What person doesn't want their own privacy? In the Untied States people tend to have a high amount of respect for people and their privacy. As you take a look at this map you can see which areas in the world are strict about privacy and which areas are not. Everybody wants to have their own privacy. People tend to want their own privacy when their at home, using the bathroom, at the store, or even on the computer. Nobody wants people snooping all around in their business. We often want things to be kept confidential. What does privacy actually mean? What privacy means to me is having your own personal space, ideas, and belongings kept confidential without anyone's intrusion. People in today's society need their own privacy. I can only imagine how superstars feel when the paparazzi is all up in their business taking pictures, asking their for autographs, askin them questions, and constantly following them.
Some people in America doesn't care if things about them are view by others. When you create a profile on facebook or myspace you are putting info about yourself out there for other public viewers. In the article, "Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?" by Danah Boyd, states how teens use these sites to access public life. Mainly people use these sites to socialize with friends and family. If people are putting out their personal conversations and information on the internet knowing other people can obtain that infotmation their displaying makes you really wonder if people even care about their privacy. In the article, "Privacy Lost: Does anybody care?" by Bob Sullivan. Bob tries to explain whether or not people care about their privacy knowing people can look at certain things about you over the internet. In Sullivan's article it states, "Only a tiny fraction of Americans – 7 percent, according to a recent survey by The Ponemon Institute – change any behaviors in an effort to preserve their privacy. Few people turn down a discount at toll booths to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements." (Sullivan, 2006) It seems like people care about their privacy based on what type of information about them is being giving out.
You may not know it but your privacy is not always secure over the internet. When your shopping online and such your personal privacy can be invaded. This is a big issue because people using the computer don't know when their privacy is being intruded upon. People often visit sites where message boxes will pop up to let you know that your visiting a unsecure website, but some websites don't inform you that your visiting a unsecured website or not. Your often at risk when your on the internet whether you know it or not. The thing is how can you stop people from getting into your personal space while your on the internet.
I definitely worry about my privacy online. I don't know who wouldn't worry about their privacy online. I think i only tend to think or worry about it when I'm purchasing an account online and I'm required to put all of my personal information down including my atm/debit/credit card number down. I often buy sneakers off the internet sometimes. I usually order them from like finish line, eastbay, or footlocker. When your placing an order you are required to put your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and bank account card number down. Even when your trying to fill out for loans online for school. When filling out a loan you have to put down even more of your personal information down such including your social security number down in which you don't want anyone to have a hold of.
Over the summer I was looking at the news and they were talking about these two people from my hometown Rochester, NY, were stealing superstars identity and buying cars and other things of value. The superstars who's identity were being stolen were Nia Long, Ashanti, and i can't remember the last celebrity. Somehow these people were able to obtain their social security number from the internet. The people acted as if they were them and were buying stuff under their name. How do you sell something to a person that does not look anything like those celebrities? The thing is why would those celebrities even be in Rochester to buy a car? Like it really doesn't even add up if you think about it. People were shocked that this situation was even able to happen. Thats why my mom always tells me i shouldn't always be buying stuff off the internet or filling out information about me because I don't anyone to be stealing my personal identity or information.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Com125 Assignment 4: It is better to give than receieve
What does the word economy mean? Economy is the act or means of thrifty savings. People tend to save their savings in order to become more wealthy individuals. Usually the more money people make the higher their status becomes, but thats not always the case if your not doing the right thing with your money. Gift economy sounds pretty similar to economy, but its actually very different. Gift economy is where computer users or some main source gives information to other users for free without expecting anything back.They put out resourceful advice out for the publics access. The person on the receiving end may never come in counter wit the person delivering their source of information. In the reading "The Economies of Online Cooperation" by Kollack (1999), Bell(1999) states in a gift economy, benefits come from improving the “technology of social relations” by, for example, increasing the range and diversity of one's social network. In commodity economies, the benefits come from making improvements in the technology of production. Thus, gift economies are driven by social relations while commodity economies are driven by price. According to the article,"The Hi-Tech Gift Economy" by Richard Barbook, he discusses how the gift economy evolved since 1998 when the paper was written.
How has the gift economy come about? In the article, "Internet gift economies: Voluntary payment schemes as tangible reciprocity" by Kylie J. Veale, she states, "exchange in the internet gift economy begins with the creation of a product, not unlike societies in the past, made available to the community at large for free. These products are a variety of digital items — Web pages, discussions or newsgroups, e-mails, MP3’s or other files including software and digitised newspaper and magazine articles." (Veale, 2003) By utilizing the phrase ‘gift economy’, digital anthropologists have consequently sought to explain how the Internet grew in its early years through the sharing of information" (Veale,2003). People create websites for others to gain knowledge from for free. That's what the gift economy is all about; gaining useful information that they can put to use.
Even then when the internet was not very popular there was a paper source where information was being shared wit society. Now that we have the internet people can communicate socially with one another through various websites such as facebook which is considered part of the gift economy. People can not only give information about stuff,share videos, and can also share photos, but they can also receive information about things. Facebook is a perfect example of gift economy. Myspace would also be considered part of the gift economy. I am very familiar with both myspace and facebook.
Myspace service began in August of 2003. Myspace is 100% owned division of publicly traded internet company eUniverse. The intentions of myspace was to be a social networking website which would offer an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. The very first myspace users were eUniverse employees. Their company held a contest to see which employee could sign up the most users. By September 7, 2007, there were over 200 million accounts. People are able to share information with each other. Unknown artist are able to put their music out there on the internet to bed heard and exposed by myspace users. E-mail subscribers have even put forth effort and time to breathe life into myspace.
According to wikipedia, shortly after launching MySpace, team member Chris DeWolfe in its first business plan suggested that they start charging a fee for the basic MySpace service. Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's Founder, Chairman, CEO) nixed Chris DeWolfe's idea, due to it being "totally not necessary, as many mindless youths and adults will donate money to us anyway".The eUniverse company was bought in July 2005 for $580 million approximately $327 million has been attributed to the value of MySpace according to the financial advisor fairness opinion.
It seems like the more users myspace has it seems like the more it advances. It used to be just where you can obtain music. Now you can put your own music and videos for viewers to view.
You can also view which of your friends are currently online, let people know what kind of a mood your in, etc.I feel its good to have a gift economy because if we didnt then where would people get all their good resourceful information from. I wouldn't probably known anything about this topic if it wasn't for the gift economy. The more people access and use these websites the more it will gain revenue for the creators to keep it up.
How has the gift economy come about? In the article, "Internet gift economies: Voluntary payment schemes as tangible reciprocity" by Kylie J. Veale, she states, "exchange in the internet gift economy begins with the creation of a product, not unlike societies in the past, made available to the community at large for free. These products are a variety of digital items — Web pages, discussions or newsgroups, e-mails, MP3’s or other files including software and digitised newspaper and magazine articles." (Veale, 2003) By utilizing the phrase ‘gift economy’, digital anthropologists have consequently sought to explain how the Internet grew in its early years through the sharing of information" (Veale,2003). People create websites for others to gain knowledge from for free. That's what the gift economy is all about; gaining useful information that they can put to use.
Even then when the internet was not very popular there was a paper source where information was being shared wit society. Now that we have the internet people can communicate socially with one another through various websites such as facebook which is considered part of the gift economy. People can not only give information about stuff,share videos, and can also share photos, but they can also receive information about things. Facebook is a perfect example of gift economy. Myspace would also be considered part of the gift economy. I am very familiar with both myspace and facebook.
Myspace service began in August of 2003. Myspace is 100% owned division of publicly traded internet company eUniverse. The intentions of myspace was to be a social networking website which would offer an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. The very first myspace users were eUniverse employees. Their company held a contest to see which employee could sign up the most users. By September 7, 2007, there were over 200 million accounts. People are able to share information with each other. Unknown artist are able to put their music out there on the internet to bed heard and exposed by myspace users. E-mail subscribers have even put forth effort and time to breathe life into myspace.
