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I never knew how all of the spam ads got into google until now!!

Google's new privacy policy is taking too much of the user's personal information when collecting data. They aren't spelling out their intentions for the data, and this sort of stuff freaks me out. All of these major companies i.e. google, Facebook, twitter have found ways to take more and more information from the user without his knowledge. 

This google commercial is pretty cool cause it highlights how sites are making it easier for people to collaborate, specifically for music here. Participatory culture?  Also, it's just funny and makes you think about how songs are constructed.

Google has tracked the number of searches and youtube hits for Obama and Romney after debates. It's kind of cool that technology can calculate all of this.

These mix tapes on DatPiff are clearly underground since all it took for me to get to them is google searching "mxtape". Does the ease of getting them lessen their street cred, or does the potential to make it big out weight that?

 A medias artist takes pictures of people taken without their consent on Google's street view and places them back where they were first taken. Is this art? Or is this misuse of private data? 

Example of book carving 

Out of curiosity I googled the top 10 artist who copyright. Obviously this top 10 list isn't monitored by any professional, its just people's personal opinions. From the way artist dress to the way they bat their eyes are considered plagiarism according to some people's postings. 

Who really enforces copyright infringement? The courts or is it just YouTube? In this case, Apple Loops which should be copyright free are coming up as "third party content." Does YouTube have the right to do this?

SOPA - a lot to digest here. But this was a big deal earlier in the year to Wikipedia and Google, regarding how this act would force them to censor any work that their sites reference that is pirated. 

Example of how remixes can be found all throughout society - from music to politics

An example of new media's influence on an average person.

A cooper union design student started posted erratic clothing designs online. The major source of images for these designs was google images. Appropriating images and blending them together as well as computer make for an interesting fashion statement.

How to remix a song for our future class project

Remixing authenticity and...aided authenticity?

This article discusses how technology has made plagiarism more easily to achieve by accident. Also, the first search that comes up on google if you type in "how to avoid" is "...plagiarism"!!!

This ad kind of epitomizes remix culture to me. It shows how easy it is for people to combine different sounds or videos on modern technology. Plus the ad plays on hulu which is a more interactive type of media viewing environment.

I love that this makes its own remix in sounds too. It audibly embodies what it's portraying that you are able to do with the web. Use lots of devices to interact with the web and have a totally new, remixed experience.

i like watching this, but, for me, i want to ask, how did they make it? can we make it? yes...we....can!