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 […]