Blog #10

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Soda Stereo - De musica Lijera

performed by spongebob???

I chose this remix because the author of the video took 2 main pieces, sponge bob and a song by an Argentinean rock band. The video is low quality, but it does a good job on how to do remix in other to produce original pieces of art. It shows spongebob performing De musica ligera. The cartoon is so well cut that the lip sync, the drum, the guitar, and even the fireworks at the end matches very very well with the song.

Lessig states that a good remix is one that delivers a message (71). In this case, this video is entertaining and fun to watch. Proof of that is the thousands of views that it has. The author of the video took the pieces to create something original and is contribution to YouTube has inspired other people to do remixes as well. People are taking the Spongebob clip and meshing it with other songs of different genres. The other videos are not very well done, but is still an amateur attempt to remix. Moreover, Lessig tells us that a remix culture pushes the development of new culture and thats what it was done here.

Blog #9

RO and RW

Read-Only is a term taken from the computer lingo. It means that a piece of information can only be read and thats it. Read-Write is the opposite: a piece of information can be read a be use to write something else, taken pieces and remix it, edit it, etc. It has to do a lot with copy right laws that Lessig talks about so much. Lessig believes that copy right laws are obsolete and need to be updated for a digital age because with computers and access to digital information, we are now moving to a different digital culture. The current Copy right laws are designed for analog information than can only be read and not reproduced. Now we have tools to share music online, personal videos, blogs, vlogs and the list goes on... information is meant to be remixed with in the eyes of lessig.

Blog #8

- Rhythmic Cinema

Any Shift in The traffic of information can create not only new thoughts, but new ways of thinking (86)

This relate to Web 2.0 and user based sites, where all the user share information. It kinda reminds me of music sharing, YouTube, Tagging, etc... All things Web 2.0 and the information highway (does anyone still calls it thaT???)

- Rhythmic Space

Panache - words and code modules, bits and bytes, temporal arbitrage. Follow the vector across a narrative arc and feel how the net's architecture resonates with the convergence on many cultures and styles. .. where people create and add modules of thought ware to the mix, making it all a little more interesting. (89)

This guy is high as hell

-Errata Erratum

In the remix, single notes are assigned not to playing cards, but rather to digitized “roto-reliefs,” on-line representations of the engraved cards that Duchamp made throughout his career and gave away randomly to people.” (96)

This is how people distribute information, in this case music, over the web. Also, in the late 90's, artist would burn CDs and give them away for free in order to get some exposure. This is the so called underground mixtapes.

- The Future is here

We're probably the first generation to grow up in a completely electronic environment (101).

True that Spooky! But guess what? my mom now had not one BUT TWO facebook pages to keep all her kids on check. What you going to say about that? The information we share and my friends share on my page gets to more people that what we can think of. This provides venues for artist, intellectuals and concerned mothers.

- The Prostitute

The music and art i create is an end result of a life lived in an environment where almost all aspects of urban life were circumscribed by the coded terrains of a planet put in parentheses by satellites in the sky beaming back everything long ago (108).

Life experiences and the history of ones culture shape the way we look at the world and it also shapes the way we produce writing/art, the way we express ourselves.

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A song by Rick Ross that sampled a song by the Mexican rock band Azul Violeta, who was covering a song by 70's mexican singer Jose Jose. How this beat from the 70's ended in Rick Ross's producers? The producer could have gotten this from a vinyl, napster, YouTube, someone else's iPod. The possibilities are endless. But what this proves is that the information that travels through the web is able to get to the hands of people that are going to put that information to good use.

Blog #7

DeBourgoing tells us how Hip Hop artist in the LA area use Transmedia to become successful artists. There are many ways transmedia is beign used, but the main one is the distribution of music over the internet. This allows artist to be visible to a wider audience without the need of a production company, and for very cheap. Hip hops has used transmedia since its beginnings with the use of sampling and collaboration with others, but with new media and technology artist are able to learn from each other, interact, produce and distribute music without the corporation. Moreover, they are able to connect with people outside of their cities with the help of social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube. The best example I can think of is Soulja Boy. He was a Myspace artist before making it to the mainstream.

Dj Spooky's argument in this section is somewhat complex. He says that DJing is like writing and writing is like DJing. Dj Spooky says that phonograph means sounds writing and in a era of rhythm science both serve as recursive aspects of information collage where everything from personal identity to the codes used to create art or music are available for the mix (64). The information we receive through the media we used like social networks allow us to create a mix of our identity and out thought.

Blog #6

Jenkins talks about how social networking sites are helpful learning tools. Jenkins states :

Collective intelligence can be seen as an alternative source

of media power. We are learning how to use that power through our

day-to-day interactions within convergence culture. Right now, we are

mostly using this collective power through our recreational life, but

soon we will be deploying those skills for more “serious” purposes (jenkins 4).

Collective intelligence is a way where all of the people involved in the internet are able to interact with each other and provide answers to problems. Wikipedia being the main example of it, but others sites like 99designs.com relies on input from hundreds of graphic designers. Weinberger believes that information is miscellaneous and i can come from several users, this means, users se the content they want to see in the internet.

Blog # 5

(image by jake prendez)

In chapter 8, Weinberger talked about labels and what we today call tags as a way to search for data. He used examples used in amazon and walmart and how when you type certain words the engine gives you results of similar words. This relates to the third order of order because tags and labels can mean different things to different objects and subjects. This means that for example a song "x" can be part of your hip hop collection, but can be my old school songs collection, or my roommate's workout mix. This same idea applies to stuff available on the internet. The tags and keywords users give to particular information on the internet does not depend on one finite perspective. By that, we shape the cyber world.

Blog #4

Weinberger suggest 4 new strategic principles to rethink the ways we organize physical objects and ideas.

- Filter on the way out, not on the way in.

Weinberger tells a story of his friends that works at The Harvard Business Review. The job of the friend was to filter all the work submitted to the Journal. In this case, this person's job is to make sure the stuff published is "worthy" for the readers of The Harvard Business Review, but who is this person to say that something filtered out can't be of use for a reader?. In the third order of order, filtering on the way in decreases the value of that abundance by ruling out items that might be of great value to a few people (Weinberger 103). What this means is that user should filter the information for the to assign the value of a particular work to a particular person at a particular time (uff.. that was long)

- Put each leaf on as many branches as possible

This concept is very easy to understand if you have some presence in cyberspace. We are use to think that a leaf hangs from only one branch, but with information in the internet, we must hang it in as many branches as possible. This is done by tagging pieces of information with as many tags as possible.

-Everything is metadata and everything can be a label

This one is a little hard to grasp even thought we probably use this concept every time we look for something online with a search engine. By everything is metadata, Weinberger means that any information you know can and should be used as a keyword to find data, and data is something you do not know. He gives us the example on how you can use the keyword "shakespeare" to find a shakespeare play which title you don't remember or you can use a quote from a play whose author you don't remember and gets as result "shakespeare. In the third order of order, everything is connected and therefore everything is metadata (Weinberger 105)

- Give up control

Users are now in charge of the organization of the information they browse (Weinberger 105). Remember the person that works at the harvard business review? that person is out of a job in cyberspace. Users help other user understand information and data out on websites. take for instance Netflix, user are able to rate movies and when you search for a movie it will show other movies users like and it will suggest you to also watch those.

All of these are important because in Web 2.0 the user has control of the content of the web. Before Web 2.0, the information was very linear. In web 2.0 most of the information out there is shared by other users and all of us customize the information to better suit our needs.