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Once just a fad, Twitter is developing into a powerful form of communication. What its growth says about us - and the future of American innovation.

I think the first part of this articles explains my feelings for twitter very well. It describes how silly twitter seems to be for a large majority of people. It then leaks into how it can be used to create deep conversations. They like to mention a couple of times how insignificant the choice of someone's breakfast cereal can actually be more interesting than you'd like to believe.

This article gives some very good advice to assist in speedreading. I felt it was a very appropiate article for our meeting on Sunday, and this website may further help some people.

For us, being CIT majors, the blue screen of death been a common mishap. Late night papers due first class period, or printing out that lab report the morning of its due date. " IT SUCKS! "A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED." What the hell just happened?" There are millions of ways that this problem can show its ugly face. It ranges from hardware to software. It is even our operating systems. So what causes this problem? When it comes to the application side of this terror it is due to programs using more memory then what should be allowed. So who is to blame? Those pesky programmers! Next we come to system crashes. Yes those are the ones that you run to mommy and dad for repair money. " There's a few reasons for that. A major reason", says Maximum PC Editor Maximus Will Smith, "is that Apple and Microsoft have spent a lot of time moving stuff that used to run at really low level, deep in the guts of the OS, up a few layers into the user space, so an application error that would've crashed a whole system by borking something at the kernel level just results in an annoying program-level hang up." What that means is, instead of crashing your whole computer, most application have a self destruct button which tells them application to shut down before your whole computer goes south. The easiest fix for this is to keep drivers up to date. So why are computers crashing less now? Well Apple and Microsoft have been embedding many brutally annoying "send error report" emails within many programs. This has led to many advancements and preventable maintenance on their part. With the new Windows 7, it has many programs to "feel" a problem about to happen, and limit that problem from happening. Yet, there will always be forces of nature causing hard drive problems, and the lazy operator ability to prevent dust from entering the system. So for as long as we wish to make advancement in hardware, programmers will always be there to embed program errors for us

This article discusses the recent release of Rock Band to the iPhone App Store. I think this article is a good one to talk about how portable everything is becoming these days. New games are being released for the iPhone all of the time, and they are almost on par with the console versions of the games. It makes you wonder just how far technology will go in the next few years.

This ultimately outlines the differences between Vista and Windows 7 and I'm inclined to agree that Windows 7 is a much superior option than Vista because it corrects many of the features that were flawed with Vista.

And my second article -- http://gizmodo.com/5046345/a-complete-guide-to-watching-your-favorite-shows-legally-without-paying-a-dime I'm not sure if these articles are exactly disagreeing since there is such a time lag between when they came out, but there certainly is a difference in their theme. The first article is about Hulu's current situation in which it is inevitably heading towards payment requirements for its service. The second article is about Hulu's past, involving the free television that everyone has come to know any love. Personally, I wonder how Hulu can hope to exist with such a drastic change in its purpose. Before, its popularity was created by its free service and convenience. Will it really still have a niche when it introduces fees, even if they are competitive? Well, I guess the most that the average man can do is light a pyre in remembrance of a fond friend and go back to illegally downloading the things that Hulu allowed you to stream legally.

This article discusses a popular opinion poll discussing the possible repercussions of texting while driving. Although this article doesn't contain much scientific backing, its still extremely surprising to see what people think about texting while driving. I was incredibelly shocked when I read that 97% of those polled thought that texting while driving should be illegal. This number is so surprising to me because the act seems to be so prevalent these days. It feels like whenever your walking down the street, on a bus, or driving everyone around you has there eyes down as the stare at and type on the cell phone. I understand that some people are confident in their abilities to multitask, but lets face it some of the same confident people are just being delusional. I don't think everyone can handle this multitasking, as is evident by the amount of time I spend dodging around people that don't even notice me walking towards them. Beyond that statistic there are also several others that are worth taking a look at. Especially that 50 percent of those polled believe that texting while driving should have similar repercussions to drunk driving. To me this seems to be going a bit to far, but I do agree that there should probably be some punishment. But then again, I almost never use my cell phone, what do all of you think about this poll?