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Archive for September, 2012

Are You Secure?

When I read Matt Honan’s How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking I thought it was really entertaining and very clever of the hackers.  When he explained how all is accounts got hacked one after the other because they shared information I was shocked. I really like that he was able to get […]

Posted by on September 30th, 2012 at 12:51 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink


Ethical, Legal, or Not?

While looking at the TIME Magazine Corpus of American English I quickly thought that this website was obviously illegal and unethical because it has information from TIME magazine without consent. The site has magazine publications all in the copyright range… But I played and fiddled on the site I realized that I don’t really think that […]

Posted by on September 26th, 2012 at 7:11 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink


The Amen Break

This I found was completely ridiculous. I had no idea so many musicians were unoriginal and just copied from past artists. Its just really interesting. I thought it was interesting the sampling also was considered “making something new from something old.” In the Copyright Criminals one man stated ” We live in a remix culture […]

Posted by on September 23rd, 2012 at 11:54 am | Comments & Trackbacks (1) | Permalink


Evaluating Websites and Wikipedia

The first time in grade school and I had to do some sort of research project the class would always go to the library and the librarians would find books for us related to our topics and tell us websites that would also help with our search. They would also have a little session explaining […]

Posted by on September 22nd, 2012 at 7:39 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink


Scavenger Hunt

Trying to find these things! 1) An op-ed on a labor dispute involving public school teachers from before 1970  STEP ONE: went to library.gmu.edu STEP TWO: went to JSTOR database STEP THREE: searched ((Labor dispute) AND (public school teachers)) AND (year:[1950 TO 1970]) FOUND :  link HERE 2) The first documented use of solar power in […]

Posted by on September 11th, 2012 at 5:41 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink


Thoughts of…Becoming Digital

In my opinion I think digitization has way more advantages than disadvantages. I think the one major thing that digitization allows that is the biggest advantage is the accessibility for people all around the world.  People that would normally never get the opportunity to see or learn from all the things that have become digitized. Another […]

Posted by on September 9th, 2012 at 1:04 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink


Thoughts of… Getting Started: Basic Technologies Behind the Web

When I read Getting Started: Basic Technologies Behind The Web I was pretty surprised by the whole process of choosing when wanting to make your own website. The process includes things like Choosing a server technological requirements content etc.. The basic outline of the reading is steps on how to decide or make your website. […]

Posted by on September 3rd, 2012 at 4:24 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink