Journal Entry #9
Web 2.0 is a second generation of Web-based services. With new features such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies, Web 2.0 emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. Today, the world wide web is constantly changing. Each day, a new blogger, video or website appears and whether it becomes popular or not, it still effects the whole web in a way. When the internet first came out, it was so new people didnt know what to do with it or didn't have the smarts to figure it out. But today, it has become so easy, a child could do it. Before, the internet was used for truley meaningful things such as studying, research etc. Now, with all the new innovations, people use it for endless things such as blogging, listening to music, watching television, watching videos, accessing photos, creating videos, creating photos, games and work. The internet and the computer at large has evolved over the years and it is now a must have thing for many people. Think for a minute and ask yourself this question. Without a computer, how would you get to do the things you normally do? In my opinion, this is an easy question. Before computers, people had to resort to different means of doing things. Computers are just a luxury to have. It makes your life easier. So in conclusion, over the years the world wide web and computers have changed dramatically but the overall use of them remains the same.

Journal Entry #8

An ongoing trend among many people around the world is the downloading of music. 7 years ago, a small compnay by the name of Napster appeared out of nowhere and quickly spread across the world. Napster was a music sharing program that allowed people around the world to download free music. In my opinion, I believe that Napster has changed the world. Before the downloading era, people had to resort to either buying thre CD's, Audio cassettes, records or listening to the radio for their music needs. Today, people continue to download music for free from many different types of P2P (Peer to Peer) programs. Now, the music industry is losing their revenu quicker and quicker. If they had signed up with Napster in the first place, then mabye things would of been different for them. At the end of the article, Don Dodge states that he had learnt 5 important lessons from his experience. In a short summary, he states that you should know who and what you are dealing with and have options on how to deal with the certain problems that would arise. In conclusion, the downloading of music is still something that many people do. I myself enjoy downloading music for free because it allows me to listen to my favourite songs without paying for them. Until the record companies find a way to stop these different programs from running, i suugest that if they cannot beat them, join them and work together to find a way to settle the situation.

Journal Entry #7

In my opinion, the Nintendo Wii is just another craze that will soon die down. I say this because just like the walkman, Playstation, and the Ipod, the hype of the product raises the sales, but after a few months the need for one quickly diminishes. Yes, the Wii has new technology with its new cordless hands on motion feature, but what do you expect, times are changing. Very soon, other gaming systems will pick up this technology and it would come as nothing but hype for the new product that would be released. I myself have not yet tried the Nintendo Wii but I'm not falling head over heels just to get my hands on it. This is why I believe that this is just hype, a craze that would soon pass by. So in conclusion, I believe that the Nintendo Wii is a technological innovation with its new feature but it is still just hype that will eventuall die down.

Journal Entry #6

After viewing one of the episodes on BBc's Click, i found out something about search engines. Search engines work by finding websites on the web and listing them in order of how many times the word appears and the number of visits to the site. The point of the article is how people could easily manipulate their sites to have a different outcome appear on a search engine such as Google or Yahoo. Bloggers would create links on their sites to a word that when typed in on a search engine, the website they linked to would appear. This is called a "link bomb". Search Engine websites say that they are fine with this as long as the other links help people find what they are looking for. One other big example that you could relate to this is the growing website "Wikipedia". Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that could be manipulated by anyone. Wikipedia is an online resource for many people and since so many people use it, it would be proper for it to contain right information. In my opinion, I believe that doing these types of things just for spite is wrong. When I'm doing research on something or someone, I expect that the internet search engines would be a helpful tool, and if people continue to do these things, search information on the internet will continue to become harder and harder.