ENGL303 Spring 2010

An interesting perspective expressed through some unique animations.

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.

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.

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..."

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

A political satire website that presents itself as a webstore for people worried about terrorists in America.

This is a blogging site like Blogger. However this one emphasizes the community aspect more.

Report on "digital natives." Includes studies of relationships, online gaming, facebookery, etc. Interesting resource and shows the mainstreaming of these topics.

EU lawmakers and governments agreed on new rights for Internet users Thursday, aiming to protect them from arbitrary crackdowns on those who illegally download music and movies on the Internet.

This "Copyright Information Services" site, gives a basic explanation of music sampling laws. It also gives the rates which musicians will have to pay to legally be able to sample another musicians music.

This site is interesting because it is offering awards for Fan Fiction.

talks about how twitters popularity is mostly due to older users over the younger audience that is stereotypically known. this article also goes through a number of certain other popular networking sites and how it is relatively a myth that teens have made the site popular and this even as the article states goes for gadgets as well. More people over the age of 18 are buying a wii to help with there health and allow them to become more active. The age range is changing.

Mix between lap top and phone

All the up-to-date how to's and don'ts of social networks. Any type of question you have about different social networks can be found here ! Suprisingly, there is an increase of usage on cell phones for social networks.