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Nature.Net Forums provides users with a list of forums to post images, questions, and information to get feedback about a flora or fauna of interest.

The Sims 3 website forum page

Writing Forum (verses self publishing or publishing company) Rules of Use.

This is one of many forums on this site where individuals can post entries with text and images and can receive comments. All forums are very nature oriented.

Website that anonymously allows college students to gossip, meet other people, post pictures and videos, and trash talk other students... without claiming any responsibility for damage that may result from the forums.

The Free Art & Technology website. This relates to the topic of plagiarism - here we have a forum for artists to share their methods and finished products and borrow from others. Often referred to as "open source" art.

This fan website provides an extensive forum for Twilight fans. It is interactive, allowing fans to post their own Twilight art, watch videos relating to the saga, explain why they like the books, and even track the site on Twitter. Interestingly, it provides a list of Twilight conventions, so fans can meet worldwide to talk about the books. This is important to my project because it helps me to further understand the fascination that fans have with the series. By exploring sites such as this, which also have fanfiction links, I can learn what ties the fans together and urges them to create their own Twilight remixes.

This article discusses how online feedback mechanisms are bringing new meaning to "word of mouth." Through online forums, businesses can reach large audiences at little cost. Furthermore, "individuals can make their personal thoughts, reactions, and opinions easily accessible to the global community of Internet users." The site relates to my project because it references several online communities and discusses how these groups of people use the Internet to communicate. The article mentions Epinions.com, Moviefone.com, and CitySearch.com. These are sites where users can evaluate movies, restaurants, bars, and other businesses. Individuals who visit these sites to read reviews are not concerned with who wrote the articles, but instead the advice that they offer. Therefore, these sites are examples of ways that Internet users are taking advantage of online anonymity to connect with others and to seek their opinions.

Uses Collaborative writing to make several points. On pages 301 - 305, author makes some comments about authorship (how it began and how it is today and how it works in collaborative writing). I haven't read the whole thing yet.

This website deals with remix videos. It allows people to create their own remixes as well as informs them about the laws regulating copyright and remix issues. This is another forum, like YouTube and Creative Commons, that encourages and allows users to interact, recreate, and remix the topic of his or her liking. It will be helpful to my topic by providing yet another example of the fascination and movement toward interacting with a published and copyrighted item. It also helps me to define how remixing videos should be governed.

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.