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  • Blogs Influential Than Tweets, Study-Naturally

    A Study reveals that Blogs are more influential tha Tweets and Social Media.

     

    I understand that.

     

    I am of the view that blogs are more detailed, reasoned and informative than Tweets.

     

    Tweets are generally your opinion or impressions to a story or News.

     

    Here you do not the luxury of reasoning out your views.

     

    Tweets and Social media Communications are essentially a communication between a Group or Groups, while blogs target a larger audience.

     

    In Social Media like Facebook, you first express your interest, likes to make people find you.

     

    In Blogs, you leave the material and let the Reader take find you.

     

    Being better reasoned out pieces Blogs tend to have better credibility.

     

    Attention Span is more for a Blog.

     

    I have assumed, in this exercise that Tweets,Social Media Messages, to be good ones.

     

     

    Surprising that in the story WordPress which ,

     

    “WordPress.com users produce about 49.3 million new postsand 50.7 million new comments each month and

     

    Over 378 million people view more than 4.0 Milliarden pages each month.”

     

    doesn’t get mentioned in The Story!

     

    Story:

    Reading the mainstream media you would think the social web started solely comprised of Twitter, and people’s 140 character messages. Any brand not taking part is surely doomed.

    Not so, as new research shows that not only do blogs still have tremendous influence, they actually drive more sales than other forms of social media.

    We saw some evidence of that last week with news that Tumblr now hosts more than 100 million blogs.

    Confirmation comes in the Technocrati 2013 digital influence report. It show that blogs were one of the most trusted forms of online media, with 31% of respondents being influenced to purchase via blogs, the third highest after retail sites (56%) and brand sites (34%). I may be biased, but I’d suggest this rather shows the value of marketers and the brands they represent engaging with relevant high profile bloggers in their field.

    As you can see from the graphics below, Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram, for all the hype around them, rank among the lowest influencers of purchases.

    Online Purchases likely to Influence.
    Online Purchases likely to Influence.

    MediaBistro’s All Twitter blog rightly points out that there is a discrepancy between influence, and what brands spend on social and digital marketing:

    “Budget-wise, brands are spending only 10% on social, more than half of which goes to Facebook (57%). YouTube and Twitter each get 13% of the brand digital budget, while about 6% is spent on influencers and 5% advertising on blogs.”

    While it’s understandable that a bulk of money goes on Facebook, which is still influential, quite clearly some more of that digital marketing budget needs to start swing the way of bloggers and influences – only 11% does so far, despite the clear trust that consumers have for blogs. Brands are spending money to drive likes, and consumers are sharing content, but they are turning to blogs they trust to guide making purchases.

    Customers like to ‘follow’ and ‘like’ brands to keep up to date with them, they very rarely use them to make purchases:

    Why consumers Follow Brands.
    Why consumers Follow Brands.

     

    http://wallblog.co.uk/2013/04/02/blogs-still-more-influential-than-twitter-says-study/

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  • Tom Cruise Steals Thrown Out Of Seminary

    Tom Cruise recalled this teenage days when he recollected that he was asked to leave a Seminary for stealing Alcohol.

    Read On.

    Tom Cruise
    Tom Cruise

    Recalling how he sneaked into a room with the alcohol was stashed and threw it down to Tom, the actor’s school friend Shane Dempler said: “I tossed about six, most broke, but we managed to get a couple and hide them in the nearby woods.

    “The priests didn’t even realize until some of the other boys found out about our plan and snuck into the woods and got drunk. They were caught staggering down the road to the seminary and forced to confess.

    “The school wrote a letter to our parents saying they liked us both, but would prefer if we didn’t return. So we weren’t kicked out, just preferred not to go.”

    Shane – who studied alongside the 50-year-old star between 1976 and 1977 – says he and his pal were “really interested” in the priesthood, but feels they were too young to have made a serious decision about their careers.

    He told the New York Daily News newspaper: “He had a very strong Catholic faith.

    “We went to Mass, spent time in the chapel and enjoyed hearing stories from the priests. We thought the priests had a great lifestyle and we were really interested in priesthood.

    “In truth. we were too young to make that decision.”

