NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In findings released today, Alloy Media + Marketing’s (NASDAQ: ALOY) 2007 Alloy College Explorer, powered by Harris Interactive, finds the current college class (students 18-30 years of age)heading back to campus in record numbers and with mounting concern surrounding the state of the union and the future of their country.
"Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all that and start over." The potential uses of the internet and new technologies were not known at the birth of the internet. It still works fine for the most part but there are many problems - one solution - start again
In a discussion the other night at O'Reilly's ETech conference, we came up with a few ideas about what such a code of conduct might entail. These thoughts are just a work in progress, and hopefully a spur for further discussion.
According to an estimate from a company called Power-levels.com, it would take someone starting from scratch 768 hours to reach the highest level you can hit in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.
Or, for someone who had already topped out at level 60 in the original WoW, it would take 384 hours to get to the top level, 70, of Burning Crusade.
But as they push into a future that is totally on the record, lifeloggers are also pondering and fretting over how this technology will alter society. What can lifelogging do for us? Could it improve scholarship? What are the legal risks? And how will lifelogging affect personal relationships, private conversations, and family histories?
"We decided it was best to just not allow sales of them," says Ebay spokesman Hani Durzy regarding virtual goods. "We are not saying they are legal and we are not saying they are illegal."
Swedish startup Polar Rose today took the wraps off of their plan to make faces in photos searchable. Searching within images has always been tricky for machines, but Polar Rose hopes that a combination of mathematics and user intelligence will help to build an accurate recognition engine.
Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000, if a new proposal in the U.S. Senate came into law.
n this post I'll describe what that might imply for a media organization like ours. If the key word is "participation", how could we encourage that to the fullest? If trust comes come from transparency, how might we open the entire process? What does open source media really mean?