Technology has taken over beauty too?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/fashion/26skin.html?ref=technology

Image by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

It’s called the Make Up App on the Iphone for 99 cents.

Basically you take a picture of yourself, upload it and boom enter the visual world. You can try shades of lipsticks on your pixilated lips to see which color fits your face. I’m assuming you could do this with other makeup essentials like eye shadow, mascara, blush, and etc.

The innovation was introduced by a 22-year-old marketing intern. According to the NYTimes, the application is hoping to have a mass appeal with big partnerships with an estimated $43.2 billion from the beauty industry in United States. The service is targeting young teenagers who are experiencing makeup. But the service is also receiving much attention from single professionals and mothers.

Look what else technology can do for the world.

Cut costs from samples companies offer.

Time-saving.

Much convenience.

Efficiency.

Instead of Best Buy and Macy’s, lets go to Canal street for steals and deals

Credits to Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times

Shopping at canal street in the city is possibly one of the strangest places to hit on black friday. Who would’ve thought the black market would offer some amazing sales.

I’ve never heard of the watch brand “Patek Phillipe”. So I googled it, and saw some price ranges, which were about $30,000- $57,000. That would explain the reason why I’ve never heard of them. According to NYTimes, a clerk on canal street who usually sells them for $25, sold the watches for $20. This is my favorite line in the article; “Of course, Mr. Asif actually sells the “Patek Phillippe” brand — with an extra “l” — and his Swatches are tinny.”

You could also get name brand perfume like Maria Sharapova’s gift set for $10.

When we’re living in a recession, why not turn to the fakes? Besides from far way who could ever tell the difference.

I really like this article because the writer gives a good description of what the black market in Chinatown is really like.

But I didn’t go into Manhattan, instead I went to Gateway Mall in Brooklyn, which has Best Buy, Target, BJs, Home Depot, Target and a few other big brands. I went around 4p.m., thinking that time frame would be less crowded than in the morning. Unfortunately not…. there was a line outside to go inside Best Buy which had about 100 people waiting already. BJs was packed tight. Target had a section with HDTVs on sale surrounded by a mini metal gate… There was a line of 50 people waiting to get towels for $1.50 each. Plus there were like 50 cops in their cars sitting in the parking lot if chaos were to erupt. Let’s just say I couldn’t wait to leave.

I mean thank god for Black Friday, but it’s so fustrating.

Fitting into “the new media ecosystem”

I graduate in one year. I see myself working for a hyperlocal site like Patch, reporting feature stores in the city. I wouldn’t mind working for an online site. I admit I don”t have a clue about how an hyperlocal online site is run. If it’s interactive that’s great but if it’s a job where you just write stories and contribute them straight from anyplace that has wi-fi, I don’t think I would be happy.

But what I would really love to do is work for a broadcasting company like Travel Channel or Animal Planet. In my little dream bubble, I could see myself writing scripts and editing tapes. Even better, I would tag along the adventures and witness amazing things…DREAM ON…when I’m as shy as a 7-year old little girl.

Let’s get back to reality.. I should be grateful and lucky if I were to land on a job as a writer for Patch.

My thoughts on JRN 301

In general I like how the course is running, provides some history, events going on now and whats to come in the future. I feel like I gained a lot more knowledge about technology as well…now I know how a photograph gets sent through the internet. I learn something new everyday!

The class does open up your eyes on the real world, which businesses are doing well and those that are fading away. This gives you idea of what’s going on in the journalism industry while you’re majoring in it, and which direction its going in.

Rosenblum was a great guest, highly opinionated…but he teaches you to be smart, go for the money. It was refreshing and awakening.

I like how this class gives you the autonomy to determine your own grade. I think its graded fairly. The review for the exam was amazing. THANK YOU for taking the time to go through basically each term we did not understand.

So far no complaints.. well maybe I would’ve been better off without the quizzes. The readings were kind of hard to digest and understand completely. But other than that the course is great.

How green are you- Michael Rosenblum and Brian Farnham’s visit to SBU

1)      I mean yes, I believe in order for good journalism to survive, individuals have to report stories without the mindset of achieving great amounts of money. There are so many aspects to look at though, I agree with Rosenblum that what the audience wants and what the journalist, or the church wants is different. We do need to realize that. I feel like Rosenblum’s VJ student, who filmed a woman addicted to heroine, did the story to address it as a major problem individuals go through, rather than having the mindset of doing it for money. Alexandra Garcia, the VJ winner also made an amazing story about free medical clinic in U.S.

It’s a very difficult industry to survive in. Morally you want to chase after a story that is newsworthy. But yet you physically you can’t chase after a story without the resources. For example if you are trying to chase after a story in another country. You need money to fly over; you need money for your stay at however long it takes to complete the story. Then this leads up to more money for hotels, food, and other living expenses.

In a way I do agree that we should seek the help of the business side, in order to prosper and earn profits. Maybe we do need to mix church and state for newspapers to survive.

In his blog called The Very Best Newspaper about UK’s The Guardian, he brings up a great point. Rosenblum said “If NYT or San Francisco Chronicle bought Craigslist, they wouldn’t have any financial troubles. They could afford to send the best journalists all over the world to do the best journalism. But they didn’t … so they don’t.” He brings up a good argument that if they bought Craigslist, more doors would’ve opened for them but now they are struggling.

2)      You have Rosenblum saying journalism is dead if it doesn’t embrace the business side, yet we have Brian Farnham, proving him that its not all about the money. Patch’s Give 5, truly shows you the site can focus on your local news stories, while giving profits back to the community. Patch donates free advertising space to charitable organizations and contributes their own time as volunteers. We also have SPOT.US today, a nonprofit source of journalism, where people are willing to donate their own money to help journalists get the news out.

I know my ideas and thoughts are contradicting. But I can’t pick one side over another. Its like the saying follow your heart, but your head tells you something different. Being a student with loans to pay, like we have to sometimes think about reality, bills to pay, loans to pay, living expenses, people have to eat and if they means mixing the dirty side with the pure side, that’s what it takes.

My other thoughts

3)      Should we follow this trend of hyper local news gathering? How successful has this really been? Farnham didn’t want to give information or numbers about profiting. He kind of just went along the lines when the question was brought up.

4)      Is Patch and Rosenblumtv pure forms of journalism when compared to traditional newspapers?

All I know is that we are living in a technology age and whether we like it or not, we do have to embrace the new ways of collecting information. We either embrace it or have to think of other ways that will allow journalism to survive. Like our project ideas, if they turned into real products or services. It’s just a matter of can we survive without the resources?

Patch’s Brian Farnham comes to Stony Brook

Patch.com

1. I see that there are local classified advertisements. I am really happy to see “Give 5″, where Patch donates free advertising space to charitable organizations and contributes their own time as volunteers. I think it’s an amazing feature on the site because it really shows how much Patch cares about the community. However I was also wondering does the site plan on putting up commercial advertisements to gain revenue?

2. What does it take to be the editor in chief at a site like Patch? How was the transition from working for major national publications to a hyper local website?

3. How does Patch recruit their writers? About how many writers cover a region? How are the regions to cover chosen? Are they the most populated? Are they the regions that demand a local website to cover their neighborhood news?

THE VIDEO JOURNALIST KING

1. In Rosenblum’s blog of Church and State crisis, he has strongly opinionated his view that in order for journalism to survive, we have to embrace the business side. I think certain companies can survive without the business side. However we do need to depend on technology and its ability to provide multiple components. I think anything has the potential to succeed if it interactive with the users.

What does he think about Twitter ? The company had previously stated they had no intentions about putting up advertising.Twitter doesn’t make any profit but yet look at its soaring popularity. Does he think the company can survive without profit?

2. The definition of journalism is basically presenting news. Rosenblum said he doesn’t think journalism can survive without business. But presenting news doesn’t require it necessarily be on the internet, or television. Times Publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. compares the print media to the Titanic, there will always be passenger ships, but they’re not going to be in the same business. So he believes print will still be here, even in decades. What does Rosenblum think about this?

3. Why does Rosenblum choose to use small, hand-held digital cameras instead of the traditional directors, editors, producers, and etc beside cost-effective measurements? How did this transition start?

4. In his blog Should Journalism Die,? he stated that he didn’t think journalism would exist without tv and internet. I disagree completely while observing past events.

9/11 – If we didn’t have tv and internet…we would still have newspapers and radio. Maybe it wouldn’t have spread as fast but people would have found out eventually.

For Obama’s victory, I went to purchase a print copy of the New York Times around 6p.m. at Penn Station train station. News stand guy told me they were all sold by 2p.m. So print will still exist without video journalists.

Newspapers provide something that video and internet can never. It’s tangible and provides a sense of intimacy. I find that most of the time an article is bound to give you a more detailed version of a story than tv or video can ever present because their time is so limited.

Just wondering if he reads the newspaper or magazine because those are still huge factors that play on the survival of  journalism.