George Murphy

the cool thing

2010-04-16T14:51:00.000-07:00

Well, my dear readers, i know who been checking me out and from where! Which i find it is really cool. By using Google analytics, I have discover from where in the world people have been checking my blog site out which is pretty cool. My blog has gone international, I have atleast one viewer from Canada! which is cool, i would never expect that I would get someone from Canada to be checking my stuff out. I also have people from as far west as of California checking my blog out which is cool. Then i have all the people from around here from class checking my blog out which is cool. I think that by using Google analytics you get a feel of how your blog or website is doing out there, and how many people are checking the site out and from where they check it out anywhere in the world! Which i personaly find is COOL!!! Well thats all the time for today see you next week!

World of Warcraft Cataclysm first new zone announced

2010-04-16T14:34:00.000-07:00

Welcome back fellow readers! Lets takea look at what blizzard has been doing since my last post. Well, well, well.... look what we have here. The very first new levleling zone that is going to be relased in the next expansion pack for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. The new zone is called Vashj'ir, which means from what it saying on http://bit.ly/acKPJZ is going to have a few spots with in this zone. One of them is called Sunken City where its going to be a lv 78-82 lelving questing/grinding, for those who still grind : / where you face off against the fearsome and most long time rival and hated annoying mob...THE NAGA!!! yes they are back and ready for some payback!!

Here is what the NEW Naga skin, and are going to look like in the new upcoming expansion pack, of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

random excitment

2010-04-09T12:50:00.000-07:00

i personaly found last nite class in using new sites to help find how well your website is doing, how well its projecting itself with in the internet, and how it compares to other sites. Like spyfu.com to see how well the compition is doing compared to your website. Or the other website that totaly sliped my mind that where you can find almost anything in the universe which is pretty cool. Finaly I liked the shortcut with using your bit.ly url shortcut to check how many hits it had by using the+ after the bitly link its pretty cool.

>G'Ster

Blizzard entertainment annouces...

2010-04-09T12:30:00.000-07:00

Dear fellow readers! It is I the G'Ster and i am back with another installment of G'Ster blogging. With that being said lets get right to the epic news I am about to say. Blizzard Entertainment Annouced that there is going to be a Star Craft 2" Collectors Edditon... WOW! it comes with alot of cool things such as a 2 Gig flash drive that has the orignal star craft and the exnapnsion to star craft, brood war. It also comes with an in game pet item for world of warcraft the mini thor terran unit as a pet! and many more items as well. It cost $99.99 yah its alot but it has some really good stuff with this collectors eddition. With that being said blizzard also say the online multiplayer is going to be free as well. Its not going to be pay to play like world of warcraft, and it will be the first game used the new battle.net system. It is the much pretter revised version of battle.net. No relase date is set and items in the collectors edditon can be subjected to change as well.

>G'STER

-Rant- -Trolling Detected-

2010-03-26T13:20:00.000-07:00

Dear Class,

Yah about emergency PR protocal, and based on from I learned it other classes and PR classes I have a few questions about the PR topic that I "picked". Yah for the penut one. Where it states that people have gotten ill and died from salmonella, and our business is not directly linked why would a busniess that is not directly linked appologize for something that they did do? For being in the busniess world for 5 years last i knew you only appologize for something that your company and or busniess directly involed with. Seeing how the factory is to be blaimed for the deaths, and our group wanted to be involed with saying sorry for people dying on the products because of containmination. I also suggested that we should menchen something about how we check the codes, and not say we have throughly tested and checked the products to makesure that they were safe. Ok first of all WTF, TEST REALLY!? who wants to test something that is contanimenated? First of all not me, no way no how...I suggested that they check the products through something called item code recall. This mean that on the package on the box and the product it self has a code...really omg... this code is called prodcut registration. That means on the company computer for recall purpose they send that code out to check for recalls.
If that code matches the code that the factory sent out. It is the business responceabilty to get the product off the shelf and leave some sort of note on the empty shelf why its empty. Most likely it be something about the recall and something on the main door to the busniess about the recall and why they are not having the product on the shelf. Since this is a small busniess i doubt we would be giving anything back for replacements of the item. Only to let them know we wont carry the product till its consider safe again for consumption. Thats how i would run this, with the simple explanation and something simple small note, not something that sounds stupid and half ass backwards. Every time I try to say something they ignored me and or laughed about it, so im like yah do it urself. Anywho yah thats how I would done it. -CAUTION REPLY AT UR OWN RISK -

>G'STER

BlizzCom is Annouced!!!