    And at the school, Tom showed early signs of his acting talent.

    Shane said: “In sport and acting, he came out of his shell. They were competitions, you see, and if it were competitive, he’d be on it. Otherwise he’d just survey the scene.
    http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/amyandrews_gossipgirl/tom-cruise-asked-to-leave-a-catholic-church-seminary—caught-stealing-alcohol-195246071.html

  • Haunted Mirror On Sale eBay

    A Mirror which is said to have been haunted is on sale at eBay.

    I remember seeing a Hollywood Film on this.

    http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/214012/Dead-of-Night-Movie-Clip-The-Haunted-Mirror.html

    The Mirror has been sold!

     

     

    Story:

    Haunted Antique – Large Victorian Style Mirror – READ DESCRIPTION!

    See original listing
    Haunted-Antique-Large-Victorian-Style-Mirror-READ-DESCRIPTION

    ENDED
    Ended:
    18 Feb, 2013 19:16:10 GMT
    Winning bid:
    £100.00
    [ 1 bid ]
    Collection in person offered.
    Item location:
    • ‘Haunted’ mirror for sale on eBay
    • Owner says mirror has caused ‘bad luck, misery and illness’
    • Nobody has bid to purchase the mirror thus far

    Mrjoiee, from London, England, is trying to sell the spooky mirror on eBay, and has left none of its supernatural abilities to the imagination.

    The mirror was posted on the online auction site last week, with the ominous warning:

    “Since we put it up in our flat we have had nothing but bad luck, misery, financial problems and illness.”

    The pair rescued it from a tip run when their landlord left it out with the rubbish.

    Mrjoiee describes himself and his flatmate waking up, “screaming in pain”, and having a constant feeling of impending doom when they were home.

    “Our original suspicions were that somebody was performing some kind of voodoo or Black magic on us,” he wrote.

    “Truthfully, we both love the look of the mirror … but just being around this mirror gives me the creeps and makes me feel sick to my stomach.”

    “I would ideally like it to go to somebody who has experience with the paranormal/supernatural and knows what they are getting themselves in for.”

    The mirror had not received any bids at the time of writing.

    The auction is open until the early hours of Tuesday, AEST, but you’d have to pick it up from its North London studio apartment.

    http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/for-sale-antique-mirror-very-possibly-haunted/story-e6frep26-1226580297075

     

  • Stunning Images From Space Photo Essay

    These are the images from our known Universe.

    Still GOD doesn’t Exist?

