Thursday, April 22, 2010
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!
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).
"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).
Friday, April 9, 2010
Citizens Part 3 and ten years from now:
CNN and its Stubborness:
Jay rosen, What CNN should do with Itself in Prime Time, March 31, 2010
(http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink)
CNN has had a downturn the first quarter of 2010 for all of its prime time television-news shows: "Anderson Cooper's 360" is losing out to re-runs from the old MSNBC's "Countdown," and yet CNN executives state they will not change or alter the way there line-up is now. Some people would argue that the people on CNN's prime time shows are mere "hosts" and are not alligned with the majority's point of viewing audience. They also state at NYU that audiences like hosts' to have their own opinions over "straight coverage" of hard line facts (NYU, 2010). Another phenomenum that is occuring and will evolve ten-years from now is what NYU calls "Audience Atomization" overcome people who were once just viewrs and were tied to the centers of the powerful elite institutions of society have started to ignore the norms and use the Internet as their own atomization of the rise of social and mass media. According to NYU, many of the viewing audience was "Tweeting" about the Academy Awards on the television (the most ever online-content); and and this is the furire of Citizens Journalism. In ten years there will be virtual touch screen applications that float out of the media device into holograms according to NYU; and people in 50 years will probably have a chip inserted into their arms and the Internet will know every place they have ever shopped or eat at, and or browsed; in addition, credit cards will be obsolete in ten years by using our cell phones with a secret pin to purchase 3-D images of everything there is to buy and will remind us when we return to a store what we purchased last time we visited the store into our ear's only to hear (NYU, 2010).
Jay rosen, What CNN should do with Itself in Prime Time, March 31, 2010
(http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink)
CNN has had a downturn the first quarter of 2010 for all of its prime time television-news shows: "Anderson Cooper's 360" is losing out to re-runs from the old MSNBC's "Countdown," and yet CNN executives state they will not change or alter the way there line-up is now. Some people would argue that the people on CNN's prime time shows are mere "hosts" and are not alligned with the majority's point of viewing audience. They also state at NYU that audiences like hosts' to have their own opinions over "straight coverage" of hard line facts (NYU, 2010). Another phenomenum that is occuring and will evolve ten-years from now is what NYU calls "Audience Atomization" overcome people who were once just viewrs and were tied to the centers of the powerful elite institutions of society have started to ignore the norms and use the Internet as their own atomization of the rise of social and mass media. According to NYU, many of the viewing audience was "Tweeting" about the Academy Awards on the television (the most ever online-content); and and this is the furire of Citizens Journalism. In ten years there will be virtual touch screen applications that float out of the media device into holograms according to NYU; and people in 50 years will probably have a chip inserted into their arms and the Internet will know every place they have ever shopped or eat at, and or browsed; in addition, credit cards will be obsolete in ten years by using our cell phones with a secret pin to purchase 3-D images of everything there is to buy and will remind us when we return to a store what we purchased last time we visited the store into our ear's only to hear (NYU, 2010).
Citizens Journalism and Journalism in 10 years Part 2:
This is a picture from a Cohan Late night Show from You Tube (2009) and this is what the future is suppose to look like in the year 3000.
Dominant Search Engines and Journalism: In an article from "Reuters.com, "How will Journalism Survive the Internet Age? by Adsense, et al, December 11, 2009, by Mr. Murdoch:
Mr. Murdoch (2009) states that the dominant search engines are buying up other newspaper archives and databases of many journalits' articles and posting them for advertisements and making profit off the stolen article and not sharing the profits to the authors'. This makes the more powerful-organizations to increase their "Long-Tail of Distribution" into new niches, and use AdSense on people's blog sites to make a huge profit. But some news outlets are trying to invent new ways to counteract this intellectual theft from these search-engine pioneers by using the "B2B content network that the planet needs now-and that is what they are building on a 3rd party content to maximize their profits and try to stop the illegal distribution." (Reuters, 2009). This B2B isn't to block search engines or publishers it is about preserving integrity and syndication of their content for creative-talented authors' to endure.
Citizen Journalism and Journalism in Ten Years:
This is how much Citizen Journalism has expotentially grown as you can see on the graphs above; in just two years the hours that the average audience has increased from a little over two hours to over five hours online.
Plus, the Unique audience size that has social networking sites and special niches of the "Long Tail of Distribution" has dramatically increased, too. Citizen Journalists' is everyone who uses the internet: whether you just surf and read articles and post a short "Tweet" is a citizen journalist. This has led to the demise of a lot of newspaper organizations to either change the way they market themselves, or they demise into bankruptcy. The "Atlantic Magazine posted an article by Cyra Master called: Media Insiders say Internet Hurts Journalism, (2009); and she states that a poll was conducted to very prestigous individuals of News Outlets (popular) and tha 2/3 of the respondents were already concerned with Citizens' Journalism and the Internet. Master (2009) stated that the participants of the survey the costs of journalism online costs more to operate than publishing or to televise. Some of the prominent News Producers according to this poll, state that the internet has put many respectable News Outlets out-of-business and start-up costs for a new or existing News outlet is very expensive to operate on the Internet. In harsh-regime countries where they cesnsor content on the internet loses credibility of the news that is being reported through rumors or distortion of the facts. Journalism in this poll as been criticized for as just a "catch-and-grab" quick snapshot to capture a viewer on the internet and losses its integrity of journalism. On the other hand, Master (2009) suggests that the Internet has helped some journalists to writing or discussing facts in "real time" pressures; and this opens up the journalism profession to recruit new-talented "free-lancers" with a fresh voice on the Internet" (Masters, 2009, p.2). Master (2009) also states that some new slang words for journalism is called "micro-coverage (scandal, poll-readings, up-and-down, on the other side). Take for instance, the Obama campaign news coverage online was so positive and it was everywhere! Then when President Obama is in office now; he gets more bad-press coverage because of the Citizen Journalists' that criticize him online and the media outlets want to go where the audience flows and this leads to distortion of the true facts of the news story!
Monday, March 22, 2010
Digital Convergence Part 2
I have "Apples iPhone" and; I can market my company by keeping track of orders, scan products that I sell at trade shows, availability of my inventory, emails, and fax purchase orders all from my iPhone. Another product innovation that is in the prototype by "Otellini is Push 2 TV, adapter developed by Netgear that uses Intel's Wireless Display technology to wirelessly connect laptops with TVs so users can watch high-definition videos and other content"(http://www.macworld.com/article/145480/2010/01/otellini_ces.html). This new device will also help movie and some music videos from being pirated off the internet because the Push 2 TV adapter has a chip installed to protect from copyright infringement on some of the discs that the entertainment industry has in place (http://www.macworld.com/article/145480/2010/01/otellini_ces.html). I have a online subscription to the "Washington Post Newspaper" online in which enables me to find out more political information than CNN can provide me with on cable television. I believe that the internet has really helped save most of the large newspapers outlets, but unfortunately, not the small home-town newspapers. Consumers all over the world with the use of the technology with Digital Convergence can use one device to conduct what ever behavioral activities they chose to do; and this helps all niches of online and offline organizational entities (Red Cross, Unicef, Borders Books, Amazon.com, and even online college education), to help all economies of the globe to connect to each other and this is part of the horizontal line of the "Long Tail," of democracy.
Digital Convergence
The consumer can also use the "Apple iPad" to have several articles on the tablet to review at one time (http://media/pda/2010/jan/28/can-apple-ipad-save-newspapers-print). Another device that came out before the "Apple iPad" is the "Microsoft's Courier Digital Journal" that opens up like a small book which is the picture above this blog; and you have two viewing windows left-to-right to have better visual abilities than a single window device (http;//www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures...).
Corporations can use the internet with Digital Convergence to have board or sales meetings from NYC to Tokyo, without ever having to leave their corporate locations with the use of video conferencing software. This saves organizations' tons of money because of the costs of travel around the Earth in our global economy.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Non-Profit Organizations
Facebook is a social-networking site that a lot of non-profit organizations flock to because the costs are much lower and can reach a wider-diverse audience (Wall Street Journal). Facebook has been experimenting to sell charity gifts to users and the money will go to 4 groups: Kiva, Project Red, The World Wild Life fund, and toms shoes. Some social-networking sites have been the key to fundraising for disaters like the recent haiti earthquake, and recruiting other organizations to donate their manpower (Doctors Without Borders) to help the haitian people 9http://cnn.site.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Social+networks/02C+tex...). The Red cross raised $5 million dollars for the haiti earthquake victims compared to all money donated by all charities using mobile textings in 2009 by an additional &1 million dollars more (CNN). Red Cross uses facebook, Myspace, and especially Twitter to raise money for castrophies, like the California mountain fires in 2007 (CNN). In addition, they have their own Red Cross blog networking sites and an online newsroom on Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube that is constantly updating the disater relief and responses, too (CNN). This is also part of the "Long Tail" because this is a seperate niche that reaches millions of more people than otherwise would with television commercials alone.
Social Class is used on Social-Networking Sites
Anna Owens started using MySpace while she was attending college to keep in contact with old friends from high school that didn't go to college afterwards. After Ms. Owens graduated from college she felt that she w2as too old for MySpace and quit using the social-networking site altogether (CNN). When she turned 26 years old she started to use FaceBook and stated in her opinion that Facebook is often used by blue-collar or part-time workers and it seems to motivate them and keep their interests (CNN) In a recent research study by "Nielsen Claritas found that people in more affluent demographics are 25% more likely to be found on FaceBook, while the less affluent are 37% more likely to connect on MYSpace" (CNN). i was really surprised that social status may determine which networking site an individual would likely participate in. They also stated in this article that 23% of Facebook participants earn more than a $100,000 a year versus 37% of MySpace participants earned less than $50,000 a year. Twitter and LinkedIn are even substantially higher end in the annual income scale where most users are white-collar workers that make well over $100,000 a year (CNN). Facebook was created at Harvard University and was limited to selected college students before the site went public on the internet in September, 2006 and; Facebook is considered the ghetto of social-networking sites (CNN). It was also found that multiracial college students that used Facebook compared to MySpace tended to make more contacts and friends that were white-affluent or upper-middle class ethnic individuals (CNN).
Job Seekers using Social-Networking Sites for Employment
Twiiter can be a best friend for both the applicant and the organizations looking for qualified candidates by using the job search engines to match potential people to companies using the software TwitJobSearch and TweetDeck(nytimes). A man named Doug winfield used social-networking in Seattle after losing his job and broadened his horizons with the "Long Tail", by joining a Social Media Club of Seattle where he made great connections; and this led to him creating a Facebook site that had ads to reach other companies embedding keywords into his Facebook page for these businesses to advertise (http;//money.cnn.com/2010/02/26/news/economy/hired_facebook/index.htm). This helped him to be able to get interviews after two years without a job and it only cost him a $170.00 dollars. He stated that when he was in the social networking site in Seattle that so many of the other users resumes were so similiar to his is why he created this campaign on facebook to stand out of the crowd and he ended up landing a job in a New York based company as a vice-president to communicate new ways to current and potential new customers. (money-cnn).
