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Mashable Document by Christina Warren Youtube has always struggled with the copyright controversy. In 2007, the company developed a system called Content ID. The system goes through uploaded videos and uses audio fingerprinting to detect copyrighted material. The existing systems were not advanced enough to keep up with all of the uploaded videos. The new […]

by Mark Briggs Chapter six highlights the importance of photography in journalism. Page 142 begins with a quote from journalist Matt Thompson saying, “Are we using 1,000 words where a picture should be?” Briggs discusses the convenient aspects of different kinds of cameras. Digital cameras, for instance, allow the user to scroll back and look […]

Chapter five of JournalismNext discusses the importance of smartphones in online and offline journalism. I have always know that my phone can do tricks, but it is key to know how those tricks can be used for my career. Briggs referred to the smartphone as a “Swiss Army Knife,” on pg. 123. This rings true. […]

http://mashable.com/2012/02/16/tablets-american-children/ Mashable Article by Zoe Fox This article is particularly interested to me because I have recently been noticing how many children are using Tablets and iPads. Case and point: my two year old niece plays Cut the Rope on my step-father’s iPad. She’s better than me. She sits on the couch next to his […]

Here are two videos that I made in David Miller’s COMM353 class. Step Off Story Smoking on Campus

This chapter highlighted the different positive outcomes from microblogging services like Twitter. Firstly, Briggs tells us that Twitter can be used to put out links to recently written material. Another important thing that it does is allow the public to feel connected to the journalist without a one-on-one communication. Another important aspect of microblogging that […]

TechCrunch Article by Anthony Ha My Recap: A new app has allowed iPhone users to report traffic with a simple wave of their hand. If they are sitting in traffic and their Waze app is on, they can voice command their iPhone to report the traffic. These users choose between different levels of traffic, and […]

Article by Todd Olmstead My Recap: Mashable lets the public vote on who they think should win specific Grammys. Granted, our votes won’t actually be counted to determine the winner, but it is fun to get our opinions out there. I wanted to personally express who I believe should win each award. My Grammy winners: […]

Joel Achenbach does a fine job of educating us fellow journalists and the public. Primarily, he brings out that views on a webpage should not be measured to determine the quality of an article. He discusses different reasons why view counts are so skewed. Often website owners will have one page linked to another. Achenbach […]

JournalismNext by Mark Briggs Chapter three was good because it showed me the difference between crowd-source reporting and open-source reporting. It taught me the importance in the two. Crowd-sourcing can help solve communal issues. However, it is vital to know when it can be applied and when it will fail. Especially in journalism, people need […]