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Overview

This assignment consists of an audiovisual work of your creation, and can be based on previous work (such as your Elevator Pitch). The work could be an audio file (such as a podcast or song), a video (such as a remix or animation), or a compelling image (such as a mindmap or photo montage). If an audio or video work, you should aim for a length of 3-5 minutes (there is 7 minute maximum). Content and presentation are much more important than length (a compelling 2-minute audio interview would be great). Whichever format you choose, your assignment should somehow fit in to one or more of the course's six broad thematic areas. Ideally, this assignment would feed into your group presentation and final project. Unlike the other individual assignments, this one may be done in pairs.

Upon completion of the project, you must include a one paragraph write-up describing how your work relates to the course.

Possible ideas include:

  • An audio podcast or video interview with someone doing influential work in a related field
  • A video medley and/or remix related to any one or more of the themes
  • A podcast show where participants debate a topic related to the course
  • A mindmap image that charts out a policy debate or domain
  • A photo montage portraying a particular theme of the course
  • A short film related to one or more of the themes
  • A song or musical work drawing from various samples such as those on Freesound
  • A song with lyrics related to themes of the course
  • A visualization, perhaps using Many Eyes

Submission

If you have the ability to post your work online, you should link to it below along with your explantory paragraph.


Examples of online services you may use to post your work include:

Video:

Audio:

Image:

Tools and Tutorials

Examples of Finished Products

(some of these are more highly produced or effort-intensive than your projects need be, but they should give you a sense for what finished pieces look like)

Finished Project Submissions

  • Please link to your submission here with your one-paragraph description

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Name: Traci E. Thomas

Topic: Citizen Media and The Freedom of Speech

Link: www.stopshaking.com

Descrition: The agenda of this assignment: Citizen Media and Freedom of Speech highlights the results of having the Internet act as Income to aspiring entreprenuers and corporations. The World Wide Web offers infinte possibilities for the talented to advertsie and promote their works: online radio networks, blogs, online stores, banners, emails, and websites. I was honored to design the website for Gayle Westmoreland', author of "Hands Stop Shaking Them: A Cultural Shift To End Handshaking In America," and am flabbergasted by the infamous recognition she has obtained via online presence. Online conversations continue as worldwide opinions are exchanged. Her strategy to provide healthy alternatives to handshaking is provoking thought and controversy. Cyber and traditional media keep her topic fresh and innovative, as the debate is ongoing and rigorous. Ironically, her book challenges the beliefs, traditions, and customs of cultures worldwide. Lastly, a sequel is in progress as Westmoreland is`successful to confront health, social, and economic reprocautions of having the handshake as the only acceptable greeting. The Internet is faithful to provide the "perfect platform " for Citizen Media and Freedom of Speech to prosper those wishing to market their products and or services. Regardless if audiences agree, the blogs are brutal and unforgiving, and some reject her theory; nonetheless, book sales are sufficient to classify her text as prosperous.

Sources: www.stopshaking.com

www.topix.com/forum/city/columbia-md/TKLSQM9V721CN1B2J - 98k


http://jmrhodes.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/bad-books-dont-write-them-a-plea-to-desperate-authors-with-uninteresting-ideas/


http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2007/07/hands-off.html


www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX8oNric4EM


www.msunaa.morgan.edu/AlumniNews/AlumniNewsSpr08.pdf _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  • Name: Adriana Albuquerque
  • Topic: On-line Business (Certification Program)
  • Link: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=72361433614756795
  • Description: For this assignment I decided to focus on internet commerce and how quickly this industry is growing in the United States. I interviewed Richard Wilson who is the founder of the CHA designation which is a professional certification program for the hedge fund industry and the owner of the most popular website on Hedge Funds.

He started the CHA program less than a year ago and he already have over 200 people signing up for his program, with each one of them had to pay around $300.00 to $500.00 to join the program. Today he will explain to us how he launched this successful on-line designation and how profit on-line businesses are. Here is the link for two of his most popular websites http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/ and http://chadesignation.org/ . He gets over 10.000 hits a day for these two websites.