    Sea Gull Nebula
    Wings of the Seagull Nebula This image shows the intricate structure of part of the Seagull Nebula, known more formally as IC 2177. These wisps of gas and dust are known as Sharpless 2-296 (officially Sh 2-296) and form part of the “wings” of the celestial bird. This region of the sky is a fascinating muddle of intriguing astronomical objects — a mix of dark and glowing red clouds, weaving amongst bright stars. This new view was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.
    Color Crater on Mercury
    Though Mercury is not known for having an especially colorful surface, some regions show a strong local contrast in color. Like other craters in Caloris, the interior and ejecta of Atget are darker and bluer than the typical brown volcanic plains. These craters help scientists to get a look at the three-dimensional compositional variations with the Caloris basin, and provide a way to judge the thickness of the volcanic plains (over 2 km here!). North is up in this image. These images were acquired as high-resolution targeted color observations. Targeted color observations are images of a small area on Mercury’s surface at resolutions higher than the 1-kilometer/pixel 8-color base map. During MESSENGER’s one-year primary mission, hundreds of targeted color observations were obtained. During MESSENGER’s extended mission, high-resolution targeted color observations are more rare, as the 3-color base map is covering Mercury’s northern hemisphere with the highest-resolution color images that are possible.
    Pretty Veils in Orion
    This esthetic close-up of cosmic clouds and stellar winds features LL Orionis, interacting with the Orion Nebula flow. Adrift in Orion’s stellar nursery and still in its formative years, variable star LL Orionis produces a wind more energetic than the wind from our own middle-aged Sun. As the fast stellar wind runs into slow moving gas a shock front is formed, analogous to the bow wave of a boat moving through water or a plane traveling at supersonic speed. The small, arcing, graceful structure just above and left of center is LL Ori’s cosmic bow shock, measuring about half a light-year across. The slower gas is flowing away from the Orion Nebula’s hot central star cluster, the Trapezium, located off the upper left corner of the picture. In three dimensions, LL Ori’s wrap-around shock front is shaped like a bowl that appears brightest when viewed along the “bottom” edge. The beautiful picture is part of a large mosaic view of the complex stellar nursery in Orion, filled with a myriad of fluid shapes associated with star formation.
    Spiral Galaxy
    The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope – with a little help from an amateur astronomer – has produced one of the best views yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106. Located a little over 20 million light-years away, practically a neighbour by cosmic standards, Messier 106 is one of the brightest and nearest spiral galaxies to our own. Despite its appearance, which looks much like countless other galaxies, Messier 106 hides a number of secrets. Thanks to this image, which combines data from Hubble with observations by amateur astronomers Robert Gendler and Jay GaBany, they are revealed as never before. At its heart, as in most spiral galaxies, is a supermassive black hole, but this one is particularly active. Unlike the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, which pulls in wisps of gas only occasionally, Messier 106’s black hole is actively gobbling up material. As the gas spirals towards the black hole, it heats up and emits powerful radiation. Part of the emission from the centre of Messier 106 is produced by a process that is somewhat similar to that in a laser – although here the process produces bright microwave radiation.
    Starburst Galaxy
    Starburst Galaxy Messier 82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy, is a starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Starburst galaxies undergo extremely high rates of star formation and are thought to represent a particular phase in a galaxy’s evolution. Because of its excessive star birth, M82 is five times brighter than our own Milky Way galaxy
    Haunting Ghost Nebula.
    Haunting Ghost Nebula This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic Camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. vdB 141 is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus. Sometimes referred to as the ghost nebula, its awkward name is its catalog number in Sidney van den Bergh’s catalog of reflection nebulae, published in 1966. Several stars are embedded in the nebula. Their light gives it a ghoulish brown color. North is down and East is to the right. Imaged August 28, 2009.
    Saturn Turbulence
    This mosaic of images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the trail of a great northern storm on Saturn raging in full force. The contrast in the images has been enhanced to make the turbulent parts of the storm (in white) stand out without losing the details of the surrounding regions. The head of the storm is the set of bright clouds near the left of the image. A clockwise-spinning vortex spawned by the storm shortly after it erupted in early December 2010 can be seen in the middle. The head of the storm moved very swiftly westward, while the vortex drifted more slowly westward.
    Two New Views of Andromeda
    Top: In this new view of the Andromeda galaxy from the Herschel space observatory, cool lanes of forming stars are revealed in the finest detail yet. Herschel is a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. Andromeda, also known as M31, is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way at a distance of 2.5 million light-years, making it an ideal natural laboratory to study star formation and galaxy evolution. Sensitive to the far-infrared light from cool dust mixed in with the gas, Herschel seeks out clouds of gas where stars are born. The new image reveals some of the very coldest dust in the galaxy — only a few tens of degrees above absolute zero — colored red in this image. By comparison, warmer regions such as the densely populated central bulge, home to older stars, take on a blue appearance. Intricate structure is present throughout the 200,000-light-year-wide galaxy with star-formation zones organized in spiral arms and at least five concentric rings, interspersed with dark gaps where star formation is absent. Andromeda is host to several hundred billion stars. This new image of it clearly shows that many more stars will soon to spark into existence. Bottom: The glow seen here comes from the longer-wavelength, or far, end of the infrared spectrum, giving astronomers the chance to identify the very coldest dust in our galactic neighbor. These light wavelengths span from 250 to 500 microns, which are a quarter to half of a millimeter in size. Herschel’s ability to detect the light allows astronomers to see clouds of dust at temperatures of only a few tens of degrees above absolute zero. These clouds are dark and opaque at shorter wavelengths. The Herschel view also highlights spokes of dust between the concentric rings.
    Molecular Cloud in Monoceros
    Molecular Cloud in Monoceros This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic II camera on the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory on January 11th, 2012. It shows a portion of the giant Monceros R2 molecular cloud. It is a location of massive star formation, particularly in the location of the bright red nebula just below the center of the image. The image was generated with observations in the Sulphur [SII] (blue) and Hydrogen-Alpha (red) filters. In this image, north is to the right, and east is up.
    Saturn's herding Moons.
    Saturn’s Herding Moons The ring-region Saturnian moons Prometheus and Pan are both caught “herding” their respective rings in this image. Through their gravitational disturbances of nearby ring particles, one moon maintains a gap in the outer A ring and the other helps keep a ring narrowly confined. Prometheus (53 miles, or 86 kilometers across), together with Pandora (not seen in this image), maintains the narrow F ring seen at the bottom left in this image. Pan (17 miles, or 28 kilometers across) holds open the Encke gap in which it finds itself embedded in the center. The bright dot near the inner edge of the Encke gap is a background star.
    Looking Down at Jupiter.
    Looking Down at Jupiter These color maps of Jupiter were constructed from images taken by the narrow-angle camera onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 11 and 12, 2000, as the spacecraft neared Jupiter during its flyby of the giant planet. Cassini was on its way to Saturn. They are the most detailed global color maps of Jupiter ever produced. The smallest visible features are about 120 kilometers (75 miles) across. The maps are composed of 36 images: a pair of images covering Jupiter’s northern and southern hemispheres was acquired in two colors every hour for nine hours as Jupiter rotated beneath the spacecraft. Although the raw images are in just two colors, 750 nanometers (near-infrared) and 451 nanometers (blue), the map’s colors are close to those the human eye would see when gazing at Jupiter.
    Vesta Crater in 3 D
    Vesta Crater in 3D This composite-color view from NASA’s Dawn mission shows Cornelia Crater, streaked with dark materials, on the giant asteroid Vesta. The data were obtained by Dawn’s framing camera during the mission’s high-altitude mapping orbit, about 420 miles (680 kilometers) above the surface. The images were integrated into a mosaic and wrapped on a topographical model of Vesta’s surface.

