tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23325850353912083222024-03-14T01:04:37.034-07:00In the WindGrains of information on a variety of topics researched.Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-86114570095825379702013-03-14T14:11:00.000-07:002013-03-14T14:11:29.970-07:00March 14, 2013Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-7290190376705035002012-07-31T15:42:00.001-07:002012-07-31T15:42:20.088-07:00Contemporary Painting - "Solar Wind" (Original Art from Ramona R. Mitchell, M.F.A. )<a href="http://www.ramonamitchell.com/large-view/Works%20in%20oil/261645-5-0-21228/.html?thumbnails=on#.UBhfKU0hZYU.blogger">Contemporary Painting - "Solar Wind" (Original Art from Ramona R. Mitchell, M.F.A. )</a>Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-79597328570614159482010-04-17T20:59:00.000-07:002010-04-17T21:06:13.713-07:00Assignment #8 - Privacy Issues in a Digital World<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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With Facebook the default for your status updates are set for “Everyone”. So anyone who uses Facebook can see your status updates. To make your status updates, links, photos, and videos more private you can go to “Posts by Me” under the “Privacy Settings” on your Profile page and change the setting to “Only Friends”, then only your friends will see your status updates, links, photos, and videos. <br />
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But if you want friends of your friends to be able to see what you have posted, linked to and created in a video then change it to “Friends of Friends”. There are other options as ways to set your settings to specify who gets what information. Go to the link below to read the article and find out how to make privacy changes to your Facebook account. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_3_facebook_settings_every_user_should_check_now...<br />
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FACEBOOK DOES NOT INDEX ALL YOUR INFORMATION ON GOOGLE. “Facebook created public search listings in 2007 to enable people to search for your names and see a link to your Facebook profile.” They cannot see much. Only when you accept them as a friend can they then see what you allow them to see, set by your chosen settings. However, if you have checked the box next to “Allow” on the Search Settings page, you have given “search engines the ability to access and index any information you’ve marked as visible by “Everyone”. Follow the instructions from the reading to keep data private from search engines. 4 simple steps will do this for you. Again read the article by clicking on the link at the end of this section. <br />
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“Note: Other resources on Facebook's latest changes worth reading include MakeUseOf's 8 Steps Toward Regaining your Privacy, 17 steps to protect your privacy from Inside Facebook, the ACLU's article examining the changes, and DotRights.org's comprehensive analysis of the new settings. If you're unhappy enough to protest Facebook's privacy update, you can sign ACLU's petition. The FTC is also looking into the matter thanks to a complaint filed by a coalition of privacy groups, led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. You can add your voice to the list of complaints here.”<br />
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Many users of Facebook feel like this: “I have nothing personal in my updates that I’d not want the whole world to see.” Posted by ghanbuntu on this articles comment section.<br />
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I think that is the key – just don’t post anything that you will be ashamed of or that you don’t want your friends, friends of your friends or everyone to see. There is more to it than this though as you will read coming up …<br />
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“How Privacy Vanishes Online” by Steve Lohr<br />
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This article is just a reminder that I need to go to my social networks and make my privacy settings more likely to keep my information private. It also reminds me that I need to make some other changes to my profile and not tell so much personal data. Birthdays can give a lot away, books I’ve read and want to read tell a person a lot about me. OK you think this is what I want to do, this is the whole purpose but we live in a world of not so nice people. People who can figure out where you live by the map you place on Classmates.com, there are people who hate gay people and if you are a gay person and the hater can tell this by what you have posted on your social network (or they think they can) you could be a target to a really crazy person. Don’t get scared. I’m not being pessimistic, I’m being realistic. <br />
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Netflix has this database of your movie reviews if you do the reviews and they keep records of what movies are in your queue and what you watch. This data can be analyzed to identify patterns in your behavior. OK, not bad because they know what they can offer you that you will probably be interested in viewing. Using the same principle though, “a pool of information about each individual can form a distinctive “social signature”.” Tight privacy settings are the security tool you have with social networks. You just have to use them. <br />
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Another article to read for more on why it is so important to guard your privacy online is here: <br />
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“Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun” By Pete Cashmore<br />
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Applications settings are where “quizzes” are located. Quizzes can get your information, even if you use privacy settings to limit access. See the article: “ What Facebook Quizzes Know About You” by Sarah Perez<br />
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“Everything on your profile is made available to the developers when your friend takes a quiz.” Wow! This is very disheartening. I guess I will be blocking more friends. I actually have to take the few minutes it will take to make these changes to better protect myself. Facebook is not looking out for me or for YOU. “Facebook also doesn’t even screen developers for trustworthiness, not do they require the developer to comply with a privacy policy.” See http://www.readwritewne.com/archives/does-that-facebook_app_have_a_privacy_policy_probably_npt.php<br />
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Social security numbers can be found out by experts – expert criminals who are experts in technology. SS numbers identify and authenticate banking credit card transactions and other transactions online. The best thing to remember is that when you’re doing stuff online think of it as if you are doing it in public – because more and more you actually are.<br />
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Google: Privacy Is Alive and Well by Alma Whitten<br />
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This article tells us about how control means choice and transparency and how Google offers this control. Google gives options for using their products. They let you know what information they collect when you use their products and services. Google feels that if they do not offer ways to control use then users will not use their services. Google Dashboard is where users go to set their privacy settings. Ads Preferences Manager is the place to go to “opt-out” of “interest based ads”. Love that!<br />
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Google’s Chrome Browser allows users to browse privately with the “incognito mode.” Google is continually trying to find new and better ways to help you to keep what you want private – private.<br />
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This article just below this paragraph is just one example of how mean people can be and how the issues of the internet are many and it will be decades, if ever before all the kinks are worked out in a way that will secure privacy, safety and make it a viable (“having a reasonable chance of succeeding”) place to be, even profitable.<br />
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How does the internet impact privacy? If you want to expose yourself you can do it on the internet. Privacy settings and the way we use the internet can help us be private about ourselves but I don’t know if it is truly possible. People can find out where I live, where I work, have worked, how long I was unemployed during the early 80’s. Posts I have placed in newspapers in California, Florida and Michigan appear under Google. Donations I’ve made to non-profit organizations show up in Google. Friends of yours show up when you Google your name if you don’t have the correct settings placed on your Profile. You can be judged harshly. The internet impacts privacy in way too many ways. I have covered a lot herein but I’m sure I’ve missed a lot as well. It’s HUGE!<br />
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Is Italy’s prosecution of Google fair? Where’s the line between protecting privacy and promoting the free exchange of information? When is it censorship? The profit part of their actions is what the problem was, as seen from some people’s point of view. It is totally unfair to treat disabled wrongly. Unfair and wrongly being words that some people do not acknowledge or know the meaning of and what harm the actions of these words cause. The line should is on the side of promoting the free exchange of information, especially when profit is possible. I disagree with any free exchange of information being done when it is obvious exploitation of the disabled, unless it is the information that the disabled person able to consent has consented to exchange. I think there might be too much internet freedom as it now stands. Everything will change and then change back again – as the years go by – just watch and see.<br />
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Question? Why do they want this information? Answer: To try to sell you stuff.<br />
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Can you stop them from getting information? You can try.<br />
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What might future employers learn about you from the internet? What your interests are, who your “friends” are, where you shop, party, study, your interests, your age, your life.<br />
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How much control do you have over a Google search about you? A bit. <br />
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I think that people now growing up with the internet will expect that privacy will be less and less of a problem, as new tools to protect privacy are developed. These same people will be developing these new tools and new programs. The problem I see is that the alternate developers of new and better ways to steal privacy and identities will also be developed. Some people will just don’t give it a thought at all either way.<br />
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How do these privacy concerns relate to issues we learned about in the Long Tail, the internet as a democratizing tool?<br />
