Martha's Sunsphere

Mike Huckabee Came to Town

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:57:00 +0000

More Research about Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:56:00 +0000

Martha Rose Woodward, the writer on this blog is working on a project for a graduate class at the University of Tennessee, the JEM 560 class, "Writing for the Web". The following is the first few pages of her research project.
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Why should journalists care about Facebook?
“The job of journalism is to deliver globally while connecting locally, nationally, and internationally to help the information flow everywhere, to anyone, without the slightest setback.” Christina Pomoni

Abstract

This research paper defines Facebook by giving its history and features. It discusses some of the ways in which journalists are using Facebook. It also discusses some of the changes in journalism as the profession moves away from being distributed primarily by newspapers, radio, and television to being dominated by on-line and portable methods. It presents and briefly discusses several problems with the use of Facebook and looks at the Facebook of the future.___
Introduction
Uncle David had oatmeal for breakfast. Rebecca wrote she was out all night with the guy she met at the bar on Saturday night. Byron contacted the high school classmate who helped him pass senior English 43 years ago. Does anyone care about these kinds of things? Actually yes, and social networks are full to the brim with this kind of data. The largest social network is Facebook. (Facebook Statistics)
As the many uses of Facebook are becoming more well-known as well as being better understood, the importance and changes brought about by Facebook cannot and should not be ignored. But is Facebook just a place for lonely, desperate people to interact with others who are just as lonely and desperate?
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Having 316 million plus users makes Facebook the most used social-networking site, not just in the USA, but around the world. (Facebook statistics) Considering the world population as 6.6 billion, (Census Data) if Facebook was a country, it would be the 5th largest on the planet. (Facebook Statistics) Facebook contains as many as 35,000 features that have spurred this large amount of use. Those features are: connections to friends, personal information, wall posts, messages—similar to e-mail, photos, and notes. (Facebook Statistics). As of this date, 850+ billion photos have been posted on Facebook. (Facebook Statistics) It has had profound effects on the use of social-networks in general as well as in the ways in which journalists are using it in their daily jobs. Because of the popularity of Facebook, its platforms and applications, the ways journalists report and distribute news have been changed forever and cannot be ignored. (Facebook for Dummies 2008)

Research Paper about Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:51:00 +0000

50 Things You Should Know About Facebook
Martha Rose Woodward
Facebook began in 2004, since that time it has gained 300 million users.
Facebook has two types of accounts: professional and personal.
Journalists should use the professional side for business and keep a personal side for family and close friends.
Each user has to be his or her real self on Facebook.
You must be at least 13 years old to use Facebook.
If a user is caught telling lies, he/she is thrown off the site.
Each user can accept or not accept people who want to be friends.
“Apps” means the applications of software that produce the various items on the site.
RSS is the constant stream of posts shown on the screen—it constantly moves forward.
Each user can contact friends on the wall—a public place, or in private with e-mails between friends.
Facebook instantly feeds topics of interests to users as these are discussed.
Facebook keeps a record of everything each user does on the site forever.
Facebook “owns” all information on each site and can use it as they please.
All major news agencies, political organizations, clubs, and businesses have a Facebook presence.
Facebook is free to users.
The CEO of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg—currently 24 years old.
Zuckerberg has been accused of “stealing” the ideas behind the web site. He has paid nearly $100 million dollars to settle lawsuits about the ownership of Facebook.
Facebook’s headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California.
There are only 900 employees at Facebook.
Facebook “pulse” watches/monitors all postings per second per day. They know what is being “said” and “done” every second of the day all around the world by the 300 million uers.
Facebook users get to decide who to allow as friends.
Each person is allowed 5,000 friends.
An individual can create a “page” on Facebook which can be displayed to more than 5,000 people.
At one point Facebook lost data of users and could not find it.
Facebook recently made a policy concerning what to do about the accounts of individuals who die—there were some problems concerning Facebook sites of people who died.
Facebook staff responds to ideas and suggestions from users. Many of these ideas actually help the company do a better job.
Facebook gathers large amounts of data that could not legally be discovered without a search warrant—users give it away freely.
All government sites have a Facebook presence and have developed guidelines and policies for use by employees.
If Facebook were a country it would be the 6th largest in the world.
Users form groups on Facebook.
Any type of group you can imagine has a presence on Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will become more readily used than the telephone.
Facebook has been called “the Internet within the Internet”.

