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AMS Final Cheat Sheet

steveo3256 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:18:23 +0000

1. Writing vs visuals

-“i have followed this man’s work since his first apperiance on myspace.com. he stayed on myspace for a long time and quickly rose to myspace’s top unsigned artists list. shortly after that he jumped onto I-Tunes top 100 unsigned artists.” (quote from secondhand serenade blog post by Steven Belfiore)

-“im not crying out BURN BOOKS but rather asking if theres a way to connect books and video games. if so maybe ill have a future in Math.” (quote from Video Game age by Steven Belfiore)

– “the intelectual nurishment of reading is so deeply ingrained in our assumptions that its hard to contemplate a different viewpoint.”(Stephen Johnson Everything Bad Is Good For You page 18

3. Skills Necessary to survive

-“It’s not about tolerating or aestheticizing chaos; it’s about finding order and meaning in the world, and making decisions that help create order.” (Johnson 62) Blog post 19b

Final

steveo3256 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:16:33 +0000

August 30, 2007 Blog post #1 September 4^th, 2007 Blog post #2 September 4^th, 2007 Blog Post #3 September 4^th, 2007 Blog Post #4 -Commented on Lauren’s September 6^th, 2007 Blog Post #5 September 13^th, 2007 Blog Post #6 September 14^th, 2007 Blog Post #7 -Commented on Justin’s September 18^th, 2007 Blog post #8 -Commented on Andrew’s -Commented on Louis’sSeptember 27^th, 2007 Blog post #9 October 4^th, 2007 Blog post #10 October 4^th, 2007 Blog post #11 -Commented on Kelly’s -Commented on Andrew’sOctober 9^th, 2007 Blog post #12 October 16^th, 2007 Blog post #13 -Commented on Hannah’s -Commented on Jon’sOctober 18^th, 2007 Blog Post #14 October 18^th, 2007 Blog post #15 – commented on Kerri’s October 25^th, 2007 Blog Post #16 October 30th,2007 Convergence culture November 1st, 2007 AMS +English = Same Topic (19a) November 1st,2007 19b November 29th, 2007 Second to last blog post November 29th, 2007 #25 December 6th, 2007 Final Slideshow

Final Slideshow

steveo3256 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:11:40 +0000

Its All For The Fans ???

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Everyday on MTV and Vh1 hundreds if not thousands of people tune in to watch different shows like this one describeing how celebrities live there rich and fabulous lives. These shows focus on A-list celebrities such as movie stars, athletes, and big time Athletes. If you don’t tune into one of these type shows than you’ll most likely check out a sob story or two about how they made it big. From rags to richs and it was all because of the fans.

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All because of the fans. Thats pretty much what every big time rags to richs musician would say. So they make there millions of dollars and go on tour and put out music all for the fans to pay them back. But what is it called when the one’s who help to create turn there backs on you and forget about your loyalty to them? It’s called BETRAYAL.

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Betrayel was exactly what once great artists united and did to there loyal fans. It all came to head with Napster. A free downloading system that allowed music fans download there favorite bands music for free rather than shelling out $ 20.00 bucks for their full album. The band that is well known for starting the war between musicians and Free downloading sites is Metallica. Metallica the once leader of Metal now leader of fight against there fans?

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That’s right the fight against Fan’s. Metallica rallyed up with the government and saw to the arrest of over 50 of there fans that they found were downloading hundreds of there songs. After that they began to rallyed up support from other artists like Blink 182, Jennifer Lopez, and many more. They Became the Artists Against Downloading campaign. They would tell fans in concerts and on talk shows and other venues about the dangers that downloading does to there profits. Instead of selling a million records they may sell only 75,000 and lose out on all that money. So they’d rather arrest fans to make a buck then to go with there popularity.

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This campaign was pretty sucessful in the Artists eyes. They helped arrest hundreds of downloaders and if not arrested them sued them $ 100,000 dollars for every song that they downloaded. They even sunk lower than this, if you ever thought it possible, they had a single mother sued $ 100,000 dollars for every 1 of her 20 lullbies that she downloaded for her new born child. She of course couldnt pay so they sent her off to prison and had her child put into a foster car system. Nice Campaign.

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After many cases like that one fans began to fight back by cutting off the artists money by not attending concerts, not buying cd’s, and in anyways possible just not supporting bands who where on this campaign. Many bands began to feel the heat and paycut and began apologizing to fans by useing tactics like putting cd’s up for full free download on there sites and by publicly apologizing to fans. Many musicians realized there wrongs and made up for them but many to this day are still strongly against downloading. But the quote i like to use is by Huey Lewis. He say’s ” in the past year Bruce Springstein has probably made more money off concerts then he’s made on anythign in his entire life.”

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Like is said many artists have chaged there views on the topic of Downloading but at the very same time many are still strong willed against it. Due to there fight different copyright labels and companies have stepped into the shoes that once where filled by musicians. They now head the fight against Downloading and trying to get more and more money and blood. Just last year a boy, age 12, downloaded quite a few songs and was met one day by a swat team and a label executive handing him a supena. The boy was tryed and fined $ 100,000 dollars for every song that he had downloaded which brought him to a total that im pretty sure the US government couldnt even pay off. He was sent to juvenille hall while his parents home was seized for collateral and all there belongings.

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There’s always light though. Many rising stars are all for downloading because, for now, its all for the fans. Though there are still many out there who still feel that downloading wrong and that it should be stopped and they are doing everything in there power to stop it, there are always new venues to get free music and evryday we grow closer to an agreement that all will follow. Maybe not in this lifetime but maybe somedy soon. To all who download i’m right there with you because remeber… its all for the fans…..

Its All For Us !!!

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#25

steveo3256 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:53:15 +0000

Skelatal draft? what the hell is that. i honestly dont no so what im going to do is list big factors of my paper and other such things.

-my issue is Artists Against Downloading when theyre making more money than god. i feel this is huge because muscians make so much money from concerts and merchandise that they should all shut the f#$% up and play there music for there fans not for the money.

-Quotes: “If we let this stand, you’re going to see the undoing of this society. i didnt preside over this movie industry to see it disintegrate like the music industry.” Jack Valenti (head of the motion picture association of america)

“I dont feel guilty. the music industry needs to realize that this is here to stay.” Sean Farrell (Yale senior 2003)

“I dont want them to protect me. i want my fans to listen no matter how they acquire it.” Drainman (lead singer for Disturbed)

“Bruce Springstein probably made more money last year with touring than he ever has in his career.” Huey Lewis (lead singer for Huey Lewis and the News)

“As a musician i am outraged by downloading. i cant make a cent of that style of music acusition.” 6 months later after huge fan revolt “i said some things that i didnt no all the facts about so i am personally apologizing to all the fans out there that i lost support from.” Mark Hoppus (Bass/Vocals for Blink 182)

-honestly my paper is against rich artists who live in big mansions that are complaining about loseing money to downloading. not loseing popularity, not loseing fan base but instead loseing money by getting more popular.

Second To Last Blog Post

steveo3256 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:36:25 +0000

i saw many things today that i want to do in my slideshow and also many things i think i should never do. i saw great pics that made you focus directly on the topic at hand but at the same time many bad pics or bad flicks that either didnt make sense with the topic or were so outrageous that you lost site of the topic. personally im going to use great images that make the viewers immediatly draw an opinion about my topic. possibly controversal but will get the job done.

i would say that my arguement is that artists (musicians) are complaining about loseing money to the ever growing free illegal downloading systems like Kazza and Lime Wire, yet theyre making more money than anyone in the history of the music buisness. they get cuts on many things other than there CD sales. for them to put out that theyre loseing lots of money due to downloading is BS cause there getting cuts from there concerts, which are most likely over priced and always packed, and merchandise which is an ever growing thing putting names and the bands name on everything from shirts to michelanious shit.

musicians are winey babies and need to grow up. though they may lose some money to downloading, their fan base is growing because now they can listen to there songs for free which then they turn around and most likely will go to a concert first chance they get.

