Thought you might find this interesting.....

link;

http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/02/buffett-newspapers-losses-technology-paidcontent.html?feed=rss_technology


He speaks about the future of the newspapers, which is interesting because we all know it's going to be the dinosaur medium, but for someone like him to admit it, it's pretty rare.

FCC's profanity crackdown

Thought this was interesting considering the fact that we have discussed the topic in class.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090428/od_nm/us_usa_television_indecency_odd;_ylt=AizTG6kUn4AqsGUIhcD3dk_tiBIF


I do have to question the effects of the strict enforcement of the rules. If it's a live TV show and you have a guest in the studio and he blurts out a profane word, the TV station would have to pay a fine. I think it's unfair and been taken to far.

Nigeria and cyber crimes

I think it would be a good topic for us to discuss how the new technology in the world has helped give rise to international internet-crime rings based in countries such as Nigeria.

I think at one point or another, every one of us has got a spam email saying someone in Nigeria died leaving behind a bunsh of cash and if you help them transfer the money they will give you a large cut. Well even though it has been here for so long people still fall for these.

The most recent crime to be on the news:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090317/tc_afp/nigeriainternetscamaustraliacourt_20090317160308

This was the only one to actually hit the news, yet every year hundreds of these cyber crimes occur.

I think my question would be; What is the effect of new communication technology on the Nigerian society?

Essay mills

I think the article on essay mills is really interesting. Most of us know of the existence of them yest how many people use them is astonishing. I see it in the following two ways;

1. It's disturbing due to the fact that some students work hard and have sleepless nights getting their papers done, while others simply pay someone else.

2. It isn't a big issue to students since the one's that use them are only causing themselves harm as they are not making use of the education they are paying to get. They are depriving themselves of an education and at some point it can seriously affect them when they hit the workforce.

What's more shocking is the fact that you can pay someone to have a dissertation written. So somewhere out in the workforce there is a professor teaching students, while he himself cheated his way through the system. If someone is dishonest himself, how could he expect his students to be any better?

Topic proposal

I forgot to post this on the blog the other day so here's my topic.

Crowdsourcing
It's effect on the traditional news gathering and journalists.

I just thought of something interesting and I wanted Dr. Wachanga's opinin in the matter. Do you think that newspapers could possibly move into the form of an electronic device like the amazon kindle? will it affect advertising and the pricing of them?

Hi everyone,

Well this is my first blog and blog entry. Anyway I think chapter one in the text has a few issues that need to be discussed further.

1. Democratization of Information

qoute from the text;

"The communication revolution has promoted a free flow of information"

I think that the text vaguelyo adresses the issue and it needs to get more indepth.

2.Intellectual property

Technology we see now has made it real easy to copy stuff and download copyrighted material. I would like to know more about the fight to maintain intellectual property rights. It seems that the RIAA has lost the battle already;
http://techdirt.com/articles/20081219/0225073172.shtml

can laws keep up with the new communication age?