Foul language, bad behavior, illegal behavior, all get reported by users and are not tolerated.
Facebook has pages of “help” about hundreds of topics, i.e. How to use each application, terms of service, statistics, etiquette, data about the company and staff, and much, much more.
If you type Facebook and almost any name or topic, you will find a posting about it.
Facebook provides a steady stream of ideas for stories for journalists.
Facebook is interactive---writers “talk and listen” to sources.
Facebook has not gone public yet.
Facebook is privately owned and makes money through selling ads ad through having rich people make investments in the site.
"Facebook Statistics" is an excellent resource for information about the company.
Some experts on Facebook are: Muhammad Yaoob; Paul Bradshaw, Mezrich,Jessi Hempel, and Barbara Ortuay. _________________________________________

My latest book is "live".

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:23:00 +0000

My latest book, my first true crime book, is "live" at the publisher, meaning it is ready for sale. It went live on Tuesday.
Area stores will be getting orders soon. You may always buy the book on line by going to www.authorhouse.com and searching at the Bookstore. It is also available at www.amazon.com, but you will pay more.
The book covers the 2 years I spent covering and writing about the McLean Case. Did he get away with cold-bloodied murder? Was it all Erin's fault? Is Eric dating again? How much did it cost for Attorney, Bruce Poston, to work as Eric's lawyer? Who is paying that bill?
There are things in this book you have not heard anywhere else.
Buy a copy and let me know what you think.

Seven Minutes in Hell; my new book

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:21:00 +0000

Dragnet Schools Obama

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:06:00 +0000

9/7 “Dragnet” Gives A Lesson To President Obama : Glenn Beck – The 912 Project

go to www.the912Project.com and watch the video from Dragnet...it is priceless.

Putting lipstick on a pig.

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:47:00 +0000

Boogie Woogie

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:16:00 +0000

ducks and chickens

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:00:00 +0000

blue eggs from Barrett's chickens

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:53:00 +0000

Letter from Ric Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:28:00 +0000

Gift from Ric Morgan

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:27:00 +0000

Martha Rose at a book signing at Books-a-Million

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:40:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:38:00 +0000

Ashley Danzey grew an eggplant

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:36:00 +0000

Barrett uses the technique of "raised beds" gardens

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:16:00 +0000

Since we live inside the city limits, Barrett uses space in our backyard for gardens by making raised beds out of planks, wire, and soil. He builds a rectangular section, puts wire around it, and fills with new top soil. He plants and waters until he sees the results of his efforts.
We have enjoyed cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, okra, zucchini, yellow crooked-neck squash, snap peas, beans, and corn.

Barrett's Bountiful Garden

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:14:00 +0000

Barrett loves his pets.

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:17:00 +0000

Ducks

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:14:00 +0000

Barrett's gardens

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:09:00 +0000

My son, Barrett, is raising cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, snap peas, green beans, zucchini, onions, peppers, and many flowers in "raised bed" gardens. He has turned our back yard into a gardening area.

Barrett's gardens

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:05:00 +0000

Summer Workshops for Knoxville Writers' Guild

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:28:00 +0000

Summer Guild Workshops:
July 6-9 and July 13-16. Browse the courses for you! Click here.

Block off the two weeks of July 6-16 to attend the Guild's 2009 summer workshops. Find out more about writing fiction, starting your own publishing business, travel photography, CSI and medical drama for writers plus how to write poetry and memoirs...and MORE!

Presenters will include: Cyn Mobley, Bryce Anderson, Joanna Francis, Don Williams, Alex Gabbard, Katie Chambers, KB Ballentine, Linda Parsons Marion, and Scott Savage. All workshops will be held at Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Hardin Valley campus.

Fees will range from $20 and up for members and $28 and up for nonmembers. You can pay online by credit card or PayPal.

or send your check or money order to
Knoxville Writers' Guild
P.O. Box 10326
Knoxville TN 37939

Stump grinding

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:09:00 +0000

Lieut. Governor Ron Ramsey is running for governor

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:49:00 +0000

Ron Ramsey, the current Lieut. Governor, is seeking the nomination from the Republican Party for the office of governor of the state of Tennessee. Victoria Defreese and the South Doyle Homeowners' Association invited Lt. Gov. Ramsey to speak at their breakfast meeting on Friday, May 22, 2009. Ramsey says he is against a state income tax, for all rights for gun owners, and thinks he has the most experience working in state government of any candidate.
"It is one thing to run a city, quite another to run the state," he said to a crowd of about 30 at Shoney's on Chapman Hwy.

Ron Ramsey speaks at South Doyle Homeowners' Assoc. Breakfast

noreply@blogger.com (Martha Sunsphere) — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:47:00 +0000