Creative Commons? Is Anyone Else Confused??

I am reading the article about creative commons, and I guess it's a good thing I'm not an artist. You would need a whole legal team to understand what they are talking about. Not getting sued was never so complicated. The article gives the types of Creative Common License options out there, and it tries to put them in words that anyone can understand which is helpful, but I am still confused. Take this one for example

"Attribution - An Attribution license means creative works can be copied, distributed, displayed, or performed and derivative works can be created, provided that appropriate credit to the original copyright holder is given." Now when someone reads that,  they think hey I can take what someone else has done, hand it out, change it a little or a lot depending on what it is but it's okay because it's still their piece of work. HUH?? It's no wonder people are constantly quarreling over lyrics to a song. Like I said it's a good thing I am not in that profession.

The Next 5000 Days of the Web

I found Kevin's talk on the next 5000 days of the web to be very interesting. When it's put into the number of days it's been it really doesn't sound like a whole lot of time, but it is. The Internet has come so far in what seems like a short amount of time. Kevin mentioned that there are 55 trillion links a day used on the web, that number is huge! The other fact that grabbed me was that it uses 5% of the global electricity. That number doesn't sound so big but when you think about the fact that not the whole world uses the Internet it, it really is a big number. He gave some information that has already come true since 2007. The part about the phones not being part of the web at that time, and now everyone has access to the web with their cell phone. Technology has no limits.

My Wonderful, Always Fluffy Cloud

My cloud is mostly facebook, facebook, and some more facebook. No!! I’m not addicted or anything of the sort. I email, and search and shop too. I used to be quite the little online shopper but not so much anymore. I have never played a single game online or used whatever Flickr is. I mostly use the internet for school now. With all of my classes online I have to. Though I can honestly say there have been the times where blackboard comes down and face book goes up. I just can’t help myself.

            Five years ago the internet wasn’t even part of my everyday life, and I probably have five different email accounts that are in super overload because I would go so long not checking them and cannot remember the username or passwords. My Space and facebook were not even in my vocabulary. Online classes were non existent and now that is what my life has become.

            The future when it comes to technology is uncertain. I know for me I have at least 3 more years of school, and most of it will be experienced in the “cloud”. Then after college I plan on being a teacher and if the technology keeps going at this rate I’ll be teaching kindergartner's their ABC’s over skype chat while they sip their chocolate milks from the comfort of their own house. I am not sure what the future holds for me and my cloud, but I hope it’s always fluffy.

My New Anxiety

I have been freaking out about this class. Mainly because I live in rural Vt, and dial-up is all I can get at my home. How will I ever get all my work done, considering this is one of my three online classes. I will have to get a sitter and travel the twenty minutes to Newport to use the computers at school. I am eager to learn all about multimedia though even if my computer is from the dark ages. I hope that I manage okay, because I will graduate in the spring and I can't let dial up hold me back.