Social Newtworkers' Beware
In the United Kingdom some social-networking sites have had bullying by individuals to another site called Bebo that AOL owns and 'Microsoft's instant messaging service as hotspots for bullying to occur" (http://www.printhis.clickability.compt/cpt?action=cpt&Title=Social+Networking+sitescritici...). A charity in the UK "Beautybulllying conducted a poll of 11-16 year olds who had been "cyberbullied", and out of the 2,094 participants 30% were found to have experienced bullying" (CNN) Other networking sites like Facebook has created a software program called "Ceop button" from the Ceop site that gives 24 hour support in 70 languages acroos Europe and North America (CNN).
New Bill could Keep Sex-Offenders off social Networking sites:
The state of Georgia has introduced a Bill to keep pediphiles off Facebook, MYSpace, and other sites (http://www.2.wjgf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/georgia/article/new-bill-could_keep_-sex_o...). One pre-teen female has both a Facebook page and a Myspace page and stated that there has been a lot of request to be her friend from people in there 30's and 40's (wjbf news). Georgia State representatives beleives the bill will allow the "Georgia Bureau of Investigation to release social-networking sites the email and user names of pediphiles of registered sex-offenders and to be able to catch the pediphiles through software installed on these network sites (wjbf news). Please see Podcast to the left on this article
New Bill could Keep Sex-Offenders off social Networking sites:
The state of Georgia has introduced a Bill to keep pediphiles off Facebook, MYSpace, and other sites (http://www.2.wjgf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/georgia/article/new-bill-could_keep_-sex_o...). One pre-teen female has both a Facebook page and a Myspace page and stated that there has been a lot of request to be her friend from people in there 30's and 40's (wjbf news). Georgia State representatives beleives the bill will allow the "Georgia Bureau of Investigation to release social-networking sites the email and user names of pediphiles of registered sex-offenders and to be able to catch the pediphiles through software installed on these network sites (wjbf news). Please see Podcast to the left on this article
Social Networking-Sites-What are they?
Social networking is where people interact both personally, professionally, advertise their goods and services to one another. People may belong to a social network service because they share a common interest or hobby, and give each other advice or thoughts. One of the first social networking sites that I remeber joining was Classmates.com in 1995, to keep in touch with my old high school friends. Many of the main social naetworking sites are Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn that are used intercontinental (http://en.wikepedia.org/wiki/social_network_service). LinkedIn is used for a lot of business social-networking sites to attract potential customers to get feedback on a product, and for individuals and organizations to communicate about employment oppurtunities.
Twitter uses a slang word called 'Tweets" that can reach millions of people and for the unemployed to help reach organization recruiters(http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/251twitter-could-become-a-recruiters-best-friend?pa...). In the months of december, 2009 and January 2010 Twitter has had almost 400,000 jobs posted; and this has become a vast tool for the unemployed to find another job besides other internet sites like Monster.com and carrer.job.com (bits-nytimes).
William Fischer who is a coowner of Workdigital company made a fantastic software tool called 'TwitJobSearch" which goes through Twitter's mainframes looking for help-wanted postings (bits-nytimes). "TwitjobSearch" is able to detect downturns in a particular job industry and will not post when requested by an individual who types that industry in the search engine (bits-nytimes). The next new software that 'WorkDigital' has created for organizations looking for applicants is "JobDeck", and this software collects Tweets from Twitter and updates job postings on LinkedIn (bit-nytimes). The organizations also advertise their products and services in addition to placing job listings and pay a hefty sum in some cases for their advertisements when people use search engines on these social-networking sites (bits-nytimes).
Ning:
Ning is another social-networking site that was started in 2007 and it is free. Ning is differnt than facebook or MySpace because it is somewhat like "Creative Commons" that allows people to build their sites on "social-networking platforms based around their passions and pastimes" (http://cnn.site.printhis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Ning%3A+Thefutureof...). The way it's similiar to "Creative Commons" is that people can share their musical talents and get a limited copyright, too. The idea for creating Ning was websites like Craigslist and eBay, because they connected people to business (Cnn-the futere of...). One of the many top sites on Ning is 'this is a hiphop TMz and the other popular site is the 'Pickens' Plan" that is interested in environmental energy-alternatives like solar and wind energy (Cnn-the futureof...). What is the difference with Ning from Facebook and Twitter is that these two social-networking sites connect an individual to another person that they are already acquainted with, or real-time news events on Twitter. Whereas Ning is allowing people to meet new people with similiar interests (Cnn-the future of...).
News Organizations:
Facebook and google and Twitter have been in competition for news media outlets to use their sites in order to grow their audiences even further (http://www.poynter.orgcolumn.asp/?=31&aid=168485&view=print). Facebook in August of 2004 decided to face its competitors with the news-media outlets by "acquiring FriendFeed", real-time search engines, and allow people to place ads on their Facebook networking sites (http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=168485&view=print). Since this article was written Facebook has made software that enables the user to have ecommerce applications to compete with PayPal and this allows people to buy right from the Facebook page without having to leave and go to PayPal (Poynter). The news media fan pages are the NewYork Times, CNN, and other smaller newspaper outlets online (Poynter). Facebook is still behind the times by 7 years compare to where Google is today; but without Facebook or a Google site if you aren't there than the individual may miss a huge audience and exposure to other social-networkers' (Poynter).
BBC News Organization:
According to BBC service director Peter Horrocks states that social networking sites is a very efficient way of getting journalism across the internet in just seconds and reaches a much wider audience. He also atates that it has helped the BBC to cover news from isolated, hostile, or treacherous parts of the world by using mobile phones and gives real-time news coverage of events like Iran (www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/feb/10/peter-horrocks-social-media/print). Horrocks also states that early on in the movement of social-netorking sites was how to get the journalistic qualities on the internet in the same principles of live reporting on the television and now the BBC sees that it shouldn't be that much harder to report on the internet (guardian).
