Privacy Part #2

This autistic boy is an example of exploitation not censorship by Google; and he and his family are victims, and by the very nature of him being bullied-humiliated by other teenagers shows me a lack of sensitivity of a generation that does not know how to socialize properly because all they do is text, email, and play on their computer's in class (and I see them doing this in each and every course at UMD).  I ask myself why do they even bother coming to the course if all they are doing is text messaging or surfing the web?  I am really afraid for the Y-generation and whatever the younger generation is called after that because I see so many young people that are obese and already have cornary-heart disease at my work.  Many of the teenagers I see in my job have very little social skills but when they get on their electronic gadgets they type faster than me at 79 words per minute; and this is scary!  Speaking for myself I do not beleive that there will ever be a way to stop anyone from getting information about any person they wish to find out about; and if I were to quit using the internet today it would be too late because my information is on the digital highway forever.  I hope that the Y Generation and the younger children will fight to protect their rights of privacy and I hope some become lawyers specializing in internet law.  Because we need now lawmakers to write new laws on protecting privacy issues for all individuals that use the internet!  I think that our youth of today and tomorrow will care as they reach their mid twenties and find out how the lack of privacy can hurt them!

Blog #8 Privacy on the Internet

Privacy: What Privacy On the Internet?

My name appears on Google and so does my three blog sites too; and if I go to whitepages.com, you can see my closet neighbors names and addresses around my home and buy a complete profile on me for a small fee.  In addition, my relatives are listed (my older brother and my deceased mother).  I do not beleive that I can ever stop anyone from finding anything that they wish to obtain about me personally, because every internet site I have ever visited I have left a "cookie" (in which identifies my computer address); and the companies or websites store my information about what products I ever look at or news articles I read they store that information and sell it to other consumer-based companies.  I have purchased some books for my older mentally-challenged sister on Amazon.com; and now I am consistently being bombarded by Amazon and other online book retailers to buy similiar books that she might like.  The fastest land animal (without even looking it up) is the Cheetah.
According to the article about "Google privacy Is Alive And Well" by Forbes magazine, and written by Alma Whitten to me is a sham, and most people that use "Google" (like myself) don't know about these security feautures listed "(Google Dashboard, Ad Preferences Manager, and Data liberation Front)"; and I know I have had a Google account for several years now and I have not been notified either through email about these available privacy tools (http://forbes.com/2010/04/12/privacy-facebook-gmail-technology-security-google_p...).  In the article by Steve lohr in the New York Times "How Privacy Vanishes Online' states that even your friends and family members can inadvertently give out information about you; and it is not hard for a hacker or identity thief to use this information about you for illegal purposes (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/technology/17privacy.html?sq=facebookprivacy&st...).  I totally agree with the italian Judge that Google is responsible for exploiting a developmentally-delayed child by allowing such footage to be shown online and just because it's the internet, laws protecting the innocent should still apply.  What about online child pornoagraphy isn't it illegal?  What about The Americans With Disabilities Act?  I had an older sister who is now deceased and she was severely autistic and after reading this article inferiates me; and democracy and the long tail of distribution does not have the right to exploit this boy and they received several notices and stated they did not know (bull) because they removed the boy's film stream in just four hours!

Blog #7 part 3

This is a Facebook Logo and you can also use this site to watch streaming video on your television sets and even interact with your facebook page via internet through your television and talk to friends or tweet too.

Blog #7 Part 2

This is a system from UTube technology that allows you get get televison content from the home PC on the left  directly to your television in another room in the house.  How is that for convenience and for picking your own content from the internet any time or day of the year to watch what you want to watch!  The Five C's from Lotz's book are: (1) Choice and this means that you as a consumer have the internet at your disposal to have the choices to watch what you want; (2) Control is you can decide when and where to watch a program of your choosing (time); (3) Convenience is being able to just simply put find what you want and watch it; (4) Customization is controlling what you watch; and (5) Community emerged when digitalization occurred and the user has other folks that have the same taste in television programming and this has led to more online companies to fill this niche as part of the long tail of distribution and revenues (Lotz, 2007, p. 245).  Another example comes from an article from the New York Times and they discuss a man that does not have cable and he subscribes to "PlayOn" a software download through his XBox for only $40.00 compared to $100.00 or more a month that his coworker's pay (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/garden/11tv.html?sq=webtelevision&st=cse&scp=1...)

Blog #7 Television Options

Quest (1) How does the internet change the current internet model?  Well first of all it gives user's many more options to watch different mediums that their cable provider's do not offer: sites like UTube, Fancast, and many others on the internet can be found either for free or for a small fee to download and pipe via through the user's internet to their television sets.  The internet has become a viable competitor to cable television providers' and network television stations, because people have certain niches and can almost find anything that they want to watch if they look hard enough or are very computer savy. I watch CNN, MSNBC, and shows on Google on the internet that are not available on cable television.  Yes, the internet most certainly has changed the ways people can choose the content they wish to watch on their televisions.  I have UVerse from AT&T, and I also have XBox live where for a nominal fee I can find different radio stations that are not on cable or on the radio.  In additon, I am also a subscriber to Netflix and can go to my XBox Live and find my niche and watch a movie or television show any time I wish to for only $10.00 a month.  The reason this phenomenum is occuring is because of the fast growing technology of digital distribution and its technological development.  Cable television helped revolutionize the digital technological race and the internet did as well; and in our book "The Television Will Be Revolutionized" and written by Amanda Lotz states:
"Producers sold series either to networks or to local stations-a situation that created a significant bottleneck that allowed only a limited amount of programming to get through to viewers"(Lotz, 2007, p. 120).  This to me means that they could not give the viewer all the choices that they wanted and this is where the internet and companies now and in the future will be able to capitalize from this bottleneck (and some are already doing it).  The internet is already able to distribute different niches or venue types to help viewrs' have more choices to what they wish to watch, when they want to watch it instead of having the cable companies acting like mini "Hitlers" to stop people from watching what they want(Lotz, 2007, p. 120).  Another medium is IPTV or Internet Protocol Television that has enabled viewrs' to utulize their internet through their cable providers' like AT&T or Verizon to watch programs" (Lotz, 2007, p. 143).  Another situation is when "product or brand placement came about and refers to situations in which television shows use brand products or present them on screen within the context of the show, yet, even within this simple advertising strategy there have been significant variations"(Lotz, 2007, p. 166).  According to Lotz (2007) the placement of these products can either be free or people will have to pay a small fee in order to watch the content (Lotz, 2007, p.166).