LIB100K Class Postings & Discussion

Here’s the link for those interested in Zotero - like all technology you really just need to play around with it!

http://blog.zsr.wfu.edu/tech/2008/04/02/using-zotero-for-reference-management/

any questions, feel free to contact me!

Elizabeth Novicki

LIB100

Take a look and listen to this video and address 1) What are your thoughts on copyright and did this video change any of your thoughts? 2) Do you think of yourself as part of the remix culture and what does that mean to you?

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

Remember to be thoughtful, insightful and ask thought provoking questions. I look forward, as usual, to your responses!

The number of available ways to share information continues to increase as part of the shift to web 2.0 which will see the web shift to a peer to peer medium instead of the publication based medium that it once was. However, what are the implications of this shift on copyright laws and other regulations intended to protect intellectual property? Many of these laws where reformed following the Napster scandal of the mid 1990’s, yet there are still some who say that these laws are still too relaxed/ antiquated and others who claim that the laws have become unnecessarily burdensome. Are these laws too lenient or too evasive? Is it time for artists to embrace the nature of the internet and find other ways to make a profit off of their music, video, etc?

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/stifled-by-copy.html

At first glance, MySpace and Facebook seem innocent, and simply fun. However, these websites are powerful enough to damage one’s life. Despite the risks of social drama, these websites present a more serious problem; these sites make members easy targets for rapists, kidnappers, murderers, and child predators in general. MySpace and Facebook publicly display personal information, depending on how much one provides. Still,millions of people display their name, birthday, home address, school address, work place and/or work company, and other such personal information. Still, regardless of what one chooses to show, there are other ways that stalkers and predators can use these online social websites to learn your personal information. MySpace and Facebook are some of today’s largest social networks, but do these websites really deserve the attention they are getting? Are they harmful towards society? What do you think they can do to make it safer for people to enjoy them, and utilize them safely? Read this short and interesting article forfurther insight:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/159689/the_danger_of_myspace_and_facebook.html

This class is called Accessing Info in the 21st century, and most of our discussions and assignments have been about or have used Google. Most web searches are done with Google. It makes me a little uneasy when a single company becomes so powerful with only a few small competitors. I wonder if Google is a monopoly, or at least becoming one. According to Pcmag, the answer is no. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2127299,00.asp The author says that Google is the biggest search engine simply because it is the best. It isn’t doing anything to stamp out competitors like Yahoo, it is just offering better services. So it’s not a monopoly, but that doesn’t make me entirely comfortable with Google’s power over information.

Facebook is currently the biggest social networking website out there. People all over the world are frequently logging onto their facebook pages to chat with their friends, check their pages, and update their status. Facebook is growing so quickly that some say it is becoming a threat to major companies and websites such as google. What most people don’t know is that Facebook was created by a 23year old named Mark Zuckerburg who some say does not have enough experience to be running a major company. Privacy issues have been brought up due to people providing to much personal information. As well as the ability to view others pages and new features such as beacon. Do you think Facebook is a threat to major companies? What do you think about young Mark Zuckerburg running this company, and do you think privacy is an issue with Facebook? What is your overall thought about Facebook?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNrqz6X-AE

You may have some trouble finding accurate data to answer your questions. There are a wealth of sites available to the user, however many are filled with erroneous information. Also some of the most credible sources fail to come up in the top results of most search engines. Many people, especially young adults, have trouble evaluating heath and wellness websites nowadays and some default to using sites like Wikipedia.

This article identifies the problem and gives a survey of the information which younger people are searching for today. My question is how can you trust if a health site is reliable? What specific things do you look for or how do you modify your search to locate the trustworthy sites?

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2008/tc20081118_877679.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_technology

Google currently offers to let users preview scanned images of certain pages of books that users search on Google’s engine. Do you think it would be more efficient to offer full electronic versions of books online…do you think that one day printed books and/or news materials will become obsolete? What do we have to gain/lose by making everything available online?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122688619008032339.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The first part of this blog discussion should focus on whether or not the internet giant, Google, possesses too much power on society. “The Google Master Plan” — > any kind of info will be assessable to anybody, controlled by Google itself. Will privacy be violated?

In this second part of your response, please answer whether or not you believe this video is a reliable source of information. Is it biased in any way? Use quotes from the video itself and/or other resources to support your opinion.

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000108.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNofb-OlZyQ

A debate has been raging in the legal community regarding the google map service and whether or not posting images of peoples houses is an invasion of privacy. Google maintains that, “Google has maintained that these street-view images were captured in broad daylight on public streets - hardly an invasion of privacy,” while opponents of Google Maps maintain that the service is a violation of privacy. What do you think?

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1631957-1,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/technology/01private.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss