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Time magazine is a great display of how multimedia and advertising has taken over writing. Just on the main page alone you'll find videos and podcasts, which are completely different from Time Magazine's old periodicals. In addition articles are rated and views can be counted giving readers instantaneous information about the popularity of an article, which wouldn't be feasible with a printed magazine. In addition, there are also polls, apps, facebook pages, and RSS feeds displaying the degree in which technology has become a part of Time's product. Time is a perfect example of how new technology can be implemented to improve a user base.\n\nI think this site relates to our course work because it is such a fine example of how multimedia can be used in almost any situation. Formerly, Time focused completely on its magazine and viewed any form of internet news sites as competition. This is because they offered Time's product for free. But, by adopting multimedia and the internet Time has been able to stay mainstream and maintain respect instead of slowly wasting away like many other news papers and magazines are in this new internet age.

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 is so cool! Like it says, it explains how we all know too many video games can be harmful. Microsoft and leading scientists are trying to figure out how to use the Xbox 360 to help build a computer generated image of the human heart. Basically, while you're playing your games, you're checking to see how healthy your heart is at the same time! What an amazing break through!

This article describes how a modified game chip within an XBOX 360 can detect damaged cells around the heart to detect and prevent heart attacks. It's much cheaper and faster than using a supercomputer to create a 3D model. Video games seem to be the future of our medicine I chose this article because it can go hand in hand with our game night coming up this Friday. The fact that a video game console can save lives makes it seem as if anything is possible. When Guitar Hero is blazing and Wii Bowling is entering the final frame we can all say to ourselves yes, we are saving lives this night!

My parents use to tell me all the time how technology use to be back in their days. I always thought how hard it would have been to survive in their days without the internet, a computer, cellphone, a color tv, and numerous other things. This article lays out some ideas that the author thinks we will be telling our grankids in the future. When we are explaining how life use to be in our days, we might say how we use to only need 140 characters on a text message or twitter post. We could explain how our tv's use to be a lot bigger, and movies were only on at certain times. The author also thinks that English won't be the dominate language, but Chinese.

This article discusses the controversial idea of paying students for doing well in school. It talks about the pros and cons of the idea and shows others opinion's on this matter.

This article discusses how Twitter has become an American necessity as with Myspace and Facebook. Businesses are now using Twitter to get their advertisements and promotions for their products. Anyone who follows their page will get these updates. I chose these articles because it relates to our Twitter usage all throughout the semester. It's amazing how much twitter has grown, 32 million users. It's projected to grow to 50 million by the end of the year, growing by 50%-100% each month. I think soon Twitter will soon pass pop-ups for a mainstream advertising on internet webpages. Just follow someone and they have all the power in the world to give you coupons, promotions, and flyers.

This is an old video from the 1990's about the Internet. With the Internet just being established at the time, I found it very funny how Tom Brokaw made this new phenomena sound like it would never come true. The things it talks about are outdated for our times, but the ideas claimed to be in the future actually came true. At the time it seemed like a bold claim to say that every store would be at the click of a button on the Internet, but it definitely wasn't. It makes me wonder how our new inventions will potentially evolve in the future.

This story amused me. It hits on grammar, speech, and technology. The story reads that the average teen sends 2000 messages a month and 60 2-way messages a day. The story goes on to tell a story of a mothers struggle to understand why her son would rather text then call friends or family, this is hard to grasp for any parent or elder. They really just do not understand today's society. "But does texting make today's kids stupid, as Mark Bauerlein writes in his book ' The Dumbest Generation". This leads me to my point. Texting is like muscle memory. You practice and practice for that one good stance in baseball, that great soccer kick, or doing hundreds of pushups. That same concept of muscle memory is taking place within our very fingers! Kids are use to texting short words, and or incorrect spelling to make longer words shorter. Then like the mom said this is happening 2000 times a month! So what is happening is teenagers are so use to typing out short incorrect words to slim down their texts so they can send fast responses or questions, and are forgetting to use correct grammar within their own school papers! I for one can agree to this, because I have done so on occasion. \n

Since we are using newer technologies on the Internet, such as Twitter and Diigo, I thought this article was appropriate. As in the title, this article is about, 50 things that are being killed by the Internet. The article points out a lot of things that many people wouldn't think would be affected by the internet. The article says that Twitter has become a clearing-house for jokes about dead famous people. Tasteless, but an antidote to the "fans in mourning" mawkishness that otherwise predominates. It also points out before mobile phones, people had to actually be on time for their appointments. In this age, people just text the person they are about to meet, so they know they'll be running late. It also states that the lunch break is often lost, and instead people just sit at their desk and eat, while checking emails and browsing for vacations.

As far as literature review sites go SparkNotes is one of the best. When placed in the hands of the lazy, this website, and the convenience it brings, can lead to a quick and painful academic downfall. However, if used merely as a study resource SparkNotes can substantially increase a students grades. For example, You've just finished reading The Lord of the Flies and you've been assigned an essay on symbolism due next class. You don't particularly remember any symbols from your reading, so you check spark notes which gives you a few examples and leads you in the right direction. Add a little of your own synthesis and some specific incidents that support your statements and your essay will be done before you know it! This also works with hard to follow Shakespearean plots and deep character development. Along with being able to help you learn, SparkNotes can also help you study and remember old books that you've read just in time for your final. Or it can help you study for your SATs. In fact, SparkNotes has a lot of sections designed to help high School and College students succeed. SparkNotes is a great tool as long as you remember to do the real work yourself!

I came across this article this afternoon, and found it one to be one of the most interesting articles I have read in a long time. That could be a good thing or a bad thing, but I think it is a good thing. The U.S. Senate met and had a hearing Monday discussing the potential hazard of cell phones towards humans. Cell phones are a possible cause of brain cancer. A study completed by researchers in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK found that people who used cell phones for more than 10 years were at a higher risk of developing glioma, a usually malignant brain tumor, on the side of the head they had favored for cellphone conversations. According to the study, the Samsung Impression offered by AT&T is the safest cellphone on the market, while the worst is the Motorola MOTO VU204 offered by Verizon Wireless. This article is scary to think about. The article informs us that we should text message instead of calling. Supposedly, text messaging is less harmful to us. When signals are low, try to avoid using your cell phone to make a phone call because your cell phone transmits more radiation then. One day, could our culture move away from cell phones all together?

Here is a site that shows how the bible contradicts itself numerous times throughout. It also gives examples of rape, murder, and other things that you can find in the bible. Here's a funny quote from the bible: Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB "If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her." What kind of lunatic would make a rape victim marry her attacker? I just think its hilarious how the best selling book in the world is so contradictory, but yet such a contradictory book is used as the basis of so many religions.

Since alot of our talk during diigo time is about Call of DUty i decided to keep it up and to post this video of the terrorist level in CoD. CoD in the beginning of the game gives you a notification that sames some content may be offending to you and you have the option to skip it. In this level you walk into the airport and shoot down civilians. Then as you proceed through the airport and continue killing civilians some opposition comes up. Police come but they stand no chance against your light machine guns. After that the swat team shows up with their riot shield. Now my concern with this is that should this be in a video game that little kids play? Yes it is rated mature but playing on live you meet alot of underage kids and at this point in there life i don't think that these are very good images.

You can't see me. I'm there in the shadows, crouched down on the roof above you, dangling on the ledge below you. Maybe you know I'm nearby. Maybe you're afraid for your life. You should be. Because by the time you realize where I am, you'll be dead. For all you gaming fans, I believe that this Assassins Creed II is going to blow the last one out of the water. The reviews and screen plays of this game looks better than the first. I personally cant wait to buy this game.

The New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative has published a report called Bandwidth Caps for Residential High Speed Internet in the US and Japan I remember us talking in class one day about the bandwidth limitations we have here in the United States. I found this site which clearly supports this fact. The table that is posted on this site give a clear visual example of how much slower our download speeds are here in the US, and also that we pay an absurd amount of money compared to Japan to surf the internet. Not only is the United States ranked 27th in average internet download speeds, but we are paying a lot of money for these slow download speeds. For example, you could pay $60 a month for internet whose download speed would max at 10mbps, and an upload speed of 512kbps when you could pay $60 a month over in Japan for a download and upload speed of 100mbps! So essentially we are paying the same amount of money for internet that is ten times slower than what we could get it for over in Japan.

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.

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?

This is not really related, but I thought it was hilarious and someone had to have taken a lot of time to think of it. Almost all guys follow this so called "Urinal protocol," whether its ever brought up or not, it's just known to be proper bathroom etiquette. Proper protocol states that you must leave 1 open stall in between each occupied stall. The article shows visual diagrams of how the process works, and even shows a mathematical calculation of how it can be most efficient. Based on the calculation, if a bathroom has either 3,5,9,17,33...number of stalls, it will be able to occupy the most people at a given time, avoiding the "awkwardness" state.

I stumbled on this once. Bookmarked it! lol.

It seems like everything in the medical field is trying to go towards technology that requires less human interaction. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are working with a product called "CellScope." CellScope is a microscope that attaches to a camera-equipped cell phone and produces two kinds of imaging, called brightfield and fluorescence microscopy. This device can take images of disease samples and transmit them to medical labs throughout the world. Their goal is to use mobile communications networks as a cost-effective way for medical staff to screen hematologic and infectious diseases in parts of the world that lack access to advanced microscopic equipment. This is just another example of how technology is taking over the medical field. It seems like doctors are required to do less and less work as time goes on and technology becomes more advanced. This was very interesting to me because last week my uncle was emailing me about this. My uncle is a surgeon in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was telling me how he does still perform surgeries, but he can tell that in the future he won't be performing as many. It is obvious the medical industry relies on technology to assist them, and they will only rely on them more in the future.