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The privacy concerns relate to the issues in the Long Tail in that everyone everywhere can learn about you and your identity. A friend has a child who is going to Europe soon on a summer vacation for a couple of weeks. I know this young person has been communicating with many people in this country, that this person is about to visit. People this person does not know have been talking to this person via a social network. One of the same social networks I use and that is how I know what is being communicated and the photos that are being shared. I worry about this young person. The people that plan to meet this person in Europe may not even be who they say they are. They know a lot of information about this young person. They know what this person has done, what school this person plans to go to next fall, what car is driven, this young person’s fashion sense, and social groups. Way too much for a young person to let strangers know. I am going to block this person just because I am afraid the postings will stop and I would prefer to stop them first. This is extreme. But really – the internet offers young people the freedom to express themselves YES but to what extent and to what expense. I hope it’s all good.<br />
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I mentioned something related to this to my friend, and that friend acted like I was crazy. The response I got was a laugh and then a frown and “its fine.” This friend feels that this young person knows what they are doing. How could this be possible? The reason my friend feels this way is because people think that identity theft, victimization and other negative things cannot happen to them. Young people trust everyone else who looks young and hip. (I was young and trusted others). I think that the internet gives predators a place to post a young and hip picture and that person is not always who they say they are. This is what worries me the most about young people who do not learn the steps they need to take when using the internet. This class has given me a new way to look at what I do on the internet and I hope that the young people in this class take what they have learned and use it to protect themselves and their privacy.<br />
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I also want to say that I think this course should be a requirement to all incoming freshman at any college, just as I think that all students should be required to take an Intro to Women’s and Gender Studies Course. These are the ways of life today and these two courses are Intro courses that will benefit any student or anyone else in life as it is today in the cyberspace digital age.Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-58371869438439378032010-04-11T10:19:00.000-07:002010-04-11T10:40:12.886-07:00Assignment #7 - The Future of Television<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rZwdajPUGhU&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rZwdajPUGhU&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br />
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Awesome! It was amazing when cable became available to me when I returned to Michigan from the rural unincorporated town of Joshua Tree, California in 1993. I could watch channels other than 2, 4, 7, 9, and maybe a couple of others when I lived in JT. I saw M*A*S*H* regularly on TV and later it became more common for me to just pop a video in the VCR. I spent a lot more time on my studies and my clay sculptures back then. As time goes on I have had to learn to prioritize and sometimes A&E or a documentary like “Frida” from Netflix, wins over dragging out my Laguna Beach clay and setting up to mold a new head. Now I get really involved in watching amateur videographers work on YouTube or how to roll a sushi roll direct from an internet food website. I like the idea that I will be able to view anything I want from anywhere on the planet at anytime, through broadband internet.<br />
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Lately I’ve been watching Intervention, Celebrity Rehab and Sober House on a regular basis. At the end of these shows the television network tells the viewers how they can log onto the website to see more of the show that was not released to the television viewers. If a viewer is interested in finding out if one of the participants of Intervention is still sober, since the taping of the show they can go to the website and find out. I haven’t tried it but the television network advertises the feature. It is probably the same for The Biggest Loser, Lost, and others. Entire episodes of some programs can be watched on the web.<br />
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As Amanda Lotz states in The Television Will Be Revolutionized, after the original run on a network, “producers sell episodes in international markets, to independent stations, and to broadcast affiliates to recoup the costs of deficit financing. These opportunities to sell content after and even during the original network run are called “distribution windows.” These windows of distribution are changing as the post network era comes into being. After the original run the locations that these programs can be viewed and means of being distributed into the home are many. Cable and satellite, VCR tapes, DVD’s, VOD services and more recently episodes are downloaded or streamed via Internet sites. We’ve come along way baby!<br />
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“Repurposing” is another term Amanda Lotz shared to explain how a “series can earn additional revenue during its original run either by airing multiple times on the broadcast network licensing the series (more than a typical rerun) or by airing concurrently on a cable network.” We see repurposing in action when we watch Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) within a very short time span showing on two different broadcast networks. We see double runs of Charmed and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, as well as others. We are finding that we can now or we at least are told that in the very near future we will be able to watch Rifleman and Eight is Enough via the Internet through our television. I can think of quite a few old tv shows that I would love to see again and guess what? I might be able to, someday very soon. “The Television Will Be Revolutionized.” Amanda D. Lotz is the author. This book was published by the New York University Press in 2007. All of the information previously discussed comes from this book. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Television-Will-be-Revolutionized/dp/0814752195">http://www.amazon.com/Television-Will-be-Revolutionized/dp/0814752195</a> <br />
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I watched The Life of Riley, a 1953 sitcom – on YouTube. I watched Shindig on YouTube. I watched Peyton Place on YouTube. I watched Dark Shadows on YouTube. They were only a few minutes long though. I know that full-length episodes will become available soon and some already are. None of these are too popular with the youth of today but reminiscing folk like me enjoyed the three minutes available for viewing.<br />
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“Successes (and Some growing Pains) at Hulu” is an article in The New York Times that introduced me to Hulu.com. “Hulu, the popular and free online video hub . . .” I went to Hulu.com to check it out. Even though the article points out that some are dissatisfied with Hulu I found it pretty cool, since it is new to me, as most of these internet entities I am learning about are. As it turns out though the Hulu as I see it today may not be the Hulu of tomorrow. The content suppliers want things to be done differently than they are now doing at Hulu, for instance, Hulu needs to earn more advertising dollars. The suppliers just don’t feel that they are earning their share of the revenue that is generated by Hulu. The subscription services that we see here and there is something that the suppliers would like Hulu to begin offering, monthly fees paid by the consumer would bring more revenue and is something being considered, even if only for “at least some of the shows on the site.” Free for now.<br />
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/technology/01hulu.html?sq=internet_television&st=nyt<br />
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I pay a subscription service fee monthly to Netflix. I have access to literally millions of movies, documentaries and independent films. I don’t have to pay an awful lot for the convenience of streaming some great flicks into my computer. It’s wonderful! Being able to stream from there into my big tv will be so cool.<br />
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“Customer Satisfaction:<br />
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More than 90% of Netflix members say they are so satisfied with the Netflix service that they recommend the service to family and friends”<br />
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The article “Changing Channels, From Cable to the Web”, also from The New York Times tells us the social media can be a problem for people without cable. The reason is because the shows they may be hearing about, they cannot see on the Web or DVD right away, they usually aren’t available until after the showed has aired on TV and the social sites like Facebook sometimes give it all away. Everybody is talking. Spoil sports. Many people are not going to want to give up cable and their TV, the way they have always watched movies – and they won’t unless they are forced to – at some point in the future. ...<br />
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I don’t think that in 10 years that force will come into play. Hopefully force will never happen. Force – a vision that includes force is not what I envision. I think it will be more like the 5 C’s of the concluding chapter of “The Television Will Be Revolutionized.” 1) Choice –we will have so many choices about the way we watch movies and television programs that it could be difficult to make a decision, but we will have 2) Control – and our choices will be made in our ability to pay for the format we wish to view whatever it is we want to view. VOD, Netflix, Free viewing with Hulu or is there a movie I want to see that even streaming into my TV from Hulu, that I want to pay to see? So many options and lots of control. As part of the niche audience I may want to watch “Shindig” episodes rather than the “Grounded for Life” sitcom of my partners choice. I can control this by streaming from Hulu to my TV while he watches the network shows from his. 3) Convenience aplenty. Aside from my television set not being as big as his, I can watch whatever I want and if I want, I can buy a new bigger television for my pleasure of viewing my 4) Customized entertainment. TiVo is another way to customize scheduling when I watch what I want to watch and with what 5) Community. Communities to share the experience are available online. When there was a online broadcast of the characters of Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” recently, just before the release of the movie with Johnny Depp, I joined in the conversations online while watching the interviews with the characters and previews of the movie. I also was able to make comments about Metro Station and the other live musical entertainment during the event which took place somewhere in Hollywood.<br />
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Broadband TV relates to issues we learned about in the Long Tail because we can view the things that are out there that may not be listed in the TV Guide. The Internet offers us so many ways to democratize and does appeal to the common people. As common people we must remember to give credit where it belongs and not to use it as our own when it is not.<br />
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Much of this post has been borrowed and I have hopefully given accurate and appropriate credit to the rightful owners of the works herein. <br />
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What will TV look like in 10 years? Your guess is as good as mine – maybe better. I think we will be able to see and learn whatever we want by many different methods. I think that my post involves what is to come in 10 years – afterall 10 years really isn’t that long. I don’t have a vision beyond what I’ve included as what is either now, or will be in the very near future. Prior to this term I could not have told you half of the things that I have been able to talk about because of the experience of this class and the research I have had the pleasure of doing.<br />
