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SOPA: It’s Gone But Is It Dead?

In defiance of SOPA Keep Calm & Shutdown your Government
SOPA was proposed by a Texas Republican called Lamar Smith (who shortly became the most hated man on the internet) in the House of Representatives in October 2011. Frankly speaking, SOPA was hugely backed up by the American film and music industry as they are claiming the loss of billions of dollars due to illegal content sharing and distribution performed by file sharing websites such as Megaupload, Rapidshare, Fileserve…, torrent websites such as ThePirateBay, Sumotorrent, Torrentjunky… and other types of websites such as forums and social networks… the internet community response to this claim was sharing a photo of the famous American rapper Lil’ Wayne sitting on the top of a money mountain wearing gold chains and designer labeled clothes along with a sarcastic caption “guys! You make the artists poor when you share their music for free!” Read more

Social Media and Journalism Today

Social media & Journalism today Social media and journalism today
Is the Social Media a Short Trend?
Julia response was that it is the exact opposite as the game has been changed as the use of the blogs and twitter in supporting the revolutions In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya… and how the information has been delivered despite of keeping the reporters out of the country and arresting them and how all the population have become journalists and kept updating the situations in their country on their facebooks and twitter,etc which greatly helped the succes of their revolution. The informations is still flowing and continues thanks to the social media… The future of content is conversion and the flow of information is going to be much more fluid. Actually offers a good future for the news paper industry and democracy in the whole world. Read more

The Power Of Cartoons

Patrick Chappatte - The Power of Cartoon The Power Of Cartoons

In this article I am going to talk about the Power of Cartoon and how far It can impact our lives and relationships. In my researches I found an article that exactly talks about this sensible case put up in a divertissement way.

This short video is a one man show presented by Patrick Chappatte. He is generally speaking about how cartoon is involved in politics and war, and what are the conflicts resulted from mal-uses of this powerful tool. He also discusses how the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together in a humorous context using comedy to get closer to the public’s hearts and be able to deliver his message to them.

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The social media revolution – social media communities

There is a huge trend happening right now its phenomenon of people connecting with each other and communicate strait with each other (social media communitiesonline and for the companies and organisations this is difficult to handle because if people take power on to themselves that’s power just taken away from institutions like cooperation’s.

Companies need to get involved but are cautious about taking the first step, but I think it’s a risk for companies to not take this social community train right now.

Here is a Harvard Business Interview with Josh Bernoff, vice president and principal analyst at Forrest Research.