Sean's Blog

A couple days ago I mentioned that BGSU’s January TechTrends was today at 2:30 PM. In fact, he mentioned on his site as well. The good thing about his presentation was that he listed all the links that he was goign to use on his website in that post about today’s presentaion, so they are all easily accessible for you in case you missed it. However, he does say the following in his post:

I am going to place some of my potential notes and links here. This is not for human eyes. I will erase this out when I get back to Nashville Saturday night.

As a result, I will include the links he had listed, along with comments, following my review.

It was an okay presentation, with quite a handful of clips, which he used to give examples of the things that he was going over, such as finding odd, entertaining, interesting, or rare video or audio clips and the use of these clips in politics, education, and law. While these clips helped, some students I heard around where I was sitting, and the theatre in the Union (room 206) was almost completely full, were groaning about having to watch another clip and not quite understanding what he was getting at. About 40% of the audience left when time was up, either because they dind’t have to be there anymore (there were sign-in sheets for a couple classes), or they had to get to a class starting at 3:30 PM, which is unfortunate because some questions were raised by a couple people on which Dr. Harrington was able to comment on, which really started to get into what he was there to talk about.

Some things he mentioned:

• any time something is copied, it’s violating a copyright
• burning a CD you own to your computer to put on your MP3 player is technically two violations
• many in the recording industry would there rather not be an Internet, as it is the main cause of the problems
• another example of those in the industry delaying and holding back technology is that the VCR was illgeal until 1984

I just haven’t had time to go through and verify each item, but I’m inclined to believe him.

That ends my review. It was a good presentation, and had there been more time, I’m sure it would have been even better.

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And now for the links he used….Cheating on a test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAjW1LU5-rECheating has consequences.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmQ8cEsiJO4Contemporary classical improvised performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VzKXgswgd8Another improvised piano piece with nice sustained chords; I like this one better though because it features two musicians:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hWGbdpYIic

Here is Ivo Papasov and his Wedding Band from David Sanborn’s “Night Music,” the best music television music series. It was too good and eclectic to last.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCweFfcV7Xo

Here are Varttina, an amazing folk group from Finland. This was recorded at the MIDEM 2006 Festival in France.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHSIUgF5x6g&mode=related&search=

YouTube and politics. “Macaca” and the end of the bully junior senator from Virginia, George Allen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r90z0PMnKwI

Here is something frightening but true. The Attorney General of the U. S. wanted to defend the suspension of habeas corpus in the U. S. Habeas corpus has been the most important legal principle since 1215 but under the Bush administration it was considered to be an obstacle in the pursuit of terrorists.

So here we have Gonzales defending this outrageous policy while a prominent Republican Senator and a prominent Democratic senator question him.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HiZdA3A_5gQ&mode=related&search

And at least this Attorney General does not sing unlike John Ashcroft – remember him? He even put clothes on statues yet professed to love freedom. Oh God! Here’s one more assault! But at least it’s the short version from CNN: two minutes rather than five minutes in length…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riKGGWFqnH8

One more “straight story” on politics, and an Ohio story – this probably helped end Mike DeWine’s senate career and and help Sherrod Brown:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NsvabYhdq7E

That must have something to do with DeWine being gone from the Senate!

Do you want to learn about the three principal forms of IP? I like this – it is something I do frequently just that I’ve not filmed myself for YouTube yet. This is Professor Hughes from the Cardozo Law School in NY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeRqBCAnUDA

How about this how to break the Copyright Law by copying and burning a copyrighted and copy protected DVD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iX8LiA0H6M&mode=related&search=

Or this video on how to use BitTorrent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za4WfIe-2J4

Or do you want to know about the Creative Commons? If you are in education or love learning, you must value CC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWxyx5iYdvI&mode=related&search=

EFF and the DMCA:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TcXzGYGkH4w&mode=related&search=

IP and patent law especially is extremely costly. Excerpt about IP in the EU:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cr9payw7uM

Being an American, I love to exercise my first Amendment rights of free speech; the ability to create parodies and watch, read and hear parodies. So, let’s get to some parodies of politicians:

You know Bush and Blair are close. The love Blair had for Clinton got transferred to George Bush when he became President in 2001.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-d4K-gBq_s&mode=related&search=

JIB JAB This Land Is Your Land
dot dot dot….. (He used an audio clip on his computer here. – Sean)

The GREY ALBUM
dot dot dot….. (He used an audio clip on his computer here. – Sean)

Some other activities of mine have come from the Internet as well. Both were very visible and prominent, again showing the importance of the Internet.

The GREY ALBUM video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3zJqihkLcGc

BEATALLICA
Play Beatallica examples and note that they are on YouTube.

Now to

SECOND LIFE

Second Life the WSJ has a reporter who only covers Second Life, that’s how important they think it is. Companies are launching products in Second Life to see how they might fare in First Life. Architects are building buildings, etc.

Harvard Law & Harvard Extension are offering a course that meets in Second Life. Here is Charlie Nesson on his motorcycle and then giving you the intro to his class that will meet in Second Life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNAhzwZkdU

Optional: in 72 hours, she builds her Second Life to exactly match her First Life in NYC, at the corner of 39th & 5th Avenue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmFwTrhTM7E&NR

Torly Linden and his tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-NhMedmnk&NR

Mashups:
The Shining: a family film
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681181?htv=12

Mary Poppins: a horror film:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2783650

Oprah & Tom Cruise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yJ_WTWh6_s

Brokeback anything: Brokeback Harry Potter, Brokeback Three Stooges, Brokeback fill in the blank….

Here’s Brokeback Mountain and Shawshank Redemption.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtRi42DEdTE

THE END
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H8hNXWgOoE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77n_rdnjc5Q&NR

This parody might be legal. It’s only been around since January 11.
And more parody. Notice the nod to Ohio at the end of this excerpt:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NsvabYhdq7E

Yes, I thought you’d like to see President Kucinich this afternoon:
(No link given. – Sean)

And that end’s what he used.

On Friday, January 26, 2007, the TechTrends series at BGSU will host E. Michael Harrington as he presents Copyright Issues in YouTube, Second Life and Other Adventures in the Metaverse: Music, Law, Politics and Higher Education. The presentation will begin at 2:30 PM and go until 3:30 PM, which I believe will be followed by a question and answer session.

Information about the event can be found at the TechTrends series page. The more interesting part will be what he has to say about the “effects of the new 110th Congress upon technology, artistic expression, education and law, and an analysis of the likely role of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in new Internet and technology issues.” I’m sure it’ll be a decent presentation, and depending on what I get out of it, I’ll try and put something up afterwards.

For those that care, Dr. Harrington also has a website which can be found at http://www.emichaelharrington.com/.

I also see that there will be another presentation in the TechTrends series on February 28th. (Of course has a multicolor image thing that says “techtrends” but is referred to as “Tech Trends”. Pick one and stick with it.) that presentation will be called Why Should We Care About Net Neutrality?, so I’ve already made plans to attend.

Since I’m kinda bored with playing DDO at home, I should look into some Internet/social network/et cetera literature. I have some books at home, but they’re getting more and more outdated. I have Ray Kurzweil’s book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, but I lost interest in it after 60 pages or so. One day I’ll get back to it, but I don’t think it’ll be the book to get me back into reading such books. I also have Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and I could re-read that, but since it is published in 2002, it might be a little outdated. I’ll scrounge around and see what the Internet or Amazon suggest, and either order or go purchase something later this week or weekend.