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Name: Zeeshan Ali http://share.xmind.net/zeshally/harms-of-the-internet/ Harms of the Internet I categorized the harms of internet in to three parts; Cybercrime, Copyright Infringement & General harms. My main topic for discussion is Cybercrime. Though I have provided with a pint of pointers on all three points, I will further collect statistical data as well as current news reports related to cybercrime and enhance my data for the presentation. Also, I have included another point whereby I will discuss the benefits/solutions to some of the problems. This mind map gives you a grasp of what my topic is about. It also makes it easy for the reader to read the information and remember the pointers.


Name: Josh Kapelman

  • Topic: Internet Censorship and Filtering
  • Link: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcnx8jz8_4fgwzdwfh&hl=en
  • In assignment two, I looked at how different governments attempt to control access to the internet. There are four categories that are censored by these governments. The categories are: political, social, conflict/security, and internet tools (opennet.net). The OpenNet initiative charted and studied these governments' activities and created a series of maps based on the data they have collected. I combined these maps into one summative map in order to get a big picture view on what is going on with internet censorship and filtering worldwide. This large map provides a view of which countries and what percentage of governments perform what type of internet control. Thus, my map is divided into three categories: 1) active (or suspected) controlling methods; 2) countries that do not control the internet; and 3) countries that OpenNet does not have current data on.

Name: Jan-Carlo De Hoyos

  • Link: http://www.zshare.net/audio/567888903e00fb71/
  • For this assignment, I browsed the vast library of sounds found at FreeSounds.org. I was amazed at the extreme diversity and great selection that was readily available under the Creative Commons License. While browsing through the sounds I constantly asked myself why I had not found this site sooner. Occasionally, I would click on the "Random Sound" link just to appease my curiosity and further surprise me at the site's versatility, and I am a little disappointed that I don't have further time to browse through and work more on this project. However, I will definitely be book-marking this site for future reference. I found several sounds and loops that I decided fit well enough together to make somewhat of an instrumental. I found a couple didgeridoo loops that impressed me, as well as a "Slap N' Pop" bassline, which I coupled together with pre-programmed drum machine loops that were uploaded. I then added a vocoder (voice synthesizer) in which the "About FreeSounds.org" page was read. I realize that this will not be the next summer jam on Mtv, but I do see potential for many artists to freely allow their loops and melodies to be used for free by other people. Actually, this goes beyond, and allows full sound effects as well, such as bleeps, nature sounds, karate sound effects, and so much more.


  • Name: Steve Kurlowecz
  • Topic: Mindmap and Visualizations of microlicensing patents

I have been researching the practicality and effectiveness of microlicensing Internet content. As part of that research I have found a patent and patent application related to that concept. I wanted to “mindmap” this data and found some text visualization tools on the http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ website. I ran the text visualization tools, Cloud Tag and Wordle, on the text of the patent and patent application. The results show certain themes permeate the data (e.g., tags, point distribution, components). Here are some representative visualization that I hope to develop into a richer mindmap as my research progresses into my final project.

  • Links:

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/microlicensing

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/microlicensing-wordle-3

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/microlicensing-cloud-tag-2-word

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/microlicensing-2-cloud-tag

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/microlicensing-2-word-tree

--skurlowecz 00:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


Plato's Allegory of the Cave can be a representation of the truth about pervasive internet filtering. In the Cave, a chilling thought is what if you were forced to accept censorship because you know nothing else. This is the situation that digital natives will face if content filtering continues at a governmental level as it crosses generations. The shadows puppets are the manipulated information censored by a governing body. The prisoners are the citizens unable to see for themselves the truth. The sun is the freedom of free flowing information from the internet providing the choice to the now freed prisoner to live in shadow (censorship) or believe in truth. Would you not feel pity for someone who did not know the truth? It's ironic that a document written so long ago could hold so much truth after all this time.

