Thursday, June 21, 2007
Week 10
When we first started this course, I had plans of uploading every comedian CD in my collection onto the new player. However my hard drive has died since then. Now my plan is to wait and purchase an external hard drive for all my ripped music. From there I will be able to make my Comedy MP3 Player fantasy a reality.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Week 9
The copyright debate is a frustrating one for me. For a number of reasons:
1 - I know for a fact that an artist's greatest source of income is in no way their CD sales. Most of my family are all professional jazz musicians and professors in New York. Artists that give a crap about their music know they aren't losing anything thanks to downloaded/gifted/traded music. Consider this: music sales have gone up since technology has allowed this kind of distribution. People are generally unwilling to purchase music they are unsure they will like. If someone gives them a CD, they will go out and buy more albums. This "manifesto" was all over the radio for weeks. Suddenly it ceased. No one spoke of it. The information has been pushed aside. Big Money can make us forget a lot.
2 - So long as someone is not profiting from the CDs they own, it is ridiculous for them not to be able to give away copies. It is then their copy, they can do whatever they want with it, so long as there is no financial gain. If I can sell everyone I own and did not make/copyright at a garage sale, I can give away copies of crap I own.
3 - It is only legal to own burned copies of CDs/music you have already legally purchased, so long as you still own the original? Are these people retarded? People rip and burn their CDs because the shelf-life a CD is rather short. I'm not going to keep a nonfunctioning CD just to prove I have the right to make copies for myself.
The way digital copyright laws are handled are so bass-ackwards to me; it's like they don't even have decent intetions anymore.
1 - I know for a fact that an artist's greatest source of income is in no way their CD sales. Most of my family are all professional jazz musicians and professors in New York. Artists that give a crap about their music know they aren't losing anything thanks to downloaded/gifted/traded music. Consider this: music sales have gone up since technology has allowed this kind of distribution. People are generally unwilling to purchase music they are unsure they will like. If someone gives them a CD, they will go out and buy more albums. This "manifesto" was all over the radio for weeks. Suddenly it ceased. No one spoke of it. The information has been pushed aside. Big Money can make us forget a lot.
2 - So long as someone is not profiting from the CDs they own, it is ridiculous for them not to be able to give away copies. It is then their copy, they can do whatever they want with it, so long as there is no financial gain. If I can sell everyone I own and did not make/copyright at a garage sale, I can give away copies of crap I own.
3 - It is only legal to own burned copies of CDs/music you have already legally purchased, so long as you still own the original? Are these people retarded? People rip and burn their CDs because the shelf-life a CD is rather short. I'm not going to keep a nonfunctioning CD just to prove I have the right to make copies for myself.
The way digital copyright laws are handled are so bass-ackwards to me; it's like they don't even have decent intetions anymore.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Week 8
Flickr photo at The Edge. Kelly was unable to make her uploads work thanks to Flickr's poor support, so I uploaded the photo myself (last-minute-like.)
Thus far, this online learning experience has been rather enjoyable, for me. I spend a great deal of time on the internet as it is; that makes navigating for the many activities of Learn 2.0 an easy task. It is familiar with me. It is easy for my to focus on the tasks at hand. While I do not work in groups on these courses, I have at times gone to other Edgewater branch members to ask them if they understood a concept better than I am at that given moment. It's helpful being around others that are experiencing the same course. Branch employees have asked me for help, as well. The lot of us are pretty 'net-savvy and independent, so we don't tend to run around offering our help to each other. We know we'll ask for help if we need it.
Thus far, this online learning experience has been rather enjoyable, for me. I spend a great deal of time on the internet as it is; that makes navigating for the many activities of Learn 2.0 an easy task. It is familiar with me. It is easy for my to focus on the tasks at hand. While I do not work in groups on these courses, I have at times gone to other Edgewater branch members to ask them if they understood a concept better than I am at that given moment. It's helpful being around others that are experiencing the same course. Branch employees have asked me for help, as well. The lot of us are pretty 'net-savvy and independent, so we don't tend to run around offering our help to each other. We know we'll ask for help if we need it.
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