According to wikipedia, shortly after launching MySpace, team member Chris DeWolfe in its first business plan suggested that they start charging a fee for the basic MySpace service. Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's Founder, Chairman, CEO) nixed Chris DeWolfe's idea, due to it being "totally not necessary, as many mindless youths and adults will donate money to us anyway".The eUniverse company was bought in July 2005 for $580 million approximately $327 million has been attributed to the value of MySpace according to the financial advisor fairness opinion.
It seems like the more users myspace has it seems like the more it advances. It used to be just where you can obtain music. Now you can put your own music and videos for viewers to view.
You can also view which of your friends are currently online, let people know what kind of a mood your in, etc.I feel its good to have a gift economy because if we didnt then where would people get all their good resourceful information from. I wouldn't probably known anything about this topic if it wasn't for the gift economy. The more people access and use these websites the more it will gain revenue for the creators to keep it up.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Com125 Assignment 3: You better put a C on that lol
Why is it so important to have copyright? The are various reasons why copyright is used. Do you want you stuff stolen for people to profit off of your material? Well you better put a copyright on it! Copyright is enforced on harshly on some things more then others. People in today's society steal people stuff every day. Take for instance downloading music and movies. There are site where u can download programs where you can download music for free. Its illegal to do it but majority of the people in the world do it. There are even bootleg DVD's and CD's that you can purchase at some local corner stores. even People belongings are stolen all the time thats why we created something called copyright.
What is copyright and where did it begin? According to Wikipedia, copyright was not invented until after the advent of the printing press and with wider public literacy. It originated in Britain from a reaction to printer monopolies. Charles II of England was so worried about unfair copying of books he used the royal prerogative to pass the Licensing Act of 1662. Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This order of protection is accessible to work that is published and unpublished. A copyright last for the authors life and 70 years after their dead. There are many sections to the copyright law. The proper way to place a copyright notice is as follows: Copyright © (first date of creation) (name of owner). An example of this would be Copyright © 2007 John Smith. Copyright has grown greatly over the course of time. It went from regulating published books and maps to covering things such as sound recordings, films, photographs, software, and architectural works.
People even freely copy things off the internet without people permission(more info on internet copying). What's better than getting things for free? There is a website where people can copy images to place on their own sites. For instance, there is a website where people can get free web layouts. There a website where people can get free ringtones. People even use limewire or ares to download music. Free stuff is easily obtainable all over the net. I don't see what's the point in suing people who download and share music because everyone does it. You can't go around suing everyone in the world because that would just be stupid.
Copyright infringement is a very big issue in the world today. As stated on Wikipedia copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material which is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the original copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. The slang term copyright infringement is bootleg (derived from the use of the shank of a boot for the purposes of smuggling) which is often used to describe illicitly copied material. People sell bootleg copies of movies that have just been shown in theaters or music albums that haven't even been released in stores yet for their own profit. That would be considered copyright infringement, but people still do it anyways. The foul acts of downloading pornography and sharing recorded music in the form of mp3 and other audio files are also considered copyright infringement. Its sort of stupid I think for downloading and sharing to be considered stealing because stores sell mp3 players and ipods which are specifically made for putting music and movies that you download on them.
Less music artist cds are purchased because people just download their albums. Its kind of beneficial for artist there music can get heard and make people want to buy their cd. Your not going to want to buy a rookies cd that you haven't heard before that just came out into the industry;your going to want to download some of their music to see if you like the artist or not. Then again people may not want to buy it once they had downloaded it. I know there has been times when people have bought a cd and was pissed off because it wasn't as good as they thought it was going to be. Then they wish they have never bought the cd which could make them not want to buy a cd again because they might think other people cds might be the same way. Artist may often put out singles that people can just download that probably want be on their cd. Artitst shoudn't even be concerned if people download their music because they are already rich enough a few unbought cds is not going to hurt them. Least to say people are punished for infringement. Lawsuits are placed out on the infringer. If you don't want to get sued or anything of a kind I would advise you not to download any music or movies, but there is a high percentage that you won't get sued.
