Produsers, Wikipedia and YouTube

I am happy to report that I have learnt that I am a 'PRODUSER' and no, it isn't necessarily a bad thing. I always thought I was a little different - but wait! There are alot of us out there.....

So what is a 'produser'? you ask.

Well it is anyone who changes or manipulates media to produce a new product..like me if I were to add to youtube or say wikipedia. Now onto the fun stuff:

Back in 1988 people did this in their bedrooms for fun

If you have NEVER danced around your bedroom with a hair brush you are so missing out!

Maybe watch this again so you can learn how to do it, oh that thing in red was a tape player - you can swap it for an iPod if you can't find one.

 Here is one man who definately has never danced around his bedroom with a hairbrush - how can I tell....I just know

These days alot of what we read on Wikipedia is done from the privicy of the bedroom with no one watching.
 At least its quieter than what people did in the 1980s before we all had computers in our rooms.So for those people who have been dancing in their bedrooms since the 1980s here is an explanation of what Wikipedia is

Is that clearer?

Proabably not - it is time for you to STOP DANCING WITH YOUR HAIRBRUSH and surf the net so you can contribute to the world (wide net of course)

So who is writing on this thing called Wikipedia - ANYONE CAN

Why?

Not really sure, maybe they are too embarassed to dance in their bedroom because they are terrified their dancing may appear on that scary YouTube.

. It is preferable to see your name on the net as an intellectual not as a crap dancer.

 Someone has looked into this phenomena called Wikipedia, his name is Mike Millard and here is his article about these strange creatures

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-5129-feature-wikipediots-who-are-these-devoted-even-obsessive-contributors-to-wikipedia.html

 

He took the words right out of my mouth - no I think maybe I wanted to take the words out of his mouth.

 So does it all make sense to you now? 

 I hope so, but just in case you still are scratching your head...

Do you remember this guy?

His name is Matt Harding from the USA. He apparently set off on a journey around the world where he 'danced' with different people in notable parts of their countries and filed it all on YouTube - making him a 'produser' and a YouTube celebrity. I relate him to Wikipedia because - let him tell you

So, today we have learnt that dancing in your bedroom is awesome as long as their are no cameras around to put it on YouTube, Matt Harding didn't travel the world and if we feel knowledgable we can contribute to an encylopedia.

Man, if my mum had known that part when I was at school she wouldn't of paid all that money for encylopedias when I was a kid. Hahaha just thinking of those salesmen trying to spruike Wikipedia door to door:

Salesman: 'Hello madam, I am here today to introduce you to the wonderful world of knowledge. It comes straight to your home and takes up very little space. There are some wonderful minds who contribute to it and a few who call themselves "Big Boy" who love cats and guns. But, I can guarantee that your children will gain invaulable knoweldge that they may or may not ever need and definately probably don't care about. How would you like to pay for that, actually you don't even have to pay if you really don't want to'.

My mums reaction

Well, enjoy your week. Time for me to go dance in my room with my hairbrush while editing Matt Hardyings Wikipedia page.

BYE

Wikileaks

This was a phrase coined in the late 80s by the cult Hero’s Mulder and Scully of X File fame. Who knows maybe they were looking for Julian Assage.  I think they were originally Agents for the American government investigating strange phenomenon, until something happened and they could only trust each other. I was never a big fan, but for those that were:

Ok I did get a little distracted there. After watching the above clip does it remind you of Julian Assage?  Now, if the American government is to be believed he is a massive threat to them… I am sure the same was said on Osama Bin Laden not too long ago. So let’s look at them side by side and find how they can both be threats to the American Government.

       

So can you see the similarities?

I can. First they are both male – wow I am sure that all the men in the world are shifting uncomfortably in their chairs hoping that the American government won’t find them threats also.

So secondly neither of them are Americans – that rules out a few thousand men.  Also they both come from dusty hot places that no one really wants to go to for a summer holiday and well, they are both great at playing hide and seek! 

 Bin Laden apparently is/was hiding in a cave – seriously the Americans could have at least tried to find him. He’s probably still sitting in there counting and waiting for them to find him. Meanwhile, Assage hid in Europe and the Americans knew that too but couldn’t find him either, lucky for them he grew bored of this and turned himself in to the Britain’s hoping that the Americans could find him.  

