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Assignment #4 – Quote Databse

1.) On the general mission of "TV Everywhere", Stephen Lawson of the New York times wrote that "The companies described their "TV Everywhere" model as a framework for making more shows available over any broadband connection. They will begin with a national technical trial of Comcast's On Demand Online service in July, carrying programming from the Time Warner-owned Turner Network Television (TNT) and Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) networks."

2.) On the availability and accessibility of online television content, Stephen Lawson from the New York Times wrote, "Bring more TV content, more easily to more people across platforms," is the first principle. Programmers should make their best and highest-rated content available online, where subscribers can watch for no additional charge over any broadband connection, the framework says."

-Stephen Lawson from New York Times

3.) Facebook continues to grow and expand their social networking site. "the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends."

4.) Facebook has a massive number of users and an incredible amount of information on each person."The soft fleshed creatures that we Facebook users are will likely hate the new setting, at least at first. But robots are going to love it. As the largest social network on the web, with an incredible amount of time spent on the site by its users, Facebook holds a giant reservoir of demographic and sentiment data. It is the motherlode - and it's been inaccessible so far because everything has been private so far."

-Marshall Kirkpatrick from New York Times

5.) Wikipedia has arguably reached the status of global encyclopedia."Considering that Wikipedia has reached Top Five world status among Web sites – with more than 330 million users – its annual Wikimania conference, which ended Friday night in Buenos Aires, featured a lot of hand-wringing about all the problems the project faces."

6.) Wikipedia has been monitored and observed a lot more closely, decreasing the sharp increase of information. “I think most people think it is important that it be a fine encyclopedia, with high-quality articles,” he said. But, he asked, “would we be willing to live with a little less successful encyclopedia for more freedom?”

7.) When successfully explaining the growth of Wikipedia through an analogy, Noam Cohen says "Growth of English-language Wikipedia would be slowing sharply over the next few years. He made an analogy to an orchard. There were the articles that were like fruit on the ground (say, “apple” or “Africa”) that were tackled early in the project. Slightly more specialized articles quickly followed (so-called “low-hanging fruit.”) Finally there are the fruit at the top of the trees, which, after three million articles, are also largely in the bushel basket."

8.) The slowed pace of Wikipedias growth is in correlation with human knowledge. "What looked like sharp growth at the start was really Wikipedia collecting all that material, he said. It couldn’t last. Growth will come from specialized articles, maintenance and news, both events and ideas and products. “Human knowledge is always expanding, but not at the same steep rate,” he said."

-Noam Cohen from New York Times

9.) In order to justify the cyber-strategies' techniques, the article reads "In line with a wider focus within the National Security Strategy on not just protecting the state but also citizens, the cyber-strategy encompasses protecting individuals from forms of fraud, identity theft and e-crime committed using technology as well as defending government secrets and businesses."

10.) On the possibility of the government having attack capabalities, Gordon writes "He also said he could not deny that the government had its own online attack capability, but he refused to say whether it had ever been used. "

11.) Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Tom Brake said ""The cyber security strategy uses broad, undefined terms that risk creating panic among the public and a demand for further government powers. We must not retreat into a Cold War mentality.""

12.)When it comes to our government, "US President Barack Obama has been carrying out a similar re-organisation for defending US computer networks and British officials said the two countries were co-ordinating closely not least because of the intimate relationship between GCHQ and its US equivalent."

- Gordon Corera of BBC

13.) YouTube's new plan "aims to identify hugely popular videos from individuals, notifying them that they can become advertising partners."

14.) The plan has already been put into effect. "A number of users who regularly post such hugely popular videos have already been approached for the partnering scheme, but YouTube's aim now is to track the rising popularity of one-off viral videos."

15.) Depending on how popular a viral video becomes, different people can make a different profit. "For instance, Lauren Luke of northeast England began posting make-up tips on YouTube in 2007. She was approached to become an advertising partner and now the hobby has become her main source of income."

16.) Jeremy A. Kaplan of Fox News says “The DNA Transistor is a project from IBM Research that aims to advance personalized medicine, by making it simpler (and much cheaper) to read an individual's unique DNA sequence — the special combination of proteins that makes you unlike anyone else.”

17.) Concerning the areas where this weapon can be put to use, Kurt Nimmo of Infowars says “This is not the kind of weapon that would be particularly useful in Iraq or Afghanistan, but it is ideally suited to hit deeply buried nuclear facilities such as Natanz or Qom in Iran,” ABC notes.