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1.The new term “produsers” made us think about how the vast majority of those in the viewing audience are not only consumers, but producers as well. Therefore professional production values are forced to increase rather than decrease because not only are they creating for consumers, but for other “produsers” as well. We believe that it's not production values that are dropping, but more changing to match the style and popularity of “home grown” media. For example, the Disney show “iCarly” is about a young teen with her own “web show” which many teens actually have in real life. The show mixes both the amateurish style and professional style of production, which allows the young audience to easily relate. This will also cause the “produsers” of the amateur user generated content to match the quality of professional producers.

2.Obama’s Plan for Health Bill Largely Follows Senate Version Our tag ideas were, President Obama, Health Bill, politics, senate, Health Care reform, Law and legislation. Many of our tag ideas were similar, since they were easy to spot and come up with. Tags that we didn't think of however, were a little more abstract, and we had to really read and analyze the article to see the connection. Compared to the tags we found on delicious.com, they were generally just as strongly related to our tag ideas for our article.

3. Transparency is such an important concept because it allows people to communicate things and feelings, and at the same time can hide certain motives or authenticity. For example, you might “tweet” that you're going to a charity event because you support a certain charity, but at the same time you want attention and praise from other people that you're doing work for charity. In the offline world however, we believe that transparency is less important only because it is more difficult to be “transparent” when your not masked a computer screen. It is more difficult to hide certain agendas and or hidden motives while face to face or over a phone, so therefore, we believe that transparency is not as relevant to the offline world as it is to the online world.