Possible Final Project Subject

Lawerence Lessig "Free Culture: The nature and Future of Creativity"
"If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission-if "if value, then right" is true-then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy. Every important sector of "big media" today-film, records, radio, and cable TV-was born of kind of piracy so defined. The consistent story is how last generation's pirates join this generation's country club-until now.
Film
The film industry of Hollywood was built by fleeing pirates. Creators and directors migrated from East Coast to California in the early twentieth century in part to escape controls that parents granted the inventor of filmmaking, Thomas Edison. These controls were exercised through a monopoly "trust," the Motion Pictures Parents Company, and were based on Thomas Edison's creative property-parents" (page 53).

Klaas Vs Flo Rida - Where's Your Right Round Head

DJ Hero 2 - Bad Romance (Tiesto Mix) (Expert 5 stars)

Discover Your Web With Stumble Upon

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Stumble Upon.          StumbleUpon is a free tool that discovers new websites based on your interest. It learns what you like, and each time you click the stumble button, you are taken to one new website from another. There are over 500 interest to choose from and tens of millions of websites. The difference with stumble upon is that it is tailored to your interest.  The website is personalized to its user to help link their interest, friends, and similar users. When generating a Stumble Upon account, you are asked your interest from the list of subjects. There is a broad range of topics to choose from, they are put into your "interests" and chosen at random when you stumble. The interest range from all types of hobbies, sports, spiritual, games, movies, fashion and even personal advice.  User can Stumble at random or they can select a one specific interest to search. The site uses different kind’s media such as photos, video, cookbooks, and puzzles. Overall, StumbleUpon is a great form of participatory culture, because the websites utilization of many forms of media in combination with its social networking community. Joining this network is an advantage for all because it entertains, inspires, and educates you on topics that are relevant to you. Sumble Upon search engine that connects with your with your community by your common likes and interest.

The website allows you to rate your websites, thumbs up or thumbs down. The more someone stumbles the better it gets, since it learns your interest and more personalized. They use your rating and ratings of others to determine what sites are best for you. The websites liked are then saved on your profile page giving you the ability to revisit them. StumbleUpon also allows you to share your interest through email, or other users.  Depending on what you select as a “like” the website also generates a list of suggested friends who find the same sites on their like list. This is a great way to find friends with similar interest if that is something you would like. Otherwise, it is cool to snoop around on other people’s site to find pages/sites you may also enjoy. Looking at what your friends have found interesting on Stumble is great for networking, since your friends generally have the same interest as you do. Linking and sending the site you have found is also an option. This is a great connection to make with friends, new or old.

Stumble upon creates an engaging culture for its users and becomes quite addictive. Depending on how much effort you put into the site, the site puts in double to keep you interested. Unlike other personalized search engines, Stumble Upon uses all forms of media. When you click stumble you never know if you are going to get a photo, video, quotes, or some other cool website. It introduces you to new websites in an entertaining yet educational way which is hard to do. Stumble Upon is not just another YouTube that gets you to watch videos that are usually pointless and repetitive. This website inspires people with new topics and websites with each click. Personally, it makes me want to look at more, and share the website with my friend. I share the website with my friends not because they are stupid or funny, but because they are relevant to their life. I also send useful links to my friends such as, recipes, articles, photos that can be inspiring and interesting.

Stumble Upon acts the same way YouTube does for cultural politics as authors Jean Burgess, and Joshua Green stated in the article YouTube’s “Cultural Politics." Both sites on the Internet "where marginal, sub cultural, and community-based modes of cultural production a design incorporated within the commercial logic's of major media corporations." Burgess and Green feel YouTube is being used to its advantages, for useful content videos. For the most part, its resources are being used in the best way possible during our generation. If you look past the silly and generic YouTube videos of cats, there is a whole world of YouTube including drama and content. The videos have meaning and can play a role in politics, education, learning, debates, music, movies and more. The ordinary activities of its users, in theory, could constitute practices of cultural citizenship. Its uses can be educational but are mostly used for mind-less entertainment. 

The article states that YouTube is also great because it takes the relationship between the individual and the community in cultural differences, creating a mediated social world like Stumble. It is individual and collective because of its shared likes and dislikes through the networks accounts. One of the biggest differences in YouTube and Stumble Upon is that YouTube content is posted by the viewers. Allowing people to put whatever they would like on the Internet serving as both an advantage and disadvantage. If you want to find someone playing the guitar to a Dave Matthews song, there are a hundred choices to choose from. With so much to choose from difficulties may lie when trying to find something specific, but on the plus side who doesn’t a like variety?  

