ENGL303 Spring 2010

A collection of all the creatures that grace us with their presence at Walmart, America's favorite store. Just another site like Text From Last Night or My Life Is Average where people can share their experiences + pictures.

This is an interesting way to view the news of the past year. This site offers pictures, music and audio and text commentary on the pictures.

The Iphone is capable of calling users from a seemingly different cell phone number. Dangerous? Useful?

I wasn't in class last Thursday so I missed the in class tutorial for Quicktime. I was trying to find something online to teach myself. This is an obvious place to go for help with the Quicktime if any needs it. This site also may have been used in class or already bookmarked but I figured it would probably be useful.

I mentioned the Hitler WVU thing in class today, Here it is! lol

Douglas J. Wood is a partner with Reed Smith, chair of its media & entertainment industry focus group, and editor of the firm's white paper on social media, "Network Interference: A Legal Guide to the Commercial Risks and Rewards of the Social Media Networking Phenomenon."

There are so many things that we don't know about how social networking sites work, about the investors, the number of members, and the value of the sites. There is even a country that has banned Facebook

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

This is the blog for the Spring 2010 Multimedia Writing class. It is a portal for information and activities regarding the class.

The blogs have been atwitter. It all started when ESPN republished without consent a tweet by Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, that criticized NBA referees. Cuban then posed the question on his blog of whether copyright law protected his tweets. Legal experts joined the conversation, and the debate began.

This is a site that one can upload photos to and edit them. There are tons of really neat options

Copyright/information piracy is much older than the net, as a new book shows. There was copying and distributing centuries ago - and the people were responsible were called pirates! The current copyright regime didn't arrive until the 18th century and it entered into an existing culture of copying and pirating.

Somewhat user generated media and news.

This NY times article talks about the swift growth of the Facebook community and how that community is starting to take quite a hold in society.

This website seems to be significant in that its purpose is to educate people on how to write technical material and about the history of multimedia itself. In addition, if one wishes to, it has a section to test your knowledge on the subject.

The Constitution grants Congress the power "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries ..." Copyright coverage under the law now includes: architectural design, software, the graphic arts, motion pictures, and sound recordings. It includes articles by writers written and published on the internet. Read more at Suite101: Copyright Infringement of Internet Articles: Significant Penalties for Stealing a Writer's Work http://law.suite101.com/article.cfm/copyright_infringement_of_internet_articles#ixzz0etrpeZ3M

Steve Albini is an infamous record producer, perhaps most famous for his work with Nirvana on their album "in Utero". This article outlines the methods record companies use to seduce rock bands, essentially making them slaves of the industry. Albini represents the many ways in which the music industry is changing to meet customer and artist needs, considering the recent explosion of file sharing.