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Someone else’s vision includes from this website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/4566704/Televisions-to-be-fitted-in-contact-lenses-within-ten-years.html<br />
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The idea that television may be viewed from contact lenses comes from some analysts. Powered by the body heat of the viewer. If you want to read more about this vision check out the link above.<br />
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For years I have had the idea that it would be awesome to record our dreams and fantasies. Is it possible? Maybe in ten years I can attach a new device that will record my dreams while I sleep and make an instant movie. Wouldn’t that be cool? Scary too. Some of my dreams would be bestselling nightmares. <br />
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Someone is having a similar thought – check out this website http://dreamrecorded.com/<br />
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But it isn’t exactly what I am thinking. Not quite as sophisticated. Almost stealing. Almost?Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-34277120677109820532010-04-03T09:43:00.000-07:002010-04-07T17:11:35.244-07:00Assignment 6 - Journalism, Blogging and New MediaThe recent polls show that there are two sides of opinions; one that says the Internet is hurting journalism and the other side the lesser percentage of those polled, who believe that journalism has been helped by the Internet. Insiders of the media were asked by The Atlantic and National Journal if “journalism has been helped more or hurt more by the rise of news consumption online.” The poll results tell that the majority of those polled believe that journalism has been hurt more than helped.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2009/04/media-insiders-say-internet-hurts-journalism">http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2009/04/media-insiders-say-internet-hurts-journalism</a><br />
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Freedom of speech is so important. We can by using Internet journalism get information out to the world in a manner of selected speech. The problems of censorship are evident in the article from a Reuter’s story about how censorship can affect business. http://worldjournalism.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/wto-can-take-on-censorship/<br />
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Alexander Bickel, in The Morality of Consent (New Haven: Yale Uni Press 1975) stated that there is disagreement among journalists concerning risk and dangers in print and broadcast journalism. The article I cite below lists identified mechanisms for “restricting the collection and dissemination of fact and commentary by journalists and publishers”.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• “licensing of the publication, publisher or journalist (often with severe penalties for unauthorised publications or statements) </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• scrutiny and authorisation of content on a publication or item basis, with inhouse censors active in newspapers in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and contemporary China </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• denial of access to particular locations (eg natural disaster areas or battlefields) and to people or venues (for example rationing of access to media conferences and restriction to accredited journalists at conferences) </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• prohibition on the publication of particular statements or news, including 'D Notice' schemes in some democracies and more comprehensive bans in totalitarian states such as China and Cuba on anything from public discussion of the autocrat's health to coverage of industrial disasters or the prevalence of Avian influenza </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• 'spontaneous' popular action, including beating or threatening of journalists, mob violence damaging broadcasting equipment and printing presses, and occupation of the editorial areas of newspaper and book publishing organisations “</em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Censorship of journalism is troublesome and even disturbing. Take a look at what this website offers regarding censorship during wartime<em>.</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• suppression of information that would discourage the domestic population or armed forces (and thereby 'give comfort to the enemy'), for example information about military losses, incompetence or corruption </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• suppression of information that would erode relations with allies, neutral countries/organisations and with 'international opinion' </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• jamming of enemy or neutral broadcasts and prohibition on import/dissemination of overseas publications </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• use of the 'censor's 'blue pencil' to delete content from personal correspondence, news service reports, broadcast scripts and newspaper/journals prior to publication </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• seizure of individual issues of newspapers or journals that 'escaped' the blue pencil (with punishment or suppression of the publication for repeated breaches) </em></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• prohibitions on the broadcast of interviews with (or even publication of statements by) terrorist leaders </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• restrictions on who gets to report news and where they are allowed to go, with for example 'official correspondents', embedded journalists and journalism pools that can only process official communiques by military minders rather than independently collect information from civilians and troops </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>• self censorship, whether by individual journalists and editors (out of perceptions of national interest, 'responsible reporting', personal interest or merely to preempt tighter regulation) or by organisations and their spokespeople (notably the obscene failure of the Roman Catholic Church and International Red Cross to speak out during the Holocaust)”</em></span><br />
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The issues surrounding Internet journalism are<br />
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Some say the Internet will do much more that survive – “it will thrive.” I think this myself. Thrive and prosperity for journalists is what will come. The collaborative technologies of digital convergence will figure it out for us. We may (and I mean the future generations) not have to figure it out. Journalists have to keep up with this technological “Internet Age” because if they don’t they may find their hard or soft cover published works deep inside closets where lonely souls sits alone in hiding, gripping tightly to last few shreds of what is left of the paper falling apart as dust…<br />
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Content of valued issues, abundant with uniqueness is what is important but it has to be done without stealing other works. Creative Commons will allow use of parts of works and sharing other parts and even giving some of it away but the best will come from those journalists with their own ideas and those who know the importance of morals and truth. <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Reuters “focuses primarily on the importance of vertical and niche markets that have subscription-oriented models” and this is where the revenues come from mostly. They focus on locating creators as they are demanded by readers and they “provide valuable services – not just content.” They say it is about letting the creator find their own best monetization model. Monetization = turning something into legal tender. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S7dicvSia_I/AAAAAAAAAHk/Rg23wUhIhh0/s1600/monetization+dollar+sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S7dicvSia_I/AAAAAAAAAHk/Rg23wUhIhh0/s320/monetization+dollar+sign.jpg" /></a>Check out “Monetization by Social Networks” at http://monetizationreport.com/monetization-via-social-networks/</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Received from Creative Commons Flickr – Sharing some rights reserved license </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Has anyone checked out the monetization tab on blogger.com? Has anyone here in this class actually used this tab? If you have I’d like to hear about it. </div><br />
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I’ve been wondering about who pays the journalist? I am still looking for a concrete answer that I can trust.<br />
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Reuters promises a lot in the “evolution to a new golden age of journalism”. See article http://blogs.reuters.com/from-reuterscom/2009/12/11/how-will-journalism-survive-the-internet<br />
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Citizen journalism is done by those who are not journalists. One does not have to go to college to become a journalist. Alternatives are possible through the Internet. Newspapers are losing money due to the alternatives of the Internet. People can sit down for breakfast and read the blogs of many bright and intelligent people, people who may or may not know quite a lot. Then if they want to one can comment on the blog and keep a succession of comments going, conversations and exchanges between oneself and someone who may be across the world or right next door, without ever leaving the breakfast nook. Yes, I think blogging is a form of journalism. The video below talks about this same issue.<br />
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And in the following video you will hear more about the ”revolution of citizen journalism”.<br />
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Live blogging has taken off and people are seeing it as a valued thing to do. People have things to say and people want to hear it. Not only are say, two foot ball commentators able to say important things about a game, other people who are long time football enthusiasts have things to say. Blogging works for them.<br />
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The important things to remember when taking the stance of a citizen journalist and/or blogger are included in the Handbook of Journalism article. http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php?title=Reporting_from_the_internet&printable=yes<br />
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Internet journalists must use the same ethics of other journalists, identify and verify sources, no misrepresentation. Finding information on the web is great, but using it must be done in mater fair to the creator. Always knowing what is illegal and legal to use is essential in good journalism, on the Internet or otherwise. “Copyright laws, and libel laws, apply to the internet too.”<br />
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Just as when we post something in our blogs for this class, it is important to tell the reader where we got the information. I know I even leave this step out sometimes but with practice I am getting better at remembering to give credit where credit is due.<br />
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“Just wait a couple of years and internet will be all controlled respecting the copyright!” <br />