What ever happened to its all for the fans?

19 b

steveo3256 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:56:37 +0000

“It’s not about tolerating or aestheticizing chaos; it’s about finding order and meaning in the world, and making decisions that help create order.” (Johnson 62)

this quote explains working in a group on a wiki page because working with others you have to create order and make tough decisons. whether it be to cut something i said or cut something someone else originally said you have to make decisions. you might read this quote and draw a question about the whole chaos aspect of this but you no what when ur in college and working with 4 other people there is chaos. theres tempers theres egos theres all thatgood stuff. group work is tough but when it comes down to it its much easier to collect knowledge through a couple people rather than just one person. this quote is perfect to describe group work and thats why i decided so quickly that this was the quote i would use for my 19 b blog post.

thank you and good night.

AMS + ENGLISH = SAME TOPIC (19 a)

steveo3256 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:56:09 +0000

“…communities however, are held together through the mutual production and reciprocal exchange of knowledge.” (Jenkins 27).

for my english research paper im doing it on whats the real problem with Downloading music. im doing this because look around today at music artist and you see the highest payed musicians in the history of the world. you see them driving fancy cars and playing sold out shows that cost anywhere from 50 bucks to 190 bucks. yet many artist are completly against downloading saying that it ruins there profits. this quote i think works well with my topic because its saying how as a community we are kept going by sharing in collective knowledge… last i checked downloading is just that. this quote makes me really want to persue my question of: Why are so many musicians against music dowloading when theyre getting payed millions anyways?

Convergence Culture

steveo3256 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:03:17 +0000

convergence culture has affected me in many ways but one things really stands out to me as a major thing… the lovely item that is my cell phone. i remeber growing up and never ever even seeing a cell phone but now everyone whos everyone has one. for gods sake my grandparents have one. on top of that theres like a new style or new advanced thing in the cell phones like every other week.

it started as a phone. big in size but portable. then it grew smaller but with more things to do on it like basic games. then it grew even smaller and became a walky talky as well. then it grew real small and was able to text. then it grew smaller and could take pictures. next came the music capabilitys then came voice activation and now we are at a cell that can carry as much info on it as a 90 gb ipod as well as access the internet.

growing up even when i had a cell like in 6th grade i never carryed it due to its size and the fact that i didnt need to. but now i cant go anywhere with out my cell because im constantly getting something wether it be a txt a call or w.e my cell has become a huge part of my life and now i hate to say it but i would go nuts without it.

PART TWO

steveo3256 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:36:02 +0000

on October 18th i did a post about on my favorite music artists Secondhand Serenade. after reading it overi realized that while writing about it that all my info. on this band was coming from online. so what makes this post interestingis the fact that i got all my facts from online. “i have followed this man’s work since his first apperiance on myspace.com. he stayed on myspace for a long time and quickly rose to myspace’s top unsigned artists list. shortly after that he jumped onto I-Tunes top 100 unsigned artists.” (quote from secondhand serenade blog post by Steven Belfiore) on October 9th i did a post about the video game age. within the post i spoke of techniques for learning via the internet rather than books. this post is interesting because i was exploreing a completely new way to think about knowledge. “im not crying out BURN BOOKS but rather asking if theres a way to connect books and video games. if so maybe ill have a future in Math.” (quote from Video Game age by Steven Belfiore) On October 4th i did a post on how our government is trying to seize so much control of the internet that its becoming a totalitarian govenment system. this post is interesting because i compared the united states of america to the nazi empire and things of that nature. “a government system that could put soul power, over an entire country, in the hands of one man. A TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT.” (quote from Single Topic by Steven Belfiore) The final blog that i will discuss here is my final slideshow. even though nothing waswitten alot was said through it. i mad a huge point about government control of the internet and then mixing images of Hitler and Bush as well as the biggest hit picture which was my statue of liberty with a nazi flag drapped over her as a dress.

PART ONE

steveo3256 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:11:01 +0000