WD208728 02:29, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Creating a mind map was something entirely new to me, but I found the process intuitive once I embraced the Xmind program. My topic has multiple facets, and I found it difficult to only stick to the main points and avoid wordiness. There are six major facets I chose to cover regarding the ownership of public record information, and they are individuals' rights, societal implications, corporate responsibility, corporate motivations for information brokerage, the range of sources currently available, and current protections in place. This is a subject I feel passionate about, so it was easy for me to create the map but hard to keep my scope defined. For me, this was an exercise in condensing information, and I feel my mind map presents both sides of the debate concisely. Also, I included sources I consulted and websites that might be of interest. This was a new way to present a topic, and I found it much more enjoyable than the traditional outline or powerpoint. I really like the sharing feature of Xmind as well!

--Jeberhard 03:40, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I decided to do a mind map, partly because I didn't feel I was knowledgeable enough to do a video/audio presentation and partly because it appeared to be the most best way to organize my thoughts and display them in a manner that made sense. The topic of innovation and patents is extremely complex. Therefore, developing a linear representation of the themes was extremely difficult. The mind map allows for all thoughts and ideas to be explored both vertically and horizontally. I was able to drill-down into topics while maintaining an organized structure. Additionally, seeing my thoughts visually, allowed me to spot patterns in the structure of the assignments as well as allowing me to see what areas might need additional work/examples.

The mind mapping tool I decided to use turned out to be ideal for this assignment. Mind42 is a free online mind mapping site. All nodes within the mind map may be assigned images or icons. One or more attachments can also be included in the form of notes, links to external websites, or even links to other mind maps. Mind42 also allows you to collaborate on the topics and share the results. I can see how a collaborative approach might lead to a high-quality, comprehensive "article", similarly to the way in which Wikipedia is perfected and improved through the shared expertise of contributors. With this in mind, I welcome anyone to add/modify/improve my mind map. If you're interested, let me know and I'll send you a "collaborate" invite.

One last bit of information... The mind map automatically opens with all nodes expanded. This makes it harder to see. I recommend you drill down into each section one at a time. After clicking on the link above, click the "collapse/expand all nodes" icon in the bottom left corner of the page.

--Murkin 05:23, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Warranty software (http://www.4cs.com) is a global product containing various sub-products that are distributed based on varying needs of customers. These sub-products include iWarranty, iParts, iService, iSupport and iFleet. Within iWarranty, we have various specializations---iWarranty SE, iWarranty TPA, iWarranty EW, iWarranty Field Service Rapid Response. All of the products or specializations make use of a number of open source and proprietary software tools. It is necessary to have a quality measure for both types of tools. Specifically for open source tools, we should have a global mechanism that guarantees the quality. This diagram presents the visual representation of all the open source and non open source tools used to produce warranty software products and their interactions. More importantly, it emphasizes where open source certification is desirable.

--Bhim 05:07, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


Name: Paul Lester

Topic: Twitter breaks the news

Url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkngO3CHuUs

Twitter, the micro-blogging service that allows users to post updates of their world, has proved to be a powerful tool in providing instant news and commentary about global experiences that shape our lives.

In this video I produced in iMovie, I used the examples of the 2008 earthquake in China, the Mumbai attacks and the US Airways plane that landed in the Hudson River to prove how Twitter is now becoming a fascinating source of breaking news.

We are now able to learn about major news events from eyewitnesses rather than the filter of the mainstream media. --Paulglester


File:Final-self-cite.png
Neuroscience blogs with self-citations
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Neuroscience blogs with self-citations removed

Name: Hilary 16:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Topic: Visualizing relationships between neuroscience blogs

Inspired by last week's class and conversation, I decided to create a visualization of the relationships between neuroscience blogs by examining their use of trackbacks. My visualization is inspired by an earlier visualization done by the New York Times, where they used a circular layout to illustrate references by the major presidential candidates to each other leading up to the Iowa caucuses.

Postgenomic is a blog aggregator, which tracks blogs discussing with scientific issues. I retrieved data, including a list of neuroscience blogs, posts from those blogs, and trackbacks included in posts, from the Postgenomic API. I used Circos, a genome visualization tool, to plot the relationships between 49 neuroscience blogs. Each blog is represented as a section of the circumference. Lines ("ribbons") between sections represent trackbacks between the two blogs (the white space at the end of a line represents the terminal point of the line). The thickness of the "ribbon" encodes the number of trackbacks. The color coding on the outermost ring of the circle encodes the breakdown of incoming trackbacks (e.g. more colors on the external ring segment illustrate a greater diversity of citing blogs, whereas one color on the external segment suggests that only one other blog cites this blog).