2010-03-26T12:48:00.000-07:00

Welcome back fellow readers I hope you have been enjoying my weekly posting. With that being said I found out on twitter that blizzcon has been relased. For those who not know what blizzcon is. Blizzcon is an event where the top blizzard producer and devloper talk about up coming content and relases from blizzard entertainment. Also players and fans of all sorts ranging from warcraft, diablo, and star craft. Can come and ask questions to the producers and delvopers.

Blizzcon 2010 tickets wave 1, going on sale some time in April. Wave 2 of Blizzcon 2010 tickets will be annouced later as they get closer to the event. Ussual when people come to the event they get a goody bag with random blizzard entertianment items, and in game content for world of warcraft. Items in the bad that people get for attending the event varies, that each bag is different, in what you get in items, but the in game item for world of warcraft would be the same. Well i hope you guys enjoyed this week installment of some interesting advance information this is G'STER signing off.

WHAT IS THIS!!!

2010-03-19T16:31:00.000-07:00

CALL OF DUTY MEETS WORLD OF WARCRAFT

From my other sources that i have learned that via not twitter i leared some good information about blizzard sister company Activsion/Blizzard is going to be taking over the rest of Call of Duty games. Yes thats right...THE REST OF CALL OF DUTY GAMES!

I found this too be something shocking and amazed with. From an article in the gaming magizne Gameinformer march issue there was a blurb of call of duty: modern warfare 2. Where how the game multiplayer is faulty and filled with glitches.

Then there was another blurb about how the future of call of duty wants to milk every dime and penny that every player has to play the game. Then I was LIKE WOAH! PAY TO PLAY CALL OF DUTY!!! ►.► that will kill the industy of call of duty. So I decided to do some further detailed research and I found. http://bit.ly/9i2CbG that they were fierd for insubordination. Rummor has it that they will be replaced by activision/blizzard employees. Which means hence the blizzard background, that each gamer is going to pay to play. Kotaku http://bit.ly/c9eP1K says that Jason West, and Vince Zampella head and creators of Infiteward, that they were both fierd for breach of contract as well. Accoring the West Facebook page and his Linkedin account that he is not with infity ward.

@Peter Parker

2010-03-19T14:23:00.000-07:00

Well class was awesome last nite, we met Chirs last nite AKA Peter Parker_PA. Head of the Time Weekender online. We learned that to be the best in the field of online field reporting. That you need to know the tech. need to know how to used the tech. You also need to know how to grab people attension through your online content, and how to link your work account to other networks to help sell and promote your name. We also learned how to check how many clicks and how many times your page been looked at.
We also learned the importance of how to be multi-talitent with different cameras, and how to uplink them with the internet. We also learned how to use a live-fee, or aka live stream and how its important in todays industy of live to stream work, because if you have live to stream material people that are interested in the subject will be the first to get it and then wait till other news cast or news channels to get it. I also learned from Spider-Man that even though he does how have the ability to shoot webs out of his hands, that it is important to know how to edit your work and know how to use edditing sweets. Spider-Man also stated that its is coming more and more common that how new people need to know how to use these edditing software. So in other words from what people that I have meet here in Wilkes that want to go do journalism, that not many people I meet know how to use these edditing software correctly. I can say this from what i learned from THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN!!! that broadcasting is going to be an important aspect to not just broadcasting alone, but with every other part of communications, such as print journalism, journalism, and PR. It is starting to look like its a must now these day. You must know some form of broadcasting to get any where in the field of communication these days. Im glad to say that i have an assoicates degree in broadcasting and almost got my BA in Broadcasting and now to add PR. Can't wait.

>G'STER

just 4 the hell of it

2010-03-04T17:03:00.001-08:00

too all my loyal readers, you know who you are!!! wont be bloging for the next week at all. SPRING BREAK IS HERE AND IM TAKING AN R N R LATA CREW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WILL CONTINUE AFTER A WEEK!

