There are a lot of things that I learned how to do today and it's hard to tell where to start so I'll just list my favorite things...
My favorite thing among what he explained was that typing " :site" at the end of whatever you're searching will limit the search to websites whereas if you typed, " :org" or " :gov" it'd be limited to the organization or government webpages. This would actually make it pretty easy to find legitimate information. The other thing that goes hand in hand with this is Google Scholar.
Google Scholar's even easier to use because after typing what you're looking up in the Google searchbar, you go to more - Google Scholar. With some of the journals that come up, you may have to be registered with the website to see the journal or scholarly article but nonetheless it's a legimate way to search for scholarly articles on Google.
The two more interesting functions that I saw on the chart here:
http://trinity.edu/cnolan/advanced_google.pdf
are the weather and flight status searches. By just typing in, "southwest 654" you can actually check the status of a flight using google. By typing, "Weather: 78212" you can get the weather reports for the zip code you entered.
The guide was definitely my favorite part and I'm saving it among my favorite links because it's got a lot of useful information.
Au revoir.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Copyright Laws: Fair Use
In class on Tuesday, Jason Hardin presented the class with information about Copyright Laws and Infringement, a lot of which I had only vague ideas about. To begin with, I didn't know it dated all the way back to 1790 or that Fair Use was the only means of defense a citizen had against Copyright Laws. We learned that Fair Use consisted of four factors of a situation that are considered in cases of Copyright Infringment; these are the amount of work copied, the motive for copying, the effect the copying has on the Rights holder, and the nature of the work being copied.
While there was a great deal of interesting information, presented to us in the form questions we'd each answer with our own clicker so it was anonymous, I found that the more interesting portion of the presentation involved the following opinion question: Are the RIAA (Music), MPAA (Motion Pictures), and ESA (Entertainment Software) disproportionately interested in file-sharing?
The answer for the most part was that they were disproportionately interested in file-sharing and Hardin mentioned that though this was an opinion question, for the most part it was a correct assumption. What we didn't pry further into because he had much more to show us was why we thought there was a disproportionate interest among these three companies.
Though the entertainment industry is a bit different from the tattoo industry, the same copyright laws affect both of them. I found an article written by a lawyer from New York named Marisa Kakoulas titled, 'The Tattoo Copyright Controversy'.
http://www.bmezine.com/news/guest/20031208.html
The article describes Kakoulas as she ventures to answer the question, 'Should Tattoos be Copyrighted?' She asks different people about their opinions and what they feel should be done. Not surprisingly, artists such as Pat Fish believe that a lawyer's work shouldn't get involved in anyway with a tattoo artist's work. However, another artist by the name of Elayne Angel got a pair of angel wings she did for a lawyer copyrighted because he insisted and she liked the idea.
The way that this ties back to the laws that we learned about in class is that these laws are beginning to affect more industries than ever. Fair Use, in my opinion, shouldn't still be the only means of defense against copyright infringement, especially when there are industries such as the tattoo industry where everything is such a free-for-all when it comes to whose work is whose.
That's all I have for now but I'll be writing more later.
- Adan
While there was a great deal of interesting information, presented to us in the form questions we'd each answer with our own clicker so it was anonymous, I found that the more interesting portion of the presentation involved the following opinion question: Are the RIAA (Music), MPAA (Motion Pictures), and ESA (Entertainment Software) disproportionately interested in file-sharing?
The answer for the most part was that they were disproportionately interested in file-sharing and Hardin mentioned that though this was an opinion question, for the most part it was a correct assumption. What we didn't pry further into because he had much more to show us was why we thought there was a disproportionate interest among these three companies.
Though the entertainment industry is a bit different from the tattoo industry, the same copyright laws affect both of them. I found an article written by a lawyer from New York named Marisa Kakoulas titled, 'The Tattoo Copyright Controversy'.
http://www.bmezine.com/news/guest/20031208.html
The article describes Kakoulas as she ventures to answer the question, 'Should Tattoos be Copyrighted?' She asks different people about their opinions and what they feel should be done. Not surprisingly, artists such as Pat Fish believe that a lawyer's work shouldn't get involved in anyway with a tattoo artist's work. However, another artist by the name of Elayne Angel got a pair of angel wings she did for a lawyer copyrighted because he insisted and she liked the idea.
The way that this ties back to the laws that we learned about in class is that these laws are beginning to affect more industries than ever. Fair Use, in my opinion, shouldn't still be the only means of defense against copyright infringement, especially when there are industries such as the tattoo industry where everything is such a free-for-all when it comes to whose work is whose.
That's all I have for now but I'll be writing more later.
- Adan
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Facebook: The Campus Fad
The Facebook article addresses the phenomenom of a webpage that Facebook has become over the last few years.
Since Facebook has become so popular, practically every student on campus has it and it becomes another form of communication. Writing on people's walls, tagging people in notes, and sending messages back and forth like e-mail has made it even easier to stay in contact with people despite conflicting schedules and/or distances. Facebook can be used to help people study as well and since it can become a giant forum with the use of comments and notes, a note can be made of the notes taken in a class and people can post comments asking questions or answering other people's questions in the form of comments.
It's a fact that because Facebook is so widely used, it's a big part of daily life on college campuses with internet and it can provide the resource of constant, unique feedback like a forum while also providing the intimacy of e-mail with the inbox function.
If you'd like to read the article for yourself, click here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1213/p13s01-legn.html
Till later.
- Adan
Since Facebook has become so popular, practically every student on campus has it and it becomes another form of communication. Writing on people's walls, tagging people in notes, and sending messages back and forth like e-mail has made it even easier to stay in contact with people despite conflicting schedules and/or distances. Facebook can be used to help people study as well and since it can become a giant forum with the use of comments and notes, a note can be made of the notes taken in a class and people can post comments asking questions or answering other people's questions in the form of comments.
It's a fact that because Facebook is so widely used, it's a big part of daily life on college campuses with internet and it can provide the resource of constant, unique feedback like a forum while also providing the intimacy of e-mail with the inbox function.
If you'd like to read the article for yourself, click here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1213/p13s01-legn.html
Till later.
- Adan
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