The first image I created included self-citations (or trackbacks from a post on a blog to an earlier post on the same blog). This visualization makes it clear that a couple of blogs (PsyBlog, Developing Intelligence, Myomancy, and Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry) primarily self-cite with few references to external blogs. In order to get a clearer idea of which blogs are influencing other blogs, I created another visualization where I removed all self-citations. This visualization makes it clear that the blog Mind Hacks frequently references many other blogs in its posts. In comparison, Developing Intelligence does not reference nearly as many external blogs, but appears to be frequently referenced/cited by a number of other blogs. The blogs Retrospectacle and The Mouse Trap both cite a lot of material from the Developing Intelligence blog.

Relating to last week's class -- Unfortunately the data source I used does not track references to Main Stream Media (MSM), therefore making it difficult to determine how much of the content is derived from established sources. The visualization does illustrate the communities of blogs that exist within neuroscience and how much each blog is influenced by content from other blogs. This may provide a proxy of measuring trust of sources and commentary within the neuroscience community.

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  • Name: Samuel Saidel Goley
  • Topic: Facebook: A Timeline Of The Social Network
  • Link: http://www.freewebs.com/samuelsaidelgoley/Facebook.swf
  • Description: I used Flash to create an interactive timeline with information information about Facebook's rise from a dorm room project to one of the worlds largest online communities and a multi-billion dollar company. Through a better understanding of the scope of Facebook and how it has progressed over the years, we may be able to figure out why Web 2.0 is on the rise. While people have suggested a narcissistic culture, as I point out in my project, I feel that Facebook has thrived due to it's ability to simplify online life. It offers it's users a variety of communication and file sharing features all under one roof. As such, people are drawn to the idea of single, simple, tool which can be customized with as many applications as needed to accomplish an infinite amount of tasks. --Samuel.saidelgoley 19:51, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


Name: Alek Sudan

Topic: Integration of Education (Adapting Learning Enviroments)

Link: www.mcaulifferegional.org/ptc09/assign3.php

Descrition: In this assignment, I created a PowerPoint detailing a priliminary report regarding using "web 2.0" technologies in an educational environment. It highlights student reaction, my observations, and the lead teacher's own input. Please see the webpage for more information and to actually download the PowerPoint.

  • Name: Jen Olds
  • Topic: One Laptop per Child
  • Links:

http://www.laptop.org/ww/vision/index.shtml

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003707.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/23/one-laptop-per-child-1.html

http://indianeconomy.org/2006/07/29/olpc-rest-in-peace/

http://inoveryourhead.net/one-laptop-per-child/

In assignment 2, I chose to report on technology and education. With assignment 3 I decided to narrow it down to “One Laptop per Child”. OLPC is an organization dedicated to educating underprivileged children throughout the world by way of a little green and white laptop. I have to add that I did find some negative feedback on the company but, solving world problems happens one step at a time and what better way to start than with educating a clean slate. I chose to do this assignment in Scratch as an interactive with some hidden features and I have to admit, I’ve never used Scratch before and found it very entertaining. Scratch is so much easier than VBasic, help files really grabbed my attention (color, design, pictures, ). I absolutely recommend this free program to everyone. Scratch comes installed on the OLPC XO’s.

Name: David Cooperstein Topic: Record Sales, as reported by the RIAA

I created a graph with data that I obtained from the RIAA's own market data. designed to show that the RIAA is misrepresenting losses. In 2001, the group started to claim that 4 billion dollars were lost annually (not including salaries, the economy, etc) because of file sharing, specifically music sharing. My data shows that their claim can not be substantiated by their own (somewhat contested) statistics. After analyzing there market data publications, I found the the decline in record sale did not start until halfway through 2001, after Napster was already shut down.

