stealing (and branding) content

The concept of stealing content, rebranding it and making money from the advertisements was briefly mentioned in class the other day. Here is someone who made a little flash video showing his hatered for such things... *cough* eBaum *cough*

Video download page at newgrounds.com

the google baby

So a Swedish PhD in search engine marketing has named his son Oliver Google Kai.

Here is the child you've heard so much buzz about.

http://www.google-kai.com

Wk5 Reading (Mobile Media)

Rheingold, H. Ecologizing Mobile Media. Available online at: http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/101022.html

I greatly appreciate the attempt to create a list of factors by which to judge and discren the changes in mobile media. However, this list is all over the map. The points are not in a clear breakdown.
The emphasis on bias in interesting. Discussing each media in terms of it's bias to the reciever or sender, i.e. unspoken effects, is an interesting take. Again, we see shades of medium is the message thinking here.
My favorite point is this: "5. Technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything." I misread it to say 'addictive.' Which I think works just as well. The effect of a new medium is not purely the 'network effects' that happen between users and technologies, but is a large social change which ties into other social factors in an ecological sense.
My favorite phrase is: "agoraphobic behavior patterns."

file sharing is illegal?

Sharing movie and audio online is pretty common place, especially in the United State, where the Internet got it's start. Yet, we know that Asian countries are th worst for creation of pirated material and redistribution. Apparently, authorities are going to be more keen in those geographic areas, because there has finally been an arrest for the issue of online filesharing. A may was jailed for three months for uploading three movies for BitTorrent download. At least they aren't jailing the dowloaders... yet.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/07/asia/web.1107bit.php