Monday, May 28, 2007
Videocast!
Here is my podcast! I had a really good time working on it! As a video production major, it is always nice to be able to do something and then have people be able to watch it without having a physical DVD in front of them. I really liked learning how to put things online and will probably continue to do so. The internet allowing video is a really nice capability and it is nice to now know how to utilize it!
Enjoy my videocast!!!
Campaign Blogs
I just went to this website
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/
and looked at the canidates for the presidential elections. I then went to this website
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/chris-dodd/ and looked at Chiss Dodd's "blog". I have to say first that I don't honestly know if I would ever use something like this to track any of the canidates. I think that what people are trying to do is to appeal to a younger generation through technology and blogs. I don't know whether it will work or not but I am sure that it will attract some younger adults.
I looked at a couple of Chris Dodd's other websites that were linked through the earlier website. I did find one that claimed to have his blog but it was obviously not him who was doing the writing...unless he speaks in third person. I feel like if canidates are going to have a website and a blog then they really should be the ones writing them. Enough people already think that politicians are just drones who have things scrpited out for them. We already have a president that (can barely) read his cues so it would be nice to have one that can think for themselves!
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/
and looked at the canidates for the presidential elections. I then went to this website
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/chris-dodd/ and looked at Chiss Dodd's "blog". I have to say first that I don't honestly know if I would ever use something like this to track any of the canidates. I think that what people are trying to do is to appeal to a younger generation through technology and blogs. I don't know whether it will work or not but I am sure that it will attract some younger adults.
I looked at a couple of Chris Dodd's other websites that were linked through the earlier website. I did find one that claimed to have his blog but it was obviously not him who was doing the writing...unless he speaks in third person. I feel like if canidates are going to have a website and a blog then they really should be the ones writing them. Enough people already think that politicians are just drones who have things scrpited out for them. We already have a president that (can barely) read his cues so it would be nice to have one that can think for themselves!
Monday, May 7, 2007
Viacom against YouTube...
First, I would like to say that this article is just a bit bias seeing as it was written by a Viacom general counselor, the very same Viacom that is sueing YouTube. I am not a general user of Youtube. There has been times that I have gone there and yes, those times have been for copywritten materials. I actually find the YouTube a little bit annoying because of all the other stuff they have on there, all the annoying people who decide to put their annoying videos on there.
As far as I am concerned, copywritten videos should be allowed to be on YouTube. There's no real difference between watching copywritten videos on YouTube and going to a person's house and watching it. I do think that the DMCA is a good thing, however I think that it should protect sites like YouTube. I do commend the advancement in trying to protect the servers that information goes through.
I feel like lawsuits like these are somewhat pointless. After napster got sued, another site just like it popped up. I think sites like these won't ever go away because there will always be another one that is right behind there to take it's place. To sue sites like these are a waste of time and a waste of money and no real lessons ever get learned.
As far as I am concerned, copywritten videos should be allowed to be on YouTube. There's no real difference between watching copywritten videos on YouTube and going to a person's house and watching it. I do think that the DMCA is a good thing, however I think that it should protect sites like YouTube. I do commend the advancement in trying to protect the servers that information goes through.
I feel like lawsuits like these are somewhat pointless. After napster got sued, another site just like it popped up. I think sites like these won't ever go away because there will always be another one that is right behind there to take it's place. To sue sites like these are a waste of time and a waste of money and no real lessons ever get learned.
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