As far as if I would contribute my talents towards this effort, absolutely, but not anytime soon. We used to be a Nielson. Would sell information about what we were.

Never Live Your Life In Comparison To Others. The first community action project that came to mind when I read the questions regarding cognitive surplus was that of the meaningful efforts provided to the blog Blessed by Brenna. Started right here in Springfield, Illinois. A brief background about this blog Brenna Westlake was born in 2011 with a severe skin disease called Harlequin Ichthyosis. As for an existing project, I.

I actually feel like I am already contributing my talents through blogging for this class and blogging on Tumblr. I am expressing my opinions and sharing information. I believe I incorporate a lot of user generated content into my posts but I hope one day that my posts will reach a peer and help them in a way that changes their lifestyle or point of view. This generation is obsessed with becoming famous through socia.

Network Neutrality or BUST! July 4, 2014. Scussion is on Net Neutrality. All in all, I thou.

I believe blogging is a collective effort using the internet to generate cognitive surplus. How would I benefit from blogging? I would definitely contribute my talents and efforts to this project. I definitely comment on blogs that I am reading and providing insight when I have it. In the future, when I have enough personal experiences of my own, and have a steady healthy lifestyle, I could see myself creating a similar blog and helping other people.

I agree with Clay Shirky that creating anything online is better than sitting in front of a television. I do see drawbacks with some of the content online and how that content is utilized. I just think overall, the internet is more positive for our minds than the television. These ideas make me wish that those individuals would just go watch television. A few years ago I met a roommate through Craigslist. I started off the vid.

One of the themes of this weeks material was cognitive surplus, or how given the communication platform, we can all influence each other by contributing our time to projects. These can be for fun, for profit, or to help people out. Villain was the best, you can do that too, because the platform is there, and freely available. Mobile devices fall into the medium medium realm as well. They also want to start throttl.