Part of my research this semester focuses on legal issues arising from the re-use of social media assets such as photos, posts and videos. I’m developing guidelines for their re-use by several communities I care about: journalists, social media users and bloggers, as well as artists, publishers, businesses and, of course, lawyers, judges and other officers of our court system. Continue reading “NYT A1 points to debate on re-usage guidelines for Instagram, other social media”
Category: Academia
Getting started on selecting a master’s degree thesis
My N512 class, Trends in Informatics, centers around the question: What do you want to be working on for the next 20-30 years? It’s a novel but necessary idea that RIGHT NOW, we have to identify our deep interests to avoid any wasteful false starts on the career for which, in pursuit of this master’s degree, we have committed two years of our lives and thousands of dollars. Let’s get our money’s worth!
But what are MY deep interests? Where’s my research going to focus? What can I sustain the energy and enthusiasm to work on well into the year 2035? How can I start laying the foundations for a productive and satisfying career? Continue reading “Getting started on selecting a master’s degree thesis”
Unboxed! My Plated.com menu order for class video project
My team for N501, Foundations of Digital Production, is creating a promo video and website for a product in order to showcase the video, 3-D and other techniques we will learn this semester.
Our choice: Plated.com, a service that will deliver to your door an entire meal-in-a-box. In order to research the product for our project, I ordered two plates of two different meals from the service. I enjoyed unboxing this package of goodies today!
Have you used Plated.com? How about Blue Apron, Hello Fresh or other food-delivery services? What is your opinion of this type of web-order product?
