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kcb201 - n5681065: Is Facebook the devil? Or should we take responsibility for our own behaviour?
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Monday, May 5, 2008. Is Facebook the devil? Or should we take responsibility for our own behaviour? Bruns, A. (2008). Social Networks on Ning: A Sensible Alternative to Facebook. Snurblog. Retrieved May 12, 2008, from http:/ snurb.info/node/801. I believe I was the one with the boss that wanted to add me as a friend. Thomas so kindly used my blog as an example for his tutorial classes. May 6, 2008 at 4:58 PM. If it weren't for the fact that I need it for my professional development, it wouldn't be such a...
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kcb201 - n5681065: What Makes a Citizen Journalist Different From a Journalist Who is a Citizen?
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Thursday, May 1, 2008. What Makes a Citizen Journalist Different From a Journalist Who is a Citizen? Presumably most journalists are citizens too but what is it that makes citizen journalists so different from professional journalists? Was recently sent to me. This video titled. Jerry Day: Media and Ron Paul. Suggests that mainstream media still has a significant effect on the behaviours of online communities and media. Although it's difficult to truly 'measure' the effect, even using the methods in ...
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kcb201 - n5681065: The Winners and Losers of User-Led Content and Music Piracy... continued.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008. The Winners and Losers of User-Led Content and Music Piracy. continued. This is a post in response to Scott's insightful. I think this is a good point. The internet. Means that lots of people are contributing for little or no financial reward but they are also consuming for little or no cost. It could be argued that what we get out of the internet. Could be equivalent to what we put in. My argument is that the old way of looking at things does n ot. Rights to their music. Should h...
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kcb201 - n5681065: User-Led Content: Are There Winners and Losers?
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Sunday, May 11, 2008. User-Led Content: Are There Winners and Losers? There are so many users creating all this content, willing and freely. Often the motivations for the produser go far beyond monetary concerns. It seems to me that there could be some long term winners and losers of the rise in quality user lead content, and it may not always be the content creators. Bruns describes the Produsage Environment as being made up of people who participate in the process the following ways:. Bruns, p. 5).
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kcb201 - n5681065: "Technoslave?" - continued...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008. This is a response to Bre's post. Thanks for your post Bre. 8220;beyond an optimum, more multitasking is associated with declining project completion rates" (Aral and Brynjolfsson cited in Lohr, 2007). I understand the concept but I'm so damn engaged with technology that I'm going to need to do a university degree to teach me how to live a life without it! Lohr, S. (2007, March 2). Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic. May 14, 2008 at 11:17 AM. I feel like I...
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kcb201 - n5681065: How is open source work (as an example of community produsage) different from commercial production?
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Thursday, May 1, 2008. How is open source work (as an example of community produsage) different from commercial production? The collaborative nature of produsage means that a project embarked upon in the open source world is never truly "finished". People are constantly improving and adding to something created in an open source format whereas in a commercial production there are a limited number of employees and budget to "finish" the product ready for sale. According to Shirky:. Is a great example of t...
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kcb201 - n5681065: April 2008
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Monday, April 28, 2008. The Long Tail: When will the music industry get it? As Chris Anderson points out to us in his article. Enabling them to derive an income without necessarily appealing to a mass audience. What is the problem with this new way? Now we have all these great ways for people to make direct contact with their audience and potentially earn an income. Check out sites like. Perhaps what record companies are really complaining about is that they are not getting their piece of the action anym...
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kcb201 - n5681065: More on Music Piracy...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008. More on Music Piracy. I thought since I have the chance to I'd go a little further on my views about music "piracy". The growing evidence that giving away work improves your viability can be seen across many genres. Cory Doctorow, online journalist and science fiction author, released his book “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” under a. Licence. Doctorow already had a following so within the first twenty-four hours over 30,000 copies were downloaded. According to. These types of e...
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kcb201 - n5681065: Anti-Piracy: Save the Musician or Save the Record Company?
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Thursday, May 8, 2008. Anti-Piracy: Save the Musician or Save the Record Company? The reasons for online file sharing are varied and different but essentially the sharing of music can be categorised into about four categories (2004, p. 68). Lessig. Defines the reasons for online music sharing into the following categories of use:. A download of music as an alternative to buying the CD. B download to sample music and eventually purchase the CD. For which that artist would also receive no financial benefit).