Link: http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/riaa-did-not-start-to-fall-until-aft

Sources: 2007 U.S. Manufacturers' Unit Shipments and Value Chart http://76.74.24.142/81128FFD-028F-282E-1CE5-FDBF16A46388.pdf


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Name: Kyle Hauser and Tessa McCue

Topic: E-Learning

This E-learning description is a flow chart/mind map of the beneficial process of e-learning vs. traditional learning. Specifically the e-learning model being technologically based, provides interaction, learning and flexibility in the students life that traditional learning does not have the ability to touch on simply based on the difference in models. Please follow the flow chart to identify with key aspects of e-learning.

Link: http://share.xmind.net/tlee85/e-learning/

  • My research of around 500 sites has yielded a little under 40 examples of online "creative" commons subcategorized into five categories: image, words, sound, moving image and multimedia; which I have put into an interactive ecospace map. [Despite the protection of developers/code under copyright I chose to omit them from the study entirely since I believe that they already have the entirety of the web to expose their work.] This project relates most to our course theme of The Cultural Commons as my study of Creative iTransparency has dealt mostly with investigating the presence of current model[s] of online "creative" commons which demonstrate open and accountable systems that provide both transparency and visibility to the creator and their creative work. It is my hypothesis that if these platforms do successfully exist that they will redefine copyright outside of the legal framework in an open commons that will address it's shortcomings [mainly: duration, invisibility and convolution]. Indirectly my project also touches on the themes of: Internet Economics and Digital Civil Society; as you will see be exploring some of the identified online "creative" commons.

--Devon 07:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC+8)


I have made an animated powerpoint presentation that includes some fun visualizations in it. In order to see the presentation properly, you'll want to save the file to a computer that can view powerpoint presentations, so that you get a version which includes the animations and sounds. Viewing it from the web will look like non-sensical text overlapping other text and you will not be able to see the animations. Here is where I have the file shared: [2]

Since I am looking at Instant Messaging and chatting, and how we replicate real-world psychological needs in a virtual world, I decided to go onto Yahoo Chat one night, and I screenprinted the number of people in each chatroom and then typed in excel the number of people in every single chatroom they had, then I started doing interesting graphs on which rooms people were in. Since the rooms have a title such as "Nudists/Naturalists" and there are overarching categories like "Arts & Entertainment" a lot can be told about the purpose the chatroom is serving to most participants (what need it is filling for them, or what they are seeking, or some identifying factor) by what room they are in. Here is the data in excel format [3] The last piece of what I did is that I logged every message in a generic chat room over a period of about 5 hours over 2 days to gather a sample of words, and then I created a word cloud to see what words were being most used in the messages in the chatroom. The presentation is given from the point of view of someone bored on a Saturday night, looking for something interesting in the chatrooms, and ending up being a voyeur rather than a participant for that night.

All of my visualizations are available at manyeyes.com under the user eupelia.

--Eupelia 03:09, 11 March 2009 (UTC)


Name: William Traylor

Project: Net Neutral “Municipal Wireless” with Commericalally Differentiated IP Transit

[Link: http://share.xmind.net/wtraylor/net-neutrality/]

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To properly illustrate the confluence of interests, influences, funding, and complexity I created a mind map.The opensource software "Xmind" was used to create this visual aid. I must admit it was fairly painless to use, and really help me to crystallize the organic nature of that which I was assembling in my mind. I think you will agree upon review that the deliverable is clear, concise, cogent, and delivers a basic visual for all levels of understanding and attachment to this policy evaluation.

As previously stated this project is focused on open source wireless spectrum created from the national conversion to digital TV, and the notion of net neutrality.

The end goal is a government subsidized, democratized, open wireless net for basic community, with highly differentiated, PurposeNets for linear groupings of industry and government function. An HOV in the cloud if you will with a differntiated, assured delivery of all traffic types for these slices of the networks.

Upon researching this topic further, I have visited with elected officals, expert engineers from these carriers, consumers, interest groups, non profits, academia, and other constituents with a fair shake in the high stakes game theory of "net neutrality". I have concluded that a number of purpose built nets (PurposeNets) should follow suit in the spirit of the original Internet. These networks would form a linear function to facilitate a closed communities interest and critical charters.

