Week #5 Change = Adapt or Die

(I love Darwin!)
I think the USB bracelet is awesome and a great marketing tool, not to mention ideally convenient portability! Movie magnates are finally getting wise offering downloadable movies. Look at huge Net Flix among others. It won't stop pirating, but it will help. As the technology develops it will also be the wise organization that stays on top of that cutting edge and offers inovative ways of using it/IT.

Darwin aside, the old business addage says - the company that is not growing or is stagnate is, or will begin soon, to die.

Week #4 Open Source is IT! (Pun intended)

I have been watching the Open Source Code/ Freeware/ Shareware wave for more than 10 years!

Here is acouple sites about CopyLeft rules, implementation, and use. CopyLeft seeks to KEEP open sourceware - open - and prevent anyone from locking it in.
http://www.copyleft.com/
http://www.copyleft.no/
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ GNU = Lesser General Public License

Open source code and "copyleft" vs. copyright is the natural solution for software. Freeware and Shareware have been around for a loooong time. I expect it to expand exponentially from here on, especially with successes such as Linux OS, "OpenOffice" by Sun Microsystems, and many other large and small programs.

With the increase in masses of information, music, movies, pictures, art work, ad infinte item, it is going to be more and more difficult to "lock down" all those forms of creativity. It is natural for all these areas to follow the the freeware/shareware/pay-per-use concept including books, and music. Witness http://www.pagebypage.com/ and http://www.gutenberg.com/ and sites that let you buy a song for 99 cents. Watch it grow!

Week #3 Health, Workout, & Weightloss - Oh My!

Well, this is depressing. Back to the ol' workout video. It worked for me before, can't afford the Wii or a gym. At least I have better information now and goals. My max heart rate is 171. According to the BMI I am at the upper limit of "Overweight" and need to loose 31 pounds to be at the upper limit of "Normal".
Ouch!
Need to loose 50 pounds to get to an average weight for my height and frame.
Double Ouch!!
I like the 10,000 step plan, that is do-able. I don't like music for outdoor workouts (walking, gardening, etc.), but do for indoors. The boring factor is definitely my problem for sticking with it. Got plenty of ideas from the lesson tho. Wish me luck!

Week #1-2 Learn 2.1 - Once more around the block

Week 1 & 2- Learn 2.1 OCLS Lessons
Here we go, once more around the block and don't spare the horses!
Review, review.

Week 10:

Podecasting - up to the minute technology. Download is the way to go!
Going to use my MP3 player for audio books and some music.
Love the ebook/audiobook feature.

BTW - One of my absolute all time favorites -Prairie Home Companion has it's own site for all the news from lake woebegone. Access it at http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/ It also gives you the radio stations that carry the show and the time slots to listen to it.

Week 9:

Liveplasma -cool. Like the integrated tree design spinning out to like or similar music and then to near genre.
Copyright info - essential.
Digital Music copyright info -also essential, especially since I'm a musician/singer and work with musicians on original works, performances, independent movie soundtrack/sound fx, music, etc.
Copyright for Libraries and Educational use - very valuable info for our daily business.

Bookmarked the sites for reference.

Digital copyright stance - It's a good ideal, but it's hard to regulate cyberspace. Sites have to be willing to self regulate and there is still no guarantee their users will follow suit.

Week 8:

Interesting to see the different methods for protecting intellectual and artistic items such as the common protections here. Check out "Copy Left" (vs copyrigtht) for open source code programming. It's along the same lines only the other direction. Rules for keeping software open source code.