Marketing on Social-Networking Sites:
Facebook has 300 million users and is a great niche for the Long Tail of e-commerce to sell a lot of different products to purchase but couldn't readily find it (www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/business/smallbusiness/12guide.html?_r=3&pagewan...). Starbucks coffee franchise utilizes Facebook to reach an audience, Ticketmaster, and amazon.com, too; and thus this can enable another link to their websites (CNN). Not only is Facebook being used for social-networking peer-to-peer or business to peer; but, an introduction to the arts, and allowing scientists to discuss research and findings from data more readily (CNN).
Twitter uses a slang word called 'Tweets" that can reach millions of people and for the unemployed to help reach organization recruiters(http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/251twitter-could-become-a-recruiters-best-friend?pa...). In the months of december, 2009 and January 2010 Twitter has had almost 400,000 jobs posted; and this has become a vast tool for the unemployed to find another job besides other internet sites like Monster.com and carrer.job.com (bits-nytimes).
William Fischer who is a coowner of Workdigital company made a fantastic software tool called 'TwitJobSearch" which goes through Twitter's mainframes looking for help-wanted postings (bits-nytimes). "TwitjobSearch" is able to detect downturns in a particular job industry and will not post when requested by an individual who types that industry in the search engine (bits-nytimes). The next new software that 'WorkDigital' has created for organizations looking for applicants is "JobDeck", and this software collects Tweets from Twitter and updates job postings on LinkedIn (bit-nytimes). The organizations also advertise their products and services in addition to placing job listings and pay a hefty sum in some cases for their advertisements when people use search engines on these social-networking sites (bits-nytimes).
Ning:
Ning is another social-networking site that was started in 2007 and it is free. Ning is differnt than facebook or MySpace because it is somewhat like "Creative Commons" that allows people to build their sites on "social-networking platforms based around their passions and pastimes" (http://cnn.site.printhis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Ning%3A+Thefutureof...). The way it's similiar to "Creative Commons" is that people can share their musical talents and get a limited copyright, too. The idea for creating Ning was websites like Craigslist and eBay, because they connected people to business (Cnn-the futere of...). One of the many top sites on Ning is 'this is a hiphop TMz and the other popular site is the 'Pickens' Plan" that is interested in environmental energy-alternatives like solar and wind energy (Cnn-the futureof...). What is the difference with Ning from Facebook and Twitter is that these two social-networking sites connect an individual to another person that they are already acquainted with, or real-time news events on Twitter. Whereas Ning is allowing people to meet new people with similiar interests (Cnn-the future of...).
News Organizations:
Facebook and google and Twitter have been in competition for news media outlets to use their sites in order to grow their audiences even further (http://www.poynter.orgcolumn.asp/?=31&aid=168485&view=print). Facebook in August of 2004 decided to face its competitors with the news-media outlets by "acquiring FriendFeed", real-time search engines, and allow people to place ads on their Facebook networking sites (http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=168485&view=print). Since this article was written Facebook has made software that enables the user to have ecommerce applications to compete with PayPal and this allows people to buy right from the Facebook page without having to leave and go to PayPal (Poynter). The news media fan pages are the NewYork Times, CNN, and other smaller newspaper outlets online (Poynter). Facebook is still behind the times by 7 years compare to where Google is today; but without Facebook or a Google site if you aren't there than the individual may miss a huge audience and exposure to other social-networkers' (Poynter).
BBC News Organization:
According to BBC service director Peter Horrocks states that social networking sites is a very efficient way of getting journalism across the internet in just seconds and reaches a much wider audience. He also atates that it has helped the BBC to cover news from isolated, hostile, or treacherous parts of the world by using mobile phones and gives real-time news coverage of events like Iran (www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/feb/10/peter-horrocks-social-media/print). Horrocks also states that early on in the movement of social-netorking sites was how to get the journalistic qualities on the internet in the same principles of live reporting on the television and now the BBC sees that it shouldn't be that much harder to report on the internet (guardian).
Marketing on Social-Networking Sites:
Facebook has 300 million users and is a great niche for the Long Tail of e-commerce to sell a lot of different products to purchase but couldn't readily find it (www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/business/smallbusiness/12guide.html?_r=3&pagewan...). Starbucks coffee franchise utilizes Facebook to reach an audience, Ticketmaster, and amazon.com, too; and thus this can enable another link to their websites (CNN). Not only is Facebook being used for social-networking peer-to-peer or business to peer; but, an introduction to the arts, and allowing scientists to discuss research and findings from data more readily (CNN).
Monday, February 15, 2010
Law Schools are trying to reform copyright laws
A young man from Boston University doctoral student was sued for downloading music from the internet and was fined $22,500 for each track x 30 tracks = $675,000.00; and this to me isn't fair to single out one person out of a generation of people his age across the entire world! If the entertainment industry wants to protect the copyrights of artists'; then they need to have legislation passed in the World Court to go after the website companies instead (of the younger generation)! The R.I.A.A or Recording Industry Association is who filed suit against this young man in 2007, and they seem to be targeting college students for suit (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/business/global/02iht-riedmedia.html?amp=&pageswanted+print). In 1999 the Copyright Act of 1976 was changed to make internet downloaders' that take songs or movies or any other intellectual property (especially songs to $150,000.00 per song); and how can the youth be able to afford this amount when they can buy an entire CD or DVD for under $20.00! They are still obligated to pay their student loans when they graduate and on top of that, they have to pay these ridiculous amounts?
