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[ekoilemartinwrite]

Journal January 20, 2023

I just finished the actual week one day one of the unchained leader module, at least I did earlier today. That was brutal. Some of it was reflection on where I have been, but I'm not quite currently, at least that's what I tell myself.

Part of it was telling a story of what happens if what is my future my default future, if nothing changes. I did what my default future was if I revert back to what I was doing before I was delivered last to July 20. If I revert back to fully diving into all of my addictions, and all of my old habits, and ways of coping. What is the default future of that, what is the default future of those actions. When I first realized what the outcome of those actions would be, who I would be to do those things, I ran back to God screaming. I actually face that again, and had to articulate it. I am going to need to actually type it out.

I need to follow the path, don't jump ahead, don't assume I know where the path is going. Follow the steps in sequence. I also need to send Mitch the last sheet. I also do want to go over those lessons with my roommate. His program is really helpful.

At the day center, Donnie is super enthusiastic about the poetry group, and making a workshop. He is hungry for support and someone else to share making slam poetry with. Him him him him he absolutely has a passion for music and making beats. And I think I'm going to start slam poetry, and put some things out as music. Everywhere God said, put it everywhere.

I believe it was something about God told me to put my writing on the Internet, I asked where on the Internet,? The response, everywhere!

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[orbdotexe]

I am late to asking you exile questions. How dare I.

But I was thinking if the guardian ever kept like, a diary or something of a similar vain that others only found after their death. (A lore book if you will)

Do they get to see Wolf’s mental state spiraling once again, only in their own words and writing?

Or do they see Wolf doing their best to ignore it, and making the best out of the situation?

(Which hurts them more.)

Also gladiator by Jenn is such a Wolf song. Go listen. Please I beg.

and I am late to answering it!

I think I've/we've (not sure) messed with the idea before, but didn't land on anything concrete?

I think, at least pre-unexile (sometime after Lightfall, not sure exactly when yet), Wolf wouldn't bother with speaking to do an audio diary/journal. One thing I'm very fond of doing to the Young Wolf is fucking up their voice in some way so yk gotta have the rasp from poor use! For the most part, I don't think they'd be very committed to a journal to begin with - but Ghost might try to get them to at least write down their thoughts, if they can't get it out to him.

I don't think they'd keep track of the entries, though. Write it down, put it out there, leave it to rot like everything else. Maybe it makes them feel better, maybe it leaves them feeling worse, but there is some clarity with clear words.

So, I figure they either leave files unnamed and completely unedited or grammar checked, or just leave mostly incoherent pages in random hideouts. Some might be torn out, or torn up into shreds, pencil marks varying between trying to make sense and then just writing the first half-thought that comes to their mind while trying to put words to how it feels.

Though, any sign of their state is probably found more from how messy they are, rather than what the pages actually say. So, a lorebook would probably be pieced together from incomplete pages and dated by the closest events they could relate to any one "entry" (easier said than done, as 90% of them are about... nonsense, or things that happened awhile ago that they're just catching up on because they take forever to acknowledge anything's wrong)

There'd definitely be pages/entries where Wolf writes about some cool landscape, or something stupid that happened. Maybe they saw a Newlight drive their sparrow dead into a wall while trying to chase a pike, or how they scared the shit out of some fireteam that day. Though, those entries are likely written with a shaky hand.

Any start of a spiral, likely would've been found in half-hearted, very downtrodden or demotivated points. So, while coherent, mostly melancholic or nostalgic. The few completely clear and "determined" ones, are... likely about consequences, either their own or our dearest motivation: The many should not suffer the mistakes of a few.

Which, I think, would be the ones that would make it into a lorebook (also completely overlooking just how ill and betrayed Wolf really was, in favor of showing their "good-hearted-ness and determination to protect the City").

also, that is 100% a Wolf song. Took me a minute to get it, but woh. And not even just Wolf, either - I mean. "I know its kinda funny that everyone is acting like they know you personally" for Crow maybe, or 'They've all been dying for a little drama, their favorite stars getting out of coma" you already know--

#did NOT mean to wax poetic again but i cant help it. im rewatching jacob geller videos again :( #also did not mean to write an essay on you again but yknow what. you sent the ask you know how these things go-- #The Forsaken Exile #orb rambles

[audreyhalessaviour]

Audrey lost media as of January 2024

21 journals (3 pages have leaked)

Unspecified writings and notes

14 home videos

1 goodbye video filmed on the day of the killings

1 physical suicide note found in her laptop

Contents of several hard drives from computers and cellphones. (It's unknown which ones are hers as listed in the police report.)

Contents of cloud accounts such as Google drive and iCould

Unreleased artwork

Her psychology information.

School records

Unedited interview video from the Nossi senior show

Full uncropped and unwatermarked image of her holding a stuffed monkey in a blue outfit

Unwatermarked video of her pretending to be drunk at a bar.

Unwatermarked and uncropped footage of her watching something in a crowd.

Dance video with original audio instead of music

Original school pictures (Many we have are low quality pictures of pictures.)

Audreys social media pages such as Facebook, Instagram

Audreys gaming accounts

Audreys autopsy photos

Uncensored video of Audrey being neutralized

If I missed anything or if you have any lost or rare media relating to Audrey please DM me!

#audrey hale #lost media #investigation

[your-dietician]

'ANNE' in Amsterdam Shares Unedited Version of Anne Frank's Story

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'ANNE' in Amsterdam Shares Unedited Version of Anne Frank's Story

The play captures raw emotions, showcasing a mix of love, tension, laughter and fear

ANNE, currently showing at Theater Amsterdam, a venue specially built for the play, is an emotional production that brings the story of Anne Frank to the stage.

From family feuds and moments of tension to lighthearted moments and her transition into a young woman, up to the terrifying and heartbreaking moment of being discovered in the Secret Annex, the play explores the raw emotions and feelings Anne so accurately detailed in her diary.

Anne Frank, played by actress Rosa da Silva, writes in her diary — Photo courtesy of Kurt van der Elst

The life-size set allows patrons to get a glimpse into the Frank’s apartment on Merwedeplein, as well as see the Secret Annex from all angles. The building rotates 360 degrees. Additionally, the musical score matches the tone of the performance perfectly. Plus, the play features photos, audio and video from World War II.

For the first time in theatrical history, a play uses direct excerpts from her diary. ANNE even incorporates information found in her original, unedited journal. 

ANNE, initiated by and created in cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, was written by Jessica Durlacher and Leon de Winter. It’s produced by Imagine Nation, in collaboration with the Dutch National Theatre.

“We reveal a lot of stuff that nobody knew,” says Kees Abrahams, producer of ANNE and founder of Imagine Nation, “But it wasn’t revealed before because the family didn’t allow it.”

After the war, Anne’s father Otto Frank was the only survivor of those who were hiding in the Secret Annex. Anne’s diary was saved, as well, thanks to a friend of the family, Miep Gies. Anne hoped her diary would one day be published, and her dream came true. 

She had already started editing the diary while they were in hiding, so Otto released a version that combined her original and edited thoughts. He, however, omitted sexual content and trimmed down text that may have defamed those in hiding, including Anne’s mother Edith.

This production of ANNE covers all versions of Anne’s story, bringing to life material from her original diary in a completely uncensored fashion.

The entire performance, including intermission, is just over three hours. While the play is performed entirely in Dutch, it’s still suitable for non-Dutch speakers. The theater provides a translation system, facilitating viewers to follow along in eight different languages.

The system allows a person to read a summary of each scene, activate subtitles or listen to the audio version in the guest’s preferred language. The subtitles and audio, which can be used simultaneously, track the script in real time.