Something about class

2010-02-26T03:29:00.000-08:00

Well from what I have leared from class is, by using Linkedin.com I have a new way of searching for jobs that are based on what my profession for what I went into college as. I'm glad to report that I actualy got a reply back from a job that I showed interest in. Just need to get my degree first inorder to move in that general direction.
UGC: User Generated Content, well I leared alot about this in class and thought it was fancinating. When we were watching youtube videos and seeing all remakes or people playing as the people in the videos and acting their way I thought it was intersting. For example I was watching one my friends post of the Maury show and they called it the Maurly show and how this one girl was acting like cartman and an actual girl that was on the show, but with their own twist. It was interesting. you can check it out here on this link, for some odd reason my laptop wont let me embed it...THANKS! XD... http://bit.ly/ca35NY Donna I know your going to read this please throw me a reminder or possable fix solutions on how to embed again got me why it wont.... here is the video that orginal goes to the UGC vidoe, http://bit.ly/Y5Ma1 with that being said peace out till LATA!!!
>G'STER

The early bird eddition

2010-02-26T02:49:00.000-08:00

Well your probably want to know why I'm posting something on my blogger at 5:50 AM est, well ill tell you why, CANT SLEEP....hows that, thats good for starters? So i figured that since I am up I will get my work done so I dont have to do it durring the day and do what ever I want. With that being said Lets CHECK OUT THE WORLD OF BLIZZARD!!! and no I do not mean North Eastern PA with our fantasic Blizzard Storm of awesomness...I mean snow, I mean that white stuff that people dont menchen its name!! >.>
Blizzard new podcast lauched this week its Episode 13, and its a QnA about Star Craft 2 Beta, and some more information about world of warcraft, and some information about Diablo 3. The majorty of the cast was about Star Craft 2 and how the beta testers like playing the game, and some things they did not like playing the game, NO RELASE DATE AS OF YET FOR STAR CRAFT 2 XD (SOB)....WHY BLIZZARD, WHY DO YOU TORRMENT US Q.Q'. World of Warcraft news, blizzard relase some really cute plush toy dolls for the warcraft advid collecter, for more information about these cute toys check em out here. http://bit.ly/UV91M and for those want to get a look at wha they look like now heres a quick pic. Also when you do buy this item, you will reicve an in-game code to recive the actual pet for your characters in game of world of warcraft. How awesome is that. In my oppinion if Blizzard actualy try to market this more on twitter and not their log in window they might get more sales on this. Diablo univers....NOTHING AGAIN!!! WTH!!! DONT MAKE ME COME OVER THERE!!! CUZ I WILL!!! >.> Must be snowing hardcore in fricken diablo land or something....

Well thats the news for now for Blizzard entertainment, with that being said getting back to our BLIZZARD!!! w00t lata!

Bioshock 2

2010-02-19T12:12:00.000-08:00

w00t just got my copy of Bioshock 2. I played Bioshcok 1 to get the controls down again and I hop into Bioshock 2 and LOVEING IT. POSSABLE SPOILER ALERT!!!! I have yet to progress far into the story line but from what i have been playing and for those who dont want to know and want it to remain a secret for when yoy play it READ PASS THIS PART! So yah your a big daddy and from Bioshock 1 they are the guard dogs of the little sisters who are teh charish prime targest of the splicers and anyone who wants to get them. They posses lots and lots of ADAM. ADAM is the currency you need to buy new power slots new powers upgrade powers, and what not. Well with that being said your a big daddy that can use powers, with the power of ADAM. You are force to kill yourself when your little sister falls prey to splicer, which turns out to be a daughter to some psycologist, that is really mad at you, and dont want you around. While you are under the influence of big daddy mind controll she orders you to take off your helmet, take a gun and shoot yourself in the head.... yah gg (good game) 10 years Later from that point, you reawake near a vita machine, where you are reviatalized, and find our more info about on who you are and what you are. You are a big daddy ALPHA Serries, Name Delta. Where you wounder around trying to figure out what happen in the 10 years of being "dead". You see the city of Rapture, which is an under the sea city, where you live has gone from something nice looking, to hell in a hand basket reall fast. awesome. You are quickly detected by the new person running Rapture, and she decalires you public enemy NUMBER 1. You are now a Kill on Sight target (KoS). Where anything around you will attack you. The first little sister that see's you quickly reconginize you, and realizes that you are older than any other big daddys that are around in the under the sea city. This other quick moving creature, that has increadable aerobic, speed, and fireballs, hey look its super mario ninja! is tryign to kill you because you do not belong here and around the little sisters. Even though your primary objective as a big daddy is to protect the little sister, big sister wants you DEAD. So yah that is how much I played of the game, its pretty good you get the drill and bolt weapon as you start off , and your an Alpha Roise unit so your the "bad ass of bad assery"-Super Ron. I think you will findout more information of how things of the event of 1959 new years celebration unfold, and more information about Andrew Ryan, and his battles with Fountain AKA "Atlast" And this new boss in charge and how this person can relate with the two former powers of Andrew Ryan and Fountaine. Only time will tell, and me actauly getting on the game playing some more.

