Alright so here is my attempt a my second video blog. To film it we attached the camera to a tripod that was strapped into the backseat. It's not perfect, but it gave a decent idea of the town.
~Heather

So here is my first attempt a video blog. It was taken with a Nikon Coolpix in my bedroom so the quality really stinks. Oh well here is is.
~Heather

Kindle 2- Does it Cross the Line?

After reading the articles this week I think that the Kindle 2's text-to-speech is breaking copyright law. A person writes their books and gets the book copyrighted to be sold as an e-book. However, they are not being paid for it to be an audio book. If they wanted it to be an audio book they would have released it as such and have copyrighted the audio features of that audio book. I believe that Amazon has gone too far with their text-to-speech option. It would be one thing if people could record their voices reading a book and listen to that, but they are essentially getting an audio book without paying the audio book prices. That is not fair to the writer of the books.

Plagiarism and CCV

Many times when I am writing a paper I forget that paraphrasing also needs to have a citation at the end of a paragraph. I often find myself avoiding or not using paraphrasing so that I don't get into the very gray area of plagiarism. It is so easy to steal another one's ideas and take them as your own, but you need to remember the time it took for that person to come up with idea.
However what I find to be most difficult is what as accepted as common knowledge. Common knowledge is the idea that something has been around for so long that it no longer needs to be cited. If was the to say the earth travels around the sun and is a sphere I would not need to cite my source, because every human being now accepts that as a fact. However if I wanted to go into more detail about the size and/or function of the earth I would need to cite a source. This example is easily understood, but their are so many gray ares out there are difficult to understand.
I wish that the videos from Rutgers had gone into more dept about what do with facts that considered to be common knowledge. They talked a lot about using direct quotes and paraphrasing, but they left the areas of grey areas that most college students tend to get into the most trouble for. Feel free to correct me if you think that I am wrong about this.
~Heather