Visit Theater Amsterdam’s website or the box office for times and tickets. Please note: Due to the sensitive subject matter, the theater advises the performance is only suitable for ages 12 and up.

The performance ties in nicely with a visit to the Anne Frank House, located in Amsterdam on the Prinsengracht. Rosa da Silva, the actress who plays Anne Frank, believes the Annex allows visitors to experience the space where the Frank family lived in hiding for two years. 

Seeing the play, however, addresses the complete story of Anne, showcasing a teenage girl who simply wanted to grow up, pursue her ambitions, fall in love and ultimately live life. 

“If you know the story of Anne, you can go to the real Annex here in Amsterdam, but if you see the play, you also see Anne as a young girl who has a lot of dreams,” says da Silva. “Anne for me is not just only the symbol of the Second World War. She is much more than that. She is also a girl that gives you a lot of hope and energy.” 

Read full article here

[cashlynfullsail]

Course 6 Reflection

This course went as expected. After not doing so well in my first attempts, I find this course a little intimidating. My expectations of the course initially was to learn more about SEO however, we learned much more about how to maximize our use of social media platforms and website The course required time sensitive assignments that also required a lot of time and effort. At this point I’m a bit intimidates by this course but would like the opportunity to prove myself. Passing this course is a huge challenge that I am determined to overcome. Many elements of the course enhanced the storytelling aspect of journalism through photo and audio.

Recording the  podcast and storytelling through photojournalism was the most helpful portion of the course. Capturing the feeing of a concept is one of the most powerful thing we can learn as journalists.  I will incorporate audio journalism and storytelling into all of my future journalistic endeavors. I believe hearing the unedited exchange between two people has a more personable. The podcast forum used in connection with social media or using social media could cause a more positive interaction within the online community. Possibly incorporating the storytelling aspects of both podcasts and photojournalism will provide a form of journalism that is tangible and shareable amongst millennials.

Though challenging believe that each course is valuable as we are preparing to appeal to our target audiences use the most appealing platforms and format. I found this course extremely challenging and I believe taking the course again will allow me the opportunity to  triumph over this hurdle. 

#roadtograduation #fullsailuniversity #journalism

[travelonlinetipsofficial]

'ANNE' in Amsterdam Shares Unedited Version of Anne Frank's Story

New Post has been published on https://www.travelonlinetips.com/anne-in-amsterdam-shares-unedited-version-of-anne-franks-story/

'ANNE' in Amsterdam Shares Unedited Version of Anne Frank's Story

The play captures raw emotions, showcasing a mix of love, tension, laughter and fear

ANNE, currently showing at Theater Amsterdam, a venue specially built for the play, is an emotional production that brings the story of Anne Frank to the stage.

From family feuds and moments of tension to lighthearted moments and her transition into a young woman, up to the terrifying and heartbreaking moment of being discovered in the Secret Annex, the play explores the raw emotions and feelings Anne so accurately detailed in her diary.

Anne Frank, played by actress Rosa da Silva, writes in her diary — Photo courtesy of Kurt van der Elst

The life-size set allows patrons to get a glimpse into the Frank’s apartment on Merwedeplein, as well as see the Secret Annex from all angles. The building rotates 360 degrees. Additionally, the musical score matches the tone of the performance perfectly. Plus, the play features photos, audio and video from World War II.

For the first time in theatrical history, a play uses direct excerpts from her diary. ANNE even incorporates information found in her original, unedited journal. 

ANNE, initiated by and created in cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, was written by Jessica Durlacher and Leon de Winter. It’s produced by Imagine Nation, in collaboration with the Dutch National Theatre.

“We reveal a lot of stuff that nobody knew,” says Kees Abrahams, producer of ANNE and founder of Imagine Nation, “But it wasn’t revealed before because the family didn’t allow it.”

After the war, Anne’s father Otto Frank was the only survivor of those who were hiding in the Secret Annex. Anne’s diary was saved, as well, thanks to a friend of the family, Miep Gies. Anne hoped her diary would one day be published, and her dream came true. 

She had already started editing the diary while they were in hiding, so Otto released a version that combined her original and edited thoughts. He, however, omitted sexual content and trimmed down text that may have defamed those in hiding, including Anne’s mother Edith.

This production of ANNE covers all versions of Anne’s story, bringing to life material from her original diary in a completely uncensored fashion.

The entire performance, including intermission, is just over three hours. While the play is performed entirely in Dutch, it’s still suitable for non-Dutch speakers. The theater provides a translation system, facilitating viewers to follow along in eight different languages.

The system allows a person to read a summary of each scene, activate subtitles or listen to the audio version in the guest’s preferred language. The subtitles and audio, which can be used simultaneously, track the script in real time.

Visit Theater Amsterdam’s website or the box office for times and tickets. Please note: Due to the sensitive subject matter, the theater advises the performance is only suitable for ages 12 and up.

The performance ties in nicely with a visit to the Anne Frank House, located in Amsterdam on the Prinsengracht. Rosa da Silva, the actress who plays Anne Frank, believes the Annex allows visitors to experience the space where the Frank family lived in hiding for two years. 

Seeing the play, however, addresses the complete story of Anne, showcasing a teenage girl who simply wanted to grow up, pursue her ambitions, fall in love and ultimately live life. 

“If you know the story of Anne, you can go to the real Annex here in Amsterdam, but if you see the play, you also see Anne as a young girl who has a lot of dreams,” says da Silva. “Anne for me is not just only the symbol of the Second World War. She is much more than that. She is also a girl that gives you a lot of hope and energy.” 

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[mathewingram]

What happens when Facebook confronts an existential threat?

Note: This is something I originally wrote for the daily newsletter at the Columbia Journalism Review, where I’m the chief digital writer

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t do a lot of off-the-cuff speaking. His public appearances–whether before Congress or at a launch event–tend to be carefully scripted and rehearsed to the point where a cardboard cutout would seem animated by comparison. All of which helps explain some of the excitement surrounding a Verge report this week, consisting of two hours worth of unedited audio and transcripts of Zuckerberg addressing a town hall at Facebook, including questions from the staff. Although the scoop was heavily promoted, the transcripts didn’t contain any smoking bombshells exactly–in fact, Zuckerberg himself promoted the story in a post on his personal Facebook page, which pretty much guarantees there was nothing earth-shattering in the text.

That said, however, a number of observers highlighted one comment they found troubling: when the Facebook CEO was asked whether he was concerned about the company being broken up by government regulators, he responded that he could see federal authorities–and here he mentioned Elizabeth Warren specifically–trying such a gambit, and that if necessary he would oppose it. And then Zuckerberg said: “At the end of the day, if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight.” Based on the context of the quote, it seems clear that the Facebook CEO meant he would fight the government’s attempt in the courts. In the full transcript, he prefaces his comment by saying one of the things he loves and appreciates about the US is “that we have a really solid rule of law,” and that he doesn’t think such a case would survive a court challenge (and he is probably right).

On Twitter and elsewhere, however, the reference to Warren and her desire to break up the company was boiled down to the point where it appeared that Zuckerberg sees Warren herself–and her presidential candidacy–as being an existential threat. The Facebook CEO’s comment brought up what some saw as a disturbing scenario. What if you almost single-handedly controlled the world’s largest information distributor, one that hundreds of millions of people rely on for their news, and one that has been implicated in the past in spreading misinformation and propaganda during an election–how might you respond to something that you perceive as an existential threat to your company?

