The main point that these stories were trying to get across was freedom of expression and how we have become so creative in using so much with technology when it comes to pictures, video editing and online blogs. Kiesha put in a good quote by lessig that put it into perspective for me " Democratic tools gave ordinary people a way to express themselves more easily that any other tools could have before" Every word of that statement is true! Everyday there is something new if it has to do with blogs, video equipment cameras, that help people express themselves!
It was kind of weird at first when i started reading this because I was just thinking these are the three most random things we have to read about but I understand the ties they have and how they have helped develop human communication.

The story about 9/11 was interesting to me because when they talked about how the event opened up blogs for what they are today. It is very true so many people were debating on weathered or not certain things happened. So many conspiracy theories were put out there about 9/11 and if the events actually happened or if it was all a set up. With how far blogs have come today we have to be careful sometimes because some information is not always one hindered percent correct! You need to be able to back your facts up if you are gonna post information on blogs for other people to read and not just lie about things.

The Just think story was great to read about knowing that they are trying to help influence kids with using this technology to help them be creative on there own. Kodak was the person who started actually filming lives with picture taking. Its just remarkable how far picture taking has come too today and just to read about how it started is really interesting. I just think with taking pictures and how important that is for magazines to make money off of when they need pictures of celebrities, although celebrities may not like it a lot being followed by camera man all over the place.

The Internet is getting more and more monitored everyday because of the information that is being put out there and brings up interesting debates about open source information. I liked the example Heather talked about with the music entertainment because a lot of the no name artist put there songs up there so they can be noticed. My space is the best place to find music for up and coming artist. A lot of the big named artist hate the fact that there music is being stolen or listened to for free and want to get every little penny they can. I like the idea artist putting just a track up so that we can hear what they have to offer before we buy it and find out that we don't like it! Another example of an open source is Wikipedia, All the professors give there 2 minute rants in certain classes on how you cant use wikipedia for sources and how it is all wrong. I love wikipedia for what it offers, sure everything is not 100 percent accurate but its a quick and easy reference to help find stuff about topics quickly to help give you a good start!
We should be more focused on people's creativity and how they are expressing themselves through open sourced media and not worried about how it is presented and if it is exactly right or not.