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Date issued: July 30, 2008. A video explanation of creative commons directed by Jesse Dylan and produced by Michelle Meier and Priscilla Cohen. The video focuses on the explanation of how creative commons allows creators to give permission to allow other artists to use their stuff and collaborate with it. It talks about how creative commons now allows people from different parts of the world to feel free to work with something that someone else from another part of the world created. It allows more people to come together and collaborate with one another.

Really cool, scary photoshop (The shark one is fake, by the way. Terrifying, but fake.)

Michael Phelps has been suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming, the latest fallout from a photo that showed the Olympic great inhaling from a marijuana pipe.

"Sea kittens" is the new term being used by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, for the creatures they believe are in dire need of an image makeover: fish.

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, YouTube presents Project: Report, a journalism contest (made possible by Sony VAIO & Intel) intended for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be told.

@ Scholastic removes Bratz branded products from school book clubs - a campaign by the CCFC helped mobilize parents to complain. Note comments about reading in the later paragraphs.

This graph illustrates tweet volume for specific terms mentioned during the course of last week's presidential debate.

This poster from Advertising Age is updated annually, this is the latest one available. A printed copy is hanging in the M&C classroom. It lists the "Top properties of the nation's largest media companies by net revenue in 2006."

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"Drank" is a new drink that helps a person relax and sleep. Sparked by the words "all-natural" in an article about this new drink, I checked the site to find an ingredient list, but could only find the three herbal ingredients. I bet thins drink is high fructose corn syrup loaded and as unhealthfull as all others, but if not, it might do the sleep trick the night before a test!

Universal Music told a federal judge here Friday that takedown notices requiring online video-sharing sites to automatically remove content need not consider whether videos are protected by the "fair use" doctrine.

To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as "military analysts" whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world. Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.

Last week, the venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica gave into the pressure created by Wikipedia when it announced that it is trialling a new service (see the beta site here) that will let the public write and edit articles.

The Army plans to unveil a pilot concept recruitment center in late August that was inspired by the interactivity of Apple Stores. The center, opening in a city that's yet to be determined, will be built around virtual simulations and other experiential marketing techniques to engage visitors.

Great interview by a very smart man I think the very last thing he says is brilliant

"Where once morality and meaning were available as part of our free cultural inheritance, now corporations sell them to us as products." "This is basically the commercial exploitation of spirituality," he says, adding that as a result Disney and other corporations "inhabit our imagination".

YouTube videos for "Barack Obama and John McCain debate." This media impacted culture by influencing people political choices for this election.

Publications, Facts and Multimedia by Drug type

This article is written by an Italian-American who was personally offended by Jersey Shore. Born and raised in New York and almost all of the people he grew up with were Italian and not one of them acted as disgusting as the cast of Jersey Shore. He also mentions how MTV turned from a channel all about music to this.

"Computer scientists and policy experts say that ... innocuous bits of self-revelation can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a picture of a person's identity, sometimes down to the Social Security number."