Another new idea has emerged, and educators like this new concept by allowing students to download their textboks from online stores because of the cost of the books from the universities; which can be around $1,000 to $1,200 a year (http://cnnmoney.printhis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Cut+school+costs%3A+Download+your+textbooks+-+Dec...). Professors also like that they can put lectures on "IPhones" and can also modify the textbooks in the pdf format to their likening(CNN-Money). Textbooks on average costs are increasing from 6% to 8% annually (CNN-Money). Now students can go to "Flat World Knowledge" and "Course Smart" to purchase some textbooks in digital format (CNN-Money). Some 2000 faculty members from over 500 universities signed a petition to have more affordable textbooks online and its time, because it is the 21st century!
Creative Commons has revolutionized the web not only in music but education, too. Creative Commons is also helping to expand sharing in the Middle East (Jordan in Nov, 2009), with Al Jazeera Network for blogs and other distribution media sharing (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-wojcicki/creative-commons-in2009_b_366548.html). Stores are also using Creative commons license to promote their goods and services like "Nike and Best Buy"(huffingtonpost). Creative Commons is taking off and there is no stopping it; and maybe that would be a solution for the music and movie industries to go with Creative Commons under their protected copyright license, instead of spending millions of dollars targeting college-age people!
Another new idea has emerged, and educators like this new concept by allowing students to download their textboks from online stores because of the cost of the books from the universities; which can be around $1,000 to $1,200 a year (http://cnnmoney.printhis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Cut+school+costs%3A+Download+your+textbooks+-+Dec...). Professors also like that they can put lectures on "IPhones" and can also modify the textbooks in the pdf format to their likening(CNN-Money). Textbooks on average costs are increasing from 6% to 8% annually (CNN-Money). Now students can go to "Flat World Knowledge" and "Course Smart" to purchase some textbooks in digital format (CNN-Money). Some 2000 faculty members from over 500 universities signed a petition to have more affordable textbooks online and its time, because it is the 21st century!
Creative Commons has revolutionized the web not only in music but education, too. Creative Commons is also helping to expand sharing in the Middle East (Jordan in Nov, 2009), with Al Jazeera Network for blogs and other distribution media sharing (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/esther-wojcicki/creative-commons-in2009_b_366548.html). Stores are also using Creative commons license to promote their goods and services like "Nike and Best Buy"(huffingtonpost). Creative Commons is taking off and there is no stopping it; and maybe that would be a solution for the music and movie industries to go with Creative Commons under their protected copyright license, instead of spending millions of dollars targeting college-age people!
Josh Woodward Part II of Assignment #3
Josh Woodward is from Findlay, Ohio and was tired of all the comotion of Napster; because of the downloading of artists' songs for free and the lawsuits that followed. He is a singer and a songwriter and decided to fight back and placed a 150 of his original songs on his website for people to download for free and to encourage them to buy CD's through "Snickers Records"(http://www.joshwoodward.com/). As a result of this briliant idea to allow people to download his music for free, it has led to "Creative Commons" to have millions of downloads a day. The internet for freelancers or creative people using "Creative Commons" gives them the ability to showcase their talent or lack of to a niche audience. As for Josh Woodward, he has had over a million downloads of his music and noteriety, too.
What is Creative Commons and what or whom does it help or hurt?
Creative Commons is a website that allows people (amateurs) to place their talent online under a license (one-for-all), for people to download the artists' works for free. Some artists' can also have their works published under "Creative Commons" with some copyright protection.
A man name Allan Vilhan did just that; he joined "Megatune.com (an internet music distributor) that places an "all rights reserved" copyright language, with additional protection licenses reserved under "Creative Commons"(http://money.cnn.com/magazine/business2_archive/2004/05/01/368240/index.htm).
Allan Vilhan was able to make a small profit from a programmer that downloaded 2 versions of his two tracks, and was paid $450.00 to license them for music on a videogame (CNN-Money). In addition, a design firm used Vilham's songs for a Flash presentation and paid him $370.00 (CNN-Money). According to CNN, 'Megatune founder John Buckman has grossed in just two years-from 2003-2005, $180,000 for 126 musicians. Plus, the free downloads gives these artists' exposure that they would not otherwise have and which may lead to commercial demand; where the real money is (CNN-Money).
This is just on example of how an artist can utilize "Creative Common" with a license or limited copyright protection. But, there are artists' out there like "Pink Floyd", "ACDC", 'Jimi Hendrix", and movies blockbusters the "Titantic", that are under the Copyright Act of 1976 and are protected from internet free-downloading (CNN-Money). I believe that these artists' should not have their creative works stolen from them whether or not it's a societal new phenomenum or not. If artists choose to place their works under "Creative Commons" or any other free access site; then that's their business! But, I feel personally that piratcy isn't a moral right, and therefore anyone who steals creativity from someone else should pay legally!
A man name Allan Vilhan did just that; he joined "Megatune.com (an internet music distributor) that places an "all rights reserved" copyright language, with additional protection licenses reserved under "Creative Commons"(http://money.cnn.com/magazine/business2_archive/2004/05/01/368240/index.htm).
Allan Vilhan was able to make a small profit from a programmer that downloaded 2 versions of his two tracks, and was paid $450.00 to license them for music on a videogame (CNN-Money). In addition, a design firm used Vilham's songs for a Flash presentation and paid him $370.00 (CNN-Money). According to CNN, 'Megatune founder John Buckman has grossed in just two years-from 2003-2005, $180,000 for 126 musicians. Plus, the free downloads gives these artists' exposure that they would not otherwise have and which may lead to commercial demand; where the real money is (CNN-Money).