I have attached rules on how to play this great game – just in case the American government is reading this:

So who is Julian Assage and is he another conspiracy produced by the American government? Think about it this way, could a nation as great as the Americans truly give access to highly confidential files to a private who managed to download them onto a CD that previously held Lady GaGa? This is a country that at this time had a great president the one and only George Bush.

Well, I really don’t need to say anything else after that do I? However I put this to you…..

So can YOU handle the truth?

 Julian Assage thinks we can, and the American government wants us to believe he knows the truth and we don’t have the right to know it.  I personally prefer video to assist me to gain knowledge and I have found the footage Wikileaks has provided quite offensive.  So I will leave it up to you to decide who is right here while I go and watch some Forest Gump so I can feel more love the American Government.......

Extremists

Is an extremist an extremist becasue of their beliefs or because they are at the narrow end of society and have to 'hate' those who are different and easy to bully?

First we must look at what an extremist is, I believe John Cleese explains this so well ....

So are we all clear by what an extremist is? I know I like to feel good about myself, but is it really necessary to choose someone to put down to make me feel that way? Ok maybe Mr Cleese was too broad about the groups and he is British so we will forgive him his ignorance of the rest of the world. As we all know the British really only care about themselves and their tiny part of the world, oh yeah that’s until they want to visit one of their colonies.

OH MY!!! I sound like an extremist! I better turn the attention onto someone else that the masses will dislike……

NEO NAZI’s have many groups around the world with various names some of these include:
KKK , Hammerhead Skin Nation, National Alliance and Stormfront. With reputations like they have who wouldn't dislike them

These groups have similar ideals in that they believe in Racial Purity, are Anti – Semantic and are very active on the internet. But as the YouTube clip below shows its not easy being a Nazi, so maybe we should cut them a break and just feel sorry for them.

While we are feeling sorry for them we can’t forget Australia’s own extremists groups. These groups think of themselves as saying what all Australians are thinking and can prove their legitimacy as they are a registered political party.

I am speaking of the one and only Australia First Party. According to their website - http://ausfirst.alphalink.com.au/  this group has 8 core policies that they are extremely serious about. I will just discuss one as I am certain if you are interested in this group you would of joined them on their secret Facebook page ( quick go and look at it now).

I am going to look at Core Policy number 7, which is:

 ‘Strengthen the family - Promote policies that strengthen and protect the traditional family.’

Firstly what is a traditional family? Not so long ago it was meant to be mum, dad and 2.5 kids. This always worried me as what happens to the other half of the kid? Does ‘it’ go live next door? Or just the other half never existed? Well, if that is what this group believe in then maybe they can tell me where the other 0.5 of the kid went. Personally I don’t know any 0.5 kids or many mum and dad families with even 2 kids. Looking down my street we have mum and a few kids, dad and a flatmate, mum, dad, grown adults (kids) and their partners with their kids. Apparently there are even families of mum, mum and kids plus dad and dad with no kids somewhere in this wonderful country called Australia. Wonder what kind of traditional families they have elsewhere? If TV is to be believed the great USA has similar families – what ever happened to “The Cosbys?” Though the US also has ‘The Simpsons’ , "The Sopranos" and families like those in ‘Modern family’ probably why this group are called Australia First. It would be extremely hard if they were called ‘The World First’ or even ’Australia and America First’ but that’s right I forgot, the US has its own extremists, they don’t need to import them from Australia.



Oh almost forgot the protecten part of the policy. 'protect the traditional family'. How are they going to 'protect' families? Are there enough members for every family who the group deems traditional to have one(member) standing at their front door and following their every move to protect them from the boogeyman??
I think not. I will not start on who this group deems to be the boogeyman but I will enlighten you slightly. Those of you who remeber the Cronulla Riots in Sydney 2005 will no doubt be shocked to find that the Australia First Party didn't think that it was wrong..... I will not even go there in this blog as I will never finish it. I will however leave you with disturbing footage of the day and ask two questions; Since when do Australians travel in large crowds while waving fists in the air and chanting? Does this remind you of an earlier clip in this blog?

That was rather serious, and I do apolgise but it needed to be shown.


So I am now off to begin my own extremist group and you are more than welcome to join it. It is called Choccers! We stand for eating lots of chocolate, the creamier, the better. We are against all those diet industry people who constantly tell us its not good for us and we need to lose weight or we will die. We will get our own fashion label, facebook page and of course produce our own propaganda explaining how great we are....

Until next time my Choccer family