Lessig

I feel that in chapter 2 Lessig hits on his points in each of his four sections. He starts off by talking about the success that Eastman got when he found a cheaper and more efficient way for the photos to be printed off. He developed a flexible film paper that these photos could be printed on. Lessig also points on that photos can help people present their past experiences in a visual form instead of a written form.

I feel Just Think is an excellent program that definitely shows the importance of technology in today's society. The kids are not only getting to play around with cool new "gadgets" and "electronics", but they are learning at the same time! They are learning how to produce their own videos, images, and other forms of media. This program is grabbing the attention of the kids that don't like sitting in a classroom and taking notes and is bringing the most out of them. Lessig gave a great example of this when he told the story about the school in downtown L.A that was struggling with kids attending school, with the addition of the program that allowed the kids to express themselves with film turned the problem around with the kids not attending school. The students were coming to school at 6 AM and wouldn't leave until 5 PM sometimes.

Blogging is a great way to see and read peoples point of views rather than trying to remember what people say. Also, I'd like to say that I feel that many people would rather blog and read blogs rather than watch the local news at night. With blogs they can keep up to date with new stories and can get people's feedback at the same time.

Open source software is becoming more and more popular everyday. I use tons of open source materials to do numerous tasks for my website, so I feel open source is great. Even if I didn't use open source material alot I feel it is great because it gives people the chance to express themselves. For example, wordpress, it's totally free and enables people to create blogs and start discussions with their friends, family, or even students like blogger is enabling us to do with this class. One of the biggest open source contributions I feel available to this day is mozilla firefox, it enables users to search the internet with protection, it also uses a ton of add on applications. Also, another open source freeware that I really like is "Notepad++", it's a code editor that is very convenient and FREE for web programmers!