In a piece he wrote in 2014 for the New Republic, long before a Russian troll factory tried to hijack Facebook during the 2016 election, Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain talked about the potential that Facebook has to sway voters, and the risk this ability poses when it comes to an election. In the article, entitled “Facebook Could Decide an Election Without Anyone Ever Finding Out,” Zittrain mentions a social experiment Facebook conducted in 2010, in which the company placed a small graphic in the newsfeed of selected users. The graphic included a list of polling places, photos of friends from your address book who had already voted, and a button to click that would let your followers know that you had voted. According to Facebook’s research, this experiment–which no one was informed of either before or during the test–resulted in an increase in voting behavior, with about 340,000 more votes being cast than were cast in the previous election in the regions corresponding to where the graphic was used.

So what would happen if Facebook decided it wanted to try to influence an election, Zittrain asked. All it would really have to do is make sure that supporters of its preferred candidate received the “I Voted” package or something similar, and ensure that users supporting other candidates did not. While Facebook might argue that it would never use its powers in that way, the reality is we would never really know. We each get our own customized news feed, and so we have no way of knowing what we are seeing that others aren’t, or what we are missing that others are seeing. And that gives Facebook and its boy-king Mark Zuckerberg the ability to influence how we see the world in ways that we are completely unaware of, because they are hidden by its black-box algorithm. And all we have to comfort us are the company’s assurances that it means well.

Here’s more on Facebook and its various challenges:

That would suck: Elizabeth Warren got wind of Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about her being an existential threat, and how her plan to break the company up would “suck,” as the Facebook CEO put it. Warren responded on Twitter: “What would really suck is if we don’t fix a corrupt system that lets giant companies like Facebook engage in illegal anti-competitive practices, stomp on consumer privacy rights, and repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy.”

Thanks for the pitch: As news of Zuckerberg’s remarks spread through social media, a number of users said that they found the Facebook CEO’s comments to be a pretty good endorsement of Elizabeth Warren. “I already like her ok, you don’t have to sell her this hard,” said a popular pseudonymous account called The Volatile Mermaid, while another said that calling Warren an existential threat to Facebook “is maybe her biggest selling point yet,” in a tweet that got 1,400 likes.

Profiting from Trump: The Democratic National Committee slammed Facebook on Tuesday, telling CNN that the company is allowing Donald Trump “to mislead the American people on their platform unimpeded.” The comments were made after Facebook said last week that it will not fact-check any posts or advertisements that come from politicians. According to CNN, the Trump campaign has so far spent almost $20 million on Facebook ads since May 2018.

Profiting from hate: Facebook has said many times that it wants to crack down hate speech and other forms of harassment on the platform–in part because a number of countries including Germany have laws against hate speech, and require the company to remove it within a certain time frame. But according to a report from investigative news site Sludge, the company has made millions in advertising revenue from more than 35 recognized hate groups that have used the platform to spread their message.

Other notable stories:

Journalists with the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald said on Wednesday they intend to form a union and asked the company to voluntarily recognize the One Herald Guild without a formal vote of newsroom staff. A statement from union organizers said a majority of the journalists in the two newsrooms of the South Florida publications supports the effort, but the executive editor and publisher of both papers, told organizers that the decision to unionize should be put to a vote.

Donald Trump’s use of the word “coup” to describe what is happening around the impeachment process and the Ukraine investigation is another example of how misinformation spreads from right-wing social media to the president’s Twitter feed in a self-reinforcing circular process, according to the New York Times. Trump escalates accusations born in right-wing media, “portraying himself as the victim of an unsubstantiated scheme. His followers often jump in and amplify the messages online, which are then picked right back up on conservative shows and news outlets.”

With disinformation and propaganda ramping up as we head towards the 2020 elections, the media needs to become even more vigilant, writes Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan. “That public opinion be based on facts — not weaponized falsehoods — is about the most crucial work the media can do,” she says. Sullivan notes that journalists need to be quick on their feet, networks need to stop booking Trump surrogates for interviews, and the media must “end its addiction to both-sides journalism, which gives falsehood the same opportunities as truth.”

Starbucks said Tuesday that it plans to offer customers at its coffee shops free access to the websites of a number of newspapers for a limited time. Customers using the free WiFi at the chain’s 8,500 or so stores will get free access to the digital versions of the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Seattle Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel and the New York Daily News. The company stopped selling print newspapers in its stores earlier this year.

Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Civic Media Lab at MIT, has a new study looking at how news and information about social movements such as Black Lives Matter and MeToo is distributed over time, and how the public attention that is paid to these movements often comes in waves. Zuckerman said he hopes that the research offers “both an opportunity to understand how media attention can move in waves, and how social movements might harness and benefit from those waves.”

Live TV interviews are a relatively modern invention that frequently adds little to the understanding of key issues, writes Michael Socolow, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. “Live TV helps those who lie and want to hide,” Socolow says. Rather than enlightening viewers, Socolow argues that many of these mainstream network television interviews are a journalistic failure, providing lots of sensational programming without really providing any facts that would be useful to those who are trying to understand a news event.

The investigative news site Sludge says that if it can’t raise “significant funds” in the next few weeks, it will be forced to shut down. The site was one of the first startups to join the blockchain-powered journalism platform Civil, and was initially funded by the company as part of what it called its “first fleet” of newsrooms. But Civil’s funding grants were only designed to last for a limited time, so Sludge and others have been trying to raise enough money to continue through crowdfunding.

Mari Cohen writes for CJR about the state of journalism in Chicago, where the city’s landmark newspaper, the Tribune, moved out of its iconic downtown building in 2018, something many took as a sign of a decline in the market. But Cohen says there are enough positive things happening both at the Tribune and elsewhere that “Chicago looks less like another sad journalism story and more like an example of what can happen when things appear to be working.”

Michelle Amazeen and Erik Bucy write for CJR about a study they did which looked at whether an understanding of how the media functions can change how people perceive misinformation. According to their research, in which they surveyed more than 1,800 people about their knowledge of the media, the more people know about the media, “the better they are able to identify and resist online disinformation efforts, including fabricated headlines and covert advertising attempts.”

What happens when Facebook confronts an existential threat? was originally published on mathewingram.com/work

[businessboat-blog]

Witness Police

The Witness Police App

By Long Nguyen

How will this app start + stop recording audio + video? Is there a way to start recording if one or both hands are not available? Is there a method for mounting or wearing the phone that can allow for hands free recording?

The app accesses the user’s camera and uses the recording function. The user can record using the app itself or simply swiping to their camera and starts recording. If the user’s hands are unavailable, the app can be voice-activated via the default phase of “(Name of App) Record”, and it will not stop recording until the user manually turn it off. If the user currently possess an iPhone, they may buy a mount or a holder to allow hands free recording.

How will this app store video and audio? Will the files have timestamps? Will these files be stored only on the phone, or will they be sent elsewhere?

The app requires the user to sign-up and verify for an account, and all videos recorded on the app will be immediately saved to the user’s account. If the user records using their camera, the user may leave the video there or upload it to their account. If the video is saved or uploaded onto the user’s account, it is automatically posted onto the app’s video sharing website under the user’s account. The user also have the ability to take down video as well.

How will this app verify and/or legitimize video captured? Will it work with an agency such as a justice organization, law office or journalism outlet, or will it be stored privately. (Make sure to consider and discuss reasons for this feature).

All recordings posted on the app’s video sharing website are public for other users. They may share the video through other social media or report inappropriate contents. If a video have a significant amount of reports, a moderator will investigate. If the report is valid, the video will be taken down, and the user will receive a warning.

Videos may only be upvoted or be reported. Content moderators and community members will monitor the contents on the app. The app could potentially partner with justice organization, law office, or journalism outlet to connect users to these agencies. The agencies may also ask the user permission to use their video or simply contact the user via email for questions.

How could this app be used outwardly and how could it be used discretely?

Users can record the app outwardly by simply holding up their phone and clicking record. When recording with the app, users have the option to livestream the event on their account as well. The app can be used discretely by activating it and hiding the phone.