For instance, I have ideated the following five samples:

1. Homeland Security 2. Digital Healthnets 3. Academic Backbones (i2, Lamdarail, CERN) 4. Military Nets 5. GreenEnergy Gridnets

Thus far, I have concluded that a best practice model for this hybrid, liberalized, Internet 4.0 iteration would be a network policy which would follow a local/inter-city model similar to what happened to the Bell system after divestiture in 1984. The argument will also align the broadband policy recommendations that the new president ushered in with his campaign.

Localized wireless metro networks funded federally, along with municipal money. There would be 3 tiers of metro wireless network (big city, mid city, rural coop) and these would be operated by a national oversight and monitoring relationship with the CTO office within Homeland security. The city based wireless networks would be net neutral, open access, and available to all. Although homeland security, telemedicine, universities, schools, government, and K-12 educational entities would have preferential access. General Citizens could gain access but would be afforded available bandwidth after these agencies and organizations were provided use.

These wireless metro networks would be tied together with commercial access or IP transit from the carriers (AT&T/Verizon/Sprint).

There is a wealth of coverage for these items as separate function or policy recommendations. Net neutrality is a heated item over the last few years. Municipal wireless is an idea or policy that never fully took root. There were a few city governments that delivered pilot deployments, but never really made them a commercial reality. I will take the best of breed thought leadership in these spaces to deliver a compelling recommendation that blends government interest, citizen access, commercial interests, and the proper evolution of technolgy.


Research (this is just a small assortment, much more to come in the final cited works):


Broadband Stimulus

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2009/02/20/the-broadband-stimulus-plan-still-murky/

http://www.crn.com/government/215801707

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jan2009/db2009015_446050.htm

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2008/tc20081230_015542.htm

http://www.benton.org/node/20315


PurposeNets

http://www.internet2.edu/pubs/networkmap.pdf/

http://www.tx-learn.org/PeerNetworkMap.cfm

http://www.nlr.net/services/infrastructure.php

http://www.nlr.net/services/rural/states.php

http://www.aha.org/aha_app/issues/HIT/index.jsp

Net Netrality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/13/net-neutrality-a-likely-reality-in-2009

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/around-the-web/index.cfm?i=56753


Policy and Lobby Groups

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

http://www.newamerica.net/programs/wireless_future

http://www.newamerica.net/programs/wireless_future/broadband_policy_and_community_wireless

http://www.wearetheweb.org/


--William Traylor 03:55, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Name: Arthur Kasden & Shivaji Dhanabalan

Usernames: akasdan, Shivaji1212

Topic: Open Source Software

Project URL: http://www.archive.org/details/OpenSourceInfoslide

Description: For this assignment, my partner and I created a slide show to familiarize people with the history, current uses, and future of open source software. We believe the open source community has a bright future ahead of itself due to the rising number in internet users as well as software programers. Open source has the ability to revolutionize the software industry by producing identical products for practically nothing by facilitating the transfer of ideas and information across the globe.


Name: Traci E. Thomas

Topic: Citizen Media and The Freedom of Speech

Link: www.stopshaking.com

Descrition: The agenda of this assignment: Citizen Media and Freedom of Speech highlights the results of having the Internet act as Income to aspiring entreprenuers and corporations. The World Wide Web offers infinte possibilities for the talented to advertsie and promote their works: online radio networks, blogs, online stores, banners, emails, and websites. I was honored to design the website for Gayle Westmoreland', author of "Hands Stop Shaking Them: A Cultural Shift To End Handshaking In America," and am flabbergasted by the infamous recognition she has obtained via online presence. Online conversations continue as worldwide opinions are exchanged. Her strategy to provide healthy alternatives to handshaking is provoking thought and controversy. Cyber and traditional media keep her topic fresh and innovative, as the debate is ongoing and rigorous. Ironically, her book challenges the beliefs, traditions, and customs of cultures worldwide. Lastly, a sequel is in progress as Westmoreland is`successful to confront health, social, and economic reprocautions of having the handshake as the only acceptable greeting. The Internet is faithful to provide the "perfect platform " for Citizen Media and Freedom of Speech to prosper those wishing to market their products and or services. Regardless if audiences agree, the blogs are brutal and unforgiving, and some reject her theory; nonetheless, book sales are sufficient to classify her text as prosperous.

