Collaborating for ET

Photo from Pixabay under  CC0 Creative Commons I’m sorry that I missed posting last week guys. It totally slipped my mind. This week I’m going to talk about Fair Use, specifically on YouTube. Back in the day, I was one of the first adopters of YouTube. Starting my first YouTube account when they had a star rating system and the most popular video on the site was of a baby biting Charlie's finger. A lot has changed since then, they got bought by google, celebrities joined the site, and creators started making livable wages for uploading content. This brought problems though since some people were uploading content from other creators and even ripping off movies and TV. Some were using these copyrighted materials in the correct way of following the FCC guidelines and other straight up stole content. This brought about the takedown system of YouTube which still rules today. Anyone can take down anyone else content for any reason, ligament or not. One of the channels that was hi

Photo by Pixabay using  CC0 Creative Commons Reddit.com I have had a Reddit subscription for two years but have used the site since 2012. Reddit has a very interesting place in the history of the internet because of it prominence and its users. I have seen everything from Gamergate to Tracking the Boston Bombers to Ellen Pao resigning. Though I still view it as the front page of the internet. Reddit to me is where I can find the news with links to sources, where I can find the latest memes, and where I share my photography hobby to the world. However, I do recognize that there are bad parts of Reddit that are filled with hatred and bigotry I still love that they have the right to voice their opinions on the platform. Reddit is Reddit because of it whole as a community and it sub-communities under them. Reddit really is for me the front page of the internet.

  Pictures by Pixabay under  CC0 Creative Commons To start off I already have a bias that I am not a fan of Linux. That being said I am going to talk about what was said in the video “Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style” which we watched in class today. Skipping past Mr. Shirky’s bazar correlation from Ise Shrine in Japan to the Perl programing language he talks about a story of when he worked for AT&T. He said that the software engineers where horrified that they were using Perl for programing but specifically how Perl had no “commercial support.” Mr. Shirky’s point was that the internet was his support and he didn’t need commercial support. This made AT&T leave the deal with Mr. Shirky concluding he was the victor and look at how awful AT&T is doing know because of its corporate attitude. Well the video came out in 2007 right as the big crash for Perl hit. Today the only Perl programmers out there are converting Perl to Python and Java. The downfall of Perl…

From Pixabay  CC0 Creative Commons Rick and Morty is the new science fiction phenomenon that combines the new worlds and creatures of Star Trek with the science of Back to the Future all being held by modern philosophy. Rick and Morty touch on a lot of issues but I think the episode “Auto Erotic Assimilation” shows the problems with hive minds and collective intelligence. In the episode, Rick finds his ex-girlfriend Unity who is a hive mind with his two grandkids. Unity then takes Rick and his grandkids down to the planet that she’s “assimilated” where Rick goes off to have sex with Unity and the grandkids explore what Unity has done for the planet. With the collective intelligence of the world Unity as said in the show has achieved world peace, made prostitutes scientists, made sex offenders not sex offenders, even achieve great feats like carving a mountain into the shapes of Morty and Summer, the grandkids. Though Summer objects to the way that Unity has achieved these