    Source.

    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/space-photo-of-the-day-2/?pid=5940

     

  • London Helicopter Crash Live Updates Video Images

    London Helicopter Crash.
    (Credit: Twitter/craiglet)

     

     

     

    London Helicopter Crash
    (Credit: YouTube/niczerogoeshome)

     

    A helicopter crashed in South London near  Vauxhall, this morning.

    Two died and 4 injured as reports last came in.

     

    Helicopter crashes in London
    UPDATED The stricken aircraft cartwheeled to the ground and exploded into flames just yards from the busy Vauxhall bridge railway line at around 8am. Burning wreckage and aviation fuel covered the road (centre) as eyewitnesses reported seeing cars on fire. Paul Ferguson, who was working nearby, said: ‘There was a flash and the helicopter plunged to the ground.’ Witnesses suggested the pilot may not have seen the crane which was barely visible from street level due to the fog.

     

    Live Update.

    Helicopter crash site London
    Helicopter crash site MapLondon

     

     

    Live Text(Click Link Below)

    Reporters: Lucy Wilkins, Samantha Dalton and Rob Corp

    Skip To Latest Live Text

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      Max James Tolhurst, a manager at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, told the BBC he was walking along Wandsworth Road and saw the aftermath of the crash. “I didn’t see the actual impact but as I was walking up the Wandsworth Road, I just saw lots of debris and fire… I walked closer and saw a crowd starting to gather before the police came over, it looked horrific. I went on to work at St Thomas’s Hospital and I know the teams were getting ready for whatever is going to emerge.”

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      Bruce Grain, from the London Fire Brigade, added that parts of the wreckage landed on the roofs of the buildings, and firefighters had been up to check that all the fires were extinguished.

      He said he was unable to confirm any information about passengers due to the amount of wreckage, but that will become apparent throughout the day. He said they were not looking for any further casualties.

      Regarding the risk from widespread aviation fuel, he said: “We don’t know how much was on board, that’s why we’ve got lots of hoses and a large quantity of foam, but we were able to put the fire out very quickly and make it safe. All the surrounding fires are out.”

       

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21040313