ENGL303 Spring 2010

within one year social networks account for 10% of all internet time. the site talks about how much use of internet time goes into social networks and which ones we can find to be most popular, no surprise here but facebook takes the lead. The article talks about how the demographic of social network users is ranging in age and becoming more popular with older members which we all know is true.

As of Monday - thanks to a permanent injunction issued in August by Judge Leonard Davis of the Eastern District of Texas and upheld last month by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals - Microsoft Corporation must stop selling any version of Microsoft Word 2007 or Microsoft Office 2007 that includes a custom XML editor found to infringe a patent held by a small Canadian software company called i4i, Inc.

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 article talks about how the multimedia environment has changed the writing process.

This article gives information as to what Multimedia research and writing is.

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

This website could possibly be significant because it is a research guide for technical and multimedia writing. It points out varying individual journals that deal with the subject.

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.

This brings up a good point of how everyone is always blogging or facebooking or tweeting about a cause, but is anyone actually doing anything besides that?

The ways in which the popular print press in Spain is trying to spread popular music into national media. Interesting insight.

Interesting insight into the gross reality of societal norms and how we conform to fit the standards that are provided for us.

This journal talks about education at the college level through multimedia methods.

This journal talks about the affects of multimedia on student learning at the elementary level.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Could Europe kill the chances of a global economic recovery?

AIG's internal workings and legal issues that relate

description of social networking and how it is both present in person as well as internet. Online social networking is one of the most popular forms of social networking. We see this with sites such as facebook, myspace, and even twitter. Its an interesting concept.

Nick Gonzalez has put together a new tool called CheckFacebook it was invented to help users do exactly that, people mostly advertisers can check the growth of facebook and where its popularity is rising and determine where to market there newest ideas. It is a really interesting idea and shows how technology and social networks are converging together to make a powerful marketable concept.

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."

Social Media websites are growing and is becoming the fastest source to receive news and information on others from all over the world. In the US, the first pictures from the recent disaster in Haiti was released from social media.

"Researchers now say there's no evidence infected PDFs were used in the targeted attacks originating from China on Google and other companies, but investigations continue"