Creative Commons Pictures

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Creative Commons

Want to download and share digital content legally?

Creative Commons Kiwi from CreativeCommons AotearoaNZ on Vimeo.

The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.

Who's Talking About you?

Want to know who's talking about you? Social Mention is a social media search and analysis platform that aggregates user generated content from across the web into a single stream of information. It allows you to easily track and measure what people are saying about you across the web's social media landscape in real-time. Social Mention monitors 100+ social media sites, including Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg and Google.

Your Digital Footprint

The internet is a great place for sharing stuff, but remember that what you share with your friends could be seen by other people that you don’t know. They may also be able to look at it for years to come. Once it’s online, it could be there forever. So think before you post.

Tips

• Keep your personal details private. Use an appropriate handle or username instead of your real name. If you are unsure, don’t give out your name, address, phone number or any other personal details over the internet.
• Don’t share your username or password with anyone.
• Think before you hit send or post. Once something is posted, it can be online forever.
• Don't post anything you don't want others to know—or that you wouldn’t say to them face to face. Respect your friends too—that ‘funny’ photo of them at a party might not be so funny for them, and they might not be very happy if you post it up for everyone in the world to see. Treat others as you would like to be treated.
• Remember that private images and videos you send to friends or post on a social networking site may be easily passed on to others and uploaded to public sites. This can include pictures that may only be intended for your close friends or your boyfriend/girlfriend. Once they’re up, it’s almost impossible to remove them completely.
• Respect other people’s content and be aware that if you post or share their content it might breach copyright laws. For example, a photo that your friend took is their property, not yours. You can only post it online if you have their permission.
• Read the terms and conditions of any photo or content sharing sites. Some sites require you to license the material to the site, which might mean that you lose control over your content.
  
  
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Online Safety

For information on enjoying the online world safely visit cyber(smart:) There is information for children, teenagers, parents and educators.

Twenty-First Century Learners

Yesterday I attended "Information Landscapes for 21C Learners: Developing Inquiry Through Web 2.0 and Student Engagement", a seminar presented by Dr. Joyce Valenza. It was at the beautiful Dockside Convention Centre in Cockle Bay and the walk down from Central was lovely as usual. I was greeted by a vista of boats in Darling Harbour as the Sydney International Boat Show was on. The presentation that Joyce gave was inspiring, intimidating and overwhelming. All these marvelous ideas that she puts into practice! The tools and ideas flowed all day. I don't think that she sleeps. If I can put 1% of her ideas into practice I'll have achieved something.

Her 10 Big things for TLs are:

1. Acacadmic digital footprints

2. Creative Commons

3. Fair Use

4. Research

5. Content Curation

6. Keeping up with searching

7. GIGO - Garbage in, garbage out!

8. What is a primary source?

9. Creativity

10. Communication and collaboration

I needed a break from it all at lunch time to clear my head, so walked up into town to visit my favourite store :-) Dymocks. I do realise that I was attending a seminar about digital resources and Web 2.0 but I love paper too. I love the feel of a good book in my hands, the texture of the paper and the physical experience holding and reading a book.

The seminar was worthwhile... it has stimulated me into trying a few new things and, indeed, resurrecting my blog. Onwards and upwards...

How "Peep Culture" is Changing Our Lives

Social critic Hal Niedzviecki explored the implications of blogging, social networks, and even reality TV, in The Peep Diaries.

We have entered the age of "Peep culture": a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security and even humanity. Peep culture is Reality TV, YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, over-the-counter spy gear, blogs, chat rooms, amateur porn, surveillance technology, Dr. Phil, Borat, cellphone photos of your drunk friend making out with her ex-boyfriend, and more. In the age of Peep, core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing.

With hilarious, exasperated acuity, social critic Hal Niedzviecki dives into Peep, starting his own blog, joining every social network that will have him, monitoring the movements of his wife, hiring private detective websites to investigate his father, spying on his neighbors, and trying out for Reality TV. Hal holds a Facebook party for his 800 online friends – only one shows up! – and goes drinking with a group of middle class empty nesters whose new hobby is posting their amateur porn to the 'Net. Part travelogue, part diary, part meditation and social history, The Peep Diaries explores a rapidly emerging digital phenomenon that is radically changing not just the entertainment landscape, but also the firmaments of our culture and society.

The Peep Diaries introduces the arrival of the Peep culture age and explores its implications on entertainment, society, sex, politics, and everyday life. Mixing first-rate reporting with sociological observations culled from the latest research, this book captures the shift from pop to peep and the way technology is turning gossip into documentary and peeping toms into entertainment journalists. Packed with stranger-than-fiction true-life characters and scenarios, The Peep Diaries reflects the aspirations and confusions of the growing number of people willing to trade the details of their private lives for catharsis, attention, and notoriety.

Read Chapter One.

Read Hal's blog, watch the trailer for the new documentary, Peep Me, and share your own Peep experiences at www.thepeepdiaries.com!