How will this app protect the identities of other non-enforcement individuals in the footage as well as the identity of the user? Can this feature be turned on / off? What possible situations might require the user to protect their identity, and what situations might necessitate identity verification?

The app automatically blurs every face, including the officers and the users. Only moderators can remove the blur. Users may sent a request to unblur the video for any reason they want, but it is ultimately the moderators that choose whether to remove the blur or not. Moderators are hired employees and not random strangers. .

The blurring cannot be turn off to protect the faces of all individuals. Only moderators can see the initial video unedited and remove the blur.

Some possible situations where users need to protect their identity is from harassment due to their activity/video such as backlash from the police. One situation that requires identity verification is when using the video in court in which case the moderator will unblur the video.

Furthermore, the user is by default anonymous unless they choose to make their username public. Moderators, of course, will be able to see all users’ names.

Describe this app’s live stream capabilities. Where will the footage stream to, and to what audience? Are there ways to select different streaming options for different situations? Describe 3 possible streaming modes.  

The app will stream footage and upload it to the Witness Police website, where it will be saved and uploaded onto the user’s account. Audience varies from people who are looking through and happen upon a stream or people enabling a feature to tell them that users near their areas are streaming.

Some streaming modes would be live streaming to Facebook, Youtube, and Vimeo. These are all video-sharing websites with social capabilities which is what Witness Police is based off of. Whereas these platforms are for general use, Witness Police is meant to be used exclusively to record and share police activities.

[ekoilemartinwrite]

Journal January 19, 2023

Today is a Thursday, of the last week of Mitch’s kingdom fitness Academy. Yesterday I started the unchained leader program, I watched the first module, today I got a visual overview; tomorrow is the video marked day one.

One of the recommendations is to Journal everything. Which I know I need to be doing anyway, and while handwriting is helpful, and preferable in many ways, words for me are always an act of translation,. And I'm still going to be doing that anyway, but for a different aspect of that program. Also he insists on that we take notes. Which is surprisingly helpful. That actually helps make it all stick better.

I know what brought me into this program is dealing with porn addiction, and while I haven't struggled with that for several months now that's more I think because I've been distracted and a bit overwhelmed with all the other tasks I have to deal with. Not so much because I haven't been tempted. Though I also now have several months worth of evidence that I do not need it to cope with anything. I also have proof that I do not need food to cope with anything. I also do not need dance to cope with anything. What I do need God will provide, and is accessible through God the father. I suppose to someone not spiritually minded that sounds very strange, but I don't care it's my journal.

I know going forward that I'm going to need to uproot all of the lies that I've believed about myself, that I told myself about myself. To uproot and remove the desires. I like that aim of the program. Though even, in prayer I feel that God has said, and placed on my heart, that I do need a counselor. At least for a time. I'm also going to keep working with Mitch for a while. I stumbled in this last week regarding food. I went on a few binges. A food plan of fewer than 2000 cal a day sent me into a strange emotional panic that I do not understand. But I was getting good results with the 2000 cal a day plan, and I'm reverting to that.

In some ways I barely recognize myself in the mirror, praise God. I do not mean that is an insult to myself, I only recognize the miracles that he is working, in me. One of the reasons I did this was to make my body a worthy temple, and I'm trying, and in many ways God is respecting that and making it that.

#unedited audio journal #journal #journaling #audio journal #transcript #unedited transcript #audio transcript #unedited audio transcript #writer #journalling #unedited #reflection #journey #addiction #addiction breaking #addicition

[sekerenews]

HBO’s The Inspiration Room: HBO’s Launches Exhibit for Women’s History Month

HBO recently announced that it will be hosting a first of its kind exhibit in New York. The exhibit was created to celebrate Women’s History Month. It features unedited dairies of real women and the exhibition is titled The Inspiration Room. HBO’s The Inspiration Room is an exhibition which aims to serve as a public archive of women’s journals. These journals will span from different generations of living and dead women.

About HBO’s The Inspiration Room Exhibit

HBO’s The Inspiration Room exhibit was created to honour Women’s History Month. The exhibit aims to celebrate the power of authentic and unedited female voices. HBO’s The Inspiration room will be open to the public between the 18th of March and the 24th of March. The exhibition will be located at 399 Lafayette in New York. HBO’s The Inspiration Room was created in partnership with the creative agency Wieden +Kennedy New York. It will feature diaries in various forms, some of which include compilation books, large-scale installations and audio recordings. It will also feature a series of videos which will bring the real stories of women to life through dramatic readings from some HBO stars. Some of the stars that will be featured include Dominique Fishback (The Deuce), Angela Sarafyan (Westworld), Poorna Jagannathan (Big Little Lies), Susie Essman (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Natalie Gold (Succession).  The video series will cover different ranges of female experiences. These experience include dating, a fathers affair, becoming a mother, surviving breast cancer and depression. The diaries featured in HBO’s The Inspiration room was gotten from hundreds of women from all over the U.S. It was gathered from a landing page created by the network HBOInspirationRoom.com.  Some of the diaries that will be featured in the exhibit will be from some of the network's stars. Some of the stars include Issa Rae (Insecure), Amanda Crew (Silicon Valley), Lisa Joy (Westworld) and Lena Dunham (Girls).  The Great Diary Project also contributed some diaries to the exhibit. It will also feature an audio file contribution from the collection of Agatha Christie.

Wieden + Kennedy Speak on HBO’s The Inspiration Room Exhibit

Michelle Lamont a copywriter from Wieden + Kennedy, who worked on the exhibit spoke about it. She stated that the goal of the exhibit is for women to look and see themselves while knowing that’s there’s no one way to be women or to feel like a woman. Read the full article

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MEET THE REPORTER WHO MADE AMERICA LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN AT THE BORDER

Because some of the most impactful stories in journalism are the ones that let the subjects speak for themselves.

At first, Ginger Thompson could hardly believe what she was hearing on the audiotape. What she could make out were several young children from Central America sobbing and crying out for “Mami” and “Papá.” One girl begs for somebody to phone her aunt. Then comes a grown-up male voice, a Border Patrol agent responding to the chaotic scene. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” he quips. “What’s missing is a conductor.”

A BORDER-TOWN ARMY BRAT

It was no accident that the impactful audio found its way to Thompson, 55, a senior reporter for ProPublica. She has spent her career following developments along the U.S.-Mexico border. Her whole life, really. An Army brat, she grew up in El Paso, Texas, the border city where her father was stationed. She learned Spanish at an early age and spent many weekends across the border in Ciudad Juárez with her friends and their families. “Living on the border,” says Thompson, “being a part of that school, and being a part of this very mixed community — military families, immigrant families, longtime Texan families — it was just a really interesting place to grow up.”  Thompson fell in love with writing and telling other people’s stories, not as a journalist but as editor of her (award-winning) high school yearbook. “We really focused,” says Thompson, who ranked second in her class. “It was more like a local reporting organization.”

A love of storytelling and a desire to travel led her into journalism. Before joining ProPublica, Thompson, who has degrees from Purdue University and George Washington University, spent 15 years at The New York Times as the Mexico City bureau chief and as an investigative reporter. Among other things, her stories have uncovered U.S. support for a Honduran military unit that kidnapped and murdered hundreds of suspected political opponents, and Washington’s role in Mexico’s fight against drug traffickers. She doesn’t seek out danger, but it has found her, and on more than one occasion she has had to talk her way out of captivity from armed criminal gangs. And it was Thompson’s daring and meticulous work in Central America that brought her to the attention of someone else.

