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This website could also be helpful to several people while working on their projects. It discusses copyright laws, multimedia laws, website rules, etc.

A political satire website that presents itself as a webstore for people worried about terrorists in America.

Open table is a website that is based on user experienced postings of restaurants throughout the nation that offer high-end, expensive entrees. Once someone has visited a restaurant, they will rate the restaurant on a variety of categories such as "ambience", "service", and how "romantic" it is. The restaurants that are on this website do not have to pay to get a posting, near do they have to pay to upkeep the site. While this type of advertising is nearly opinion, It can have much more bearing on an individual than a television ad or newspaper ad. The only difference between this user experienced advertising and traditional advertising is that the users could cast the restaurant in a bad light. I also can't help but think how many times employees or owners of restaurants have logged onto this site and rated their restaurant "outstanding" in all categories.

I'm sure by now most college students have heard of chat roulette. Before reading on, I will warn everyone that before you click on the link, there may be some offensive material. Anyways, chat roulette is a website that allows people with webcams to speak through microphones, or type in a chat bar, with anyone in the world that has also has a webcam. There has been recent coverage by the media concerning the innapropriate material that some users have been filming. However perverted some users may be, chat roulette is an interesting new way to communicate with people via the web. There are two things about this website that I think are interesting. The first is that the site is run by a 17 year old in a European country. The fact that at any given time, there are over 30,000 people connected to the site makes this a potential goldmine for advertisers. The second thing I find interesting is that while the site is meant for communication, almost nobody uses it to speak to other individuals. It is mostly used to satisfy the curiousity and voyeuristic tendencines that lie within most of us. The average user will just click through random people without speaking to anyone. This says something about the way the internet may be breaking down communication in some aspects, instead of uplifting it

I found this website while searching for free educational material for a separate class. While this site may not tie into my research report of "internet advertising", I think it is very important. Academic Earth is a free site that anyone can sign up for. It offers free online video lectures from some of the most prestigous universities in the country (Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Princeton). The lecture topics range from Psychics to Psychology, and everything in between. The importance of this website is pretty obvious. The average Joe that can't afford college tuition can learn much of the same material for free that the wealthy and privileged are receiving for $100,000 a year.

This website just gives a description and outline of some authorship guidelines. I thought this might be helpful to a lot of us.

This is a study about how online magazines are not always as thorough with their research as print is.

With the use of stumbleupon, you can come across any website that has ever been created on the public internet. You can choose specific topics to look at or you can just stumble across the entire web.

This website is a Yahoo website, but the news articles published are more for enjoyment purposes than for information.

I am actually thinking of focusing my project on music sampling and how artists get permission to sample various songs. This website is cool because it gives you a list of different songs that have been sampled in the past. Some songs I had no idea were samples, I thought they were original songs.

The idea behind companies like "on demand books" is to preserve books as digital files and print them as they are needed. If you want to buy a book that is out of print, they can make you a brand new copy. This is a good example of how the internet is changing the way books are distributed.

This website is about a machine called the Espresso Book Machine. The machine is made to allow people to purchase books that are actually out of print. It is currently in many locations, and the website states that there are more to come! (Didn't realize that it had actually already been bookmarked, but oh well. It's a good site to check out, as Kyle pointed out to me.)

I think this is an interesting and funny website. Although it is viewed by some as offensive or stereotypical, it still creates a huge amount of traffic (300,000 hits daily). The creator of the website (Christian Lander), uses this site as a social mirror for things he witnesses throughout everyday life.

The article basically says that due to the advent of social networking sites, children have become more interested in instant gratification and have shortened their attention spans.

This website is so cool! You choose a person and an accent and language and you type in whatever you want them to say.

ConspiracyScience.com is run by Edward Winston, a software engineer whose hobby is debunking various conspiracy theories using knowledge and research. This page debunks the Zeitgeist film, linked below. Winston is not alone in discrediting the Zeitgeist movement - some internet message boards are devoted entirely to debunking conspiracy theories. These are great examples of the internet's ability to correct mistakes over time, eg: Zeitgeist convinced millions of viewers to believe untrue facts and theories - websites like ConspiracyScience.com convinced millions of others that Zeitgeist is unreliable.

Zeitgeist is a documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, released in 2007. It outlines the many ways in which information has been repressed by governments and religions over centuries to maintain control over the public. The film went viral shortly after its release, thanks to the internet. Unfortunately for Peter Joseph, countless debunking websites and smear campaigns have been launched to discredit the documentary. This scenario is a great example of how social movements can be created and driven by the internet, only to be killed later by the internet.

This website has a large database of articles that reference multimedia authorship and technology in schools. Included is an article which references my subject. This article is titled "Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Student Writing?"

US survey reveals that 56% of journalist research on social media while conducting stories. All most all of journalist use Google, 89% use blogs, and 89% use company's website. Facebook and Twitter are slowly cathing up to these figures

This website discusses some recent viral video advertisements on the internet. It shows why they work, and why viral video advertising was (in some cases) their only option to advertise the product.

This is a great website devoted to the theory of Guerrilla Marketing. It is hard to define Guerrilla Marketing/Advertising, but the basic concept is to market the brand in un-conventional ways, in an attempt to grab the attention of the viewer. This could be applied to outdoor, print, television or internet advertising. If you click the "articles" link at the top, it will discuss many different aspects of guerrilla marketing.