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This blog is written by a published author. He has written and continues to write books about software or code. In this blog post he discusses authorship in terms of open source. He makes an argument about how writing in general should be treated more like open source software is created. I am using his assertions to help development my claims that sites like webook.com are open source communities that allow authors to share ideas.

This blog is written by a published author. He has written and continues to write books about software or code. In this blog post he discusses authorship in terms of open source. He makes an argument about how writing in general should be treated more like open source software is created. I am using his assertions to help development my claims that sites like webook.com are open source communities that allow authors to share ideas.

I first read this story in the DA and it was very intriguing. A hospital in Iowa has allowed surgeons to start "tweeting" the process of their surgery to the patient's family members. It is an easy and efficient way to follow a patient's progress as they go under the knife. The patient's family in this article tracked the developments from a laptop computer in the hospital's waiting room. One of the daughter-in-laws even kept tabs from work. The surgeon sent more than 300 tweets over more than three hours from a computer outside the operating room. Over 700 people followed them, some even asking questions. This is a great way to get glimpse into an actual operating room. Iowa has not been the first hospital to use Twitter, others include Children's Medical Center in Dallas, which tweeted in May when a father donated a kidney to his son, and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where officials have tweeted about several surgeries since January. My question is, is could I use the "tweets" this surgeon is sending and write my own article about the operation? Are the surgeons' tweets copyrighted?

This website is just an example of a writer who is currently releasing his novel on Twitter, by way of tweeting 140 characters at a time. He compares releasing his novel on Twitter as the equivalent to watching a short clip of a movie, before deciding to buy the entire thing. He feels by releasing 140 characters at a time, it will grab people's attention. This website demonstrates how not only is, Matt Stewart, releasing his novel via Twitter, but how other authors are deciding to do the same thing. Is releasing a novel via Twitter going to be the same as releasing the actual publish book in the bookstores? Does Stewart, along with the various other authors have rights to each of their "tweets"? How easy would it be to steal Stewart's novel, by simply copying and pasting all of his tweets into one large document. Is it novel protected from someone else stealing his ideas?

From penniless bloggers to geek entrepreneurs, these are the biggest and brightest stars on the Web. © Getty Images The Face of fame is changing. The ranks of the world's celebrities used to be dominated by millionaire actors, athletes and musicians, but the Internet has leveled the playing field. A kid with a video camera has access to as large an audience as the biggest Hollywood star. A mom with a blog can attract more readers than a best-selling author. And an opinionated entrepreneur can become a guru to millions.

This website is basically just an article describing how an editor named Nick Douglas compiled together a book called, "Twitter Wit". This book is a collection of Twitters who tweeted him their wittiest "tweet". The wittiest tweets will be seen in this book. This article gives a small description about the book while also explaining how the contributors were given no royalties for having their "tweets" published, just given a free copy of the book. This brings up the question of, who does then get credit? Will editor Douglas and HarperCollins receive a profit off others "tweets", while the actual contributors receive nothing?

In the Internet environment, media must not only compete with one another but with a host of newcomers, including online companies with no traditional media ties and a variety of other entrepreneurs. This article reports the results of a content analysis of 422 Web sites associated with local newspapers, radio stations, and television stations in 25 of the largest metro markets in the United States. Results show that each medium has a relatively distinctive content emphasis, while each attempts to utilize its Web site to maximize institutional goals. Market size is found to be a relatively unimportant factor in shaping the content of these Web sites, but media type helps explain how these Web sites are differentiated. [J]

Authorship and Blogging (haven't read the whole thing yet)

I saw an article in the DA about West Virginia University's News and Information Services, WVU Today launching a new website. They said they did this to keep up with the changing culture. The website is based around multimedia and social media, letting people interact with the story. The story talked about the new iWVU application available for iPhones, and a WVU mobile site for other smart phones. The website WVU Today allows users to share news stories in a variety of ways under the "share this". There is a media center section with a story archive, video archive, podcasts, and more.