THE STORY OF A LIFTIME

In June 2018, someone came to Jennifer Harbury, an attorney and civil rights activist based in the border town of Weslaco, Texas, seeking legal advice about how to release a tape recording they had made of the children crying in the detention center. Harbury has never publicly disclosed the identity of that whistleblower for a variety of reasons, including attorney-client privilege, but she claims it is someone she has known for years who has “extremely high credibility.” Harbury took the individual on as a client and promised to act as a go-between with journalists to ensure the tape could be made public responsibly.   And Harbury had one particular journalist in mind. “I’ve always really respected her courage,” Harbury says of Thompson, whose reporting in Central America she had long admired, even if she didn’t know Thompson personally. “She’s always been a top-notch writer who carefully checks out her stories and has tons of credibility. And she is fearless.”

After Thompson received the damning audiotape from Harbury, she immediately went into reporter mode. She knew that before the tape could be made public, it was critical to ensure that it was real and presented in the proper way. Thompson quickly set about verifying that the audio was authentic, including confirming the identity of the girl (by dialing the number the girl offers on the recording) as well as the identity of the source, that the source had access to the Border Patrol facility, and that the recording was unedited and representative of what was transpiring at the facility. Thompson, who describes herself as a perfectionist, recalls: "What was important was for me to analyze it, get the material I needed, and to get that tape up so that it might matter and mean something.”

She learned that the children on the recording are between 4 and 10 years old, and they had only just been separated from their parents. Their emotions are raw. Those working at the facility are doing their best to comfort the children and provide them with food and toys. According to Thompson’s reporting, even the officer making a joke about the “orchestra” is doing so in a vain attempt to lighten the mood. But he can’t. The kids are inconsolable. 

Thompson worked most of the weekend on the story. She barely changed out of her pajamas. Shortly after her story was published, she recalls taking a shower when she heard the tape being played on television. She had listened to the tape a dozen times in order to write about it. But she hadn’t let it sink in. “It was the first time I really heard the tape as Ginger the human being, and not Ginger the reporter,” she says, “and that’s when the sounds of those voices began to really affect me.”

"ABSOLUTELY GUT-WRENCHING & BEYOND DISTURBING"

Thompson was not the only one stirred by the tape. “Heartbreaking,” New York Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat and Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner tweeted about the recording after the release of Thompson’s story. “Absolutely gut-wrenching & beyond disturbing,” said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a Nevada Democrat. Most Americans, including members of Congress, had known for weeks about the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which had separated more than 2,300 children from their parents since that April, and it had been condemned from all sides. The American Academy of Pediatrics argued the policy would cause the children “irreparable harm.” Former first lady Laura Bush called it “cruel” and “immoral.”   But it wasn’t until Thompson’s story and the release of the audio that the horrifying human consequences of the border drama grabbed America by the collar. The resulting public sentiment and political pressure forced the administration to announce that it would end its child separation policy and attempt to reunify those who had already been separated. “I was very heartened that people on both sides of the political divide were horrified when they heard the tape,” says Harbury, “and stood up immediately and said, ‘No way. That’s going too far.’” 

Administration officials responded quickly to the tape’s release. “We will not apologize,” 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told reporters regarding the child separation policy, claiming that the administration was only enforcing the law and it would be up to Congress to change it. One senior Homeland Security official told OZY on condition of anonymity that the detention centers were never meant to house so many immigrants. "They were meant to be wait-through stations," the official said, adding that Democratic lawmakers' refusal to approve additional funds for the department left them with few options once the number of daily migrant crossings rose. “We are doing the right thing. We are taking care of these children. They are not being abused,” former Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. 

But, for many who work on the ground at the border, Thompson’s story was huge. The story “woke a different level of discussion about what is happening,” says Alejandra Y. Castillo, the CEO of YWCA USA, which works on issues related to the migrant crisis and protecting women and children. 

Thompson’s journalism was also inspiring for many in the business, including students at Columbia University’s journalism school, where Thompson is an adjunct faculty member. “She is a role model for them, a journalist who nails the story and reflects all sides with intelligence and understanding,” says Sheila Coronel, an award-winning investigative journalist and dean of academic affairs at Columbia.  The response to the story was gratifying for Thompson, who describes herself as generally pretty shy and “not a cheerleader type.” She was forced out of her comfort zone in the wake of the news-shattering headlines and found herself on the other side of the story as the subject of television and radio interviews. "I don’t love being in front of cameras, but I love telling the stories of other people,” she says. “When it comes to putting forth issues that are important, or standing up for issues involving other people, I am not at all afraid.”

CONTINUING SEPARATION ANXIETY

In some cases, as Thompson’s subsequent reporting confirmed, the Trump administration’s attempts at reunification were successful. The 6-year-old girl on the tape who wanted to   phone her aunt, a Salvadoran immigrant named Jimena Valencia Madrid (see Jimena's story in the sidebar), was finally reunited with her mother, Cindy, at a Houston airport the next month. 

But even where reunification occurs, separation can be a life-shattering event. According to Castillo, whose organization works with displaced families all the time, there is something even worse than children crying on tape: the children who don’t cry because the trauma is so deep. “My concern is that the infliction of the trauma will be lasting for many, many years, if not for a lifetime,” she says. 

And, despite the public retreat from the policy, in the weeks and months since, border agents have continued to remove children from their parents as the administration remained committed to its goal of deterring asylum-seekers. According to Harbury, families are still being separated, and not reunited, despite the administration’s supposed pivot. Many times children are plucked from parents who are charged with mere misdemeanors. “It’s as if you get a parking ticket,” says Harbury, “and the police come by your house and take away your children.” Many in the Trump administration believe its tactics are working: Immigrants “in custody” fell from a stunning 20,000 in May to around 3,000 in December 2019, while daily apprehensions dropped from 4,600 to just 1,300 in that same period, acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan reported in January. 

In recent days, activists have been trying to remind Americans of the outrage they felt in 2018 over the audiotape and the child separation policy. While performing “Born in the U.S.A.” during the Super Bowl half-time show, Jennifer Lopez was surrounded by children in cage-like enclosures. The following day, caucusgoers in Des Moines, Iowa, were confronted with dozens of chain-link cages holding fake children under signs reading “#Don’t Look Away.”

Still, it has been hard to re-create the impact of hearing from the children themselves, the ones who, as Thompson told NPR after the tape had been released, have the most at stake. “Unless we hear from the children, we don’t have a real understanding of what it is, of what this policy is and what it’s doing.”

AN “ALL-HANDS-ON-DECK MOMENT”

Thompson, who last year married her longtime partner, Tony Cavin, a deputy foreign editor at CBS News, continues to keep busy with her reporting. She doesn’t really have hobbies, she says, but loves reading a good book on the beach when she can get away. “I was on a train with a colleague who was going to take a guitar lesson recently. I was so jealous,” she jokes.  Although Thompson loves her work and takes it very seriously, she demurs when confronted with how courageous others consider her to be. She feels the courage lies elsewhere: “The person who shared this tape with Jennifer, who was willing to talk to me about how they obtained the tape, people who are whistleblowers at the risk of losing their jobs,” she says. “I’m inspired by their courage.”  Thompson plans to continue to report about hard places and vulnerable people and to speak truth to power, and she is constantly looking for new ways to tell stories, from documentaries to podcasts. “My plan is to keep finding big and important stories to tell,” she says. “In these times, with all that’s going on in the country and at the border, it feels almost like an all-hands-on-deck moment.”

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#reporting #border #children at the border

[cashlynfullsail]

Course 6 Reflection

This course was a bit different than I expected. I was expecting to learn more about the algorithms and how to best use the algorithms to our advantage and increase engagement. Though we touched on SEO, I believe this will take more practice and consistency to better tailor content that will be more eye catching to readers.

