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I figured an appropriate way to end the semester was to have a blog post about my blog post :)

For all the journalists, there are some top media databases for you can choose.

All about using blogs in the classroom and how it benefits students

If anyone is interested in messing around with wordpress here is a site with other things you can do!

An article that explains the reasons why Wordpress is considered the most powerful platform for blogging.

Really helpful tips on how to learn to use Prezi.

An app that lets you use facial recognition rather than a numerical code to get into your phone.

An article from February about what "actually" gets done on Tumblr, and why it's so popular with our age group.

Great article of why there is a drastic statistical decline in people reading e-books

SPDY (pronounced " SPeeDY ") is a new technology that aims to decrease page load times by fixing a number of flaws present in HTTP 1.1. It's not a replacement for HTTP but instead adds a number of features that help to make web transactions faster.

Hopefully will be helpful when working with WordPress for the final project

This CNN article discusses research done to determine what young people do online. Concerned parents may not want to read this.

New website that generates your old Facebook statuses to make odd possible new ones that could either make sense...or it couldn't.

This opinion piece discusses a secret trade treaty called the Trans Pacific Partnership and whether it is a form of extreme censorship. According to this piece, the treaty has been compared to the Stop Online Piracy Act.

Big news today: a ten-year-old lawsuit about Google Book Search has been resolved in Google's favor -- basically, the law has ruled that it was okay for Google to scan in-copyright books because it had no plans to publish the whole version of those in-copyright books online in http://books.google.com. Compare this to what we've heard about celebrity photographs and Pinterest. Here's a quotation from the story: "When Google started work on its book search engine a decade ago, the company realized that getting the approval of copyright holders would be a logistical nightmare. Not only would major publishers likely demand high fees for permission to scan their books, but for many older works, it would be difficult to even figure out who the appropriate copyright holder was. So Google took a gamble, scanning library books without seeking copyright holders' permission and relying on copyright's fair use doctrine as a justification."

This is where I found the interesting info-graphic on blogging.

"Fire in the Scanning Center" is a great caption for a photo. Glad no one was hurt, and that the Internet Archive continues to operate.

More on Robert Tappan Morris, plus a comparison to Aaron Swartz (whom a few of you know about). Swartz was charged in 2011 or 2012 (I forget which) under the same law Morris was, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and committed suicide in January.