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Social media use has many principles that need to be followed. They include being accurate when you post messages, don’t use it to embarrass or harass others. Be careful what you post because it reflects upon you as a professional person. You may even want to have separate accounts for personal and professional. Use your privacy settings wisely. Remember others will look at your output. Be fair and use good taste and judgment when you are posting anything.<br />
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Think about what you will post before you post it. Don’t post when you are angry against those posts that influence you negatively or just infuriate you. What if your post appeared on the front page of a magazine or newspaper? Don’t ruin your credibility.<br />
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If you really care about something, say politically great go ahead and post something but be prepared for the backlash against your opinion or views. Can you take it? Can you back up your point of view? Sometimes it may be best to leave out your political affiliation. Clear you cache on a regular basis. <br />
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Be transparent about who you are when you are trying to sell something. Transparency is key to trust. Do not be vague or give conflicting statements that appear to be hiding the truth. When you are using a professional account to sell a product or an idea aim not to be too personal and do not give irrelevant material about your personal information. <br />
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If you must make a correction to earlier post begin the new post with “CORRECTION” and then be implicitly clear about what is being corrected. <br />
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Wikipedia is great and fun! Do not use it as your only source of information and definition. Many people write in Wikipedia and not all of them are accurate. Do not quote from Wikipedia. There are better sources to get your quotes from.<br />
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http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php:title=Reproting_from_the_internet&printable=yes<br />
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“Wordpress and Blogger (the one we use here) are two of the most popular blogging platforms.” <br />
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“WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time."<br />
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"More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it."<br />
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"... for the ultimate in ease of use, get a free blog on WordPress.com."<br />
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"Ready to get started? Download WordPress 2.9.2”<br />
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Retrieved from: http://wordpress.org/<br />
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I have found I will be able to utilize “Knight Citizen News Network – "Interviewing, a Practical Guide for Citizen Journalists” for work in another class." The website is very interesting. <a href="http://www.kcnn.org/">http://www.kcnn.org/</a> <br />
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This book is now on my "To Read" list.<br />
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CCNET is the center that is the result of convergence of a merger of technologies via “The Center for Convergence and Emerging Networking Technologies and the Center for Emerging Technologies. Wow! That’s a mouthful! The Center does research and accepts ideas from the community.<br />
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Steve Jobs is popular and was really into re-making the music industry. Now journalism is the top thing on his mind. Steve “believes democracy is hinged on a free press and that depends on there being a professional press.”<br />
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The world premiere travel magazine Conde Nast is ready this month “to have some of their magazines ready” now that the iPad is out. I think the iPad is an exciting design and I think the 9.7 inch color display will be ok.<br />
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The pages you set up on your site in Facebook is where you can find your fans. My friend should have a link soon where I can go to purchase O3World which is a healthy new way to lose weight through her Health Distinction website. All while on Facebook taking a break from answering all of my own messages and playing FarmTown. Not really. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marine-Phytoplankton-Health-Distinction/320944371278<br />
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Before setting up to market your business on Facebook – have an objective, set a goal because if its not clear what you are trying to do you can do it all wrong. Do you want customers? Well, isn’t that the point? Start small, use the correct pictures - the ones with the punch that is going to get them to open the door to your business. Get people to comment on your pictures and your useful information. You want to really get the idea of what your business is all about and what its personality is. Talk to your visitors like friends, all of them, keep it simple and always add new photos, videos and comments of other people who have used your products.<br />
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Paul Otellini and Push 2 TV is bringing another great way to entertain us in our homes. Our laptops connected to our TVs and we can watch high-definition videos and other things. I’m wondering if this can be done without a high-definition TV. I doubt I and once again I don’t have all of the latest gadgets that help entertain me, supposedly. As someone who lived in a rural desert non-incorporated town for 12 years, without cable or water – I think I can do without this device, but if I ever have the opportunity to actually be entertained by this method I could change my mind, who knows.<br />
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Check out Paul Otellini at <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/2010/01/Otellini_ces.html">http://www.macworld.com/article/2010/01/Otellini_ces.html</a><br />
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In 1998 the Apple iMac was considered sexy! Also the Motorola RAZR V3, the Apple iPod, the Sony PSP (with its built-in web browser and 4.3 in screen) this mini portable gaming device is SEXY, at least this article say it was in 2005. I took a look at the following video and didn’t see it. The fingerprints – nah!<br />
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The top 20 gadgets of last year included these: iPod<br />
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The Motorola Startac, the Apple iMAC, the Sony Digital Mavica and the game "The Sims" - all were in the Top 10 List in the last 10 years.<br />
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Some dream gadgets can be found at <a href="http://www.cnet.com/1990-11136_1-6324359-1.html?tag=pwr10features;pwr10Border2">http://www.cnet.com/1990-11136_1-6324359-1.html?tag=pwr10features;pwr10Border2</a><br />
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The Pascal is one – “laptop condensed into a PDA” MP3 player, phone, camera, high speed internet surfer.<br />
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Out of Palo Alto, California FROG Design brings UBIK – a phone – “ultra customizable sweiss Army Knife by design.” It can adapt to each user – it is the size of a 1.5 x 4” “Post-It” note amd 1/8” thick. http://www.199-11136_111---6329813-1.html?tag=dmg_right%bdmg-btn<br />
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“UBIK is the title of a science fiction novel by Philip Dick” – an extension of the user<br />
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One more thing - I'm loving the digital picture frames. All those dust collectors on your shelves can be downloaded and one device sits on your shelf. More space for plants. No fingerprints on the loose pictures anymore from your relatives and friends flipping through the prints. It's like the long tail - creating more shelf space.<br />
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Information from the following websites: <br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jan/28/can-apple-ipad-save-newspapers/print">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/jan/28/can-apple-ipad-save-newspapers/print</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_convergence&printable=yes">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_convergence&printable=yes</a><br />
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I’ll begin with <strong>1st dibs</strong>. “When you register for 1stdibs you will be given a portfolio account which will allow you to search and save from 1stdibs, shopAD (new from Architectural Digest) and participating design center web sites.” This is the first part of the user agreement one must read and agree to when registering as a user. I first learned of 1st dibs on the<strong> Martha Stewart</strong> Show just yesterday. I signed up online. I found a vast choice of furniture, jewelry, and clothing and just about anything I might want of uniqueness. 1stdibs.com is the place to go if you want to find 800 dealers who are dealing products for you and the home. Antiques are sought after here, haute couture items are here – you just need to go to this “<strong>Long Tail</strong>” of marketing to see for yourself. Go to <a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/">http://www.1stdibs.com/</a><br />
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The site also has an online magazine, historical information and some generally fun stuff to look at. It is a virtual store but they do deal with actual stores as well. It is a tool for education in architecture and is being used by students in the classroom. It is a <strong>democratizing tool</strong> because it gives and gets access to people around the world. Check it out – it’s lots of fun! <br />
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<strong>Almond Talent Agency</strong> is run by a couple of guys in Los Angeles (one a dear friend of mine whom I helped raise from the age of 8 to 16). Talents from all over the world go to Almond Talent Agency with the hopes to find work in the entertainment industry. Many do. If you go on Facebook you will find Almond Talent Agency. If you do a search in <strong>Google</strong> you will find them. <br />
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If you check out this link to Backstage Message Board, you will find that <strong>Kevin Bacon</strong> is very happy with Aur-Aelion’s (spelled incorrectly in the post on the site I am referring you to) work at Almond Talent Agency and you’ll even see a post from Al Pacino. <br />
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Almond Talent Agency is appealing to the common people via the internet. Some, such as Kevin Bacon have not set foot inside of the agency itself but simply use the democratizing tools of Facebook and Google to do their business with Almond Talent Agency. This little kid who was a major part of my life for 8 years has grown up to become a self-proclaimed millionaire and I am truly proud. (Keyword: self-proclaimed). Aur-Aelion Israel's webpage for contact information is at: <a href="http://www.almondtalent.com/">http://www.almondtalent.com/</a><br />
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<strong>Teal Marie</strong> is recording music and ze was selling it on www.myspace.com Being a songwriter, guitarist, singer, producer and recording artist Teal finds that, like <strong>Josh Woodward</strong> that Facebook is a good place to have hir music heard. Hir long list of songs include titles such as Malt Shop, Lemon Aid, Take Me, I’m Leaving, Numb Nutz and others. I found out the link has been disenabled to buy hir music on MySpace but one can buy hir music on <strong>iTunes.com</strong> at the following link: <br />
