Good Morning Upper East Siders - just kidding.
acoverdale here.
This weeks' lecture was delivered by Jason Nelson - a breath of fresh air to the subject! Nerdy, but modern and down to earth, he held everyone's attention and even made us laugh. He started by showing us the 'speed net test', then covered a brief history of the 'Dot Com Boom' - and its deimise! (Basically everyone caught wind of the internet, and all tried to access it at once). The internet was essentially stil new so experimentation was invested in. Jason then explained how Yahoo and Microsoft are now Google's rivals. He then moved on to a popular topic amoungst us all - social networking sites. The internet is becoming full of new Content Manager Systems - inexpensive webspace. This allows virtually anyone to build a site such as Myspace or Twitter or maintain a blog like us. Is this a good thing? Jason also explained the way in which SNS's fluctuate with users ("friends"/"followers") and how we were all addicted to Myspace, the obsessed with Facebook and are now spending all our time on Twitter... WHAT NEXT?! We then looked at EDIS, a Hungarian government map showing emergency disasters and world hazards as they happen.
'United Breaks Guitars' was an amusing music clip about United Airlines breaking an expensive guitar.
til next week,
XOXO,
acoverdale
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