This is just on example of how an artist can utilize "Creative Common" with a license or limited copyright protection. But, there are artists' out there like "Pink Floyd", "ACDC", 'Jimi Hendrix", and movies blockbusters the "Titantic", that are under the Copyright Act of 1976 and are protected from internet free-downloading (CNN-Money). I believe that these artists' should not have their creative works stolen from them whether or not it's a societal new phenomenum or not. If artists choose to place their works under "Creative Commons" or any other free access site; then that's their business! But, I feel personally that piratcy isn't a moral right, and therefore anyone who steals creativity from someone else should pay legally!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Censorship around The World Blog Assignment # 2, Google and Netizens
What is Democracy on the World Wide Web? From the research I conducted on this very subject; I found that even the United States has a double-standard when it comes to censorship. For instance, Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stated publicly that she was proud of Google's decision to stand up against the Chinese goverment against censorship; but, she didn't mention how the United States conducts censorship, too. Her comments according to other politicians and security software scientists, was no more than a "cheerleading for Google" and in order for the internet to allow free speech there must be a worldwide discussion among members of countries to put laws in place to allow freedom of speech(www.technewsworld.com/story/69171.html). The problem started with Google and the Chinese government when the Chinese try to hack twenty companies affiliated with Google, because they were trying to access email accounts of political dissenters in December, 2009 (www.cnn/2010/TECH/01/12google.china/index.html). The Senior Vice president of Google's operations in China, David Drummond stated that the Chinese government for the past year has been conducting surveilance of the coming and goings of Google's employees; and this most recent cyber attack in December has made the company considered leaving China all together(www.cnn/TECH/01/12google.china/index.html).
Google originally agreed in 2006 to censor the company according to Chinese law and to set-up a server according to local laws, in order to operate their business in China (www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/0125/google/china/html). So, it took only three years for Google to get sick and tired of the censorship from China? No, this past week after a heated debate between Google and the Chinese government, the two entities came up with an amicable agreement, and for now it looks like Google will still operate in China.
Netizens are people who join internet forum sites, that the people all share a common philosophy and discuss their thoughts with one another. The netizens have helped politicians' raise money for their campaigns and also have made remarks about a candidate they do not endorse. In the 1990's, the American Heart Ass. reached out to people that had either suffered from a congenital heart problem or someone they loved and; as a result the netizens petitoned their state governors to make Feb. 14th Congenital Heart Disease Day (NIH). It took the netizens about one to two years to have this day recognized officially into law (NIH).
China Netizens:
Even though China bans Twitter, and other social-media sites, the Chinese people have still found ways around the censorship by using micro-blog sites to communicate with each other, and to show the autrocities committed by their government with the use of cellphones and video camcorders, to get the footage out to the rest of the world to see. In China 92% of the people are netizens and by 2015 the numbers will rise from 300 million to 500 million netizens, and currently there are only 76% of the U.S. population that are netizens (www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_banning_twitter_92_china_uses_social_m...). The Chinese government uses a software component to stop people from discussing openly the political rhetoric, and it is called "GreenDam Software Censoring, and all computers sold in China must have this censoring software built inside each and every computer" (www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_banning_twitter_92_uses_social_m...). The GreenDam Software is able to pick out a list of words or phrases and ban them immediately from netizens in China to ever being able to reach their intended audience. Even when China has military conflicts with a soverign country, Taiwan; the Chinese government bans any internet information from getting out, so they think! When there was a social uprising between the "Flaun Dafu Muslim group that wanted religous freedom, subject of democracy, China tried to block the the comments on the web" (www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_banning_twitter_92_uses_social_m...). The Chinese government blocked or banned Twitter and Facebook when the Uighur Muslims were protesting in the thousands; and a bloody violent confrontation erupted that left 140 of the muslim protestors' dead; but the netizens of China were still able to capture the bloody images with their cellphones and used micor-blogging sites that allow the world to see the horrible events that the Chinese government committed. "China's constitution supposeably guarantees freedom of speech, and the government employs a "subversion of state power clause" which is employed to punish those who are critical of the government (www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_banning_twitter_92_uses_social_m...). The clause was most recently used against the Uigher Muslims and banned social-networking sites: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and Bing. Images below Picture 1 shows Google taking their sign down, Picture 2 shows where the internet is blocked.
The United States has been committing censorship to countries that have U.N. sanctions put in place: Syria, Sudan, Iran, and North Korea from purchasing goods that have more than ten percent of components made in the U.S.A., other than food or medical supplies (http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/26/syria-netizens-discuss-sourceforge-ban/print/). In Syria for the past year has been having a hard time logging into a server from the United States called SourceForge; and this is used for internet users to conduct educational research and to download other materials. In January of this year the United States has completely stopped all access to the online server to these banned countries from using SorceForge.net- These are the errors they see when trying to access SourceForge:
link (http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/26/syria-netizens-discuss-sourceforge-ban/print/). So, this is hyprocritical to what Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's stance on Google's decision to stand their ground against the Chinese government of censorship, when the United States is doing the same thing! Some people would argue, that the United States has different reasons for censorship to these countries like Syria, because they are enemies' to our national security; so isn't China?
The web traffic on the World Wide Web has been growing at a phenominal rate, that even the filters that governments put in place will not stop the people of the world from beating the censorship; because some people out there are extremely ingenious and can always hack around these filters to let the news out one way or another (http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/can-google-beat-china/?pagemode=pr...). For instance, when I watched the video on Myanmar, the journalists' video camcorders were confiscated by the military, but they were still able to capture images of the brutality being committed against the citizens of Myanmar with the journalist's cellphones (http:abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3666307) Even Iran, the freedom protestors have been able to show the death of many protestors with the use of cellphones, even though Iran tries to block the internet. This will never stop netizens from distributing the images with the "Long Tail' of the internet because it is to vast and infinite for governments to stop.