The course required time sensitive assignments that also required a lot of time and effort which is expected for the grad school. It became a bit overwhelming to schedule interviews and attempt to structure an acceptable interview within a restricted time period. Each element of the course enhance the storytelling aspect of journalism through photo and audio.

Recording the podcast was the most helpful portion of the course. Live platforms and more conversational platforms are becoming the standard forms of journalism. I will incorporate audio journalism and storytelling into all of my future journalistic endeavors. I believe hearing the unedited exchange between two people has a more personable. The podcast forum used in connection with social media or using social media could cause a more positive interaction within the online community.

I believe that each course is stepping stone, preparing us with the tools to craft our journalism in the best way to appeal to out audiences. Though the process is rough at times, I am able to take elements of this course use the element that will enhance my journalism through research and interviewing.

#roadtograduation #fullsailuniversity #journal

[oselatra]

End trade war

Arkansans will be among the hardest hit by President Trump's attempts to strong-arm foreign leaders through economic manipulation.

End trade war

Arkansans will be among the hardest hit by President Trump's attempts to strong-arm foreign leaders through economic manipulation. China's soybean market, "the largest market for one of America's largest exports" according to The New York Times, is punishing its U.S. counterpart for the president's trade war. Consequently, America's soybean market has seen its sales drop 94 percent compared to last year's harvest. Arkansas's soybean farmers, already dealing with behind-schedule harvesting and poor weather conditions, must now suffer the repercussions of the conflict Trump created. With the livelihoods of the state's farmers being used as tools of manipulation, our leaders in Congress must be at the forefront in urging Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to seek a resolution to the crisis the tariff war is creating. I have already contacted my House representative and Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton. I hope you will as well.

Lindsay Bencick Little Rock

From the web

In response to the Nov. 12 Arkansas Blog post "Tax task force proposals benefit, surprise, corporations and the top 1 percent":

We must remember that our revolution started over taxes, unfair taxation. It's the money, it's always THE MONEY. There's that name Jim Hendren again; let's make sure he gets shown the door in the next election. Is there a Hutchinson or Hendren that isn't sucking at a government tit?

The R's have a limited time to make all the hay they can and they know it. Our Brownbacking will accelerate now the elections are over.

More poor people must prepare to get the ax so those living behind fancy gates can save a little more in taxes. Asa to poor people: Drop dead!

Deathbyinches

I'd always been so struck by how little the mainstream press covers these plutocracy issues. The tax cuts, the cozy capitalism, personal enrichment, lobbying careers for ex-officials, on and on.

THEN, one day, oh, 10 years ago or so, it struck me like a heart attack that, hey, wait a minute, there's this entire PROFESSIONAL class just below these top-level folks who make their livings propagating these myths: media companies that don't want to rock the boat and or risk the bottom line, and on and on.

Admittedly, I was embarrassed by the obviousness of this revelation, but I'd recently gone into a sort of retirement at that point, not fully retired, but it gave me much more time to read articles to the very end, pay more attention, subscribe to more magazines and journals, and it was just so obvious there are sacred cows the media won't prod, especially on a national level.

And I was struck too by the idea that, hey, wait a minute, it's not like media folks get certified, it's not regulated, anybody can publish a blog or a newsletter, so why do I just assume because it's served to me as "media" that it's more than likely accurate? I often hear people bemoan the loss of local journalism as the culprit in our sensationalized news culture, and I do bemoan that loss as well, but there are outlets, like the Arkansas Times, that do their part. I visit arktimes.com a few times a day, and even more when I'm on a posting frenzy!

I think the focus is on the wrong people. The Times can only reach so many people. But the national media has all of the money and resources and contacts, and they do such a disappointing job. If you watch cable news, pay attention to what these folks criticize, what they don't mention, what they gloss over, and it becomes very clear in no time that they are not real journalists or news media. But they've got us hooked. Brilliant message-management, marketing, advertising and the whole lot of business acumen.

The mainstream media is letting us down, and it's going to ruin us, and nobody is really talking about it.

Geronimo Rex

Im response to the Nov. 9 Arkansas Blog post "For the record: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a) a liar b) full of 'HuckaBS' ":

The pathetic attempt to use the edited video (edited in a hilariously, to the point of satire, bad way by an InfoWars flunky) to "prove" their point about [CNN reporter Jim] Acosta "assaulting" the aide is in keeping with the lying of this administration, but its lies are so easy to debunk.

Did Sarah not think that with the millions of copies of the unedited video on the Internet, anyone over the age of 3 wouldn't immediately spot her fake version?

Or maybe she didn't care. The MAGA morons would, of course, accept her version as real, given that they live in the alternate universe of Fox "news" and Hannity.

Was it all a setup?

If the issue was stopping Acosta from speaking into the mic (in the process of asking Doofus very legitimate questions), why send a female aide to execute a mic grab?

It was a wireless mic; all the White House press room sound tech would have had to do was turn off the audio feed signal coming from that mic and Acosta would have been effectively cut off.

Tsallenarng

This administration is all about belittling anyone who dares challenge Trump. There is no room for genuine debate or investigative questions. I really feel there will be deep shame amongst my friends who blindly follow Trump once the Mueller probe is completed.

Artificial Intelligence

End trade war

#End trade war

[shopredwave-blog]

POSTED BY: ALEX ROBERTS SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Facebook is currently doing everything in their power to protect CNN after they censored evidence that one of their producers, Scott Bronstein has been randomly calling people who used to attend school with Judge Brett Kavanaugh in an attempt to dig up dirt on the Supreme Court nominee that might be used to prevent his confirmation to the Supreme Court from taking place. Mark Zuckerberg’s social media platform took things a step further when they not only censored the evidence, but they deleted all media articles related to the evidence that was presented by Amy Dryden and banned Amy Dryden herself from the social media platform.

In response to being banned by Facebook for the audio that she shared Amy Dryden tweeted “This is what happens when you post an actual recording of a CNN producer’s dirty journalism on Facebook. #banned So wrong!” Dryden felt the information that was contained in the video showing Bronstein calling random people from the Yale class of 1987 who may have known Judge Brett Kavanaugh was important enough for the rest of America to see. She apparently was right with this belief given the fact that liberal controlled Facebook has done everything possible to keep people from learning about the video and what took place.

For any doubters out there who may have thought that she was banned by Facebook for giving out Scott Bronstein’s phone number, she made it very clear that the number on the audiotape was not his personal number when she tweeted “For critics saying FB banned me for leaving CNN producers tel # in his VM I posted…my friends he called have unpublished #. He found it, invading their privacy, and has been calling them all week. Tel # in video of VM I posted was a CNN tel #- NOT producers personal #.”

According to Big League Politics who is well known for their association with hard hitting independent journalist Laura Loomer, their own report on the audiotape was also censored by Facebook even after they were careful to bleep out the number that was contained on the audiotape. They quote Todd Schurk as saying, “Facebook took down the original post of this. It had nearly 150,000 views and 6,000+ shares. FB censoring conservatives again.”

On her Facebook account Amy Dryden wrote, “Sender’s husband is a Yale grad and CNN is proactively contacting ‘87 Yale graduates who were in Pierson Residential College to try to dig up dirt on Kavanaugh”

The next video is one that I was able to find a copy of after some further investigation that shows the call unedited and almost in its full entirety. I was able to make a personal recording of the video and present that recording to you in as close to being unedited as possible.

https://www.halseynews.com/2018/09/26/amy-dryden-found-herself-banned-from-facebook-after-sharing-truth-about-cnn/

#redwave #gop #raisedright #republican #republicans #shopredwave #votered

[sheminecrafts]

Inside Facebook Stories’ quest for originality amidst 300M users

There’s a secret Facebook app called Blink. Built for employees only, it’s how the company tests new video formats it’s hoping will become the next Boomerang or SuperZoom. They range from artsy Blur effects to a way even old Android phones can use Slo-Mo. One exciting format in development offers audio beat detection that syncs visual embellishments to songs playing in the background or added via the Music feature for adding licensed songs as soundtracks that is coming to Facebook Stories after debuting on Instagram.

