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How New Media is changing politics

This makes me laugh and cry inside.  How does changing the brand change the meaning of a product?

The little punks grow up and change.. Once they fought for rebellion and resistance, now it's a copyright fight for money.

"Open-source movie production is either an open call system in which a changing crew and cast collaborate in movie production, a system in which the end result is made available for re-use by others or in which exclusively open-source products are used in the production. "

Funny commentary on change in technology.

Can't remember the specific time period in the interview, somewhere in the last 5 minutes. The idea of the "Good German" in our society mentioned--referring to someone who tacitly stands by and by his or her silence enables an atrocity. For example during WW2 there were many Germans who stood aside and allowed/enabled the holocaust. Americans are being "good germans" in the common sentiment that Congress is corrupt and beyond reach, but the action shown in response to SOPA and PIPA reveals there is a way for the vox populi to bring about change/fight the wrong kind of change.

These design ideas are a remix of two objects that may not be together normally but come together to create some very unique and helpful pieces- such as a coffee mug with a pocket to hold your "biscuit" (or cookie), or a car buckle to be a key chain holder. I think this is an example of new media in the sense of the design and ways to think of life- the way advances in technology changes people's lives is similar to the potential that these products have in people's lives.

A new generation of programmers "would rather work with open systems and tools than closed and proprietary approaches, which are seen as more limiting." While the closed and proprietary systems mean big bucks, the open source means big change.

interesting...outsourcing as "sharing...."

i bought this book a couple years ago but haven't read it yet... i could get it over fall break and bring it in

Whether or not you like Britney Spears (to this day I believe she- or at least her producers- changed pop), I think the use of sampling in this particular song is inarguably creative. That iconic shrill melts perfectly into the song and yields a completely different feel from the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oGKDBhdxn6c

Around my sophomore year of high school, I remembered a great instrumental I'd heard at some point in my life but couldn't place. I sung it to a friend (ber ner ner ner ner neeer ner ner…) and while she recognized it, she couldn't place it either. We made it our mission to figure it out, asking everyone we knew, and eventually someone posted the attached link to my facebook. This class made me suspicious that perhaps the instrumental wasn't actually created by DJ Kool. Using whosampled.com, I found out that the this awesome piece has nothing to do with him. The entire instrumental is taken from "The 900 Number" by The 45 King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axJpBlxW6n0). But then I looked up The 45 King, and discovered that he, too, is a DJ. "Let Me Clear my Throat," which gets the credit for this instrumental, is actually a remix of "The 900 Number," which is a remix of Marva Whitney's "Unwind Yourself" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym7IoodKeWI). And Whitney is just the singer; I wasn't able to find the sax player behind it all. I think it's upsetting that most of the credit goes to DJ Cool, who merely added a worthless hook you wish wasn't there and small bits of songs which barely alter The 45 King's work. At least Mac Miller, the most recent borrower I could find, changed it up a bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3GGN51_pjE

My dad called this remix "a coat of lipstick." I really like it for its simplicity. I think it's kind of a perfection of the song. But I can see how such minor changes can be considered really uncreative or, worse, just stealing.

My counter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYDsxDThdAI&feature=related This remix blew my parents minds; it made an old song relevant to a new generation.