ENGL303 Spring 2010

This site is pretty cool, its goal was to try to bring together people to raise money and awareness for charities

This is a site that gives news information on all sorts of different fandoms

This is a site that is sort of like PostSecret except that is is specific to Fandom secrets

This is a list of ten popular social bookmarking sites.

The new Google Wave application may be the next "big thing" in internet communication. Unfortunately, the best demo of Google Wave is over an hour long. This one also has a very good demonstration of its capabilities, however, it is to the script of "Pulp Fiction" which has MANY swear words.

SocialMarker.com allows one to submit a bookmark to 49 of the top social bookmarking sites. This is infinitely simpler than downloading a toolbar for every bookmarking site and submitting bookmarks to each one individually. Bookmarkers everywhere can easily be made aware of new products, breaking news, or vital information.

Denver lawyer discusses the rights of those creating parodies.

Desribes in detail the 4 factors of Fair Use as well as mentioning music cases and law suits regarding parodies.

This shows some of the most well written, thought out advertisements of the year. Videos like these are re-defining the term "viral", and steer away from the more traditional types of videos. The user does not care that these videos are ads because they are so captivating and entertaining.

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.

Information about what the term "Copyleft" means. It is a play on the word "copyright", and is ironic since the Copyleft logo has no legal meaning.

This website has a large database of articles that reference multimedia authorship and technology in schools. Included is an article which references my subject. This article is titled "Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Student Writing?"

Teaching with Internet-Based Resources Increase Interest in Learning

Relates to my major, psychology. Thought it was really interesting

Although this article is from 2002, it's interesting and important. It talks about how the web has helped deaf people be able to communicate and relate to others easier and more effectively (i.e. with the telephone).

This article talks about investing in the web (i.e. investing in Twitter or Facebook). Borthwick, who works for Betaworks has invested in Twitter and has his company invested in 21 other social media networks.

Another documentary about copyright & remix culture when it comes to intellectual property.

background information: how it started first sites what you could do definition basic information need to understand how social network sites got to where they are today

Reason why it starts out: with one person, trying to stay connected Why you sign up: research networks to see which one best suits you Gives reasons why social networks become popular: What yo can do on it type of social network what the experience is like