17th Century Englishman Blog

In the Post by Pepys Diary i think it conforms very well with blogs today. the only exception would be the way that he is speaking. Since he is from the 17th century his vocabulary is much diffrent than what we use. also i dont think there is really a wrong way to write on the web. this diary is writen well and i think it adapts to the internet form, since there is no "standard" to write online. since this was also a personal diary written by pepy, the diffrence would be that he tells alot of himself and not many people today have personal diarys of them selves for every to see, and post comments on what they think.

Body Parts

In the article the author tries to say how games are just developing over exaggerated features for gamers to get hooked on the game. when you design to make a game, you want it to sell. so if by doing this it will sell games then why not do it. why would someone try to make something and not want to make money? if you don't sell then you would spend ton of money on something that fails. this is also what gamers want. they want to fantasize on things so let them do this. even though they are not really allowed to fantasize bc the game makers only give them some options. the article also talks about the game WoW but there are many other games that give users tons of options to change their characters. this game is not only popular by how their avatars look but by possible on the game play. this also plays a major role in attracting users

LonelyGirl15

In This video by LonelyGirl15 Named Grillez it shows how she and her puppet freinds are immitating the Song Grillz by Nelly. It shows her and this other kid have grillz in their mouths.(tin foil). I also saw the video called my parents suck which she describes on how her parents wouldnt let her go out with her freind danielle and how made he was because of that. In the article about lonelygirl15 and how it describes how she wasnt real but just a paid actor. if you never knew this the videos look as if she was real and not faking it, but i think that it edited to well and played to well to be real. and also the girl looks to "dumb" and i dont think ppl can look that "dumb."

LifeHacker

The Site Lifehacker.com is about trying to help people with every day tips and tricks. They provide information to everyone about everything in life. It is not only about computers but on plants, photos and electronics. it has articles on how to make photographs come out better and clearer. The site is not only made buy one person it has many different writers. Some writers of the site are Adam Push, Gina Trapani and Tamer Weinberg. Lifehacker seems to be very active as some of their articles have over 7,000 views and a lot of their other articles had around 3,000 views. This blog is intended for i think from ages 16-30. they have many interesting articles that will interest many people. It is not for just one person since they have many topics. The Site is constantly updated as information comes on the web. They also have many products that they test to see how it works and to see if users should bother in buying them. The Site has ads so its a commercial site. It does not have many of them on the first page there was about 2-3 ads on and thats was about it.
The layout of the site is pretty simple it just has a basic list of the stories. it has about a paragraph of the story and then has a link to see if u would like to read more about it. Users are allowed to comment and post what they thing about the story. Users are also allowed to send them tips and questions about what they think or how to improve the site.
This site is very interesting and helpful. They have many reason why they have such a huge user database. I will probably look at this site every once in a a while and see if i can find a life "hack."

Facebook and Myspace

In this article he talks about how myspace and facebook are seperated by different teen classes. He states how some teens who are the "outcast" go on myspace and not on facebook. these people use myspace as a way of showing their feelings to others by displaying different types of background and by the music that their pages have. Facebook was mostly used by college students until they open their doors to everyone. this caused many of the high school kids who wanted a facebook make a account and leave myspace because they saw facebook as a much cleaner site and didn't have any annoying pages to look at. This is a reason why i use facebook now instead of myspace because people who edit their pages and it they would have ridiculous amount of pictures and sounds on their pages that was way to annoying. danah boyd also says how people think that bad kids go on myspace and the good kids are on facebook. this is not true because even if your "good" or "bad" you would just use the network that has most of your friends in. i know most of my friends have left myspace and move to facebook now since they can meet more college students that way since they are all in the same school network. it also just make it easier finding student on facebook with the same interest than on myspace. there might be a class difference between myspace and facebook but this is mainly cause both these sites offer different options for their users. some just prefer facebooks "clean" looking site and other use myspace to just totally express themselves to the public.

Fourth Revolution

In this article by Steven Harnad he writes how there has been three revolutions for man kind. the first revolution is language which developed hundred of thousands of years ago. This allowed us to explain and the second revolution was writing. writing made it possible to preserver the language that had describe the world we live in. Then the Third revolution was the Printing press. this allowed text to be handed out more quickly then writing it down. this revolution allowed everyone to hear what someone had to say instead of just a few people. The fourth revolution that he talks about but has not happened in his time is called Psycoloquy. Which is electronic journal. it was like scholarly cyber writing. This project would allow users to post comments and have feedback from each other within hours. this would all be possible by the Net. Psycoloquy would be international and alvailable everywhere around the world. this idea is like how we have blogs to comment each other and to give each other feedback on this if we post that we need help.

Radio

Bertolt Brecht in the 1930's wrote that radios should be used as a two way communication tool. He thought of this before cell phones and Internet. This was a very good idea but the two way communication did not follow through with the radios but new inventions and technology came that allowed us to have two way communication with technology. For instance now we have cell phones and internet that we can use to talk to people or call when we need help. We also have the Internet to IM friends and family and we can use the internet as a educational use to inform us. But the radio has not just been stuck on just reallying us information now you can call radio stations and have your messages played while you are speaking to them. The Radio now has transformed to being a semi two way technology but not quite because there are still many radio stations that just relay messages to use but that is also important because sometimes a person just wants to be entertained and not talk or so anything but be entertained.

Internet Addiction

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2007/08/why_there_is_no_such.html

Using the Internet can sometimes cause some other people who don't use to start wonder if your addicted to it. Using the internet can cause some people to start wondering if you should be outside or even doing some other things better than just sitting around looking at stuff online. Most people around you wont understand why you are just sitting their for hours staring at a screen. I know a lot of people who can sit at the computer and just stay their for hours, some friends are either on myspace, facebook or just playing online games. this doesn't necessary means that their addicted to the internet but i think its more likely to the things that the internet can offer. I myself can do all those things and i think doing it just puts you in touch with all your friends because its a way of talking to each other and having fun at the same time because you can all be playing the same game and trying to do a mission for it, or even just be on facebook and looking at other peoples profile and seeing what they have on it. But at the same time we can all go out for hours and have fun and i don't think this means that your addicted to going out but its just a way to have fun and do stuff. I think everyone who can use the internet can do this at one point but also doing this can also get kinda boring and doing it over and over again can get boring and then you just don't do it anymore. This is why some people can be on the internet for hours because they are looking for new things to try and the internet can offer this because your at home and comfortable without getting up or spending much money on things to try to find something thats fun.