It’s hard to believe 3 years ago my best friend and her husband adopted a little girl from China, she'll be 4 March 2. 7 years ago, I got my fist job in radio, and 9 years ago I went back to college.
Over the past few years, our world has changed. I mentioned in an earlier blog, even applying for a job has changed. Long gone are the days where you hand in a resume, you e mail it in and then fill out tons of questions and then wait for a recruiter and then you get an interview.
Back in college, we never expected Facebook and Twitter and Blogging would become almost a pivotal part of media. Now anyone can be a reporter or writer post pics and breaking news gets broken on Twitter/blogs before the media gets it...so in a way it has threatened radio. Internet radio is very popular too, something never even heard of a few years ago.
13 years ago I got my first cell phone...it was a brick. LOL It didn't have a colour screen and it was a CELL PHONE! It simply made calls. Smart phones and Blackberry’s have become a phenomenon in the past two years and have drastically changed the face of media and connections with people. I can text Google and get my weather forecast, I don’t need to turn on the radio or TV to get it. However, radio and TV have managed to keep up, with social applications. You can now listen on line halfway around the world. A few friends in Australia listened to me on overnights nightly. You can watch CNN from your cell phone. So there are many benefits....until the technology crashes....woe to those who can't "Tweet" lol
However, time can change things for the better. I do photography part time. 12 years ago I bought my first srl film camera, and a couple years ago I upgraded to digital. I was able to shoot a concert in low light and view and make any changes instantly. Defending Otis (The group I shot for) was able to get a disk of their pictures in a day and singer Michael Pursley was able to select any pictures he wanted, make any copies and post them on his Facebook. It gives BOTH of us exposure. Old days? It was "Hey who shot that picture?" and Michael would hand them a business card...that’s if he had any on him at the time. Michael would have to wait at week for the pics to get developed and paid for developing, and enlargements. All he pays for now is my services/gas and a disk. The networking is instant and broader.
Am I happy with time? And how it changes things? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Mike Pursley from Defeding Otis.
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