and I came across this one in Slashdot about a computer that would run off of light energy instead of electrical. If they could actually make this computer that would be really cool. It would be a great way to save on the electric bill but it would also have huge implications in terms of energy conservation and alternative forms. It's just amazing how far technology has gotten us and there is still so much more out there.

P&G blogs

To be completely honest I never really thought I would get into this whole blogging thing. Its pretty clear that I don't post often and even then it's because we're required to. But the thing is, blogging really is a pretty valuable resource. We were told to do a search of something we're interested in and I chose Proctor and Gamble (I wrote about it in my last post) Since I've started following the company, P&G had a huge recall of their pet food products. The company that makes the food sold under P&G's Eukanuba and Iams names have recently been found to cause kidney failure. You can read an article about it here. This story would probably be of interest to anybody who buys these products but the RSS feed I've been getting should be important to the PR people at P&G. I have seen this story duplicated in nearly a hundred posts. This just proves the viral nature of blogs and how important they are in a marketers eyes.

class discussion

So we talked a lot yesterday about researching on the internet and on blogs. It was suggested (or assigned I'm not sure which) that we should do a search in a blog engine to find peoples opinions of something we're interested in like a band or internship or something. I don't really know where I want to work but I thought an large international firm would be pretty cool. We have some family friends who used to work at P&G so I did a search for Proctor and Gamble on Technorati and added the results to my blogline page. I wonder if I will get any good info out of it. It seems like a good idea for somebody involved in the company to keep track of the publics opinions on various products or new releases.

I added a little information to the wikipedia page on Fitzroy Island. I took the walking path when I was there so I added a little more information about the lighthouse hike. It was a lot steeper than we anticipated it to be and there wasn't as much coverage so I was really glad I brought water and sunscreen.

google clicks

I had no idea that the advertisements on the right in Google were such a big deal. After learning about the whole pay per click advertising thing it became clear that those links are a real business opportunity for the companies being promoted. I thought this article from our required ClickZ feed was pretty interesting. It talks about the different ways that Google protects the companies from click fraud and the new methods they plan to implement to improve protection and make the process easier for the clients. This new method would have a form that businesses can fill out in more detail. I thought this article showed that Google is taking great initiative to maintain a good relationship with the people that advertise on the search page. We've always been told that a current client is more valuable than a new one and this proves that theory.