In conclusion, Stumble Upon is a new upcoming search engine that allows you to be in control. From the beginning you select the type so of media you want present in the site and the websites in which you want it to appear. The different sharing ranging from email to facebook creates social networking in new ways. Friends can stumble online together and link the website they found by post it on each other’s wall. Each time someone finds something they think would interest them or others they can like it and save it for later. People should want to be on stumble as a way of advertising. This website has unlimited possibilities that can only be explored to its fullest if we all take the time to Stumble!

Discover Your Web With....

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a free tool that discovers new websites based on your interest. It learns what you like, and each time you click the stumble button, you are taken to one new website from another. There are over 500 interest to choose from and tens of millions of websites. The difference with stumble upon is that it is tailored to your interest.  The website is personalized to its user to help link their interest, friends, and similar users. When generating a Stumble Upon account, you are asked your interest from the list of subjects. There is a broad range of topics to choose from, they are put into your "interests" and chosen at random when you stumble. The interest range from all types of hobbies, sports, spiritual, games, movies, fashion and even personal advice.  User can Stumble at random or they can select a one specific interest to search. The site uses different kinds media such as photos, video, cookbooks, and puzzles. Overall, StumbleUpon is a great form of participatory culture, because the websites utilization of many forms of media in combination with its social networking community.

The website allows you to rate your websites, thumbs up or thumbs down. The more someone stumbles the better it gets, since it learns your interest and more personalized. They use your rating and ratings of others to determine what sites are best for you. The websites liked are then saved on your profile page giving you the ability to revisit them. StumbleUpon also allows you to share your interest through email, or other users.  Depending on what you have like'd the website also generates a list of suggested friends who find the same sites on their like list. This is a great way to find friends with similar interest if that is something you would like. Otherwise, it is cool to snoop around on other people’s site to find pages/sites you may also enjoy. Looking at what your friends have found interesting on Stumble is great for networking, since your friends generally have the same interest as you do. Linking and sending the site you have found is also an option. This is a great connection to make with friends, new or old.

Stumble upon creates a participatory culture that puts the effort in if you use it or not. Unlike other personalized search engines, StumbleUpon uses all forms of media. When you click stumble you never know if you are going to get a photo, video, quotes, or some other cool website. It introduces you to new websites in an entertaining yet educational way which is hard to do. StumbleUpon is not just another YouTube that gets you to watch videos that are usually pointless and repetitive. This website inspires people with new topics and websites with each click. Personaly it makes me want to look at more, and share the website with my friend. I share the website with my friends not because they are stupid or funny, but because they are relevant to their life. I also send useful links to my friends such as, recipes, articles, photos that can be inspiring and interesting.
StumbleUpon acts the same way YouTube does for cultural politics as authors Burgess, Jean and Green and Joshua stated in the article "YouTubes Cultural Politics." Both sites on the Internet "where marginal, subcultural, and community-based modes of cultural production a design incorporated within the commercial logic's of major media corporations." The authors feel YouTube is big enough, and its resources are being used in the best way possible. If you look past the silly and generic YouTube videos of cats, there is a whole world of YouTube including drama and content. The videos have meaning and can play a role in politics, education, learning, debates, music, movies and more. The ordinary activities of its users, in theory, could constitute practices of cultural citizenship. Its uses can be educational but are mostly used for mind-less entertainment. 
The article states that YouTube is also great because it takes the relationship between the individual and the community in cultural differences, creating a mediated social world like Stumble. It is individual and collective because of its shared likes and dislikes through the networks accounts. One of the biggest difference in YouTube and StumbleUpon is that YouTube content is posted  by the viewers. Allowing people to put what ever they would like on the Internet serving as both an advantage and disadvantage. If you want to find someone playing the guitar to a Dave Matthews song, there are a hundred choices to choose from. With so much to choose from difficultys may lie whrn trying to find something specific, but on the plus side who doesnt a like veriaty?
In summary, the SumbleUpon search engine is a great way to connect with your interest, friends, and community. Taking your interest and finds new websites while sharing common likes with your friends. Joining this network is an advantage for all because it entertains, inspires, and educates you on topics that are relevant to you.



 

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The Social Network Movie

I saw Social Network on Friday night with a few friends at the Boone Theater. Since it had been awhile since my last trip to the theaters, I was pumped! Half way thought the movie I realized that the plot was not at all what I had expected. As opposed to drama and facebook stalking, the movie had more substance then I had expected. Being an avid facebook user, I was expecting a traditional documentary about the first crazy and drama on facebook. I am pleased to say that my thoughts on the plot were incorrect.

