YouTube and the Copyright

YouTube is facing the problem of Copyright because people arelaunching all kinds of videos on it without any authorization. The creator of YouTube is also talking about the high costs that YouTube is bearing and theintroduction of a newtechnology called lifestreaming. From my point ofview, I think that Youtube opened a new space for Internet users tolaunch more of their private life and their personal interests andthis therefore helped in increasing the globalization of thecommunication.

The Neo-Socialisation

Nowadays, we notice the flourishing of many social networks on the Internet, all of them used to emphasize on the notion of socialization and enhance the communication between the different parts of the globe and MySpace is one of them. This social network launched on the Web offers to its users a personnalized web space, on where they can launch any kind of information concerning them, in order to show to people their interests and their opinions. It is in fact the smae process as when you meet someone in a coffee place and you introduce yourself, but here it is virtually. Therefore, socialization is considered as being indirect and thus create less connection between the two parts involved in it.
MySpace is not only a medium of socialization but it is also a commercial place. Indeed, a thousands of dollars are earned everyday thanks to some of MySpace features such as the advertisements applications and the musical one. Companies promote their products on MySpace, knowing that millions of Internet users will see them.
More than that, MySpace vehiculates culture in its wider meaning. People from USA talk with people from Germany, communicating their views on the world and their way of life, and vice versa.
MySpace and the other social networks have became the must of this last decade, enhancing teh virtual and abandonning the direct.

Sarkozy and His Newspapers...

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy decided to give a second life to national newspapers sinec he considers them as a major tool in the development of the democracy. The industry of the newspapers in France is weak; the resources are misallocated and this forces people to neglect newspapers. The main solution to this problem, according to some professionals, is popularizing the reading of local newspapers, by enhancing their distribution, minimizing their costs and making them more attractive to the readers. Another problem that journalists are facing is the censorship and the manipulation of the political parties: newspapers should be free from regulation or censure to be more honest and make readers more confortable.
Making the newspapers field limpid and more accessible is a mandatory step for each nation in order to achieve democracy and reach harmony. Newspapers are the miror of teh nation, expressing their fears and expectations, but also a medium for the government to vehiculate its beliefs and ideals: all in all, newspapers are the way of promoting the communication between the two sides, and without this communication, the developement is difficult to accomplish.

End of the Book ?

As in every field of our everyday life, the technology has made its entrance into the world of books. Indeed, we notice now the appearance of a new form of books, the electronic ones. It is a digital version encompassed in an electronic device that allows you to carry more than 160 books at the same time.
The future of paper books is seriously endangered by those novelties since people look now for a more practical way of life and this device is highly simplifiying the process of reading. However, the real lovers of books that see more in a book an object carrying an emotional meaning won't love this new form of it that is impersonal. Paper books are the ones that move from a hand to another, conveying the smell and the impression of its previous readers and this is something impossible to obtain with an electronic book. At my point, everything that is not anymore in its original form looses its charms. Keeping a traditional side in our lives does not mean being outdated, but on the contrary putting a healthy barrier to the invasion of technology.

Old Newspapers Get Online Launch

Google is innovating once again in the technological world by transforming old written newspapers to digital ones and launching them on the Web. It is a long-drawn-out job since it required considerable studies and tests to make it works. This is to bring an ameliorated appearance to traditional newspapers and to make them available to a wide range of readers through time and space.

This ambitious project that Google is forming of digitalizing all the newspapers since 1764 can be considered as a history work insofar as newspapers reflect on the context of the specific periods in which they were written. Therefore, reading them will be equivalent of studying the interests, the lifestyles and the preoccupations of people at that time more than reading the news. Let’s say that there are quite no more frontiers between the present and the past and this is due to the advances in technology and Google and its new accomplishment is one of the many examples that illustrate this statement.