Sources: www.stopshaking.com

www.topix.com/forum/city/columbia-md/TKLSQM9V721CN1B2J - 98k


http://jmrhodes.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/bad-books-dont-write-them-a-plea-to-desperate-authors-with-uninteresting-ideas/


http://presurfer.blogspot.com/2007/07/hands-off.html


www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX8oNric4EM


www.msunaa.morgan.edu/AlumniNews/AlumniNewsSpr08.pdf _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  • Name: David Panzarino
  • Topic: copyright protection and intellectual property
  • Link: http://www.archive.org/details/RemixColbertByDpanzar
  • Description: I have made an original piece of art from copywritten media. It is a song based loosely on the Stephen Colbert interview with Lawrence Lessig -where he asks the audience to remix their discussion about "Remix" by Lessig. There are various samples which I believe have a variety of legal stati owing to age, type of clip (including a logo or brand name) et cetera. I plan on learning more about the various forms of intellectual property for my final project.

Interesting note: in order to record from Youtube into Garageband, I had to do some "hacking." It was physical hardware manipulation, but like Zittrain points out about appliancized gear, the only audio input to Garageband that I could find was a stupid, uni-purpose box designed for singing and playing the guitar. So there was an xlr input and a quarter inch input for mic and instrument, but the thing is: each signal was permenantly assigned to one or the other side of the stereo -I believe to prevent anyone from just playing their cds (or Youtubes) into Garageband and doing what I did! I had to cut open the box and train a wire from the xlr to the open side of the quarter-inch input. Was that even legal? Listen and enjoy.


· Name: Portia Darby

·Links:

1.http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=09de713d925ab05cea19

2.http://the-end.com/2008GodsFinalWitness/?gclid=COyK7-GinJkCFQMnGgodIXdmUA

3.http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8a83aa540c66a5edd6d9

4.http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=d296bad7b7b41c2b68a3

5.http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8dcc12b82576b0d694d1


My casework relates to our technology class beacause we focus on the legal aspects of technology and how information from people can by used and exploited beyond recognition globaly. Technology is a very unique use , that can be transformed in many ways. My casework objective is to determine the outcome of technology’s control over the human life, and to what extent will it go before it is beyond human control?

The link above will give you a little ensight on what may be oon to come or perhaps on our door step. Enjoy!! --Portia Darby 02:12, 12 March 2009 (UTC)PD


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For this exercise, I use the lens of Lessig's Four Forces to examine the RIAA's recent shift from a campaign of lawsuits against accused "music pirates" to a three strikes model, in which ISPs are dispatched as enforcers against purported pirates. By examining the constraints on which both the lawsuits and the three strikes model focused, I attempt to understand more clearly the motivations behind this move. Through this, I conclude that the RIAA's shift represents a logical next-step in their effort to alter existing structures of constraint (specifically the constraint of law and the constraint of code) in order to shape consumer behavior to their comfortable but outmoded content distribution model. For those of you who listen, or read, I'd love any questions, criticisms, or feedback. Thanks! (And pardon my cough :)

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For this assigment I decided to create a video, the video is of veteran teacher who discussed the role of the internet in early education. During the interview, she discuss some of the key concerns and how parents use the web to help kids with homework. Please feel free to share your feedback with me and the rest of the class.

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I created a video documenting the difficulty of ensuring that "mashup" creations are legal. I attempted to contact Columbia Records to get their opinion on whether my use of a Bob Dylan clip was a "fair use", or alternatively, if I could secure appropriate licensing. I never heard back from Columbia. On posting, the video was automatically taken down "due to a copyright claim by WMG". Couldn't ask for a better response. --Jparsons 16:18, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

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