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The songs can be purchased for a mere .99 each or just 9.99 for the album of 11 songs “Just My Stuff, Just My Style”.<br />
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<strong>Spectrum Human Services, Inc. & Affiliated Companies a nonprofit human services organization</strong> utilizes Facebook to bring information about their company to anyone interested. The company accepts donations, advertises holiday drives, and offers employment, services to individuals in Wayne County and outlying counties of Michigan. For more information about Spectrum go to <a href="http://www.spectrumhuman.org/SHS/AboutUs/WhatWeDo.aspx">http://www.spectrumhuman.org/SHS/AboutUs/WhatWeDo.aspx</a><br />
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I’ve learned from<strong> Geoff Livingston</strong>, “<strong>The Future of the Non-Profit Internet</strong>” article that I read on <strong>Mashable</strong> at this link: <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/25/non-profit-internet/">http://mashable.com/2010/02/25/non-profit-internet/</a> that users of the internet have short attention spans and that it is important to have good critical thinking and analytical skills. With these skills one can interpret what is quality information and what is not in a short time span. The developers of the websites of non-profits must be able to present the information effectively and make it easily searchable. They need to “rethink how they operate and what they are trying to accomplish by connecting with people” on the internet. Internet slang is used all the time on the internet and changes rapidly. It is important that the non-profits keep up to date with these changes.<br />
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When using Twitter the business owner gets two or three seconds to get to their audience. They have to know their audience and use the “jargon” that motivates them. The strategists need to know and stay in touch with communities and know what technologies and social media tools are changing and then be able to adapt to those changes readily. Non-profits look to those relationships that they trust and those that “speak the loudest” and get the most attention. <br />
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Another issue of great importance in the non-profit industry is privacy especially in agencies such as Spectrum Human Services, Inc. & Affiliated Companies who deal directly with children, medical records, financial records, criminal records and other areas that require anonymity and privacy. In order to keep the community commitment to the non-profit openness is also important and the non-profit will need to “weigh this issue on a case-by-case basis.” Transparency about how finances are handled and the way operations are managed are valuable in the non-profit organization. That being said, the <strong>privacy and anonymity</strong> issues being as they are, the “charitable organizations must take precautions to ensure that their constituents, including staff and volunteers are protected.”<br />
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A close friend of mine recently started a new business selling <strong>Marine Phytoplankton</strong> products and even more recently has set up her business on Facebook. She tells me it is very important to get fans on her site in order to show Facebook that her business is growing. The “<strong>How to Market Your Business With Facebook</strong>” article indicates that this I important as well. “the average Facebook user has 130 friends on the site … “I shared this article with her. Why don’t you go to her site today and check it out. It’s for your good health and for her future business success. <br />
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I learned that when you set your pages up in your Facebook account for your business you need to treat it just like your personal account and be friendly. It’s not all about selling and buying but “more about interacting”. Update it often and add items that are attractive and intriguing. I like the idea of giving something away. I think when you get started you might even offer a give-a-way” item if the fan comes back on a daily basis for so many days in a row and if they refer other people go to the site and then they actually do, give them something. Your fan base gets larger and hopefully you become better known and you learn from others and they learn from you and you become wealthier in the process.<br />
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Social media is now and will be the future. It is something that we common people use daily. It is the media that journalists use to get stories out in a timely manner. Here’s one that was posted today on Facebook by Mashable. Chile Earthquake: Twitter Photos Tell the Story [PICS] - <a href="http://bit.ly/aWaRGk">http://bit.ly/aWaRGk</a><br />
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Come back and comment often!Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-72228050557978963682010-02-22T18:39:00.000-08:002010-03-04T17:30:08.763-08:00Assignment 4 - #4 "Facebook to Nonprofits: More Pages, Fewer Apps"Nonprofit organizations want to make their Facebook account usage most efficient. One way to do this is to use pages as well as groups. This note is directly from Facebook: "Note: Creating an unauthorized Page violates our Statement of Rights and Responsibilites. If you violate any of our terms or policies in any way, we may remove you as a Page administrator, remove the Page, and possibly disable your Facebook account. Please create a Facebook Group to establish an unofficial "fan page"". Pages are more powerful than groups on Facebook. <br />
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Pages are used to raise awareness about videos and other vital pieces of information related to the organization or business of the "official representative". It is the place to notify others of events, dates and times, updates from previously integrated blogs and more.<br />
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The article tells us that some organizations and businesses remove their efficiency from their pages by loading them with tons of applications that aren't helping their cause. The Facebook page is where the users can comment with Facebook without going to another site. It is not necessary to direct them elsewhere because they can make their comments right on the page.<br />
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Mrs. Zuckerman is a person working in marketing and nonprofit organization initiatives and who recently pointed out the mistakes stated herein. She suggests that "less official notes, photos and other content" be included in the posted videos on the organization or business pages. More fun is what is needed to be added to these pages. <br />
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There are many users jumping on this method to raise funds for their organizations. Some of the projects the article refers to include memorials to victims, gay marriage, and protests. Facebook is also setting up with groups such as Project Red and the World Wildlife Fund to possibly "sell charity gifts to users".<br />
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A lot of information comes from "Mashable", another social media blog that I am currently using myself.<br />
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Greenovationtv has 19 pages on their Facebook account. These pages take you to information that Greenovationtv find valuable and interesting. Check out these sites: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/?act=48956013#!/powerstockapparel">http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/?act=48956013#!/powerstockapparel</a><br />
The Environment Report at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/?act=48956013#!/environmentreport">http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/?act=48956013#!/environmentreport</a><br />
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Go to Greenovationtv for more interesting "green" sites.<br />
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Applications on Facebook I have been informed are not always so good. They are the source of viruses and problems, I've been told. I am careful about which applications I allow and use on my Facebook account. I would like to learn more about this because I sure get alot of notices from "friends" that request me to use many different applications. I ignore or hide most of them.<br />
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Information in this blog comes from <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/08/28/facebook-to-nonprofits-more-pages-fewer-apps/tab/">http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/08/28/facebook-to-nonprofits-more-pages-fewer-apps/tab/</a>Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-15890486504585589752010-02-20T18:31:00.000-08:002010-02-20T18:35:04.808-08:00Assignment 4 - #3 - Tips for Twitter, and more on social media<div id="__ss_1210505" style="text-align: left; width: 425px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/shaunan/10-twitter-tips" style="display: block; font: 14px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif; margin: 12px 0px 3px; text-decoration: underline;" title="10 Twitter Tips">10 Twitter Tips</a><object height="355" style="margin: 0px;" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=10twittertips-090327091558-phpapp02&stripped_title=10-twitter-tips" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=10twittertips-090327091558-phpapp02&stripped_title=10-twitter-tips" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br />
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Thank you to Shauna Nicholson<br />
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There is a lot of great information in Jim's presentation. I am finding that the best way for me to learn about using social media is by doing and I am doing just that.<br />
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Post toBlogger WordPress Twitter Facebook (TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THE LINKED WEBSITE.Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-82933247531901106152010-02-20T18:03:00.000-08:002010-02-20T18:08:20.582-08:00Assignment 4 - #2 A bit of the "Effectiveness of Social Media"Charlie Wollberg at <a href="mailto:Charlie@curvedetroit.com">Charlie@curvedetroit.com</a><br />
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This past week I attended an event at the Fairlane Campus of the University of Michigan Dearborn. “Effective Use of Social Media” was presented by Charlie Wollberg. I arrived on time according to the time listed on the confirmation email I received, however the presentation had already started before I got there. About 20 attendees watched attentively while Charlie quickly went through Powerpoint slides and talked about social media. I missed his presentation about Flickr but I know it is used for uploading and sharing photos. <br />
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Youtube.com is used for business and entertainment and has “121 million visitors each month and 10,000 hours of programming everyday”. It is the place we get to watch all of those great videos we all love and also where we can upload our own videos and share with others who want to laugh or learn something new. <br />
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Foursquare is something I had never heard of before. It is a great way to “hypertarget” Charlie says. Hypertargeting allows you to track the things you do, or others to track what you do and you track what they do. You get the picture? Check out this video:<br />