RANDOM Question:

IF a big daddy and or any survivor from left for dead serries; faced a zombie infestation who will walk out alive? the big daddy or the survivor from left for dead you let me know and why?

<---Big sister

>G'STER!

a little late, but late is better than never.

2010-02-19T11:27:00.001-08:00

Hey what up fellow readers,
sorry for being a bit late been busy with other colllege work, and most likely busy with ALOT of college work so what we are covering today in Blizzard entertainment. For World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment is going to have a minor patch relase that will be adding the new version of battle grounds. For those who do not know what battle grounds are, they are for server(s) to join together to fight each other based on what side you are, either alliance or horde to fight each other. GOOD NEWS FOR THEM! Blizzard Entertainment reports that the next minor update will have a "Random Battle ground". Just like the Looking for Group Random dungeon, by doing a "Random Battle Ground" you will be put in the random battle ground, wow surrprise a random battle ground. With that being said, they are getting rid of the currency and are going to replace it with the "new" currencey, because Blizzard says "that the old system seems out of date compared to all the new stuff." Wow...really? old? And its now 2010 wow came out in 2004 6 years later, with the same battlegrounds and alot of complaints people have a hard time making honor for player vs player items (PvP), and they are just getting around to it now....Yah good job. Blizzard Entertainment also says "by winning the first random battleground of the day you will get an additional 30 HK(honorable Kills) and 25 AP, (Arena Points)." Yah check that out, I actauly now want to go back and PvP now... Geez Thanks Blizzard where was this durring the summer time... Blizzard Entertainment Also states, "by wining additonal Random Battle Grounds you get 15 HK and additional curency. If You lose your first Random Battle Ground of the day, you will recive 5 HK and any additonal currency." From what Blizzard Entertainment is saying, it is going to be easyer now to get more PvP points to go get more PvP gear.
Star Craft 2; Even Better News from Blizzard Entertainment, STAR CRAFT 2 BEAT WINGS OF LIBETY HAS FINALY RELASED....SOMETHING THAT ISNT WORLD OF WARCRAFT!!!! bout time to. Im a big Star Craft Fan and I am acctauly going to try and get in the beat wish me luck. The beta talk relased date has been going for over a year now when the beta is going to be relased and who can get it and what not. With that being said, that means the final product is going to be out hopefuly sometimes down the road, where we all can play it and get into the new story line, new units, and some awesome nukeage.
Diablo 3: Wow ok way to go Diablo univers, you droped the ball on realseing nothing new... Geez Thanks, what is this the suprem evils are on a vaction or something? Or are they just planing their next attack on the human race? Who knows they are some where out there doing something.. yah good for them. I have a better chance getting new info on Diablo 3 from a zombie from Left for dead. >.> Well anywho folks thats it for this week for my coverage on blizzard entertainment based on World of Warcraft Star Craft 2 and Daiblo 3 where nothing has happen in the pass week...

>G'Ster

WINTER 2010 OLYMPICS START 2NITE

2010-02-12T15:36:00.000-08:00

Well if you had'nt been able to tell by now, I AM A HUGE FAN OF THE OLYMPICS, I love the winter and summer OLYMPICS I love seeing what the worlds best of the best has to offer and see them compete to be in the #1 spot. Some of my favorite events are the Luge, Hocky, snowboarding, skelleton, Ski Jumping, biathlon, bobsled, and cureling. Hey what are some of your favorite events of the winter olympics, or maybe if your not a fan of the winter olympics tell me what is favorite snow event or like to do outside in the snow.

>G'STER

2/11/10 something random

2010-02-11T09:17:00.000-08:00

Yah yah folks another random blog from the G'STER! since this course is about blogging, and talking about random stuff, that is related to social media of fun and excitment, I was over looking one of my favorite sites, from back in the day, and when we come to think about it, they are doing what we are doing but more of a cartoon funny hahah creative way. Please check them out. http://www.homestarrunner.com/ look at the strong bad e-mail. Its like bloging gone cartoons.

>G'STER!

2/11/10 ANOTHER INSTALLMENT!!!