“When we first formed the team . . . we brought in film makers and cinematographers to help the broader team understand the tropes around storytelling and film making,” says Dantley Davis, Facebook Stories’ director of design. He knows those tropes himself, having spent seven years at Netflix leading the design of its apps and absorbing creative tricks from countless movies. He wants to democratize those effects once trapped inside expensive desktop editing software. “We’re working on formats to enable people to take the video they have and turn it into something special.”

For all the jabs about Facebook stealing Stories from Snapchat, it’s working hard to differentiate. That’s in part because there’s not much left to copy, and because it’s largely succeeded in conquering the prodigal startup that refused to be acquired. Snapchat’s user count shrank last quarter to 188 million daily users.

Meanwhile, Facebook’s versions continue to grow. The Messenger Day brand was retired a year ago and now Stories posts to either the chat app or Facebook sync to both. After announcing in May that Facebook Stories had 150 million users, with Messenger citing 70 million last September, today the company revealed they have a combined 300 million daily users. The Middle East, Central Latin America and Southeast Asia, where people already use Facebook and Messenger most, are driving that rapid growth.

With the success of any product comes the mandate to monetize it. That push ended up pushing out the founders of Facebook acquisition WhatsApp, and encroachment on product decision-making did the same to Instagram’s founders who this week announced they were resigning.

Now the mandate has reached Facebook Stories, which today opened up to advertisers globally, and also started syndicating those ads into Stories within Messenger. Facebook is even running “Stories School” programs to teach ad execs the visual language of ephemerality since all four of its family of apps will monetize Stories with ads. WhatsApp will start to show ads in its Status version of Stories starting next year now that its founders that hated ads have left.

As sharing to Stories is predicted to surpass feed sharing in 2019, Facebook is counting on the ephemeral slideshows to sustain its ad revenue. Fears they wouldn’t lopped $120 billion off Facebook’s market cap this summer.

Facebook Stories ads open to all advertisers today

But to run ads you need viewers, and that will require responses to questions that have dogged Facebook Stories since its debut in early 2017: “Why do I need Stories here too when I already have Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status?” Many find it annoying that Stories have infected every one of Facebook’s products.

Facebook user experience research manager Liz Keneski

The answer may be creativity. However, Facebook is taking a scientific approach to determining which creative tools to build. Liz Keneski is a user experience research manager at Facebook. She leads the investigative trips, internal testing and focus groups that shape Facebook’s products. Keneski laid out the different types of research Facebook employs to go from vague idea to polished launch:

Foundational Research – “This is the really future-looking research. It’s not necessarily about any specific products but trying to understand people’s needs.”

Contextual Inquiry – “People are kind enough to invite us into their homes and talk with us about how they use technology.” Sometimes Facebook does “street intercepts” where they find people in public and spend five minutes watching and discussing how they use their phone. It also conducts “diary studies” where people journal about how they spend their time with tech.

Descriptive Research – “When we’re exploring a defined product space,” this lets Facebook get feedback on exactly what users would want a new feature to do.

Participatory Design – “It’s kind of like research arts and crafts. We give people different artifacts and design elements and actually ask them to a deign what an experience that would be ideal for them might look like.”

Product Research – “Seeing how people interact with a specific product, the things they’re like or don’t like, the things they might want to change” lets Facebook figure out how to tweak features it’s built so they’re ready to launch.

Last year Facebook went on a foundational research expedition to India. Devanshi Bhandari, who works on the globalization, discovered that even in emerging markets where Snapchat never got popular, people already knew how to use Stories. “We’ve been kind of surprised to learn . . . Ephemeral sharing wasn’t as new to some people as we expected,” she tells me. It turns out there are regional Stories copycats around the globe.

To make Stories global, Facebook adds Archive and audio posts

As Bhandari dug deeper, she found that people wanted more creative tools, but not at the cost of speed. So Facebook began caching the Stories tray from your last visit so it’d still appear when you open Facebook Lite without having to wait for it to load. This week, Facebook will start offering creative tools like filters inside Facebook Lite Stories by enabling them server-side so users can do more than just upload unedited videos.

That trip to India ended up spawning whole new products. Bhandari noticed some users, especially women, weren’t comfortable showing their face in Stories. “People would sometimes put their thumb over the video camera but share the audio content,” she tells me. That led Facebook to build Audio Stories.

Facebook now lets U.S. users add music to Stories just like Instagram

Dantley Davis, Facebook Stories’ director of design

Back at Facebook headquarters in California, the design team runs exercises to distill their own visions of creative. “We have a phase of our design cycle where we ask the designers . . . to bring in their inspiration,” says Davis. That means everything from apps to movie clips to physical objects. Facebook determined that users needed better ways to express emotion through text. While it offers different fonts, from billboard to typewriter motifs, they couldn’t convey if someone is happy or sad. So now Davis reveals Facebook is building “kinetic text.” Users can select if they want to convey if text is supposed to be funny or happy or sad, and their words will appear stylized with movement to get that concept across.

But to make Stories truly Facebook-y, the team had to build them into all its products while solving problems rather than creating them. For example, birthday wall posts are one of the longest running emerging behaviors on the social network. But most people just post a thin, generic “happy birthday!” or “HBD” post, which can feel impersonal, even dystopic. So after announcing the idea in May, Facebook is now running Birthday Stories that encourage friends to submit a short video clip of well wishes instead of bland text.

Facebook recently launched Group and Event Stories, where members can collaborate by all contributing clips that show up in the Stories tray atop the News Feed. Now Facebook is going to start building its own version of Snapchat’s Our Stories. Facebook is now testing holiday-based collaborative Stories, starting with the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam. Users can opt to post to this themed Story, and friends (but not the public) will see those clips combined.

This is the final step of Facebook’s three-part plan to get people hooked on Stories, according to Facebook’s head of Stories, Rushabh Doshi. The idea is that first, Facebook has to get people a taste of Stories by spotlighting them atop the app as well as amidst the feed. Then it makes it easy for people to post their own Stories by offering simple creative tools. And finally, it wants to “Build Stories for what people expect out of Facebook.” That encompasses all the integrations of Stories across the product.

Rushabh Doshi, Facebook’s head of Stories

Still, the toughest nut to crack won’t be helping users figure out what to share but who to share to. Facebook Stories’ biggest disadvantage is that it’s built around an extremely broad social graph that includes not only friends but family, work colleagues and distant acquaintances. That can apply a chilling effect to sharing as people don’t feel comfortable posting silly, off-the-cuff or vulnerable Stories to such a wide audience.

Facebook has struggled with this problem in News Feed for over a decade. It ended up killing off its Friend List Feeds that let people select a subset of their friends and view a feed of just their posts because so few people were using them. Yet the problem remains rampant, and the invasion of parents and bosses has pushed users to Instagram, Snapchat and other younger apps. Unfortunately for now, Doshi says there are no Friend Lists or specific ways to keep Facebook Stories more private amongst friends. “To help people keep up with smaller groups, we’re focused on ways people are already connecting on Facebook, such as Group Stories and Event Stories” Doshi tells me. At least he says “We’re also looking at new ways people could share their stories with select groups of people.”

At 300 million daily users, Facebook Stories doesn’t deserve the “ghost town” label any more. People who were already accustomed to Stories elsewhere still see the feature as intrusive, interruptive and somewhat desperate. But with 2.2 billion total Facebookers, the company can be forced to focus on one-size-fits-all solutions. Yet if Facebook’s Blink testing app can produce must-use filters and effects, and collaborative Stories can unlock new forms of sharing, Facebook Stories could find its purpose.