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Credit goes to: http://weigend.com John Callahan (of MySpace / Fox Interactive Media)<br />
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Charlie also mentioned “hypercasting” which is “hyperfocusing”. This means new platform of advertising. Check out the link the see this new way of digital marketing and how” individuals, news organizations, corporations, non-profits and others” are using this tool to make life more efficient and profitable. http://www.mudd.com/hypercasting.aspx<br />
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Hyperfocus describes an intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses consciousness on a narrow subject, or beyond objective reality and onto subjective mental planes, daydreams, concepts, fiction, the imagination, and other objects of the mind.”<br />
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Charlie is “Creative Director. Marketing Strategist. Brand Developer. Keynote Speaker. Social Networker. Business Builder.” He is involved in many things in and around Detroit. He mentioned “The Long Tail” but did not in anyway expound it at all. He simply asked if anyone had read it when he was recommending some reading materials. <br />
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Another book Charlie recommended included: “The Purple Cow” by Seth Godin. I checked it out and this is what I found about the book: "Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable. Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a call for marketers who want to help create products that are worth marketing in the first place." <br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/7975575">Social Media is Not a Broadcast Medium</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/charliecurve">Charlie Wollborg</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Taken from: http://www.vimeo.com/7975575Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-62780103852118453922010-02-20T12:47:00.000-08:002010-02-20T16:48:27.782-08:00Assignment 4 - #1 "Twitter Could Become the Unemployed's Best Friend"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S4BJbMe6GfI/AAAAAAAAAFE/Q3Mu-tZLeug/s1600-h/DSC00673.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S4BJbMe6GfI/AAAAAAAAAFE/Q3Mu-tZLeug/s320/DSC00673.JPG" /></a></div><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/88x31.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px;" /></a><br />
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Today I went to Twitter.com and signed into my account and then searched for the TwitJobSearch site that was created by WorkDigital, to look for a part-time job. It is a site that searches Twitter for jobs. It scans Twitter for keywords in the Twitter lists.<br />
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JobDeck and TweetDeck are tools that I can use. JobDeck offers tweets from human resources professionals and gives me a place to set up job searches that I can return to again and again, if necessary. Because it has teamed up with LinkedIn I can also get jobs out there from LinkedIn all while using Twitter.<br />
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"TweetDeck is a desktop Twitter Application." TweetDeck is a browser you can use to keep connected to others across Facebook, Twitter and more.<br />
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I downloaded music from <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/">http://www.jamendo.com/</a> for a license fee of $12.00 thinking I could use it on my blogsite but I am now wondering if it is even possible. I'm still working on it. Jamendo is a great place to go to get free and legal music under the Creative Commons licenses. It is available in 7 different languages. For artists it is wonderful. At Jamendo they can share and promote their music. It is free and/or legal because of the Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is part of the non-profit world that makes "sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing possible". Copyright terms can be changed. Copyrights can be "all rights reserved" or "some rights reserved". CC is "not an alternative to copyright". The collaboration of experts help you to customize your copyright licenses to your satisfaction. They also offer a "no rights reserved" license that "allows you to place your work as squarely as possible with the public domain".<br />
There are 6 main licenses available: 1) Attribution - lets everyone copy, distribute, and use your work as long as you give the creator the credit; 2) Share Alike - others can distribute your work under a license identical to yours; 3) Non-Commercial - The same as No 1 but use is for ONLY non - commercial use; 4) No Derivative Works - the user of your work must use it "verbatim" and the credit is yours and indicated as such ALWAYS; 5) Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike - This is the license where others can remix and use your work pershaps as a base to create their own works, as long as you are credited and they carry the same license as you; 6) Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives - Restrictions apply here mostly. The users must credit you and link back to you. They cannot change them or use them commercially.<br />
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Collaborative creativity has often been used and this is the place to do it legally. Building off of other works of creativeness in OK. Inspired artists get started here without violating any license. "It is Creative Commons' goal to help create such a mechanism." Granting of permission is done through Creative Commons licensing. People are free to use what they find and create different things and this does not take away from the original idea. As was said by "Thomas Jefferson, "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me." " <br />
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Josh Woodward shares his music under a Creative Commons license that allows you to copy and distribute it as long as you give Josh the credit. Josh has removed his Share-Alike clause and his license is now a Creative Commons Attribution license. Use it! He wants you to use it freely - go for it! Just be sure to credit Josh Woodward.<br />
Click below to listen freely to Josh's music. <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/54034">http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/54034</a> If you like Josh Woodward you can see him in concert in Findlay, OH on Feb 27th at Coffee Amici (found on a Twitter feed).<br />
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Who else uses CC? "Al Jazeera has a website for journalists and other tv correspondents with Al Jazeera tv, under a CC license. Photographers everywhere share photos under the CC license on flickr. Of course Google uses a variety of licenses for their services on Picasa, YouTube and other digital services. I've used some photos from Picasa herein this blogsite. It's great! The industrial rockband Nine Inch Nails uses CC. OCW, is a tool used by universities and they use the CC licenses. The Public Library of Science uses the CC Attribution license.Wikipedia "recently migrated its licensing structure from the GNU Free Documentation License to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license." Campaign photos of the Obama Administration have been distributed and shared under a CC license. Check out Whitehouse.gov<br />
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Sites like <a href="http://www.theholisticcare.com/forums/">http://www.theholisticcare.com/forums/</a> use the Creative Commons licenses to bring yoga and other sources of healing into the homes of anyone who wishes to learn about these alternative ways of healing. Retrieved from <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Holistic">http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Holistic</a>Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-71425150545413739262010-02-11T17:45:00.000-08:002010-02-11T17:56:24.448-08:00“Taking Sides in the Digital Revolution, Where Copyright Is the First Casualty”This article brings up questions that I’ve had throughout this term. As a writer who hopes to publish something with substance someday I’d like to know how I will protect my writings and earn a living – if I choose to share them via the Internet. <br />
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Greg Kot’s “Ripped” sounds like a book that is meant to tell us “How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music”. Kot, being involved in the music critics world at “The Chicago Tribune” for 20 years is excited about the revolution of sharing artistic vision. It is a wonderful thing but I think it could have its own negative consequences as well. I think youth is more accepting of the idea of giving it away than those still in the possessive era where protections are greater.<br />
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I tend to agree with Mark Helprin, author of “Digital Barbarism” (a clear and conspicuous public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature = manifesto or in this case “A Writer’s Manifesto”) about the importance of copyright protections! I do not like Helprin’s attack on the new culture of cyberspace. Perhaps it needs some tweeking to make it work in the best way for both the original artist and those who “borrow” work to create new. Helprin just sounds ridiculous and yes his “absurd rants corrode his credibility”. As time allows I will check out either “The Cult of the Amateur” or something similar for some credible arguments on the subject.<br />
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Reference: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/books/19kaku.html?pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/books/19kaku.html?pagewanted=print</a><br />
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May 19, 2010 by: Michiko KakutaniKathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-79302024213130436272010-02-10T18:58:00.000-08:002010-02-10T18:58:42.746-08:00A Push in Law Schools to Reform CopyrightCases like the one described in “A Push in Law Schools to Reform Copyright” are the reason for the article and for reform. Downloading and file sharing copyrighted music without a license and the huge judgments in courts have created university campus activism and wide-range debate on the future of digital copyright.<br />
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Joel Tenenbaum was fined $150,000 per song just “doing what kids do on the Internet”, his defender, a Harvard Law Professor “told the court”. The feeling we get when we see a digital product on the Internet is “it does not feel like stealing” says a law graduate in a Paris University. Europe is an even greater user of the Internet than the United States.<br />
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It is important to clearly define the limits of use and the rights of users so that continued entertainment and newly developed creations can continue in cyberspace. Laws need reform - the laws that exist are old and outdated. Law school teachers are assembling to work on reform. Canadian students are helping to change laws in Canada. Copyright is of utmost importance to teachers and students – as it is their world reality.<br />
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There is a lot of support of the thought of a global license that would permit unlimited media usage. It would be paid for in the form of a tax. Still there are others who prefer to punish for “music piracy.” France wants to “criminalize music file sharing.” They fear a loss of control over one’s own work. It could de-value the work. The British Government and law professors are considering the “three strikes law.”<br />
