SOCIAL MEDIA/WEB2.0 exercise

Question 1: user generated content will get better over time. technology will keep progressing, so the quality of media on the web will keep getting better. i do however believe that the pros will continue to use the quality of media that is generally found on the web. so the pattern for professional productions will be like a parabola. the quality started relatively high compared to media created by amateurs. then it slowly began to tone down the quality to seem more like an amateur work to gain popularity through familiarity. but from there the quality of amateur work goes up and the professional productions follow suit.

Question2: i chose an article about Ubisoft's flawed DRM (Digital Rights Management) scheme. i would have tagged it with things like Ubisoft, Assassins Creed 2, DRM Scheme, Online Gameplay, Settlers 7, or Flawed System. the acctual tags were DRM, Ubisoft, Prince of Persia, Assassins Creed 2, Settlers 7, Consant Connection, and PC Gaming. the tags i would have chosen were not too far off. it seems lke for tags you should pick the most obvious choices. you should pick thigs that would likely be keywords for a search for your article.

Question 3: transparency online is really important because in a social media world, anyone can get your information. that is a scary fact and something you generally want to avoid. if we are going to put information we should know what is gong to be done with it. without that comfort users are less likely to use that site. i think that transparancy offline is more important than transparency online. if we cant trust the people we can physically talk to with our information, then how can we trust any one online with our information. the trust has to start offline before it can develop over the internet.