I was not sure what to write for this blog. Then it hit me to write about uploading. When Friedman wrote this book, uploading was at a minimum. Today there are plenty of online sourches which frequently use uploading. Yet uploading can range from freeware, community forums, and blogging. Many of us youth use programs such as limewire to upload music, videos etc in which we share with others.
Uploading is one of Friedman's fourth flatteners. Uploading is refered to as anything which people can put online. Below i will give brief information on examples of uploading:
Wikipedia was founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. The key concept for wikipedia was to make a free encylopedia that could be constantly edited. Currently wikipedia is one of the biggest encylopedia to this date.
According to wikipedia, open source software is defined as software in which users can use or improve and redistrubute the software. One open source website is http://sourceforge.net/
Overall uploading, can be be quite beneficial to the world as a whole. Some of the best software programs we commonly use today were based from open source software. For example, MIcrosoft is one of the most popluar computer operating systems that was built off other software.
You forgot another neat bit of software, Bit Torrent. It allows people to upload almost anything, and download it, using other people's interests to define their own.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best Bit Torrent sites is known as the "Pirate Bay". It was actually shut down more than once. However, it keeps bouncing back, mainly because it is hosted in Sweden!
http://thepiratebay.org/
To download, however, you need software!
http://www.bitlord.com/
Ta-Da!