ENGL303 Spring 2010

Explaining the legality of Weird Al Yankovic's parodies of songs.

The latest news, photos, insider info and other facts about pop satirist ''Weird Al'' Yankovic. Includes some of links to fan-made videos as well as blogs and twitters from Weird Al.

This is a really cool interactive site by NASA teaching about global climate change.

An interesting perspective expressed through some unique animations.

This website is basically the largest index of text/ chat abbreviations used on the web. It chronicles abbreviations from A-Z. "With the popularity and rise in real-time text-based communications, such as instant messaging, e-mail, Internet and online gaming services, chat rooms, discussion boards and mobile phone text messaging (SMS), came the emergence of a new language tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. If you have ever received an instant message or text message that seemed to be written in a foreign language, this Webopedia Quick Reference will help you decipher the text chat lingo by providing the definitions to more than 1,200 chat abbreviations."

This article talks about the history of instant messaging and how it works. It states that "IMing" is used as a faster way to emailing.

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.

This site compares two popular social media sites, del.icio.us and StumbleUpon and tells you the advantages of both sites. From personal experience, StumbleUpon is very addicting and can be detrimental to your life... but totally awesome! As for del.icio.us, I had never heard of it so I found it very interesting.

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

Bands from all over use social networking sites to gain recognition, be heard, and to maintain the perceptions of the band in the eyes of their fans.

An online article by Nicholson Baker about the Kindle and whether or not it is really an improvement on the book. He talks about his own experience after purchasing the Kindle and comments on other people's remarks about the device.

You may have seen this PSA on television, Facebook, radio, or websites; Text HAITI to 90999. To date, this campaign has raised over $30 million. It's generated the largest donation from text message in history. Just anther way multimedia/technology is changing the world, right before our eyes!

This website allows you to do anything related to the Kindle from buying one to simply learning everything there is to know about the Kindle. It not only has a list of the multiple books available to buy and upload on to your new Kindle, but a list of newspapers, magazines, blogs and news feeds as well.

yfrog lets you post pictures to all three social media sites at once, instead of having to go to each individually to post a picture. It's the first site that lets you do this.

This is a conference in San Francisco, CA for Twitter. To get a ticket for it will set you back $469, but you get to hear from the creators of Twitter.

The Catholic Church is joinging the blogosphere.Pope Benedict said "Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources -- images, videos, animated features, blogs, Web sites..."

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.

A well known Canadian magazine had to undergo a name change due to the searches associated with the word "Beaver" online.

This website is a list of magazines that are dead. It also has a funny commentary about the magazine.

This article explains how the music industry is suffering from the internet allowing music to be listened to or downloaded to your computer free.