Forget spreading the wealth, how about spreading the intellectual property rights?

From a young age, we are all taught not to steal. It is easy to see how stealing your neighbor’s bicycle is wrong. Your neighbor has a bicycle, you take it, now your neighbor does not have a bicycle.
But in the digital world, things are different. Let’s say your neighbor is a [...]

Election coverage on the New York Times and WVIT NBC 30 websites

I watched election coverage unfold on two websites, including WVIT – NBC 30. Their home page had links to get election coverage news, but there were also other stories unrelated to the election. If you wanted just election coverage you had to choose specific links.
The following are the updates I observed on WVIT’s [...]

Penguins, Jellyfish and Sharks

I created this video using iMovie. I am already preparing my speech for accepting an Academy Award.

The World of Podcasts

I have been using iTunes for about 2 and half years now, but only for buying music and videos and transferring songs to my iPod. I had never downloaded a podcast before today. I went to the iTunes store and started looking at the podcasts page, looking for news podcasts.
he first one I [...]

Important Poll Question

The images are all from the Nickelodeon website for Spongebob, except for the David Hasselhoff image, which is from imdb.com.

Presidential Election Poll

Ancient History Resources

Ancient history, especially the history of the Mediterranean area and the Near East, is one of my interests. I have decided to create a resource page that will include links to websites with good information about ancient history for that part of the world.
This site, hosted by Fordham University in New York, contains primary [...]

Blogs: A Double-Edged Knife

Blogs are a significant innovation in the history of journalism. Blogs, a web-based form of transmitting information, ideas and opinions using the Internet, are more informal and conversational than traditional media. As with online news stories, blogs can also benefit from added value: photos, hyperlinks, videos.
Blogs are like a double-edged [...]

Writing for the Web

One of the first lessons journalism students learn is to write using the “inverted pyramid.” Writing for the web is often different from traditional print media, but one thing that remains the same is using the inverted pyramid. This is important because, as we learned last week in lecture, most online readers do not [...]

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I could survive for 47 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor