Patrick's Profound Thoughts

Week 9-Readings

bradpat1 — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:49:50 +0000

How do you expect VoIP to impact cable and telephone networks (both are regulated infrastructure industries)

I think that VoIP will actually be good for cable networks if it ever catches completely. It would mean that TV, Internet and phone would rely on one network. This would make the telephone lines obsolete to anyone who is paying for Internet already. There is no point to pay for a lan line if one is already paying for cable internet. I had heard of stuff like this but never come across it. The closest thing I had experience was ventrillo but that requires both people to be on at the same time.

The only problem with it is that from what I understand is that right now it is only replacing lan lines right now. I feel like most people are cutting out lan lines because it is just easier to have a cell phone that people can directly connect to you with. The lan line is almost just used by solicitors so no one ever answers it. For my internship I had to call a list of 500 people and so few people actually answered my calls.

How will cell phones affect this new technology?
Will the government be able to filter and listen in on these calls like they can with emails?
If everyone starts using the Internet to make calls how mad will it slow the Internet down?

Week 9-Readings

bradpat1 — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:26:25 +0000

How do you expect VoIP to impact cable and telephone networks (both are regulated infrastructure industries)

How will cell phones affect this new technology?
Will the government be able to filter and listen in on these calls like they can with emails?
If everyone starts using the Internet to make calls how mad will it slow the Internet down?

New York WIFI in the Park

bradpat1 — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:44:27 +0000

http://www.wifinetnews.com/archives/006576.html

This project looks to put free wifi in the parks. It is currently only available in batery park. It is being delayed because they want someone to front the 30,000 bill.

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060706-075543

Wi-Fi Comes to New York Parks

The New York Times today is reporting on the progress of a project to unwire New York City parks, which was announced three years ago. Reportedly by early August of this year 10 of New York’s “most prominent parks” will have Wi-Fi access. The project is being implemented by a small company called WiFi Salon. Mobile handset maker Nokia is now underwriting the project as a sponsor.

Nokia has taken an exceptionally strong interest in mobile-local search and has partnered with yellow pages publishers in several countries to offer local business and entertainment information though its content portal on its handsets.

And though this New York park Wi-Fi offering isn’t mobile-local search per se, it does present the possibility of location-based content and advertising. According to the article, “at each hot spot, users will encounter an initial Web portal with information about the park and local history and advertisements for Nokia and other sponsors, which could include retail kiosks that do business in the parks.”

bradpat1 — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:29:58 +0000

What is the relationship between cyberspace as a public space and accessibility standards?

I must say that this article was much harder to read than I though it should have been. All the technical stuff intertwined with the commentary made it hard to understand. However, if I understood it right the relationship it is that the more it is used as a public space the more it tends to cost for the infrastructure. In places where the Internet is not a must, it is very difficult to find access to the Internet. This is known as the digital divide and is becoming a hot topic within the global system.

This is an issue that has been covered at the WISIS conference last year. It is become increasingly more important to get people in these low-income rural areas to jump aboard the technology revolution that is happening in the rest of the world. Many times these new technologies offer new job and ways for people to make money within a country. These entrepreneurs sometimes will be people who own a cell phone and charge people to make calls form it. Maybe with people out there fight to get these people connected then there is a chance that these countries will soon start growing economically.

Could companies just provide free Internet to people and just write it off for taxes?
To get a lot of the rural areas connected to the degree which is desired, won’t there also need to be a change in learning and in their society in general?
Should we be teaching these areas how to use the Internet, or life skills so that they can better their community?

Week 7-Reading

bradpat1 — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:53:19 +0000

How does Internet technology impact politics? Do you agree with the premise of these authors?

I believe the Internet is rapidly changing the face of politics in this country. With the emerging Internet technology candidate are now capable of delivering a specific message to a specific group. No more broadcasting on the issue just narrow casting. With the Internet a candidate can now send message on the website about gun control based on the zip code of the ip address. This no allows them to shady in a way because a candidate can be saying one thing about an issue to a group, while at the same time saying something completely different about the same issue to a different group. The problem with this is that no one would be the wiser.

Yes, I think that the Internet is drastically changing politics. After reading the article by Kathy I was just amazed at the different things that can be assumed by the way a web page is set up. I do not think I would have ever noticed that the Bush page was set up for a higher resolution monitor, which means that the page was meant for richer people. In the second reading the author is credited with bringing politics to the Internet. This was first done in the Howard Dean campaign. He was credited with using the Internet to bring success to Howard Dean. However, I think even though the Internet was instrumental to his campaign, I also think the viral video sent out of the “Dean Scream” definitely did hurt him.

If campaigning goes mainly online is there any chance we will no longer see the candidates adds on TV.
Is there anyway to make sure that candidates are not using Internet technologies to pull the wool over voter’s eyes.
Will Internet campaign be able to break this country of the 2 party system that we are stuck with.

Group Leader-Reflection

bradpat1 — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:54:55 +0000

I found the whole process to be very interesting. While searching for my article I came across lotsof other article that I read just because they peaked my interest. As for the actuall part of leading the small group discussions. I really like to hear peoples feedback about the questions I had developed while I had read my article. Some people seemed to be more interested in the topic than others because I felt like i was just talking to a few people each time in the group. I think finding the outside article and seeing the other one while I wa searching for it helped give me a better understanding of what the reading for the week are about. My favorite thing that I learned from doing this was during one of my groups Jamie talked how the producer from CBS who got fired because of the scandal over the documents that said Bush got off easy in the national guard, came into her class. Although, it did not relate to my article, I had read an article about that as I was finding mine. It generated a nice little discussing that i found to be very interesting. All in all I thought the whole process was not so bad and I think it actually helped me learn a little more

Podcast Sources-2

bradpat1 — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:54:55 +0000

I am researching logo campaigns. Logo campaigns are campaigns where activists will take a familiar logo or brand and attack it. They do this by either altering the image of the logo or presenting information to tarnish their image. I am going to focus mainly on the logo campaign known as the McLibel case. In this case they handed out pamphlets that exaggerated facts about McDonalds which hurt their image. They sued for libel and which resulted in the biggest PR disaster ever.

Jansen, S., Martin, B. (2003). Making Censorship Backfire. Counterpoise (7), 5. Retrieved April 30, 2007, from ProQuest database. (Document ID: 690702391).

b. This article lays out 4 reasons that censorship can back fire on a company or organization. They are “1) the authors of the propaganda may misjudge the psychological state of the audience; 2) different people respond differently to the same message, so some will respond negatively; 3) different themes in a piece of propaganda may send contrary messages; and 4) people’s personal experiences may be contrary to what is portrayed in propaganda, leading them to reject everything that is said.” The authors demonstrate their point by looking at the McLibel case. They then lay out the way in which can prevent attempting to censor critics from backfiring.

c. Even though the part about McDonalds is only a small part of the article, this site will help me understand why a company like McDonalds would want to censor a ogo campaign against them, as well as give me insight into the specific of the Mclibel case.

d. I believe it is scholarly because they have a list of references and footnotes as was said counts in this class, as well as it was found in a journal that was marked as scholarly.

The McLibel Trial Story. (ND) McSpotlight. Retrieve April 20 2007, from the World Wide Web: http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/trial/story.html

This website goes into the full details and the repercussions of the case. It lays out what the protesters where handing out. It tells why McDonalds sued them. It fully describes what took place in the courtroom. The best part of it is that it tells the changes McDonalds was forced to make after this case.
This site will help me understand the protestor’s side of the case. It will give me insight as to how they viewed the process of being censored by McDonalds
I believe this is a popular source because it is from McSpotlight which is a website dedicated to watching McDonalds.

Stuaber, J., and Rampton, S. (1997). They Said, He Said: Why the Judge Ruled for McDonalds. [electronic version] PR Watch. 4(2). Retrieved April 30, 2007, from http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1997Q2/mclibel.html

This article lays out first why the judge ruled for McDonalds in this case. It says that the judge ruled against them because in his opinion event he some of what they said was true, much of it was very exaggerated. This article then goes into talking about all the allegations that the green peace protestors proved true in the suit. They were found guilty of rain forest destruction, cruelty to animals, marketing to children, nutritional value, and on labor and union issues.
This site while help me measure the effectiveness of the logo campaign that the protesters were running. Effectiveness being their ability to tarnish the brand name of McDonalds. By looking at was in the pamphlet and what they were able to prove McDonalds was guilty of.

I believe this is a popular source because it come form the center for media and democracy. The article itself is from PR Watch Newsletter, which would be intended for other within the industry to read. It does not have footnote or references lists.

Music Sources-2

bradpat1 — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:26:06 +0000

Title

Mayor Wests Night Out

Description

Electronica Techno Mood

Copyright Info

Brand New Stuff ’06 Vol 2

RoyaltyFreeMusic.com- $99.95 Location

http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/Brand-New-Stuff-06-vol-2.html

Title

Keys To The Beemer

Description

Expressive electric guitar riffs punctuated by percussive rhythm guitar, bass and drums

Copyright Info

Documentary, Film, Television, General Production Vol 2

RoyaltyFreeMusic.com-$99.95

Location

http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/documentary-2.html

Abstract

bradpat1 — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:55:49 +0000

Johnson, T., Kaye, B. (2004). Wag The Blog: How Reliance on Traditional Media and the Internet Influence Credibility Perception of Weblogs Among Blog Uers. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly. (81), 622-643. Retrieved April 30, 2007, from ProQuest database. (Document ID: 750805691).

Abstract: This article looks at weblog users and trys to examine how credible they view blogs as compared to traditional media as well as other online sources. This article also looks at the degree to which reliance on weblogs as a a source of news as well as traditional and online media sources predicts credibility of weblogs. The results were tthat weblog users judged blogs as highly credible, meaning that they are more credible than traditional sources such as tv news and broadcast radio. They did, however, rate traditional sources as moderately credible they just tend to like to seek out information they want and therefore view that as credible

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Reading-Week 6

bradpat1 — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:22:25 +0000

What are the implications of blogging technology on established media?

Blogging is going to have major impacts on the established media. Newspapers and evening news never have discussions. They frequently only present one side of a story, and rarely do they allow for a public discussion of an issue. That is where the blogosphere is different. It is a place that allows any average person to not only voice their opinions but they also get to see what other people think about their ideas. There will be no more of this one sidedness that we find in the media today. Now anyone can be come a journalist with blogs

This leads to the discussion, which we had a few weeks ago about credibility. How do you know if what someone says is true? Many of the main stories get their start on a blog somewhere, like in the first reading. But in the second reading there were comments made at the bottom of the page. Do these peoples opinion really matter or is there information credible at that. Think that people will eventually steer away from print media, but will need to have some source of credible news.

I know newspapers are being forced to go online to get readers, shouldn’t they be pushing for only online because that would save them tons of money on print costs?
What would the impact of only online news, be on the actual content of the news, would it have to be geared towards a younger generation?

3. What will be the role of journalist in the future be, if blogging because the new media, because with blogs anyone is a journalist?