Live Bookmarks
I began the Live Bookmarks assignment by watching the movie tutorial on how to set them up. It was really easy, so I went ahead and put Professor Glogoff's blog into a live bookmark folder in my favorites, which I titled "Professor & Classmates Live Bookmarks". Next I added five of my fellow classmates to this folder.
I began with the first person listed in alphabetically order, Ms. Paulina Aguirre-Clinch's blog. I found her's to be very interesting and was wholeheartedly impressed with her writing style; I espcially enjoyed the Pat Mora quote she included early on, which really drew me into her introduction. I then went down the list and included every third person which included Daisy Decoster, Shana Harrington, Andrea Lhotka.
At this point I just skipped to the end of the row, which was Anthony Sanchez's entry. His title really cracked me up, it read "571 Course Introduction, what's your function?" I couldn't help thinking that it needs an audio clip of "Mr. Roboto" playing as you read. Another humorous point that Mr. Sanchez makes is how the blog has gone "from high school drama message board to essential communication tool."
Finally, I added two news sources to my toolbar: Wired News: Technology and my favorite online newspaper, The New York Times, Technology News. In Wired News, I read an interesting article called "Selective Breeding Gets Modern" about how, in response to objections over genetically modified food (especially from foreign countries), "biotech companies are creating superior plants using genetics technology that is advanced but which falls short of grafting genes from one organism into another."
In the New York Times, I read another interesting article about how YouTube is going to sell main page space for video ads. It will begin by running ads for marketing Paris Hilton's new (and horrendous) CD. This article is interesting to me because in recent news, TV stations had changed their objection to YouTube and began allowing YouTube to offer copyrighted clips of their shows. I guess it was only a matter of time (seconds?) before ubiquitous adventising would follow.
I began with the first person listed in alphabetically order, Ms. Paulina Aguirre-Clinch's blog. I found her's to be very interesting and was wholeheartedly impressed with her writing style; I espcially enjoyed the Pat Mora quote she included early on, which really drew me into her introduction. I then went down the list and included every third person which included Daisy Decoster, Shana Harrington, Andrea Lhotka.
At this point I just skipped to the end of the row, which was Anthony Sanchez's entry. His title really cracked me up, it read "571 Course Introduction, what's your function?" I couldn't help thinking that it needs an audio clip of "Mr. Roboto" playing as you read. Another humorous point that Mr. Sanchez makes is how the blog has gone "from high school drama message board to essential communication tool."
Finally, I added two news sources to my toolbar: Wired News: Technology and my favorite online newspaper, The New York Times, Technology News. In Wired News, I read an interesting article called "Selective Breeding Gets Modern" about how, in response to objections over genetically modified food (especially from foreign countries), "biotech companies are creating superior plants using genetics technology that is advanced but which falls short of grafting genes from one organism into another."
In the New York Times, I read another interesting article about how YouTube is going to sell main page space for video ads. It will begin by running ads for marketing Paris Hilton's new (and horrendous) CD. This article is interesting to me because in recent news, TV stations had changed their objection to YouTube and began allowing YouTube to offer copyrighted clips of their shows. I guess it was only a matter of time (seconds?) before ubiquitous adventising would follow.
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