HW 17b DailyKos for Politics

Zuniga and Cox both have informative blogs that can be used to influence a voter. Zuniga is former GI who is dedicated to politics and extremely knowledgeable about the topic. Cox is lame, she can’t hold a job and blogging is her life. She blogs about politics, and how they dress but she doest blog in adult manner. Zuniga has a solid back round; he seems to know what he is talking about. He has done consulting work in the past which helps him relate to political topics. His blog has grown rapidly within the last few years. The amount of visitors to his blog DailyKos, went form 8,000 to 625,000 in only two years. The reason being the 2002 election and the 2004 election. Many people hit his blog interested in what he had to say about the upcoming elections, therefore his numbers shot through the roof. For someone like me who doesn’t know crap about politics, I found DailyKos to be more helpful and informative then Cox blog.

HW 18 Scared For Life

Jezebel.com writes about some sketchy risky topics, but even I was surprised to see the article on there today. This particular article was about a man who was accused of raping ten young girls. Some say he raped more then 30 but only ten were being tried. First off, the title of the article is How To Rape 100(cute, educated, middle-class) Woman And Get Away With It. That is not an appropriate title for a serious case. The families of the girls and the girls themselves would be offended. The article itself is written with sarcasm, and a jezebel style. I don’t mind the fact that she is saying something about the case but it should be in a formal style. It is pushing the limits to poke fun at the girls who were raped, im sure I’m not the only person who feels this way. Jezebel should stick to Hollywood scandals and meaningless drama articles.

HW 17-A Dead Batteries can be Saved!

Did you know that you can revive a dead lap top battery by freezing it? Well a blog on Life Hacker (lifehacker.com) states that by freezing the battery for 14 to 15 hours you can revive it. Life Hacker is full of neat facts like this one. It is a small blog but is accompanied with a video of the instructions on how to revive the battery. That is the reason why I chose this blog because the vide is a great tool to express what you are trying to say. You can find this blog by going to following URL, http://lifehacker.com/software/batteries/revive-a-dead-laptop-battery-in-the-freezer-308225.php.I like the way life hacker blogs because they don’t bull shit they just give you the facts and that’s all I really want to read. I suggest you check out Life Hacker, there are a bunch of other neat things like the battery blog.

HW 16 -A Scobles' Manifesto is Great!

One of the web logs that I am watching is Joi Ito’s. One thing that I noticed was, Joi Ito uses a human voice in his writing. He doesn’t have professionals who edit his site or clean up his speech. For example he vents about his new purchase of a foldable bike. He speaks his mind and you can tell he is writing in a human way unaltered. “After taking it around the block, I'm glad I have it. I don't think I have the legs to control myself down steep hills yet.” As you can tell he is simply explaining his satisfaction with the product and his experiences. Joi acknowledges when he is wrong or when a plan didn’t go as imagined. He follows rule number eight that states if you screw up, acknowledge it. In one blog Joi explains that his vegan diet hasn’t worked they he was expecting, he had gained weight and got other unfavorable results. He decided he would embark on a six week Eat to Live detox program. He states he was wrong and comes up with a new plan to correct his mistakes. I would say that Joi speaks his mind and some times says things about people that are his opinion and some might not agree. He never goes over board though, which is a good thing. I would say that his blog follows the entire manifesto that Scoble has created. Scobles' manifesto is a great tool to use when creating a blog. It out lines all of the guidelines a blogger should follow.

No More Free Enterprise HW: 14

According to Ito the internet will soon be similar to cable television in the since that everything will be censored. Thus it will not be the free market that it is today. As a result of government involvement the internet could eventually run under a Microsoft system. In short this system will ask you if you still want to enter the site even though it is authorized by Microsoft. Consequently if you enter the site your Microsoft warranty will be terminated. Ultimately the entire population will be under similar forums f not by Microsoft then by other companies. Although the internet will be censored blogs will still be going strong, naturally the content in the blogs will be censored but legitimate cites will still be able to communicate to the public. In other words the freedom of speech can not be taken from the mouths of the people who are quote on quote “legit”.

Are Blogs Good For Business hw13

Blogs to some people may not be a big deal, but the fact of the matter is that they are a big deal and there popularity is increasing rapidly. According to Pew Research Center Survey, only 27 percent of internet users in America now bother to read blogs. This is s week percentage mainly because there are some 9 million blogs on line and 40,000 new ones every day. The blog world is changing fast, blogs used to be a form of communication free of business or profit making. Businesses are now using blogs for advertizing and profit; on the other side they are discovering employee blogs that discuss business plans and other classified information. Companies are now hiring a specialist, whose job is to monitor the employee blogs, looking for inappropriate posts. Google for example just fired a programmer named Mark Jen because he posted blogs talking about his first days in the Googleplex, stating that Google’s health plan was as generous as his last employer’s. He also argued that their free food offer was only an incentive to work past dinner. Google soon found this these blogs and Mark was made an example and was fired within two weeks of the discovery. If blogs are already making this kind of impact on the businesses then it will be interesting to see how blogs evolve in the future. Therefore the importance of blogs and business is far more important then there impact on strait communication.

hw: 11 HODER.COM

Hoder.com is led by Hossein Derakhshan from Canada. He writes in both English and Persian and encourages Iranians to vent about the Iran government. There are a bunch of Persian responses on his blog I couldn’t read any of the comments because they were all in Persian. The posts are about Iranian pop culture, politics, and technology. Hossein blogs in a informative style at the same time giving his opinions on the topic. His comments usually contain crude humor in more of a conversation style using profanity and puns. There are a handful of Iranian commenter’s who are disagreeing with Hossein and giving their prospective as a citizen of Iran. The blog may have been created so that Iranian citizens could speak openly about their government but it seems to now be Persians disagreeing with Hossein and telling him what the government really is all about. Of course many will probably disagree with this assertion that all the comments are people contradicting Hossein, and they are right as well because many of the comment agree with Hossein. I didn’t see any comments that could have thrown a citizen of Iran In jail like the reading suggests but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe that I doesn’t happen. The Iran Gov. is way different then the American Government so I cant judge that.