1. Alex

    DS106-Phake Tweets

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    @SteveJobs comments:   “Why join the Navy when you can become a pirate?” twister link                        @LayzLay24 comments: Why graduate college, when you can become rich without a degree?   @MuhammadAli comments:   “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” Twister link     ...
  2. Alex

    DS106-Phake Tweets

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    @SteveJobs comments:   “Why join the Navy when you can become a pirate?” twister link                        @LayzLay24 comments: Why graduate college, when you can become rich without a degree?   @MuhammadAli comments:   “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” Twister link     […]
  3. Ren Isozaki

    Vice online

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    I would like to write about Vice online as a extra investigation. I am going to focus on the Internet bullying and addiction, and my experience. This is the article which directly connected with both bullying and addiction. According to the article, in Japan, 96% of high school students have a cellphone and 10% of […]
  4. Novotny

    Privacy Arms Race

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    Google, Twitter and Facebook are mining our data. Our data is taken and sold to advertising companies who then can create highly specialized advertisements based on our personal interests as suggested by the contents of your online accounts. This information can range from email addresses in your gmail account to contacts in your smartphones to […]
  5. hung

    Propaganda- Extream Prespectives on 2012 Kony

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    The video which has been discussed intensely now is viewed more than 79,277,982 times on YouTube. The video is about the military use of children in Africa. The warlord, Joseph Knoy, kidnaps a large number of children, and forces boys to fight against his enemies and girls to be sex slaves. The main goal of ...
  6. Alex

    Ethical Hacking: Advantages and Potential Dangers

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    Ethical Hacking: Understanding the Benefits, Goals and Disadvantages  This article discusses an interesting topic called “ethical hacking.” Before I go any further into the detail of this article, I would like to briefly explain the definition of “ethical hacking.” An ethical hacker is a computer or network expert who attacks a security system on the behalf […]
  7. Alex

    Ethical Hacking: Advantages and Potential Dangers

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    Ethical Hacking: Understanding the Benefits, Goals and Disadvantages  This article discusses an interesting topic called “ethical hacking.” Before I go any further into the detail of this article, I would like to briefly explain the definition of “ethical hacking.” An ethical hacker is a computer or network expert who attacks a security system on the behalf […]
  8. Ha-Suk Shin

    The New Kind of War – Cyberwarfare

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    Cyberspace: The New Face of War in the XXI Century For the Fear and Loathing Online presentation I decided to do it on “Repression, Control & Propaganda” and with this topic I found an article regarding cyberwarfare. With the technological evolution and globalization, a new kind of war is being waged. This new kind of […]
  9. Ren Isozaki

    Google Maps Story

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    This is the assignment taken from Web assignment. Instruction says: “Use Google Maps to tell a story! It can be the story of a trip you took, a trip you would like to take, a strange occurrence, a war, anything you like! The only rules are that you have to use Google Maps proper in […]
  10. Ren Isozaki

    Wait, where’d that guy come from?

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    Wait, where’d that guy come from?, I have chosen this assignment from Design Assignment. Instruction says : Photoshop someone(s) (or something(s)) into a picture that isn’t supposed to be there. Here’s the original inspiration for the project: http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20110629_1.htm I really love ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and when I see this assignments, this idea came up […]
  11. Ren Isozaki

    Splash The Color

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    I decided to do “Splash The Color” from Visual Assignment. Instruction says: “Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. Think of the Girl in the red dress from Schindler’s List. You […]
  12. Ren Isozaki

    CopyRight and Wrong

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    March 14, I have done with short presentation about CopyRight and the Internet. I made a power point based on This web page. The important points of my presentation are what is copyright and how it is violated. one thing I wondered is the first copyright law showed up in 1790, according to this web ...
  13. Takuji Kobayashi

    Copyright and Wrong

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               Link What is the Copyright ? England created in 1709 It is a some form of intellectual property law. It is a way of protecting intellectual creations. ?©?is a symbol mark of copyright. The symbol protect the tangible form, such as a book, piece of recorded music, computer program, screenplay, painting, photograph, or motion picture. What ...
  14. Clio

    Guess The Songs!

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    Hey I thought doing an assignment from the audio section would be fun for me because I love music. I decided to do the assignment called A Contest Nobody Could Win by procsilas. The instructions read…Take six very short fragments (less than one … Continue reading
  15. Novotny

    Sprawl City

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    I like this image. It’s suggesting that if you take suburban sprawl into account, then US cities are more massive than is popularly believed. I think it’s really cool. I like the idea of a gigantic mega city spanning from Boston to Atlanta. The setting in the Gibson book Neuromancer was called BAMA, the Boston- Atlanta […]
  16. Ren Isozaki

    Think about new Google privacy and policy

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    From March 1, Google has been staring a new privacy and policy. This is a bit complicating for me to understand every single theory of new privacy and policy. I guess all people who have gmail account have received e-mail from Google service before a new Google privacy and policy have been starting, but don’t ...
  17. Novotny

    Old Kansai

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    Caption – “Ronin mercenaries track down known cattle russler T. Wright Hickens. He was arrested  on charges of kidnapping, extortion, russlin cattle and uncivilized barbarism.” This is the Culture Clash assignment where you show how two cultures would mix. I thought it would be funny to do a picture with samurai and cowboys in it.  I […]
  18. Clio

    Cooking with Clio!

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    Hi guys! This is my first DS106 assignment for the 3rd section. This time I looked through the video section and came across an assignment  called the Cooking Show by Jaymie. Although I can’t really cook, I thought it would be … Continue reading
  19. Takuji Kobayashi

    DS106 Cartoon the Head!

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    I chose the assignment which is Cartoon the Head! The assignment requires ”Take any person, thing, or animal and apply a cartoon character head to it. Be creative!” I do not know the my picture is creative, but I did this assignment. I used the Aviary again. I took the Luffy‘s picture from the website. And another picture come ...
  20. Takuji Kobayashi

    DS106 A Sunset

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    I chose the ds106 assignment, A Sunset. It says “Take a picture of a beautiful sunset. Nothing fancy, just a nice picture “.  I took the photo around 5:00 pm. And when I play the futsal with my friend at park, I saw the such a beutifu landscape, and at that time I remember this ...
  21. Alex

    Uncle Sam: If it ends in .com it’s seizable

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    Uncle Sam: If it ends in .com it’s seizable picture link: “Uncle Sam” What is the United States government really “capable” of doing on the internet? The recent indictment of the Canadian billionaire, Calvin Ayre, on illegal online gambling charges has been raising the concern that anyone who owns a .com domain could find themselves subject to U.S. ...
  22. Takuji Kobayashi

    Support the Northeast Japan…

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    Last year, we had huge earthquake, and it influenced hude impact on northeast Japan. They got “Tsunami” which destroyed evrything. Even though we will pass one year almost, in the actual place, there are still a raw wound. Nowadays, many company and government start to support the northeast to revive. And one of the NPO corporation start the ...
  23. Takuji Kobayashi

    Computer Virus

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    Today’s class, we had the small presentation which discuss about computer virus. And most of students explain about what the virus is and how it influences on computer. They said the virus has negative influenses such as stealing the password and various code, and the virus spread out those of information into the network. After ...
  24. Stephanie Jacobs

    Toska the Idiot

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    Write the script for a conversation with your long lost friend Toska, who deals with ‘a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning.’. Generate five random words from the Words with No Translation tool and make sure Toska uses one word … Continue reading »

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