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I really liked Georgina‘s posts about the hashtags on Facebook (and completely agree!), and I wanted to talk about hashtags as well but on Instagram.

Little bit of History:

Instagram was born in March 2010, it is not even 5 years old! In January 2011, the company introduced #hashtags to make it more accessible for people to look for photos (or to get more likes mm) and by June 2011 Instagram announced it had 5 million users.

Finally in December 2014, according to Insta co-founder, Kevin Systrom, the application has 300 million users accessing the site every month #niceoneinsta

Now we’ve all used stupid hashtags but once again as Georgina mentioned, I love it when there is a little bit of humor behind it and not just boring (and useless) ##.

I don’t know about the statistics but I reckon that the hashtag #FOODPORN has to be in the top 50 of the most popular hashtags. I recently found a girl’s Instagram account from Melbourne that gives literal meaning to the term food porn and I thought I’d share it with you guys! It does not only deal with photos of naked people eating food, she also shares those amazing photos of festivals, road trips, prett-y prett-y cool

some of my favorite photos from the account!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptUcTzxaZSc

This is not usually the kind of music I listen to, Im not a fan at listening to music covers but this is an example to prove me wrong: originally sang by Justin Timberlake I think, I fell in love with that version.

Chlöe Howl is British singer and songwriter. I heard about her through my friend, a bit more than two years ago now. By the time Chlöe only had a few covers on youtube and her first song called “No strings”. Being a huge fan of Amy Winehouse, I found a little bit Amy in Chlöe: not necessarily in the voice but maybe more in the wittiness of the lyrics.

I have always seen these <whatever> </dontgetit> things but never quite understood what they were for nor what they meant. It was just another language that I was not willing to try and understand.

I did get most of the tutorial today though, but not completely. Even though I think it’s pretty difficult and boring, I kind of enjoyed trying to make a web page, learning how to do stuff like center the header, underline it, add a little bit of red to the body, upload a photo and bam!

I’m glad that I got to do that exercise with Bernadette and Dale because I would have been completely lost otherwise. I was never good at technology subjects in high school and probably will never be.

my friend works in a opshop, I only discovered about her tumblr yesterday, really worth a look! 

I really liked the idea in class where we had time to look for blogs or websites that we can relate to or just simply enjoy reading.

CHEEK MAGAZINE! I discovered this magazine when it was first created, had only a few likes on the facebook page and was still pretty small.

I fell in love with the concept, I felt like I immediatly could relate and was excited to finally find a feminine magazine that did not only talk about beauty and fashion (fashion is a big big interest of mine, but I cannot stand endless pages of beauty tips in magazines as I never found them useful nor relevant).

3 girls are behing this project :

FAUSTINE KOPIEJWSKI – she started as a music journalist and played drums for years in a few different girls bands before joining famous magazine “BE” as assistant editor of the “culture” section.
She talked Hard Rock with Lady Gaga, caught a plane with Rihanna, had a glass of water with Robert Pattinson… She is fundamentally against “name-dropping” (could not agree more) and hates “personal branding”

MYRIAM LEVAIN – she started working for “Le Parisien” before joining the fashion magazine crew “ELLE” and then “BE” like Faustine but working for the society section. Obsessed with South America, latinos culture has no secret for her.

JULIA TISSIER – After spending a couple of years at French news papers “Libération” , she also worked for “BE“. Beside her passion for weird news and sex articles, she is responsible for the “portrait”, “fashion” and “society” sections of Cheek Magazine.

Cheek Magazine falls into 6 sections which are all equally awesome :

– CULTURE

– SOCIETY

– FASHION

– GEEK 

– #WEBTHEFUCK  (speaks for itself)

– Y COMME ROMY (a weekly story, Romy being introduced as the  woman nowadays from the generation y with relationship issues, talking about sex, work, being broke…  I feel like I can really relate, and it’s always hilarious.)

I was deeply affected by this attack, how scary is it to be a journalist nowaydays? How scary is it to defend rights, and freedom? It shouldn’t have to be that dangerous. Those people died, they will forever be missed, it is now our turn as the younger generation to keep fighting for this freedom and show these guys we don’t need guns to be stronger than them.

When is this going to stop ? I have been terribly affected by what happened in France in the past couples of days. I’m scared, I’m scared for my family, for my friends, for everyone. More than 10 journalists killed for drawing satiristical cartoons, policemen killed for defending their country and civilians killed for no reason. I am not going to express and write my opinions on this blog because that is not necessarily what it is for but FU*K!

There is thing group on Facebook «Melbourne French Team» which I am apart of, and they decided to create an event in Federation Square on Thursday night at 6pm to pay tribute. I was really pleased to see that more than 1000 people attended (according to «THE AGE» more than 5000 people came).

The next day, the newspapers application «Le Monde» pops up on my phone -again- saying people are being held hostage in Paris. Twice, at two different places in Paris, at the same time.
4:00am : I can’t sleep, I have another look at my phone and read that the terrorists have been shot dead.

ANGER SADNESS REVOLT COMPASSION STRENGHT SOLIDARITY WEAKNESS HORROR VIOLENCE SHOCK DETERMINATION UNION SORROW FEAR…. CHARLIE!

“In 2005 I was part of a large and ambitious project within the Bachelor of Communication (Media) program at RMIT that provides a blog for every Media student for the duration of their undergraduate candidature.” –  Adrian Miles

ADRIAN YOU’RE A LEGEND  

 I was really excited – just as much as nervous – to start studying and working with a blog as I had never had the chance to do that before. Coming from New-Caledonia, I went to uni for a few months there doing a bachelor of English literature at the start of 2013 but hated it. The French education is so much different from the English. What I love about the Australian education is that, teachers encourage the students’ creative side, their passions, their interests… They encourage you to do stuff you are really into (Alison who is also an international student from my class agreed with me on this point) unlike the French education that is completely narrow-minded and do not let students really flourish creatively.

As Adrian Miles mentioned, “blogs are very useful to document your practice, to encourage and support reflective and process based learning, nurture peer support and learning, provide a record of achievement…” They are so useful and so many good things come with it. You can share your articles, thoughts, blog posts on it so your peers can see it (and vice versa). It can then be discussed in class and everyone can give each other’s feedbacks and critics.

Also I believe that blogs (even though I had a shit time trying to figure out how they worked) are very ‘playful’ and communicative. Knowing how to use them now can only help and prepare me for a media career.

PS: big thank you to Emerald for helping me understand the blogging world, and giving me good advice!

Embedding a video into a web page used to be a real challenge with all the different formats and softwares in the early days of the web. It has nowadays become almost as easy as cutting and pasting.

ON YOUTUBE:

1. When you locate a video you’d like to add to your page on YouTube, look below the video for a Share button as shown below.

2. When you click the Share button, click the Embed button which is displayed directly below the Link URL, as shown below.

3. Copy and paste the code into your blog.

ON YOUR BLOG:

1. Create a new post

2. click onto “ADD MEDIA” and then on the left “INSERT EMBED CODE”

3. Simply paste your code there and you’re done!