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“Anyone convicted of three separate violent felonies must be sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole.” (Retrieved from <a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Three+strikes+law">http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Three+strikes+law</a>) <br />
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An advisor to Creative Commons is looking at filters to “prevent downloading of copyrighted material.”<br />
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Joel Tenebaum’s case is prepared to appeal up to the Supreme Court in their stance in this debate.<br />
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Reference: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/business/global/02iht-riedmedia.html?sq=Apushin la">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/business/global/02iht-riedmedia.html?sq=Apushin la</a><br />
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December 2, 2009 by: Nazanin LankaraniKathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-72948862470803462872010-02-07T15:59:00.000-08:002010-02-09T19:13:32.045-08:00Creative Commons/Copyright Issues in Digital MediaCreative Commons. What is it? It is an awesome non-profit organization that helps people use creative works that they make available for sharing and using and remixing. It is all FREE! Free – we like that don’t we? Legal – we like that as well. The CC tools grant copyright terms that users can work with. There are terms with “all rights reserved” and terms with “some rights reserved.” The licenses available allow you to let other people use your work under your copyright. This is a “some rights reserved” copyright. Terms can be modified. Experts have collaborated “ensure that the licenses work globally.” <br />
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The creator makes the terms and conditions a they wish them to be under the CC License. There are many to choose from and everyone can find one that works for them. Six license conditions described in the Creative Commons website<a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses"> http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses </a>are: 1) Attribution - the license that” lets other copy, distribute, display and perform your copyrighted work and derivative works. The one thing that has to be remembered is that you give credit for the work they way it is requested; 2) Share Alike – “you allow others to distribute derivative works only under an identical license to the license you have for the work; 3) Non-Commercial – is the same as Attribution but ONLY for non-commercial purposes; 4) No Derivative Works – The work that others are allowed to use must be “verbatim copies of your work”. 5) Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike – “This license lets others remix, and use your work non-commercially to create other works, as long as you credit the creator and license the new work under “the identical terms.” The final license is the Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives” license. This one is the most restrictive- but it allows others to download your work and share it but they can’t change it and they MUST give the creator the credit and link back to the creator. <br />
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As Thomas Jefferson said “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.” Ideas are built upon ideas. Creative Commons is the place to go when one wishes to create something new and share it and also to reuse other ideas as one wishes – all under the Creative Commons license – “because permission has already been granted everyone.” Open Content is free software and software communities where copyright holders have made their “creative works available under licenses that give anyone permission to copy and make other uses of the works without specific permission or a royalty payment.” <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Legal_Concepts">http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Legal_Concepts</a><br />
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For some additional interesting information about Creative Commons Legal Code please go to <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode</a>which is where this piece was retrieved from. <br />
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At this website you will find definitions as they are intended in a CC license. Fair Dealing Rights, License Grant, Non-waivable Compulsory License Schemes, Waivable Compulsory License Schemes, Voluntary License Schemes, Restrictions, Representations, Warranties and Disclaimer, Limitation Liability, Termination, and Miscellaneous other issues of Creative Commons that one may be interested in learning about.<br />
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Josh Woodward is an artist who plays acoustic rock music and has worked under the Share Alike license but has recently (October 12, 2009) changed the license to a Creative Commons Attribution license and that means that as long as Josh is given the credit for it anyone can use it. Josh’s videos are available for you to see on you tube and specifically to see “Overthrown” go to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhREWcy8ZSs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhREWcy8ZSs</a><br />
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Josh Woodward will be in Findlay, OH on Feb. 27th at Coffee Amici. The concert is for the PBS community television station WBGU <br />
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I went to Jamendo.com and actually purchased a license for use on my website. Unfortunately I am not technologically saavy and I haven’t yet learned how to embed the music I purchased without a code. I have sent to emails to Jamendo for help but I haven’t heard anything back from them yet. Anyway the scope of the license is: “JAMENDO grants the User (me) to use all or part of the Work as a music illustration of the Web Site.” I used the Blogger Help function to find out how to use the music on my web site and that’s where I learned that I need a code from the third-party music service. When I find out more perhaps I will have music playing whenever you come to my web site. That is my goal.<br />
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Back to Creative Commons . . .<br />
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Who uses it? Al Jazeera. At Al Jazeera Blogs, a website where journalists blog and people correspond with others, the Al Jazeera television network is working under a CC license. flickr© is a useful resource for finding photos that are free and legal to use, share and remix. Google has used CC licenses in a number of their services in the digital world. They allow users to CC License their own content in Picasa which is one place I have found pictures to use on my website. Google owns YouTube which also used CC licenses that allows “users to swap “All Rights Reserved” music for similar sounding CC licensed tracks”. The industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails used a” CC Atrtribution Non-Commerical Share Alike license when “Trent Reznor” released the Grammy nominated GhostsI-IV.” Other best known users include OpenCourseWare, Public Library of Science, Wikipedia and Whitehouse.gov.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S3DOWBRLnjI/AAAAAAAAAD0/0bLJYNkJ29g/s1600-h/Yoga.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S3DOWBRLnjI/AAAAAAAAAD0/0bLJYNkJ29g/s320/Yoga.jpg" /></a></div>“The Holistic Care” website is a place where you can find out about yoga and reiki healing systems. Under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivative license The Holistic Care can offer everyone the chance to learn about yoga and reiki. <br />
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Under the FFAQ “Frequently Frequently Asked Questions) section of <a href="http://wiki/creativecommons.org/FFAQ">http://wiki/creativecommons.org/FFAQ</a>we find how to properly attribute a CC licensed work. You’ve seen pictures with the logo of the copyright holder embedded the pictures. This is something you must leave in the picture if you use the picture. <br />
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We need to cite the author’s name and identity and if publishing on the web link the name to the profile of that person, if available. Cite the title of the work and link it to the original work if possible. “Cite the specific CC license the work is under. Link it to the license on the CC website.”If you are changing a work identify the work as a “derivative work i.e.,” “This is a Finnish translation of the [original work] by [author].” “ For more information about “legal code” and what the license says about attribution go to:<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode"> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode</a><br />
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Additionally there is a list of “25+ Sources for Creative Commons Content at <a href="http://mashable.com/2007/10/27/creative-commons">http://mashable.com/2007/10/27/creative-commons</a>Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-26674656623156465232010-02-06T08:09:00.000-08:002010-02-10T17:49:48.175-08:00In the Wind: Social Media - video conferencing<a href="http://www.facebook.com/ClickCast">www.facebook.com/ClickCast</a><br />
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Social media is the newest tool for advertisers, as the article I read today in Crain's Detroit Business states. Bill Shea tells about the video conferencing application ClickCast. People who post a question in their status on Facebook.com (the biggest social media outlet) can participate in the conference. This status is linked back to the video conference where they can join in the chat. Shea says that there are "more than 350 million active members and is the No. 2 most visitied site worldwide." This new ClickCast application is meant to get new users on board. An adverstising agency in Rochester, MI is where the application was developed by Daniel Cobb when the recession hit. He used the technological skills of others and the niche was born.<br />
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Connections between the film director of "The Cove" and dolphin advocates helped to make the film a "semifinalist for the five Best Documentary entry slots at the Academy Awards." Whole Foods Market brought "more than 80,000 online participants" to use ClickCast and to talk about foods that are healthy with the "chain's "Renegade Lunch Lady" at the helm." Many connections take place that put people where they need to be to develop their ideas and to build big business.<br />
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One thing I really like about this application (which I haven't yet used - but in the future I will) is the shared online shopping experience Shea speaks of in this piece "Friends in advertising". Friends can connect online live on web cam to talk about the thing that they might be considering purchasing.<br />
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Shea lists his contact information in the Crain's piece as follows:<br />
Bill Shea: (313) 446.1626 <a href="mailto:bshea@crain.com">bshea@crain.com</a>Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-29764810116658363762010-01-31T18:12:00.000-08:002010-02-01T17:10:03.662-08:00China supports Iran<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S2Y38ybRaPI/AAAAAAAAAC0/1ssZsK56uSc/s1600-h/s-IRAN-PROTEST-EXECUTE-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S2Y38ybRaPI/AAAAAAAAAC0/1ssZsK56uSc/s200/s-IRAN-PROTEST-EXECUTE-large.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>This article is an interview by “globalvoicesonline” that states that “Chinese netizens” support Iranians via the “Twitter community”. They intend to learn from the Iranian people and both groups strive for “liberty and democracy”.The struggle among the people of Iran of recent news is the reason for demonstration. There is no “organizational support”. A handful of volunteers and people who know how to use the web as well as the creator “CaoTaMaDe (nickname)” are the biggest supporters and organizers.<br />