J. R. Carpenter is an award winning fiction writer, poet, and web artist based in Montreal. Entre Ville was commissioned by OBORO New Media Lab for the 50th anniversary of the Conseil des Arts de Montreal. This piece of work is very interesting. It is like The Cape because it can be viewed in any order, but there is a sense of where to begin and how to continue, but the reader can choose for himself. It also challenges the difference between reality and fiction, for example, a particular part discussing a dog walking a human and the sort of life that would be if you only got outside three times a day.

This is an article I found on Google Scholar. This article examines the use of social-networking sites and how we really use them to interact with friends. Social-Networking sites are designed to help us keep in contact with our "friends", however it seems that the more friends we have on these sites the less we actually interact with them. This study used Twitter as a means to study just how many "followers" one has and how many of them do they really keep in touch with on a daily basis. This is an important/article I can use for my project because I am studying the use of Twitter and Authorship. Many use Twitter to as a way to elicit thoughts to others, but who are they thoughts going to if they aren't our everyday friends? This study could reveal why so many of our thoughts are being used and taken from us, because we are allowing people to see them who we do not even know. I may be able to use examples from this article to support who uses Twitter and for what reasons.

This is an article I got off of Google Scholar. This article explains a study that was conducted that examined Social-Networking sites and the use of friends. Social-networking sites are designed to help us keep in contact and interact with people we know. However, this study reveals how the more "friends" one has, the less they interact with them. This article looks at just how many people we do use social-networking sites to acutally interact with on a daily basis. Twitter is used in this study to examine how many "followers" people have but how many of them are thier actual friends. This will be a useful site for my project because it examines who uses Twitter and why.

An Internet celebrity, cyberstar or online celebrity is someone who has become famous by means of the Internet. Such fame is based less upon raw numbers, as with traditional media. Instead, the wide reach of the Internet allows people to reach a narrow audience across the world and so become famous within a particular internet community. Many millions of people write online journals or weblogs. In many cases, they write anonymously or their focus is upon a specialist topic. But if the author has or develops a distinctive personality, their fame will derive from this as much as from the content of their blog.

This is an article from Project Muse. It talks about the sincerity of authorship in blogs. It relates the idea of a diary to a blog, and views blogging in a very personal sense. Considering the personal value of a blog, you can understand how authorship on blogging sites (TFLN), would fall under this umbrella of something not being considered plagiarized. This will benefit me greatly in writing my paper because I am mainly speaking about authorship in relation to anonymity, and the sites I am reviewing deal with some aspect of blogging.

An article on the famous website "Texts From Last Night" becoming a sitcom

I thought this website gave a good overview of how to write a fanfiction. Though it focuses mainly on Sailor Moon fanfics, it give a good explanation of what fanfiction entails.

DearDiary.Net offers you a fun and safe place to write your online diary (also known as weblog, blog or online journal). DearDiary is highly customizable free to join and a has a lively, thriving online community you can interact with.

This article explains how a chain of pawn shops in Texas sued an anonymous John Doe who posted comments on an Internet message board criticizing the chain of shops. The chain thought that the John Doe may have been a former employee. Despite Doe's efforts to protect his identity, the court rejected Doe's motions. This article shows that although Internet users are often thought to have a right to anonymity, the privacy of Internet users is not enforced by law. Actions that are considered criminal offline are also considered unlawful on the Internet. Still, the rulings of cases involving online anonymity are ultimately decisions of the courts they are heard in.

Twitter SPY displays the Twitter public timeline in a fancy and addictive way!

Cell phone novels are a big deal in Japan. The novel are written via cell phone using short text messages. Unfortunately for us, they're in Japanese. According to Wired: "A mobile phone novel typically contains between 200 and 500 pages, with each page containing about 500 Japanese characters. The novels are read on a cell phone screen page by page, the way one would surf the web, and are downloadable for around $10 each."