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the american history exam was easyyyy. english tomorrow and i'm not looking forward to it! can't wait to get my "most likely to award" when i come back from the holidays!


-the world is flat.

wireless protection ad

I saw this ad the other day on dictionary.com when I was looking up the definition of a word for english, and the ad said "If you have wireless, you could be giving wireless to everyone" then next to the saying it had a picture of a wire in the shape of the breast cancer awareness symbol. Next to this symbol it said "Wirless Awareness." I was shocked to see an add about wireless internet safety. I can remember two years ago when no one had a password protecting their wireless internet from being accessed by others. But now, almost everyone I know has a password. Before, I thought a password was pointless; but now, I know that having a password is important because it protects you from others who might access your internet and search some explicit material. If this material was ever to resurface, then you, not the person who searched it using your internet, would be the one penalized. Overall, I think this ad was effective, and I'm glad to have ads like this on the internet warning people.

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This is my new pollllllllllll :)

AudioBooksForFree.com

AudioBooksForFree.com is a very useful site that can be used by those who have trouble concentrating on one source or work of literature for a lengthy amount of time. I know that I have trouble reading a selection for so long, most of the time I start to fall asleep. This site provides a different way of learning which is more beneficial to some. I know that it would help me to listen to books instead of reading them myself. However, there are some people who would get distracted or zone out while the audio is playing and therefore it would be less beneficial to them. They would probably do better if they read it themselves rather than listened to someone else read it to them. I think that AudioBooksForFree.com is a good idea and is very useful and beneficial altogether.

Facebook makes the SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Award List

Facebook is one of the many sites that made SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Award List, but it is one of my personal favorites. Ever since creating my account Freshmen year, I have become more connected with my peers through the internet. I enjoy Facebook and all of the applications that one can use. It's entertaining and addicting, actually. I am connected with people in my networks such as St. Joseph's Academy and Baton Rouge. I can befriend people in other networks as well. For instance, I can befriend boys I know from Catholic High or people I know from St. Michael's. It's a fun social network that keeps me up to date on what's going on with the people around me. In essence, Facebook is amazing.

Library 2.0

I think Library 2.0 is a wonderful idea. Since the surfacing of computers and search tools using the internet, libraries and library books have become obsolete. They're out of date and inconvenient. No one wants to get up, get in their car, go to the library, find the book they want, and go through all the trouble of reading the entire book then having to return the book later. People want things that are convenient for them. Why would you rather do all that when you have information at the tips of your fingers? All you have to do is type in what you want to find into a search engine such as google or yahoo and it pulls up all the information you could ever want. It seems to me that Library 2.0 is the new, improved, and even better version of the old fashion library. Anyone can access this library, there is no need to go to the library and obtain a library card, the librarians base all planning services and materials on the users wants and needs so therefore Library 2.0 is catered to what it's users need instead of the user searching for what they need at the library. All in all, I think that Library 2.0 is more convenient and useful to the user.

iCaught

I watched iCaught last night and I found it really interesting. It showed many different scenarios in which technology changed lives. A girl who moved to Hollywood and wanted to make it big couldn't find any work. She started posting random videos of her acting on YouTube. Once she had posted several videos to YouTube, her videos started to become very popular. Eventually, an acting company found her videos and took her on as a client. This women starred on MadTV and was on other programs as well. Another subject iCaught addressed was the soldiers in Iraq with video cameras. It said if you went to YouTube and typed in "Bored in Iraq" you could find tons of videos where the soldiers are acting like little boys. They were using their metal detectors like light sabors in one video. However, in another video it showed the soldiers dancing and then all of a sudden the camera falls and you hear a loud crash (they were bombed). You can truly see that there is war going on in the world whether we want to believe it or not. Another video it showed was a soldier in Iraq having a video conference with his wife while she was in labor. He was able to witness this event, an event which he would have missed were it not for technology. I did not know that technology, espcially YouTube, could be so beneficial to so many people in the world. This program really opened my eyes to how technology is working in our world today.