What is copyright and where did it begin? According to Wikipedia, copyright was not invented until after the advent of the printing press and with wider public literacy. It originated in Britain from a reaction to printer monopolies. Charles II of England was so worried about unfair copying of books he used the royal prerogative to pass the Licensing Act of 1662. Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This order of protection is accessible to work that is published and unpublished. A copyright last for the authors life and 70 years after their dead. There are many sections to the copyright law. The proper way to place a copyright notice is as follows: Copyright © (first date of creation) (name of owner). An example of this would be Copyright © 2007 John Smith. Copyright has grown greatly over the course of time. It went from regulating published books and maps to covering things such as sound recordings, films, photographs, software, and architectural works.
People even freely copy things off the internet without people permission(more info on internet copying). What's better than getting things for free? There is a website where people can copy images to place on their own sites. For instance, there is a website where people can get free web layouts. There a website where people can get free ringtones. People even use limewire or ares to download music. Free stuff is easily obtainable all over the net. I don't see what's the point in suing people who download and share music because everyone does it. You can't go around suing everyone in the world because that would just be stupid.
Copyright infringement is a very big issue in the world today. As stated on Wikipedia copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material which is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the original copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it. The slang term copyright infringement is bootleg (derived from the use of the shank of a boot for the purposes of smuggling) which is often used to describe illicitly copied material. People sell bootleg copies of movies that have just been shown in theaters or music albums that haven't even been released in stores yet for their own profit. That would be considered copyright infringement, but people still do it anyways. The foul acts of downloading pornography and sharing recorded music in the form of mp3 and other audio files are also considered copyright infringement. Its sort of stupid I think for downloading and sharing to be considered stealing because stores sell mp3 players and ipods which are specifically made for putting music and movies that you download on them.
Less music artist cds are purchased because people just download their albums. Its kind of beneficial for artist there music can get heard and make people want to buy their cd. Your not going to want to buy a rookies cd that you haven't heard before that just came out into the industry;your going to want to download some of their music to see if you like the artist or not. Then again people may not want to buy it once they had downloaded it. I know there has been times when people have bought a cd and was pissed off because it wasn't as good as they thought it was going to be. Then they wish they have never bought the cd which could make them not want to buy a cd again because they might think other people cds might be the same way. Artist may often put out singles that people can just download that probably want be on their cd. Artitst shoudn't even be concerned if people download their music because they are already rich enough a few unbought cds is not going to hurt them. Least to say people are punished for infringement. Lawsuits are placed out on the infringer. If you don't want to get sued or anything of a kind I would advise you not to download any music or movies, but there is a high percentage that you won't get sued.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
HTML is soooo Cool :] !!! Com125 Assignment 2
Where it all began:
In the exciting world wide web there has been many creations. One of the webs most unique assets is HTML which stands for Hypertext Markup Language. Who is the creator of such a powerful thing? The found creator of HTML is Berners-Lee in 1991. HTML was first cited as a document called HTML Tags which describes twenty two elements comprising the initial design of HTML. Berner considered HTML to be a application of SGML which was not defined until mid-1993. HTML Working Group which in 1995 completed "HTML 2.0", the first HTML specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future implementations should be based.
General make up of HTML:
Let me break down what HTML means exactly. As I already stated, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. Hypertext is the ordinary text that has been dressed up with extra features, such as formatting, images, multimedia, and links to other resources. Markup is the process of taking ordinary text and adding extra symbols. Each of the symbols used for markup in HTML is a command that tells the browser how to display the text. HTML is written as labels known as tags which is surrounded by less than and greater than signs (<>). Your basically writing commands that the internet will decode and respond to. Someof the basic features for HTML would be chapter and section headings, paragraphs and text markup such as italics and bold to stress parts of text, unnumbered and numbered lists, tables, embedding of visible raster images into the text flow, links, which provide access to other web pages on the world wide web, and presentational language like CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, which is a stylesheet language used by authors and readers of the web pages to define colors, fonts, layouts, and other aspects of document presentation.
