Editing in Lit Genius

To me, the Genius website seems to be extremely similar to a wiki except it is solely focused on poetry, lyrics and other forms of literature. Along with this, it has all of the aspects of a summary website such as schmoop. The only difference being that this, like a wiki, is edited and contributed to by its users. I was tasked with editing a newly added poem in the Lit section of the site. First, of course, you must make an account, and then you can edit whatever you want. I went about starting off the description to Mina Loy's "Brancusi's Golden Bird." Having never used the site before, I had no clue where to begin, and the suggestions were much too brief to be useful. I decided to go to another, well edited piece to find out. I gathered the basics quite quickly before I decided what to add. I figured the poem had to be about something extremely precise considering its title and googled it to find out what. As I suspected, it was indeed about a specific item, a sculpture to be precise. Brancusi's "Golden Bird" just like the title said. I added this to the description, gave a brief summary of who Brancusi was and added a picture of the sculpture being described. I then gave a link to the Art institute where the picture was taken along with a link to a Wikipedia page about Brancusi. All in all, the process of contributing is extremely easy, user friendly, and accessible.

Here's Genius.com if you want to check it out.

The Statistical Stats

Well, there you have it, an entirely American audience and approximately 100 page views. How can I get more page views? Well, I could post links on every social media website ever created... but do I really want to? Nah, not really. Let's just see how it goes, roll with it. 

The Video

Here it is, royalty free background music, blurriness, and all. Thanks Windows Movie Maker! You've turned what should have taken a hour or less into three hours of a nightmare I thought was never going to end! And it still looks like it was finished in under fifteen minutes...

Edit: And it's even more blurry on here... great. Yep, I'm done.

English for New Media

I'm currently working on a project to show what English for New Media is really all about. This blog post here will be included in it. Basically, it's a video that shows a few of the forms that New Media takes, and this is certainly one of them. I'll be posting the actual video later on when I finish it.