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 give an overview of music sampling laws, including publishing, copyright and contracts.

If you are easily offended do not open this link. It's like "Found Magazine" with all of the collection of random items people find and send in to Davy Rothbart, however, the items on this Web site are more explicit and geared toward an older audience than foundmagazine.com itself.

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

Copyright and copyright infringement on the Internet has been a largely debated topic. Musicians, writers and artists have teamed together in recent years to stop copyright infringement on the Internet.

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.

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.

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

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.

Gives you 7 ways on how you can promote an event using social media by using twitter, facebook, flickr, and blogging.

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"

A look at the quarterly State of the Internet Report. United States come in 18th out of 203, falling behind South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan.

"There are many tech blogs around, but this one by Amit Agarwal, India truly has the best tech blog. Its no surprise that it generates more than 1 million hits per month. Strong content. Worth a visit."

This article talks about a college student who was kicked out of his school for pictures and information he had posted on his facebook account. It also gives accounts of other college students being punished for the same things at other schools.

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.

Case offers rare glimpse into the mechanics of federal criminal investigations where nearly all documents are filed ex parte and stay under seal until indictments are handed up

Considering our brief discussion about copyrighted material, I thought this link might provide an interesting perspective. Negativeland is a group of 'musicians' who splice copyrighted material together to create songs. They have faced a number of lawsuits, but continue to produce music despite widespread criticism.

"The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression."

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