The movie was intense journey through the creation of facebook. Jesse Eisenberg, played the creator of facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, and pulled me in from the start. It was interesting to see the way Mark Zuckerburg was portrayed. I thought the character was a true genius, and you could tell that Eisenberg put a lot of work into making it realistic.

Mark agrees to make a social network site for two brothers, the Winklevoss’s. Simultaneously Mark and a friend, create another website using similar ideas. Overtime, their ideas turn into facebook. The plot thickens when the Winklevoss’s claim facebook is their idea and sues Mark for stealing it. I thought the acting was well done, and engaging. The lawsuits and broken friendships gave the viewer a deeper look into the creation of facebook. Since I was unaware of this story I was always at the edge of my seat wanting to know what happened next.

The movie starts at the end, the lawsuit, and then goes back to tell the story through flashbacks. When I forget that the movie is in a flashback, I know I can claim it to be good. When the film jumped to “real time” I sometimes had to think about what was going on. I was so occupied in the story. I would defiantly see this movie again, and have been recommending it to friends. It’s not only education, but funny and entertaining all in one.

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My First Encounter With the Internet

By the time I was born in Jan of 1990, the internet had plenty of time to get up and running. Althought it was still a new idea by the time I was learning it, the concept of this “internet” well know. I must have been about five or six the first time I was introduced to a program on the internet. My grandfather was a bit of a computer nerd and had a pretty good job for the times at IMB. He used his “high tech” work desktop computer that was stored at the deepest darkest spot in the basement. My grandfather was always downstairs on that computer working on something for IMB. Because he was on his internet computer, he always seemed to be doing something very interesting. He would sit in stacks of papers, because he printed everything, light by a single lamp.

My cousins and I knew when we went over to grandma and granddads, that we had to be really good children, so we could maybe get a change to have granddad help us play a game or watch granddad on the internet. Being an eager child, it seemed like that desktop took two hours to boot up. The screen was small, and a cube shape, which connected to a larger box with thousands of “expensive” wires and flashing lights. When it started, it was like a spaceship was taking off. My grandfather would sit in his chair, and start pressing the series of buttons. To actually get onto the internet was an even bigger process. There were signals connecting, beeps and clicks from the buttons being mashed, and flashing lights that lit up the entire room. At that age I had no idea that we were just dialing up to connect to the wonderful world of the internet.


The first time I was actually allowed to “play” on granddads computer was after years of studying and watching his careful moves. My grandfather set up an educational game through a program on the internet that I was able to accesses at my home, the grandparents house, or to show off to my friends. I had my very own password (that my parents had to remember) that I was able to type in to log onto the site. This educational game had many different subjects that I could play through, and try to beat. While using the internet I felt like I was connected to a totally different world. It had a colorful cartoon characters that would jump around (very slowly) and engage me into my education. I had names for them all and felt like they had their own personalities.

The digital effects were less than impressive to today’s standards. I felt like I was doing something none of my friends would ever experience, endless I showed them this breathtaking secret. Now, I would compare it to a very badly drawn cartoon on scratched DVD that would often freeze or skip. Today in the rare event that the internet freezes because of your computer, you just turn it off. I can remember taking the time to get down to the problem and restart it the right way. My grandfather probably gave me a bit of a jumpstart to the internet for my age. He gave my family our first computer and gave my dad a used laptop, when I didn’t even know what a laptop was.

My early brush with the internet was more like the threat presented in Nathaniel Hawthrone’s “Fire-Worship” writing. I do feel that today’s technology is increasing the insidious threat to social and domestic life. Bush was on the right track with his memex, but my internet usage at the age of six was much more of what he was looking for. Hawthrowne’s writing implied that the internet seemed to pull families apart and uneducated people. In my experience, although I was being taught about the internet by my grandfather, it pulled the family apart much more then brought it together. I can remember being banned from the basement because granddad was doing important work.

Now, at thanksgiving dinner, my cousins and I are all playing on facebook from our phones. My sixteen year old brother can escape up the play room and use five electronic at once. He will not come down for hours because of he is skyping, chatting, and texting while playing on Xbox live. My parents hate the fact that they have to ban him from xbox when he gets bad grades on his report card, or tell him to stop texting when they are having “quality time”. Hawthrone’s article only touches on the problems that the internet causes, the problem is going bigger. The younger generation is expected to unlimited internet access, that technological capability that some people just cannot understand. I am an advertising major, and it there is pressure to understand the internet and technology. If you don’t fully understand the technology and capability of the internet you probably will be as successful as someone who does in my major.

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Sunday means new post secretttt!!! yayyy

I saw this as i was baking cookies and reading post secret :)