Web viewing HTML style:
HTML highly dictates how people view their web page. People may see an HTML page as just numerous amounts of characters and text all complied next to each other on one page. The computer apparently sees the HTML code differently. The way HTML is shown is not the way it will look once its posted on the internet. It may look the this in HTML format, but once it's displayed on the web it appears different. Take a look!You can create HTML to create roll over buttons for certain links on your page, you can have specific things link to certain locations, you can insert images and create a photo album on your web page, and etc.. There are many neat things you can do with HTML.
HTML influence towards the internet:
HTML influenced the internet we use today greatly. I can't stress it enough how much we use HTML and some people probably don't even know their using it. Their are probably links you clicked on to get to this page that would be considered HTML. Thats just like how some people eat carrots and not know there good for your eyes. The internet would be much more difficult if there wasn't HTML. Like the headings I have written in bold letters are HTML. The things we can do with HTML today is amazing compared to what we used to know when HTML was first created. People should be very appreciative about what they have now and not take it for granted. I even created a couple of web pages in one of my class using HTML. Here is one of my websites.
Here are some websites that shows you how to create HTML.
If you ever want to create your own web page those are the tickets to success :]
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
In the exciting world wide web there has been many creations. One of the webs most unique assets is HTML which stands for Hypertext Markup Language. Who is the creator of such a powerful thing? The found creator of HTML is Berners-Lee in 1991. HTML was first cited as a document called HTML Tags which describes twenty two elements comprising the initial design of HTML. Berner considered HTML to be a application of SGML which was not defined until mid-1993. HTML Working Group which in 1995 completed "HTML 2.0", the first HTML specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future implementations should be based.
General make up of HTML:
Let me break down what HTML means exactly. As I already stated, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. Hypertext is the ordinary text that has been dressed up with extra features, such as formatting, images, multimedia, and links to other resources. Markup is the process of taking ordinary text and adding extra symbols. Each of the symbols used for markup in HTML is a command that tells the browser how to display the text. HTML is written as labels known as tags which is surrounded by less than and greater than signs (<>). Your basically writing commands that the internet will decode and respond to. Someof the basic features for HTML would be chapter and section headings, paragraphs and text markup such as italics and bold to stress parts of text, unnumbered and numbered lists, tables, embedding of visible raster images into the text flow, links, which provide access to other web pages on the world wide web, and presentational language like CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, which is a stylesheet language used by authors and readers of the web pages to define colors, fonts, layouts, and other aspects of document presentation.
Web viewing HTML style:
HTML highly dictates how people view their web page. People may see an HTML page as just numerous amounts of characters and text all complied next to each other on one page. The computer apparently sees the HTML code differently. The way HTML is shown is not the way it will look once its posted on the internet. It may look the this in HTML format, but once it's displayed on the web it appears different. Take a look!You can create HTML to create roll over buttons for certain links on your page, you can have specific things link to certain locations, you can insert images and create a photo album on your web page, and etc.. There are many neat things you can do with HTML.
HTML influence towards the internet:
HTML influenced the internet we use today greatly. I can't stress it enough how much we use HTML and some people probably don't even know their using it. Their are probably links you clicked on to get to this page that would be considered HTML. Thats just like how some people eat carrots and not know there good for your eyes. The internet would be much more difficult if there wasn't HTML. Like the headings I have written in bold letters are HTML. The things we can do with HTML today is amazing compared to what we used to know when HTML was first created. People should be very appreciative about what they have now and not take it for granted. I even created a couple of web pages in one of my class using HTML. Here is one of my websites.
Here are some websites that shows you how to create HTML.
If you ever want to create your own web page those are the tickets to success :]
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
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