1. Transparency/honesty/privacy/bullying/ID theft - Facebook privacy and you
2. Crowd sourcing- History: pre-internet to today
3. Intellectual property, copyright/copyleft- Future of media and its role in our lives
Proxy server
Computer-----john, pass123-----ISP---FB
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Proxy-----------------FB
If you don't use an encrypted HTTPS address, a proxy server can easily collect and store your personal information and use it for nefarious purposes.
Access to everything they bring through that door.
When using a wireless wi-fi network in a public place such as a hotel, always check its legitimacy with the staff as it could very easily be set up by a hustler looking to gain your credit card details and spend your money on various objects without your knowledge.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Blogs and Newspapers- Strengths and Weaknesses
Will blogs become the major source of news over traditional journalism?
Will this change the advertising model?
Blog Types:
Personal
Informative
Business
Entertainment
Vlogs:
Vlogs are very popular these days, the dominant place they are found is on YouTube. Quality of vlogs can range considerably, from random teenagers complaining about their issues to actual interesting people making a good video. A couple of examples of quality vloggers would be Charlie McDonnell (charlieissocoollike) and Liam Dryden (littleradge) both members of the Trock band Chameleon Circuit.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Blogs are fast becoming more used than newspapers, but they do have their weaknesses. Here I will discuss a couple of the strengths and weaknesses of both blogs and newspapers.
BLOGS:
Strengths:
Blogs have faster output/input, allowing news to spread more freely and quickly around the world.
Free and easy to use.
Weaknesses:
Since anyone can create a blog, there is more proliferation of fake news and hoaxes.
They have more trouble getting interviews, because they don't have any sort of official title.
NEWSPAPERS:
Strengths:
Their staff is trained in journalism, so they are more professional.
They have access to more resources and have more authority.
Weaknesses:
They have to spend more money on getting the news out there.
Their output/input is slower than that of blogs.
In conclusion, blogs and newspapers both have their benefits and shortcomings and I think that newspapers are not completely dead and still have their uses. For example, blogs may have faster output but newspapers still have more access to resources and find it easier to gain interviews with important people. Maybe the two forms of news can work together in the future, compensating for each others respective strengths and weaknesses. If a blog has faster output and a newspaper has better resources, then if they combine the two and work in tandem with each other then it would take social media to a whole new level.
Will this change the advertising model?
Blog Types:
Personal
Informative
Business
Entertainment
Vlogs:
Vlogs are very popular these days, the dominant place they are found is on YouTube. Quality of vlogs can range considerably, from random teenagers complaining about their issues to actual interesting people making a good video. A couple of examples of quality vloggers would be Charlie McDonnell (charlieissocoollike) and Liam Dryden (littleradge) both members of the Trock band Chameleon Circuit.
Strengths and Weaknesses:
Blogs are fast becoming more used than newspapers, but they do have their weaknesses. Here I will discuss a couple of the strengths and weaknesses of both blogs and newspapers.
BLOGS:
Strengths:
Blogs have faster output/input, allowing news to spread more freely and quickly around the world.
Free and easy to use.
Weaknesses:
Since anyone can create a blog, there is more proliferation of fake news and hoaxes.
They have more trouble getting interviews, because they don't have any sort of official title.
NEWSPAPERS:
Strengths:
Their staff is trained in journalism, so they are more professional.
They have access to more resources and have more authority.
Weaknesses:
They have to spend more money on getting the news out there.
Their output/input is slower than that of blogs.
In conclusion, blogs and newspapers both have their benefits and shortcomings and I think that newspapers are not completely dead and still have their uses. For example, blogs may have faster output but newspapers still have more access to resources and find it easier to gain interviews with important people. Maybe the two forms of news can work together in the future, compensating for each others respective strengths and weaknesses. If a blog has faster output and a newspaper has better resources, then if they combine the two and work in tandem with each other then it would take social media to a whole new level.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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