Magic and computering

Magiksyl
envoyé par degentsyl

Last year when we had our course in E-business with Liz Craig, thanks to her we discovered so many new things. And I am thinking particularly about dailymotion. To be honest, I do not understanding many things about computering and before that course I do not know even how to build a blog. I was using internet only to make some kind of researches and read my emails.

As I already told you during the classroom, I am deeply passionated by conjuring and I remember that in the middle of december 2007, Liz Craig asked me a question: "We had a discuss in class about the concept of dailymotion, so now why don't you create an account and upload some videos on it?"
So I decided to follow her advice and as I had nothing to make some videos I decided to use my webcam and start uploading some magic tricks online. That was absolutly new and incredible for me. I made some screen shot about my dailymotion account that I would like to comment but you can go right on dailymotion to watch what I have done with that link:

http://www.dailymotion.com/illusionmagique

I Would like to show this screen shot because I think it is one of the most relevant about dailymotion. I am doing magic since many years during parties or for all kind of special events, but nobody know me or even heard about me. The industry of magic is very small but there are so many people who love it and try to practice as amateur like me.

So I created my account on December 27th of 2007 and I started uploading my first videos on the same day. It is exactly 147 days from today and you can see on the previous screen shot there are already 9487 persons who had a look on my videos, so it make an average of 65 persons watching my videos daily and it will increase very soon because I am going to put around ten new videos next month.
247 users of dailymotion add my videos as their favorites and 159 of them put some comments on them.
To conclude with that screen shot I would like to underline something interresting, indeed dailymotion permits people who have an account to create their own channel and add on it videos of their choice, therefore 36 dailymotiers have added at least one of my videos on their personal channel that is the reason why I have 36 fans.

I have now 18 videos online. My goal as I am developping a business around magic is to meet a maximum of people sharing my hobbit so that is why I am posting some comments on their videos. I have already post 194 comments. Then I discovered that some of dailymotion's users have already set up some groups dealing with magic, so I am member of 42 of them. Right here I copy a shot of a groups page:

The following screen shot concerns my "virtual" magic friends, I have now more than 200 friends on dailymotion:

I am accepting as fiends only users who have already a small knowledge about magic. What it is interresting with that concept is the fact that we are able to discuss easily about specific techniques or manipulations for exemple.
But the major negative aspect is that it is only a virtual friendship. So I decide to organize two weeks ago a meeting with four of them in my own flat and we spend many hours together and we plan to make that kind of small seminar monthly. Next time we will discuss about the creation of an association to organize biger meetings and make magicians amateurs aware on the fact that they are not alone.