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Video about media convergence. Some information in the video is from PEW reports, but it contains a lot of other interesting statistics. At the end it mentions someone's hypothesis that what technology is in our smartphones now will fit in a blood cell in 25 years.

I found this webpage during week 5 posting.. it adds a very interesting insight to newspaper verse internet.

Anyone interested in net neutrality or the governments role in online regulation of service providers

Good Blog that I plan on basing some of my information for paper two off of.

Article talks about how RIAA can have the federal government issue subpoenas by simply making allegations of infringement and requiring University administrators to turn over the IP address owners of the guilty parties. This ability conflicts with peoples' right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty. To fight this, the adminstrators are shuffling IP addresses among different individuals regularly so that they can honestly say that they have no identifying information to provide.

This link is to an article that discusses the effects of the Internet of globalization, I am taking an on campus course about International relations and found this to be interesting. Technology, specifically the Internet allows us to communicate so much information at a more effecient speed.

Article discusses how the RIAA is issuing letters to suspected copyright infringing music downloaders and sharers and asking them to turn themselves in and pay a reduced fine, which will still be in the thousands of dollars, or else they will sue them for all they have or might ever have. Lawyer from University of Southern California talks about how letters are actually just "cease and desist letters" and that suspected offenders might not want to turn themselves in because the RIAA might not be able to find out their identities otherwise since many schools ISP's are not keeping track of or releasing students' names, personally identifiable IP addresses, or other information.

This article has information on creating HTML Codes, passwords, etc.

This website contains vast amounts of information on science and technology developments. Some of it is a bit odd, where as others have tremendous business and global implications. Example: Google plans to take IP to space.

"GPO Access contains all published versions of bills from the 103rd (1993-1994) Congress forward. The 112th Congress database is updated by 6 a.m. (EST) daily when bills are published and approved for release. The documents in these databases are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files."

This is a link to a government Website that provides information on the latest bills that have been passed and/or under discussion.

This article presented information regarding the digital divide and e-book learning.

This site had a ton of graphs in regards to the Digital Divide with information and stats.

This site has information on Illinois cell phone and text messaging laws.

In this Wall Street Journal article, users of the new Color App are warned their information is shared with all other Color users in their area. This is an app that is launching today, Thursday, March 23rd. Are we ready to police ourselves?

on-the-go access to medical Care details, such as contact information, hours, mapping, quality reports, and facility capabilities.

Here is a link to online health tips.

There a many online health Websites, but these health tips are useful.

This website has great information on the laws of copyright laws

The Wall Street Journal published this article by Amy Marcus on Monday, April 25, 2011. By connecting patients who are suffering from ALS on Facebook, they are able to share information on treatments that work and those that do not. This particular study had to do with lithium.

This girl sent pics to her boyfriend over a year ago and is now recieving phoe calls from strangers becasue the pics ended up on the Internet.