Comments

New media and Terrorism:
Quite a brief presentation, seems like not much bad things are going on, may be is a good thing. :-)

Folkxonomy:
It was very helpful to begin with the history of taxonomy, which is closely related to the main topic. The entire presentation was very clear, orientated and specific. Pros and Cons of both Tax and Folk made a objective view and let us decide what is good.

I would like to mention that besides categorizing, Folk is very good at filtering unwanted content. Also, linguistic issues can be a good thing too(ex: I call it blue and you call it aqua), I have too many personal experience that because of this error, I found many surprising/interesting things that I wasn't intend to look for, or I didn't know that I want. The best example is flickr, sometimes I use it as the "Thesaurus" for pictures, incredibly sufficient.

Risks of New Media:
Beautiful layouts, pictures and text size, all of them look so good together, personally beautiful pictures is a +, it usually makes a presentation much more interesting and memory enduring. This presentation includes many rare cases of mis-using the new media, brief coverage on variety of risks with a very objective conclusion. On a large scale, new media is definitely wonderful. The victims of these extreme cases are usually teenagers, I hope that adults would understand that kids DO NOT have the sufficient judgment and mentality to protect themself against these risks and will therefore spend time to explain ethics and how to handle situations in the virtual world.

Real Life Twitter

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New Media vs Education:
The highlighted key words are great, some screenshots/pictures are streched or fuzzy which are slightly distracting. Good touches on variety of side effects, but wuld lik to see more collaboration such as case studies, graphs or statistics.

Mobile New Media Tech:
Friendly beginning, relating to slef-expereinece makes the presentation more personal (he chose this topic because he recently got a smart phone).
Supportive statistics. Location based services are interesting, but would be better if accompanied with screenshots.

Social Networking in Business:
Like the public speaker-like vocie, nice clip art placements and useful information about LinkedIn, also like that she does more talking than reading.
Disagree on social netorking hould be kept separated from personal life,

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HOMEWORK: Class Wiki

I added many examples of new media, such as Hulu and Skype,

Comments

For "New media and the distribution of music":

The presentation is overall clear and straightforward, many statistic statements but I think it would be more adequate and visual if presented along with supporting statistical graphs. The presentation didn't collaborate enough to the extent of new media, topics such as:

*Private Bay case
*Illegal music download with Limewire, P2P file sharing.
*How iTunes tremendously changed the music industry (it's almost an revolution.)
*YouTuber's contribution and replication of music.
* Artist's intense participation on MySpace for self-promoting and monetizing.

For "New media: the purpose loss of privacy":
The presentation is almost like an (effective) WARNING sign, telling us to be aware of our personal information in a consumable speed. Presented with articulation, confidence, enthusiasm, direct eye contact; with smooth transitions between slides, personal experience and useful information.

For "Social networking: Better or worse than the real thing?"
Nice layout, interesting combination of sources (quotes and statics), thoughts provoking questions, very appropriate outline order.

This kind of Mashup?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC4FAyg64OI&feature=featured

Mashup is not limited to technological but also physical, I am glad to see that YouTube is extending Mashup to real world meaningful interaction. Such a beautiful project.

Must mention: Susan Boyle, the greatest YouTube sensation ever. The statistics of it's raising of popularity in such a short time is mind blowingly fascinating.

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