NY flyover! Too close.. in more than one way...

I honestly found absolutely nothing interesting to talk about on netvibes. I went to cnn.com to look for their headlines, and they were much more interesting. I am not looking for just something fun to write. Don`t get me wrong, I just went for something else, because I actually want to care what I write about. I don`t want to write about “How Twitter is Limited”, it is really none of my interesting, I could write as many words as I would like, but they wouldn`t mean anything. I believe the point of this assignment is not just fill up space in our blogs, but find something that appeals to you and give it a review on the blog, so that is why I went to another website. It is now 10:54, I sat here in front of this computer at 9:45, this whole time, I looked for articles and even starting writing some reviews just to get it over with, but it was just killing me to write about something I believe is of no importance to me. So here we go.

NY Flyover

On Tuesday a Boeing 747 flew over NY, creating panic and confusion on people. President Obama was furious when he heard about the news. It was a miscommunication and a very bad mistake, but lets analyze this deeper than what actually happened.

This was more than just a mistake. It was being insensitive and just poking a unhealed wound. Gen – Y should remember what happened last time airplanes were flying so close to the city in New York. That was a moment in our lives that none of us can forget. Everyone that is in my age knows exactly where they were when they heard about it, saw it or felt it. It was one of the greatest moments of togetherness in history. Everyone was connected watching every second of what was going on in your TV. To do something similar like that, regardless of how many years ago it was its just something terrifically insensitive. Not only to Americans or people who suffered at the time and still do, but it was a blow to the whole world. Just for one second to think that something like that was happening again.



They say the Police knew about it all but were told to not tell anyone. This was a great fault of communication between people in power. If we can’t trust those in power to communicate among them, how are we supposed to except them to tell us anything?

Gen – Y

Our generation has a lot to learn from this “small” event, but still extremely big. We need to know that a miscommunication can lead to terrible things. Communication is the base of it all. It is what keeps the world together. With this event we can see how communication is so important to the world. We saw how important it is to keep everything clear between one another, and also we saw the same phenomenon that has happened plenty of time. The Internet started to bubble with the news. People got footage in their phones, digital cameras, and in matter of minutes the whole world knew what was going on.



Not only from the news on TV, but from the network that they are a part of. There we people putting films on Youtube, talking about it on twitter. It was something that truly made the community bubble, and one more time prove that people are connected in more ways than we can imagine. We have to keep our eyes out, for anything that pops out online. It could be your next scoop. Keep close view on every means of communications, because today is not only from the news that we get information, but also from each other.

Here is someone giving their insight about what happened:

The time to change!!! "Stop watching f****** LOST"

Gary Vaynerchuck

Gary Vaynerchuck has became very famous. He started his career by improving his family wine business using the internet. He had the amazing ability to turn his family business into a national industry leader. He started the Wine Library TV, making videos about wine, and that was a huge success. Not only he started to be a success about the wines he was selling but also because of the way he used the technology we have nowadays. He uses twitter, facebook, and all kinds of social networks to do business. He focus on personal branding, which is making your own image online, using blogs, and all kinds of websites. His idea was to have people, specially future employees, find you online, they would see what are you involved with, what you like, what are you passionate about and see all kinds of interesting things you have posted on your personal page on every kind of website. You can use twitter, linkedin, blog, web-sites, even facebook or a youtube account can show you what you can do and who you are.



Gary talks a lot about how you should work with something you are passionate about, he says, if you don`t believe in yourself, the product you are representing, the company you work for, leave. He says we only have this life and we should do something that makes us happy, and something we are passionate about. He tell people, “think about what you want to do for the rest of your lives,” he encourages people to go out there and DO IT! He says we should start doing our own thing. We can grow, and built when we believe and love whatever you work with.




Brazen Careerist


Brazen Careerist is a websites that is focused on the Gen-Ys, it is a web site for us, made by people like us. They consider themselves leaders, and have a very similar train of thought as Gary. They believe we should stand-up and do everything we think, and everything we want. We should change the world to what we want to see, to where we want to leave in. They are a community of people that encourage Gen-Ys to go out there and do what they love. They have blogs and all kinds of pages to help Gen-Ys with subjects they might need advice on, or important issues and tips. The philosophy could be put together like this: Forget about cubicles and schedules and waiting for that promotion. Go out there promote yourself.



I really likes that both of these subjects are connected in a lot of ways. It is truly a trend now, to start questioning the business world we leave in. Should we be in a job we hate? They say no. The good thing is they are realistic about it all, they don`t say you are going to start making money all of a sudden, you are not going to be a success from one day to the other. You HAVE to WORK HARD. ;D

Social Media

Social Media is a new phenomenon, people are using internet not only to post whatever they think, do or write. They are going beyond the computer surface and socializing! With web-sites like facebook, myspace, orkut, and other social websites it is really easy to find your friends. Not only can you talk to people you know, people you go to college with, and even people you went to middle school with, but you can also find people you don’t even know, but think like you, like the same things you do, or people you just think are fun or talented. You can catch up with anyone in a minute, write to people whenever you want, and the communication is becoming easier and easier. With instant messaging programs such as AIM and MSN messenger you can talk instantly to your friends no matter how far away they are, for example I always talk to my mom and dad, and all my friends and family on the computer. With a web cam and a microphone, you can have a live conversation. It is amazing.



Now things are going even further away than having a live conversation. You can record whatever you want on your camera and posted for other people to see. From honest talks to the camera to dancing, from singing to the computer to making a professional short film, you can find anything on line, sometimes something to the great mass, sometimes something that was made for a very particular group. Everything has a space on-line. Social Media is something that will become more and more important. We are taking the control away from the big companies, now we can broadcast whatever we desire. We can make a podcast and be a radio host, or have your own news show on YouTube, and write your own articles on blogs.

Here are some of my favorite videos, that other people that I have never met have posted on YouTube:







Talking about creating your own material to publicity directors from Canada, created their own short film based on a video game. Reading my monthly Brazilian movie magazine I came across an article talking about it, saying that “it is a lot better than any video game adaptation that we have seen so far on movies.”



While on-line last night I came across something that made me really interested, it said, “The World Premiere of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.” I clicked and it was a great surprise. YouTube had a contest, they wanted musicians to upload videos on YouTube playing a new piece created for the occasion, and from all of those they would choose some that would be a part of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. People from all over the world send in movies showing what they could play. Now the winners will meet in New York and play in Carnegie Hall. This breaks another barrier, auditions on-line. We all know that some musicians, rappers, and dancers have been discovered on YouTube. What if Movie Studios would have their own page where you could upload your auditions? Sometimes there are amazing actors, singers that simply don’t have the time or money to go audition in California or Miami. This is a new away to look at everything.



Now, should the industry be concerned about this “invasion” of regular people into their field of work? I say, no… Companies need to figure out how to use this in their advantage. Instead of being frightened go out there and join in. If you are a movie company post trailers on YouTube, if you are a publisher have a blog to write about what books are coming up, have people e-mail you, find new talent, if you are a celebrity, create your own twitter account. The Social Media is out there, and it is not going away any time soon. We have to adapt, use it to our advantage. Have Fun! The World is out there, and the doors are all open, it is up to you to go in. It might be bigger than you ever expected to be, but then again, you always want to be a part of something big! Social Media is Now!

CBS Wins With Country Music Awards

It was really funny for me to see that this was a headline, I guess we just don`t pay enough attention to the competition between networks. As a student of Communication, I feel like I should pay more attention to that, it was interesting to read this article, because it wasn’t really about the Country Music Awards, but how CBS got the best ratings that night, and how other networks just didn’t have good enough programs to keep their audiences.

When you read the article it talks a lot about what was showing on the other channels. Most of them had reruns, and no new episodes. ABC and Fox the runner-ups for bet ratings of the night had a bunch of repeats in their schedules. NBC had new episodes of its shows but for a while now it had been showing a pattern of declining ratings. The CW got the last spot that night and although had some new episodes on, apparently they were not that pleasing to the audience. I am now paying more close attention to what is going under the surface of television, what shows are on at the same time competing? Why are some shows earlier and others later? What ads are on the competing channels? There is a lot more to television then we think it does, it was nice to have an article about an award ceremony. It really wasn’t about the award show as it was for the ratings in each channel. But it is still nice to know that some people are watching it and giving it a boost into these ceremonies, because I just really like them.

Well since they were talking about the ceremony I made some research. The night belonged to the women. Amazing performances from the ladies, and some men and most of the girls were gulping all the awards of the night.



Carrie Underwood was on the media the next day for making a joke with Matthew McConaughey.



She later apologized and said she was truly embarrassed, it is one of my favorite things to listen to people`s speeches, their happiness and joy is just so real and powerful that it always makes me happy to see them winning the award. I didn’t watch this ceremony but now I wish I had.