What I found most interesting in this week’s materials was the controversy over sampling in music. I have to say that I lean to the side of those who call it stealing and find it unoriginal. It’s hard to truly say that I agree however, because I’m sure many of the songs I have on […]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube The Wikipedia article linked above gives a great overview of YouTube as both a website and a company, from its history to accepted video formats. Since 2005, the article has grown along with the website itself. The original definition was simply “YouTube is a website for hosting videos. It is similar to Flickr, except instead of photos, it is for videos.” Since […]
The reliability of digital sources is definitely an interesting topic. Although Errol Morris discusses analog photographs in the first article, he brings up a point that is completely relevant to digital sources as well. When information is debatable due to lack of background information, it’s difficult to find an unbiased source, let alone an accurate […]
One of the earliest newspaper articles I was able to find about YouTube talks about some of it’s earlier viral videos: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/03/arts/03tube.html As this article points out, something that made YouTube stand out then (as well as now) is that the videos are made at home, and yet draw so many viewers. To be honest, this […]
The idea that grabbed my interest in the reading for this week was the digitizing of historical texts. Although scanning can provide a more accurate image of the text, it’s not as easy to read as a transcript version. As mentioned in the reading, it is difficult to translate texts to a virtual copy without […]
Oversleeping is not fun! [9/6/12] When I woke up this morning, I knew something was off. As I glanced at my alarm clock, my thoughts went a little like this: It’s 10 am. Crap! I should have been in class an hour ago. I have to leave for another class in 20 minutes.. Awesome. As […]
The topic which I found most interesting in this week’s assigned materials was the History of the Internet youtube video. It initially drew me in as a film major because I liked the simple format that was used in the video to explain the history as a story. It also was interesting to me to […]