2010-02-11T08:42:00.000-08:00

Well its another week anoter blog, I still like the ol saying from http://www.homestarrunner.com/ from a character that goes by the name strongbad, "Hey look its an E-mail hope its from a Female, Oh Man its not from a Female." With that being said, Lets get on with the blog, and hope I get a reply from a female. Blizzard entertainment annouce this week that its Battle.net is going to be upgraded. First upgrade since Battle.net has released when it first came out with Diablo, and then expanded to its other games such as Star Craft and War Craft, and World of Warcraft. With some of these updates they want to add achivments, and unlocks to personalized your avatar which you can create, when the new update for battle.net is relased. Also with the unlocks you can also unlock decals and put them on your units and personalize your units. So you can say yah, my units look better then your units, and so on. Also the new matching making system, is one of a kind, the game learns how you play and match you to an opponet of you skill levle. I guess its more of a fair and interesting way of competition to play against people online. For more information here is the link to the interview with Battle.net director Greg Canessa. http://bit.ly/deaicL

FAIL WHALE!!

2010-02-04T23:52:00.000-08:00

learned a new term last nite in class, that is cool enough to be put next to epic fail, is FAIL WHALE!!!! Which means when twitter goes offline for some random reason, with out daily maintance or weekly maintance... people that are the addicts to tweeting will go insaine and fall into a depression, and while in this depression they thhttink they no longer part of the reallworld... The only thing I got to say is FACEBOOK, go check it out!!!

Credit of sources:

http://www.twitter.com/

http://bit.ly/j1tzG

http://bit.ly/1y7Q8w

www.L4D2.com

2/4/10

2010-02-03T21:18:00.000-08:00

Something about the class. If this is wrong please correct with in post.
What I think about the class is so far very informative. I also think that by going to this class i am learning more on how to improve my SEO skills and abilities. I also would like to know how to be more creative in this course. Its nice to know whats out there and know how to use it. But it all comes down to creativity and outline of the site to catch the eye of the reader/viwer. If its creative and uneqiue ability of how it suppose to looks then it will draw attension to the eye and draw viewership.
>George

2/3/10

2010-02-03T20:40:00.000-08:00

Reports of Blizzard Entertainment,

For anyone that does not know, Blizzard entertainment is a company that speicalizes in video game production. Blizzard bread and butter maker is World of Warcraft that has over 11 million online account world wide. So in other words its one of the biggest, MMO to date. For those that do not know what MMO means, it stands for Massively Multiplayer Online. Its a world in itself ranging from a eastern segement of the world to a western segment of the world to the northerend of world, and to another dimension.
This is just one of their games that Blizzard has created. They are also responsable for two other games that have fame and popularity, just not as well as World of Warcraft the other two games are Star Craft, and Diablo. Star Craft is a RTS game which stands for Real Time Stragy game. This means you have to think about your next move and have to be quick about it, if you are not you will most likely not to succed. Also Blizzard Entertainment has also annouce Star Craft 2, to be coming out. There is yet no relase date plan for the lauch of the next expansion of the Star Craft universe. Star Craft 2, takes place where Star Craft left off. It is hard for me to explaine Star Craft and how it leads into Star Craft 2, all you need to know is, it picks up where the orginal left off.
Diablo Universe is like World of Warcraft but different. It is not a MMO which it means its a regular multiplayer game, and it is able to be played solo by your self. Or up to a minium of 2 or a maxium of 8 players. Diablo Univers consit of Diablo, and Diablo 2, and the expansion pack Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. In this game it is another fantasy world where you get to explore and keep peace with in the world from demons and monsters that are trying to take over the world and kill everything they see. There is alos a nice varity of armor and enchance items that drop off monsters, and useful helpful items to help keep you going and moving on with in the world.

-UPDATES-

World of Warcraft: the latest update has finaly arrived, Patch 3.2.2 entitle Fall of the Lich King. Blizzard has finaly created and deliverd the last half of the final raid dungeon of the nortous lich king. Blizzard has also annouce that a new ground mount/flying mount is droped by the lich king, but chances of it droping is slim to none. Like any other rare mount drop the drop rate is most likely .o1% of it droping.

Star Craft: The devloper teams have been busy creating new units and animations for all possable units that are going to relase when Star Craft comes out.

Diablo: 10 new screen shots were added to the www.diablo3.com website. I have give the link so you all can take a look at them.

All source and information is provided by Twitter.com, World of Warcraft lauch window/information.

Hoped you all liked reading this, and there shall be more next week.

the beggining

2010-01-21T16:46:00.000-08:00

this is my class work project for college and, yah thats about it.