Sunday, December 13, 2009

Notes on Presentations 12/8/2009

ELI - "ANSWERS TO COPYRIGHT"

Annae Reginae -authorship, (old)

"Open Source is good for me. You should embrace it." - Bart Simpson w/chalkboard

Automobile - no money on patents, just car

REDHAT - 1994
30 million people on this (smaller project) community + 7 years = free

1989 - Linux = the right to copy software and share it, the right to change that software, the right to access the source code

Sewing, biomechanics, electrical engineering, etc. (freeduino.com, craftster...)

LARRY LESSIG

...people worried about Creative Commons, etc. that they are either too vague or not radical enough...

COURTNEY - "IDENTIFY THE EMOTE"

emoticons: "Good Morning", "Congratulations", "Good Evening", "Dunce Cap (Feels Stupid)", "Moustache"

Put in emotions in digital conversation/what we lack when not having face to face conversation

American differs from Japanese

600AD Wales - pigeon language - modern day English

Chat Speak could ^ English language or v it

HANNAH - "EVOLUTION OF CHAT AND ITS EFFECT ON THE INCREASE OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS"

Internet - 60s, 70s but wasn't really used by consumer til 80s, 90s
1989 - Internet Relay Chat formed in Finland + made world wide
1994 - AOL becomes big > "You've Got Mail" (Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks)

90s to Millennium:
AOL > AIM (emoticons)

1995 - 2008 increase of users online, using chats...

Last Ten Years > voice chat, video chat, Skype - 2002

MATHIAS - "INTERNET: THE MUSICAL RENAISSANCE"

Evolution of technology and the distribution and sharing of music
What do people consider to be music?

Sharing is caring:
Peter Jenner - Pink Floyd's first manager
Technological development, ex. Napster

Customers or criminals?

Podcasts vs. radio stations
1983 - music sharing starts around...downloading formats - strange, not user-friendly

1999 - college dropout starts Napster, brought down because they believed it was piracy

12-year-old girl downloaded songs, sued + brought to court for $2000

Freedom - listeners pick top artists (S Club 7)
Artists independent from record labels (Prince)
Online "radios" allow users to pick what they want to listen to

KELLYE - "MYSPACE AND THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY"

2003 - Chris (brains) and Tom (failed musician) = Southern California

ex. Taylor Swift (country music)

followed around Don Prince of Tha Basix, went through 17 pages of chains of "listen to my music" on somebody else's page:

The Basix, Spy Nation, Toxicima (christmas carols/house music), etc.
Ends with the Master J-L Richard

Has its own record label: Myspace Records

JOHN - "LAFREEKSHOE PRESENTS"
Youtube videos as online gamer

ALEX - "VIDEO GAME VIOLENCE"
self explanatory, with visual aid (drawing)