ENGL303 Spring 2010

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.)

This site tells you the precise time of any major city in the world and provides users with the exact number of days, weeks, hours, minutes, and seconds until any date you enter. Spring break, 30 days!

Online creative capabilities to use family photos for custom made books, posters, cards, invitations, and more.

a radio interview about the new partnership that facebook is developing, a little old but supports my topic well.

a list that connects you to a number of different articles that support the use of facebook as an advertising tool

Weird Al Finds Gold - Parody, Satire & Jokes. Another site detailing what Weird Al Yankovic goes through to not be considered copyright.

Detailed photographic journal, advertisement, information, and publicity for an up-and-coming Puerto Rican resort.

Google is trying to build the world's biggest digital library. A judge in Manhattan is deciding whether they can legally do it.

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This is relavent to my project because it discussing how many people own rights to Harry Potter and in what form.

This is an article that is discussing what is sure to become a hot new debate. If someone owns the right to the print version of a book, do they own the digital rights as well?

I chose this site because I am doing my project on how relationships between people have changed since the advent of social networking. This article discusses what an "online" friend actually is.

Totally awesome new project where thousands of pictures make up a 3-D version of the building.

A database and description of online magazines

All students that got a free lap top were spied on while at home without their parents knowing.

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.

This article is about the use of online databases for professional research. The author explains how university databases make documents available to researchers that would have taken years to access otherwise. Essentially, one can do research in hours that would have taken an entire career to conduct decades ago.

Essentially, authors who published their works on the Kindle may have assumed that Digital Rights Management (DRM) was automatically enabled for their work. The option for DRM or no DRM has always been there, however, it seems Amazon has made it easier for Digital Text Platform publishers to choose one or the other.

This shows how everyone is using this effective communication tool. A student was calling a teacher with rude names and was suspended for his action. Where's the line drawn for freedom of speech?