User Generated Content

1. 2007
2. Roughly 1 year
3. At Issue User-Generated Content
4. Editor: Roman Espejo
5. The impacts that user created content is having on the internet. The book discusses news from amateurs, programs and other media that individual people make. ISBN: 0-7377-3886-3
6. 2007028822
7. No

1. Different topics about the impact of user generated content
2. The book isn’t historical its mostly analysis
3. Yes, Podcasts, YouTube, Viral Videos, Blogs, Wikipedia,
4. Contents:

1) User Generated Content: An Overview- The section is about the new found ability for normal people to create their own content and share it over the internet.

2) User Generated Content can Be Useful to Mainstream Media- Talks how blogging and citizen journalists could replace professionals because the user content can be shared faster than through the regular media.

3) Wikipedia”s Accuracy is Comparable to Britannica- Section talks of how Wikipedia although it could be changed by people and shows that Britannica has 2.92 mistakes per page and Wikipedia has 3.86 per page which isn’t bad.

4) Wikipedia Is a Flawed Reference Tool- John Seigenthaler is mad about some inaccuracies on his wikipeida page and tracks down the author and then goes on to say that its all gossip.

5) Blogging is Important to Journalism- People have been able to give more in depth coverage of local news which is better than what the local or national news would give.

6) Blogging Is Not Journalism- The author places down several criteria that actual journalists do which makes their articles as unbiased as possible while bloggers don’t.

7) Social Networking Connects People- The article talks about how social networks have connected people and why people seem to care about them.

Social Networking is Proplematic- The author puts out the reasons why networking sites will eventually fail and the problems they cause.

9) Viral Videos Will Revolutionize Entertainment- Talks about the new viral videos that are becoming a new source of online entertainment.

10) Many Viral Videos Infring Copyright Laws- The author talks of how many viral videos take copyrighted material and splices it into videos

11) Podcasting Is a Powerful Medium- The article talks about how the gorwing popularity of podcasts is giving people who aren’t professionals or have a lot of money can make their own little media.

12) User-Generated Content Threatens Advertising- Talks how user created content is being used over professional advertising agencies work which might threaten the industry.

13) User-Generated Content Does Not Threatens Advertising- Talks how user created content isn’t a threat to the actual industry because for the most part 99% of commercials are made by advertising agencies.

1. Podscasts, viral videos, blogs
2. No

15. The book should be kept in the library because it still has useful information, but in two to three years it will be    obsolete because technology will have surpassed it.

The Wireless Society

1. 2007
2. Roughly 1 year old
3. At Issue: The Wireless Society
4. Editor: Stuart A. Kallen
5. How WiFi and all the new wireless electronics will have an impact on society as a whole and how it might change the way we live. ISBN: 978-0-7377-2749-4
6. 2006028629
7. No
8. Sections about different topics
9. No, its not historical
10. Wi-Fi, cell phones, wireless implants
11. Contents:

1) Municipal Wi-Fi Is Part of a Communications Revolution- Some cities around the world are considering making their entire cites Wi-Fi accessible to give internet to everyone.

2) The Potential Benefits of Municipal Wi-Fi Are Overstated- A counter to the previous article by pointing out the potential pitfalls and shortcomings of a municipal Wi-Fi system.

3) Wi-Fi Technology is Beneficial to High School Administrators- Wi-Fi oculd help schools make intercommunication easier.

4) Wireless Classrooms Present Many Challenges to Teachers- Wi-Fi could give students another way to not pay attention in class.

5) Wireless Technology Boosts Business Productivity- Business Wi-Fi networks could let employees access work anywhere within their building which could make productivity jump.

6) Wireless Networks Can Have Negative Consequences for Employees- Business Wi-fi could have the opposite effect that was from the last article and could make productivity drop.

7) Using Wi-Fi Network Poses Security Risks- Talks how some people will ‘leech’ onto an unprotected wi-fi network and use the wi-fi for free and could be doing illegal activities.

The Unauthorized Use of Available Wireless Signals Should Not Be Illegal- Argues that people who can’t afford Wi-Fi should be able to piggy back on another network.

9) Wireless Implants Enable the Government to Track and Control Citizens- The author suspects that as technology becomes more interwoven into society the government will use it to track any citizen in the world.

10) Fears of Wireless Implant Surveillance Are Overblown- Is a counter point article to the last article and why the fears are unfounded.

11) Cell Phones Transmit Dangerous Radiation- Puts forth the idea that cell phones could cause tumors and possibly cancer.

12) Cell Phones Do Not Cause Cancer- Another counter point article which argues that cell phones aren’t dangerous.

13) Cell Phone Use Impairs Drivers- Gives information that says that cell phones use while driving is just as dangerous as having a .08 blood alcohol level.

14) The Wi-Fi Revolution Is Failing the Urban Poor- Says that Wi-Fi is not available for poor people in dense urban areas which will leave them behind when technology gets better.

1. Wireless body implants
2. No
4. Keep it in the library, but in a couple of years it will be obsolete.

The Road Ahead

1. 1995
2. The book is thirteen years old
3. The Road Ahead
4. Author: Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, and Peter Rinearson; Editor: not listed
5. In the book Bill Gates analyses and sets out an optimistic view of what technology will mean for the future in 1995. It details how shopping, communications and everything else will change because of the new technology. ISBN:0-670-77289-5
6. 95-43809
7. Yes

   8. There are different sections about predictions of what will happen when technology advances.

   9. The beginning of the book is historical but that’s mostly for feedback and as soon as that’s over with it goes into predications.

   10. There are predictions of small electronic devices capable of using the internet but its only speculation at the time.

   11. Content:

   1) A Revolution Begins- Bill Gates recalls the first time he programs a computer and then goes on to talk about the leaps forward in technology which eventually lead to the Information age.

   2) The Beginning of the Information Age- Goes back and talks about the first way electricity was used to transmit info, the first computers and binary.

   3) Lessons from the Computer Industry- Talks about the initial computer companies, and the beginning of Microsoft and the lessons that Gates took from it.

   4) Applications and Appliances- Gates predicts that technology will allow people to do what they want on their schedule and he basically predicted the iPhone perfectly.

   5) Paths to the Highway- Describes the best way to connect all of the electronic devices.

   6) The Content Revolution- Talks how all media and information will eventually make the transition from paper to electronic storage, and the impact CD’s will have.

   7) Implications for Business- Gates predicts that business will start to use more electronic ways to conduct business and with the new forms of communication globalization will occur.

   Friction-Free Capitalism- Predicts instantaneous information about the global economy, supply, demand and everything else that could affect an economy.

   9) Education: The Best Investment- Says that education that is well versed in computer’s will be essential because with the new technology computers will be increasingly used in the future.

   10) Plugged In at Home- New technology will allow people to stay in contact with family and friends who are far away and that new media options will arise.

   11) Race for the Gold- Says that all of the companies that are investing in the internet have not seen any tangible benefits out of it yet and are just throwing money into a pot that hasn’t seen anything and might not see anything for a while.

   12) Critical Issues- Gates predicts that with the new technology coming out economies will change under the changes, some workers might be fired and that social problems about free internet will become an issue.

   12. The newest technology discussed was CD’s and the early internet, besides that everything Gates wrote about was just a prediction.

   13. All the information in the book is correct when it was written in 1995.

   14.

   15. I would recommend that this book be thrown out. Everything Gates predicted basically happened and has no content on anything that is a problem in present times, excluding the economic problems. Globalization and small hand held computers are already a reality so this book is obsolete.