New Media

Clearly, "new media has changed nearly everything", just as Michal Lorenc wrote in the foreword. Not only it changes the way people communicated, interacted and/or being entertained, but also it changed the way people thinking about questions. The book provides many insightful ideas for us. To me, the discussion about geolocation services in chapter 6 is most inspired. Before reading this, I was not enthusiastic about any geolocation software. 

The New Rules of Job Searching are very interesting to me, since I am at that point of my career. The old rules of job searching required advertising a product (ME) with direct mail (my RESUME). In the book it states that the old way to find a job was to:

Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr – where does it end? When doing this assignment and linking all of my profiles together, I realized the amount of web that one person could cover using social media. It blows my mind how many social networking sites are available, many that I have not heard prior to our class meeting. So many sites are created yearly, each different than the last and capturing a new audience. The world is changing, that’s for sure.

In the early days of the network, AMC stood for American Movie Classics. They played almost strictly black and white films around the clock, and their original programming concerned only programs concerned with classic films - talk shows, list shows, countdowns, and the like dominated their "original" slate. In the early 2000's, the network expanded it's line to include modern classics.