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Youtube breaks out new rules

Youtube is cracking down on creaters… again. Youtube is enforcing new policy changes on their platform that will deterimine who can upload what, and if it can be monetized or not. The new rules include some basic things like “don’t break community guidelines” and some rules that feel like they dont need to be said like “no hateful or hurtful comments, no graphic content, no nudity”

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But why does Youtube need to do this in the first place? Because some creaters feel that they have unlimited freedom to upload whatever they want. The most recent and well known instance of this is Logan Paul. Who recently uploaded his controversial “sucide forest” video which featured a dead body.

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After having his video removed and apologizing Logan Paul proceeded to upload a new video that included two instances of animal cruelty. Youtube responded by taking the new video down and demonetizing his channels so he can no longer make money on the platform. This is an unprecedented step in the right direction by Youtube because instances before this have generally created a blanket statment on the Youtube platform without the responsible creators being directly addressed. Leafyishere? New community guidelines. Pewdiepie? Adpocalypse… twice. But now, Logan Paul? Direct action against the responsible creator and a more hands on approach by Youtube. We will have to see what the future holds for the platform, but it is looking brighter that it has in the past.

This American Life’s investigation into the supposed immigration crisis

NPR has a unique quality compared to other news organizations. It is publicly funded which allows it far more room to do interesting stories that might not be competitive in the news market, but provides important information that may not get reported.

This American Life has been a radio show since 1995, but is highly prevalent among the most popular podcasts today. It is a personal favorite of mine.

Recently TAL did a story called “Our Town” about immigration, taking a deep dive into a small town that has been heavily affected by the “immigration crisis.” The story takes place in two parts, and analyzes all perspectives of those affected from illegal immigrants to politicians and everyone in between.

The story took eight months to collect and write and is accompanied by a data analysis of the affected area.

With so much talk about illegal immigration by politicians nowadays, hearing what the truth of the situation is, by those who are actually affected, provides an interesting perspective.

Fired for not shooting a human!

I have to bring awareness to such a topic because we are living in times of amazing changes that will challenge the peoples’ moral and intergrity.

I found this story to be overwhelmingly strange while reading it via internet, (NBC NEWS).  An officer from west Virgina, had been fired for not shooting a suspect who supposedly held a gun at the time of his pursuit; Stephen has now reached a settlement for one hundred seventy five thosand American dollars.pexels-photo-290386.jpeg

The police officer Stephen Mardar, has stated that he did nothing wrong, and that he should have not been wrongfully fired for not shooting the twenty three year old suspect which at the time he felt the situation could have been handled more sensibly. Stephen Madar also stated that he did everything he could to save the young black male who had been unjustly shot by another cop and than later pronounced dead.

I found this story to be blog worthy because justice served is the only way to live peacefully within ourselves and in our communities.

 

Wildcard-social media platform- Linkedin

Looking for a job can be very stressful even for people that do have degrees and great experience on their resume. Linkedin is great social media platform for people to upload everything about themselves and to interact with people to find the job that best fits them.

The virtual professional network allows people to upload their resume, education, volunteer experience, skills, accomplishments, and interests. That way while you are looking for a job, people can view your profile and contact you if they are interested in you for a job. You could pick and choose whom you connect with, and also connect with the people you have things in common with.

Over the years Linkedin has become an essential personal branding tool. Its the ultimate personal platform to give you the best opportunities to increase your visibility to people and the community around you.

I have made an account to try it out; here’s a look at my profile.

 

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Google Fusion Tables and the Michigan voter turnout

Gathering data off of the internet and arranging it into easily digestible information is an important tool for journalism online. This week we took a look at the Secretary of State’s voter turnout rate for the 2016 election, and turned it into an interactive map using Google Fusion Tables.

The first step was to take the data set from the SOS website and format it leaving only the information we needed.

Then uploading it to Google Fusion Tables we get a map of our data that looks like this.

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The map is interactive and will allow the user to click on each individual county to find out the voter turnout for that area.