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 […]
Archive for February, 2012
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‘My iPad, My Babysitter: U.S. Kids Are Already Heavy Tablet Users [STUDY]’
Posted by: rachwould | February 16, 2012 | No Comment |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 […]
‘Waze Lets You Report Traffic with a Wave of Your Hand’
Posted by: rachwould | February 9, 2012 | No Comment |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 […]
‘Listen, Then Vote: Who Should Win a Grammy?’
Posted by: rachwould | February 9, 2012 | No Comment |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 […]