Works Cited:
Google originally agreed in 2006 to censor the company according to Chinese law and to set-up a server according to local laws, in order to operate their business in China (www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/0125/google/china/html). So, it took only three years for Google to get sick and tired of the censorship from China? No, this past week after a heated debate between Google and the Chinese government, the two entities came up with an amicable agreement, and for now it looks like Google will still operate in China.
Background of Netizens in China and elsewhere:
Netizens are people who join internet forum sites, that the people all share a common philosophy and discuss their thoughts with one another. The netizens have helped politicians' raise money for their campaigns and also have made remarks about a candidate they do not endorse. In the 1990's, the American Heart Ass. reached out to people that had either suffered from a congenital heart problem or someone they loved and; as a result the netizens petitoned their state governors to make Feb. 14th Congenital Heart Disease Day (NIH). It took the netizens about one to two years to have this day recognized officially into law (NIH).
China Netizens:
Even though China bans Twitter, and other social-media sites, the Chinese people have still found ways around the censorship by using micro-blog sites to communicate with each other, and to show the autrocities committed by their government with the use of cellphones and video camcorders, to get the footage out to the rest of the world to see. In China 92% of the people are netizens and by 2015 the numbers will rise from 300 million to 500 million netizens, and currently there are only 76% of the U.S. population that are netizens (www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_banning_twitter_92_china_uses_social_m...). The Chinese government uses a software component to stop people from discussing openly the political rhetoric, and it is called "GreenDam Software Censoring, and all computers sold in China must have this censoring software built inside each and every computer" (www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_banning_twitter_92_uses_social_m...). The GreenDam Software is able to pick out a list of words or phrases and ban them immediately from netizens in China to ever being able to reach their intended audience. Even when China has military conflicts with a soverign country, Taiwan; the Chinese government bans any internet information from getting out, so they think! When there was a social uprising between the "Flaun Dafu Muslim group that wanted religous freedom, subject of democracy, China tried to block the the comments on the web" (www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_banning_twitter_92_uses_social_m...). The Chinese government blocked or banned Twitter and Facebook when the Uighur Muslims were protesting in the thousands; and a bloody violent confrontation erupted that left 140 of the muslim protestors' dead; but the netizens of China were still able to capture the bloody images with their cellphones and used micor-blogging sites that allow the world to see the horrible events that the Chinese government committed. "China's constitution supposeably guarantees freedom of speech, and the government employs a "subversion of state power clause" which is employed to punish those who are critical of the government (www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_banning_twitter_92_uses_social_m...). The clause was most recently used against the Uigher Muslims and banned social-networking sites: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, and Bing. Images below Picture 1 shows Google taking their sign down, Picture 2 shows where the internet is blocked.
The United States has been committing censorship to countries that have U.N. sanctions put in place: Syria, Sudan, Iran, and North Korea from purchasing goods that have more than ten percent of components made in the U.S.A., other than food or medical supplies (http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/26/syria-netizens-discuss-sourceforge-ban/print/). In Syria for the past year has been having a hard time logging into a server from the United States called SourceForge; and this is used for internet users to conduct educational research and to download other materials. In January of this year the United States has completely stopped all access to the online server to these banned countries from using SorceForge.net- These are the errors they see when trying to access SourceForge:
link (http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/26/syria-netizens-discuss-sourceforge-ban/print/). So, this is hyprocritical to what Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's stance on Google's decision to stand their ground against the Chinese government of censorship, when the United States is doing the same thing! Some people would argue, that the United States has different reasons for censorship to these countries like Syria, because they are enemies' to our national security; so isn't China?
The web traffic on the World Wide Web has been growing at a phenominal rate, that even the filters that governments put in place will not stop the people of the world from beating the censorship; because some people out there are extremely ingenious and can always hack around these filters to let the news out one way or another (http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/can-google-beat-china/?pagemode=pr...). For instance, when I watched the video on Myanmar, the journalists' video camcorders were confiscated by the military, but they were still able to capture images of the brutality being committed against the citizens of Myanmar with the journalist's cellphones (http:abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3666307) Even Iran, the freedom protestors have been able to show the death of many protestors with the use of cellphones, even though Iran tries to block the internet. This will never stop netizens from distributing the images with the "Long Tail' of the internet because it is to vast and infinite for governments to stop.
Works Cited:
- Dana Oshiro, Despite Banning Twitter, 92% of China Netizens use Social media (www.readandwriteweb.com/archives/despite_banning_twitter_92_china_uses_social_m...)
- Paul Hartsock, Google and the Freedom Press (www.technewsworld.com/story/6971.html)
- Jillian York, Syria: netizens Discuss SourceForge Ban (http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/syria-netizens-discuss-sourceforge-ban/print/)
- Liu Jin, Can Google Beat China? (http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/can-google-beat-china/?pagemode=pr...)
- Jeanne Meserve and Mike Ahlers, Google reports China-based attack, says pullout possible (http://cnn.site.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Googlee+reports+China-ba...)
- Google to censor itself in China, 2006, (http://cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/01/25/google.china/)
- Myanmar Cell Phone Journalism, (http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3666307)
Monday, January 25, 2010
Journalism and the new way to compose online
Source : (http://www.wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Online_Journalism_-_Future)
Electronic newspapers have been around since the middle of the 1990's; but, recently they have really been popping up on the internet in the past five years. Many of people's hometown newspapers have been going out of business due to lack of revenue, advertisement, and most of all the convenience of the instant news on our cell phones, computers, and 24 hour news cable channels. Online Journalism is quite different than print news because they must have a heading that captures the internet audience quickly and made more personal to the individual user. What i mean about being more personal to the individual internet user is by allowing other sites to be linked with the newspaer or online article; such as personal blog sites. These personal blog sites not only benefit the user, but the journalist as well. The blogs can be set-up for a particular discussion about an article and give users the right to make comments about the subject matter; and in addition, this also brings more people to review the article too. If you recall about two years ago when Anna Nicole smith died there were so many online journalistic articles with links to blog sites in order for people to discuss who may be responsible for her death and her son's death. There was an internet frenzy, cable news channels were also carrying her court case live from Florida as to where she would want to be buried.
Online newspapers as they refine their content with the current issues, will help them increase their audience and online advertisers''; thus, their profits may surpass when they were just printed newspapers on your doorsteps. The online juornalist must also take into consideration that their content is ethical; and they also have to deal with plagerism, pirates, hackers, and make sure that their hyperlinks are well encrypted.
Electronic newspapers have been around since the middle of the 1990's; but, recently they have really been popping up on the internet in the past five years. Many of people's hometown newspapers have been going out of business due to lack of revenue, advertisement, and most of all the convenience of the instant news on our cell phones, computers, and 24 hour news cable channels. Online Journalism is quite different than print news because they must have a heading that captures the internet audience quickly and made more personal to the individual user. What i mean about being more personal to the individual internet user is by allowing other sites to be linked with the newspaer or online article; such as personal blog sites. These personal blog sites not only benefit the user, but the journalist as well. The blogs can be set-up for a particular discussion about an article and give users the right to make comments about the subject matter; and in addition, this also brings more people to review the article too. If you recall about two years ago when Anna Nicole smith died there were so many online journalistic articles with links to blog sites in order for people to discuss who may be responsible for her death and her son's death. There was an internet frenzy, cable news channels were also carrying her court case live from Florida as to where she would want to be buried.
Online newspapers as they refine their content with the current issues, will help them increase their audience and online advertisers''; thus, their profits may surpass when they were just printed newspapers on your doorsteps. The online juornalist must also take into consideration that their content is ethical; and they also have to deal with plagerism, pirates, hackers, and make sure that their hyperlinks are well encrypted.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Week 1/ Pirates and punishment
Online retailers have to deal with shoplifting, but it is often called piratcy, and they lose billions of dollars a year. In one case, two young men matthew Purse and Christopher Walters pirated software from "Apple, Corel, McAfee, and set-up bogus online accounts that they stole from unknowing consumers"(http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/3858586). These two young men portrayed themselves as legitmate online retailers on eBay to sell their stolen recopied software; and also took customers' application information. In 2008 alone software retailers' reported losing $53. Billion dollars to pirates. Two agencies that have been making attempts to catch these pirates, is the SIIA and the Federal Trade Commission. Matthew Purse was sentenced to eight years in a federal prison and hundered of thosands of dollars in fines, but, Christopher Walters is still on the run. The laws are still to vague on how to prosecute perpretrators like these two men; and also how much prison time should be placed on the books for state and federal judges to have as guidelines. The World Wide Web is so vast and it can be hard to find pirates (like finding a needle in a haystack). Many of these online thiefs are very intelligent and know how to cover their tracks by using fake server addresses and other technology.
Work Cited:
Another eBay Pirate heads To Prison-e-commerce-Guide.com
www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/3858586
Work Cited:
Another eBay Pirate heads To Prison-e-commerce-Guide.com
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Assignment I/ The Long Tail and issues of Cyberspace
After reading 'The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson; I noticed that there are many issues of online e-commerce that I never thought about before as a former business owner. For instance, how Mr. Anderson explained how one book called "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauner reserected a book that published a decade earlier with a similiar story line about mountain climbing disasters (www.wired.com/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html). Amazon.com was very keen with their marketing research and noticed if the book "Into Thin Air" was on the best selling list that they should bring back by Mr. Simpson's "Touching The Void"; in which became a best-seller too. Amazon, eBay, and many other online retailers use cookies that enable the companies to tell what their potential and existing customers niches or likes and dislikes of the products they sell; thus this is an economical way of bringing these products to the online market places. Online retailers have an advantage over brick and mortar stores because they do not have the same overhead and they can sell their products all over the world. Mr. Anderson also stated during his research that the Pureto's Principle statistical principle of the 80/20 rule states that for most retailing operations, that only 20% of the movies, videogames, and books will be the best or most popular items to sell (www.wired.com/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html). Well, Mr Anderson found out that this wasn't the case with most online retailers and the 98% rule was most applicable to the companies that he researched because even if one product sold in the product line-up that the graph would never reach zero on the tail end of the graph (Anderson, 2006 and 2008, pp. 6-7). Please see Chris Anderson's video describing the 80/20 rule at (http://www.youtube.com/watch?y=0Yku0GTrcuw&feature=fvw). Mr. Anderson describes the 98% rule that retailers' like Rhapsody online jukebox states that it sells that amount of its songs at least 4 or 5 times a month as "long-tailed distributions"; because the end of the line on the X axis is longer than the head of the Y axis (Anderson, 2006, 2008, pp. 10-11). Mr. Anderson also states there are three rules for this statistical graph: (1) the tail of the x axis is longer due to the infinite availability of products online; (2) it's cheaper to carry these niche items in databases and; (3) all the niches, when sold and added up, makes a larger market for both the consumer and the online retailers' (Anderson, 2006, 2008, pp. 10-11). This enables the online retailers to make more money compared to a brick and mortar store; and also helps consumers to find the products and services that they cannot find elsewhere.
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