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The Chinese have friendly “tweets” with other Chinese, as well as worldwide web cyberactivists and interested parties. Translation to English is done to inform others of the “reaction in China”.<br />
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The censorship of Iran is much the same as in China. Keyword filtering is done with a system of censoring known as the “Great Firewall (GFW)”. The censorship stories are continuous and the support against censorship is becoming greater. The interviewer was told that they have received some support and they will continue to encourage people to talk about the subject. They ask for people from different fields to be “noisy” so as to be heard. They request contributions towards making the reality of the situation changed sooner rather than later. People have helped and twitter.com keeps “tweeting”.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-12496065561034685202010-01-28T17:34:00.000-08:002010-01-30T09:16:56.614-08:00Online petition drives<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S2RpaYEQYXI/AAAAAAAAACM/5WsHz_5aBEU/s1600-h/CHina+google.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S2RpaYEQYXI/AAAAAAAAACM/5WsHz_5aBEU/s320/CHina+google.jpg" /></a></div>Until I read "China's 'netizens' hold authorities to new standard" from The Washington Post at the link above I forgot about another wonderful way that the Internet makes things possible. Online campaigns are possible via the Internet. Campaigns to free an innocent person from prison, raising money for breast cancer victims and drives for fundraisers to raise money to do more research for HIV/AIDS victims are only a few places where the Internet has made the impossible possible.<br />
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The article talks about how the protests are continuing in China. Supposedly they are concerned about what they citizens need and they are watching and learning. ""Now senior officials go to the Internet to find out what crimes are being committed by local officials," said Mo Shaoping, a prominent Beijing lawyer who specializes in human rights and press freedom." Well it seems that the sites related to just those issues are blocked from other countries. They have their own way of using the Internet, with many many restrictions. People are arrested who blog negative things that are being done by the Communist Party. When they feel heat they just shut sites down. People have learned how to get around some of the restrictions.<br />
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I think things will change in China.<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/LocationPRChina.png"></a>Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-34190122130798272722010-01-28T16:47:00.000-08:002010-01-30T09:26:03.405-08:00China to take time to cut Internet censorship: web founder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S2RrmYROX2I/AAAAAAAAACU/cnxo-aI2wvA/s1600-h/Genie+in+a+bottle" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S2RrmYROX2I/AAAAAAAAACU/cnxo-aI2wvA/s320/Genie+in+a+bottle" /></a></div><a href="http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/tech-times/10496-china-to-take-time-to-cut-internet-censorship-web-founder">China to take time to cut Internet censorship: web founder</a>Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-84376693241353717722010-01-26T15:58:00.000-08:002010-01-26T16:14:46.201-08:00Democracy & BurmaThe democracy reference as part of the assignment is the most important part of the issues in "cyberspace" that we have discussed so far. It's great that shelf space and inventory are not an issue when selling some products on the Internet and it's wonderful that we can get most any product we desire. Democracy is where the Long Tail provides the ultimate benefit to Netizens. In non-democratic nations, including Burma, China and Iran (and even in U.S.)freedom to have conversations ultimately without censorship is the desire. At what cost? Is there a cost? <br /><br />Bill Gates on ABC's Good Morning America said censorship happens around the world at different levels but the Internet "has proved a consistent success at promoting openness and the exchange of ideas." We knew that.<br />I have to think about the tools that "Netizens" are using to combat limits on free speech. Cell phone comes to mind. Reporting events by cell phone camera when your own camera is stolen away from you.<br /><br />I have some articles to read and will be back to blog later.Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-79800654120830714942010-01-25T17:00:00.000-08:002010-02-04T16:15:12.573-08:00China paper slams U.S. for cyber role in Iran unrest from www.reuters.com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>More of my own thoughts about this article to come.<br />
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60N0V320100124Kathie Norfleethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691924634778772074noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2332585035391208322.post-80443571006857125272010-01-23T10:41:00.000-08:002010-02-01T17:22:09.897-08:00The Long Tail encompasses many<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S2R7JpsUUdI/AAAAAAAAACk/dakyazJmZCM/s1600-h/long+tail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fLbGcs0zO3U/S2R7JpsUUdI/AAAAAAAAACk/dakyazJmZCM/s320/long+tail.jpg" /></a></div><strong>The story of “The Long Tail” is something that I haven’t given a lot of thought to up until I decided to take this class. Chris Anderson tells us a lot of things I just didn’t look at in the same way as I do now, after reading some of “The Long Tail”. It has already caused me to look at many other things, in where The Long Tail goes. Quoting Chris Anderson “And the more they find, the more they like. As they wander further from the beaten path” they (we) go deeper and search for that alternative that has yet to be found. </strong><br />
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Online purchasing has been around now for a while. Netflix is the latest new site for me where I can go for films. I purchase books from Amazon, sell items on Amazon and can find just about anything else I may want to buy there. Rhapsody is available for music and is talked a lot about as well as a great online service.<br />
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These sell the most sought after products (hits) but it is the products that are available on the referenced Long Tail that make the impossible to find found. This route is where the companies are selling larger numbers of different products in smaller quantities in comparison to companies that are selling fewer numbers of hits in a huge quantities.<br />
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Other way down the line films, music, books and other consumer goods are available and now I am learning may be even more valuable because they are on The Long Tail. Being one of the big hits is not the only place to be anymore, in order to prosper. “A hit and miss are on equal economic footing, both just entries in a database called up on demand, both equally worthy of being carried. Suddenly, popularity no longer has the monopoly on profitability.” Chris Anderson is encouraging in so many ways.<br />
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“Making everything available” Rule number one. I couldn’t find ‘Hard Work’ at Blockbuster for sure. Chris Anderson tells us that no video store is the place to go if you like documentaries and I guess I have only recently learned this myself but now that I have Netflix I have found and watched 6 videos about yoga. These were not your normal yoga film. That’s because they are part of the “niche”, the place on The Long Tail where all the really cool stuff is. I’ll never go back – unless I want to watch one of the really raved about “hits” like “Avatar” and I can’t wait until it is way out on The Long Tail, where I know many of the movies of my long ago are sitting now, being picked up occasionally by other “niche embracers”.<br />
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Rule number two is all about economics. Put simply Chris says: “Cut the price in half. Now lower it. The way that we receive music and pay for it today “leaves no room for price experimentation by retailers.” The way to get the consumer down The Long Tail, in the niches where all the goods are is by lowering prices. Chris Anderson explains it further by saying that when a product is offered at a fair price and is good stuff on a continual basis that the free competition can be reckoned with.<br />
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Getting the help to find what I am looking for is so important to me. I do not know anything at all about MP3 players but Chris Anderson says that “the problem with MP3.com was that it was only Long Tail.” It didn’t have the accurate licensing and agreements to offer “mainstream” music. “No popular commercial music”. Well I like the lead in. I log onto say – Zappos to shop for boots for women with large calves. I get boots at first, I browse, filter, click, search until wha – la I have 167 styles of boots for women with big calves. I place the item in the bag and read the “Customers who bought this also bought…” and hit the button below it.<br />
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“The Long Tail" works for me. I am looking forward to reading the rest of this book. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Long_tail.svg"></a><br />
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Powerlaw” is a distribution method. “The 80/20 rule or Pareto principle, where 20% of the population controls 80% of the wealth.” <a href="http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution">www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution</a><br />
Aggregator is “a company or service that collects al huge variety of goods and services and makes them available and easy to find, typically in a single place.” Chris Anderson’s “The Long Tail”<br />
All creative people can produce something of interest and this is the democracy that Chris Anderson speaks about in “The Long Tail”. “Long Tail promises to become the crucible of creativity, a place where ideas form and grow before evolving into commercial form.”<br />
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Human Rights Activists are targets of spoil. Censorship is on the rise. Google is pissed.<br />
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made it a priority of U.S. foreign policy to ensure that freedom of distribution of information through the internet as a human right continues. Clinton is working diligently on making sure this right is intact. Her recent speech in Washington, D.C. related the fact that bloggers and activists in Egypt have been detained - for using the internet.<br />
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As if general hackers aren't enough of a problem - the entire Chinese government is messing with Google, or at least there have been allegations pointing in that direction. Google threatens to quit its operation in China, after just 4 years of launching the search site. Reviews, investigations, different points of views on the issues are underway.<br />
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In order to continue to grow - this intrusion into our internet lifestyle is absurd, or is it?<br />
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