Thursday, May 31, 2007

READING IN CYBERSPACE?!?


Google is one of the most well-known search engines that can be found in the whole Internet universe. It can be used to access unlimited amounts of information on any subject imaginable.


Google is one of the most well-known search engines that can be found in the whole Internet universe. It can be used to access unlimited amounts of information on any subject. Google Book Search is one of the many tools available in Google. The company takes books and scans them into the Internet so that they may become globally accessible.


The effect of this library-based digitization has on Google's relationships with publishers is that it has endangered their relationship with them. If I was a publisher and Google was making money and I didn't get any profit from it, I would be very upset. If they were gaining success with my books then I should gain something out of it.


Google’s competitors such as Microsoft and Yahoo will most probably respond to this technology by developing similar ones the way the iPod was parodied by other companies. Yahoo and Microsoft do not want to lose their online audience and so will most likely do whatever it takes to keep their audience and probably increase it as well.


Personally, I think that this is a great use of the technology we have at our disposal. Instead of wasting our times playing games, we finally have access to books and other useful information that can be found in the library.

REPORTERS IN THE LINE OF FIRE

Having the truth exposed even though I am risking my safety would be the right thing to do. When i saw the clip it showed me that the person risked his safety to get some money back to their customers. If i were the reporter, I would have called the cops on the store-owner to come and handles things. It's an interesting story, but it was dangerous for a reporter and a camerman to be there.

I think that the reporter was to greedy to get her story. When she was there, it was like she was asking to get hurt. There was more publicity because he chose not to let the cops handle things. Even though the reporter got hit, he was fortunate that he didn't get threatened by a sharp object or gun.

The truth should be told if it's in fact hurting someone else. People should have the right to know about facts that can be scary, like child labour or anything like that. This truth should be exposed to everyone so that the people that don't know this can know and maybe they can be so sickened by it that they will do something to stop it.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

CYBERBULLYING!


I found the assembly about cyberbullying that i went to to be abit interesting. I always knew that teenagers bully other people through the internet by using, posts and any type of chatrooms. What i didn't know was that teenagers aren't the only victims of cyberbullying. It suprised me when the public speaker said that adults especially teachers are also victims of cyberbullying.


We consider cyberbullying as a way to hurt and inflict emotional damage on an individual through the use of the internet. Cyberbullies make comments that hurt other people. These comments can be made through various ways through the internet. Cyberbullies use chatrooms, e-mails, and post messages on the internet to bully. Sometimes they make their own site that is dedicated to bully an individual. Cyberbullies are not afraid of persecution because they think that they can hide in the saftey of their homes. However, technology can track down posts and massages made and sent.


In my opinion, i think that a suitable punishment for cyberbullies is for them to be banned from computers. I find that this is the only way that they can stop cyberbullying. But i think that taking away the computer is a bit harsh, but if this is the only way for them to stop bullying through the internet, then these drastic actions should be done.

WHAT MAKES YOU UNIQUE?


Ever since the beginning of time, people have always wondered how we got to this Earth and to this day, this is still running through our minds. The Geographic Project, that was created by the IBM and the national geographic, was created to discover the origin of humans and trace our ancestry back to the beginning of time.

Scientists have been trying to find and trace the existance to the beginning of time. the scientists find indigenous people around the world and they try to find their origin. They take samples of DNA from different people around the world so that they can come up with a theory that everyone is connected. Scientist take these DNA samples so they will be able to find human life cycles and solve the existance of humans.

The Geographical Project is a new project that was recently created because we have just created the technology that is needed to answer all our questions. Thanks to this project, we are able to find our roots and maybe unlock secrets about our race that have never been known before. The human DNA is unique to each person but there are still similarities that can be used to compare and contrast the migration pattern of humans.