ENGL303 Spring 2010

Apples version of the nook or the kindle.

Before the internet became popular, the only way to get custom printed t-shirts or merchandise was to physically go to some kind of specialty store. Cafepress.com allows you to create your own designs and print them on any number of items. The most interesting part is that all content is public, so that others can see your designs and buy them if they want. Thus, ordinary people now have the opportunity to design clothes from home, and possibly sell some as well.

Another documentary called GOOD COPY BAD COPY that deals with issues surrounding music copyright, sampling, and intellectual property.

"Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age."

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

this allows you to listen to music on the internet free of charge.

Kind of an interesting idea, the age of adult entertainment viewers has gone up to 25 and older and 18 to 24 years old are more interested in facebook over those particular sites. Pretty weird but a neat comparisons between the internet usage now a days!

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.

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 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.

Send and receive anonymous questions, and learn more about people you find interesting by following their answers.

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?

I thought this was relevant since it was mentioned in class that Internet Explorer was "evil".

Interesting perspective on social media

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

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

With the use of stumbleupon, you can come across any website that has ever been created on the public internet. You can choose specific topics to look at or you can just stumble across the entire web.

The internet has become more a communication system over the years and facebook has played a huge role in giving the internet this name. Facebook allows you to connect with others across the world. Sharing pictures, seinding messages, and chatting through a instant messanger all can be done on facebook.