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There’s a secret Facebook app called Blink. Built for employees only, it’s how the company tests out new video formats its hoping will become the next Boomerang or SuperZoom. They range from artsy Blur effects to a way even old Android phones can use Slo-Mo. One exciting format in development offers audio beat detection that syncs visual embellishments to songs playing in the background or added via the Music feature for adding licensed songs as soundtracks that is coming to Facebook Stories after debuting on Instagram.

“When we first formed the team . . . we brought in film makers and cinematographers to help the broader team understand the tropes around storytelling and filmmaking” says Dantley Davis, Facebook Stories’ Director Of Design. He knows those tropes himself, having spent seven years at Netflix leading the design of its apps and absorbing creative tricks from countless movies. He wants to democratize those effects once trapped inside expensive desktop editing software. “We’re working on formats to enable people to take the video they have and turn it into something special.”

For all the jabs about Facebook stealing Stories from Snapchat, it’s working hard to differentiate. That’s in part because there’s not much left to copy, and because it’s largely succeeded in conquering the prodigal startup that refused to be acquired. Snapchat’s user count shrank last quarter to 188 million daily users.

Facebook’s versions continue to grow. The Messenger Day brand was retired a year ago and now Stories posts to either the chat app or Facebook sync to both. After announcing in May that Facebook Stories had 150 million users, with Messenger citing 70 million last September, today the company revealed they have a combined 300 million daily users.

With the success of any product comes the mandate to monetize it. That push ended up pushing out the founders of Facebook acquisition WhatsApp, and encroachment on product decision-making did the same to Instagram’s founders who this week announced they were resigning.

Facebook now lets US users add music to Stories just like Instagram

Now the mandate has reached Facebook Stories which today opened up to advertisers globally, and also started syndicating those ads into Stories within Messenger. Facebook is even running “Stories School” programs to teach ad execs the visual language of ephemerality now that all four of its family of apps including Instagram and WhatsApp monetize with Stories ads. As sharing to Stories is predicted to surpass feed sharing in 2019, Facebook is counting on the ephemeral slideshows to sustain its ad revenue. Fears they wouldn’t lopped $120 billion off Facebook’s market cap this summer.

But to run ads you need viewers and that will require responses to questions that have dogged Facebook Stories since its debut in early 2017: Why do I need Stories here too when I already have Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status.

Facebook user experience research manager Liz Keneski

The answer may be creativity, but Facebook is taking a scientific approach to determining which creative tools to build. Liz Keneski is a user experience research manager at Facebook. She leads the investigative trips, internal testing, and focus groups that shape Facebook’s products. Keneski laid out the different types of research Facebook employs to go from vague idea to po lished launch.

Foundational Research – “This is the really future looking research. It’s not necessarily about any specific products but trying to understand people’s needs.”

Contextual Inquiry – “People are kind enough to invite us into their homes and talk with us about how they use technology.” Sometimes Facebook does “street intercepts” where they find people in public and spend five minutes watching and discussing how they use their phone. It also conducts “diary studies” where people journal about how they spend their time with tech.

Descriptive Research – “When we’re exploring a defined product space”, this lets Facebook get feedback on exactly what users would want a new feature to do.

Participatory Design – “It’s kind of like research arts and crafts. We give people different artifacts and design elements and actually ask them to a deign what an experience that would be ideal for them might look like.”

Product Research – “Seeing how people interact with a specific product, the things they’re like or don’t like, the things they might want to change” lets Facebook figure out how to tweak features it’s built so they’re ready to launch.

Last year Facebook went on a foundational research expedition to India. Devanshi Bhandari who works on the globalization. She discovered that even in emerging markets where Snapchat never got popular, people already knew how to use Stories. “We’ve been kind of surprised to learn . . . Ephemeral sharing wasn’t as new to some people as we expected” she tells me. It turns out there are regional Stories copycats around the globe.

As Bhandari dug deeper she found that people wanted more creative tools, but not at the cost of speed. So Facebook began caching the Stories tray from your last visit so it’d still appear when you open Facebook Lite without having to wait for it to load. This week, Facebook will start offering creative tools like filters inside Facebook Lite Stories by enabling them server-side so users can do more than just upload unedited videos.

To make Stories global, Facebook adds Archive and audio posts

That trip to India ended up spawning whole new products. Bhandari noticed some users, especially women, weren’t comfortable showing their face in Stories. “People would sometimes put their thumb over the video camera but share the audio content” she tells me. That led Facebook to build Audio Stories.

Dantley Davis, Facebook Stories’ Director Of Design

Back at Facebook headquarters in California, the design runs exercises to distill their own visions of creative. “We have a phase of our design cycle where we ask the designers . . . to bring in their inspiration” says Davis. That means everything from apps to movie clips to physical objects. Facebook determined that users needed better ways to express emotion through text. While it offers different fonts from billboard to typewriter motifs, they couldn’t convey if someone is happy or sad. So now Davis reveals Facebook is building “kinetic text”. Users can select if they want to convey if text is supposed to be funny or happy or sad, and their words will appear stylized with movement to get that concept across.

But to make Stories truly Facebook-y, the team had to build them into all its products while solving problems rather than creating them. For example, birthday wall posts are one of the longest running emerging behaviors on the social network. But most people just post a thin, generic “happy birthday!” or “HBD” post which can feel impersonal, even dystopic. So after announcing the idea in May, Facebook is now running Birthday Stories that encourage friends to submit a short video clip of well wishes instead of bland text.

Facebook recently launched Group and Event Stories, where members can collaborate by all contributing clips that show up in the Stories tray atop the News Feed. Now Facebook is going to start building its own version of Snapchat’s Our Stories. Facebook is now testing holiday-based collaborative Stories, starting with the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam. Users can opt to post to this themed Story, and friends (but not the public) will see those clips combined.

This is the final step of Facebook’s three-part plan to get people hooked on Stories, according to Facebook engineering director Rushabh Doshi who leads the product. The idea is that first, Facebook has to get people a taste of Stories by spotlighting them atop the app as well as amidst the feed. Then it makes it easy for people to post their own Stories by offering simple creative tools. And finally, it wants to “Build Stories for what people expect out of Facebook.” That encompasses all the integrations of Stories across the product.

Rushabh Doshi, Facebook’s engineering manager who oversees Stories

Still, the toughest nut to crack won’t be helping users figure out what to share but who to share to. Facebook Stories’ biggest disadvantage is that it’s built around an extremely broad social graph that includes not only friends but family, work colleagues, and distant acquaintances. That can apply a chilling effect to sharing as people don’t feel comfortable posting silly, off-the-cuff, or vulnerable Stories to such a wide audience.

Facebook has struggled with this problem in News Feed for over a decade. It ended up killing off its Friend List Feeds that let people select a subset of their friends and view a feed of just their posts because so few people were using them. Yet the problem remains rampant, and the invasion of parents and bosses has pushed users to Instagram, Snapchat, and other younger apps. Unfortunately for now, Doshi says there’s no plan to build Friend Lists or sharing to subsets of friends for Facebook Stories.

At 300 million daily users, Facebook Stories doesn’t deserve the “ghost town” label any more. People who were already accustomed to Stories elsewhere still see the feature as intrusive, interruptive, and somewhat desperate. But with 2.2 billion total Facebookers, the company can be forced to focus on one-size-fits-all solutions. Yet if Facebook’s Blink testing app can produce must-use filters and effects, and collaborative Stories can unlock new forms of sharing, Facebook Stories could find its purpose.

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