Here is a great story of how someone is making a lot of money once again using technology like the internet rather than opening a store. Joshua Opperman became depressed after having a divorce with his wife having left that whatever dignity he had left and a very expensive ring. He tried to sell the ring back to jewelers but they wanted a big percentage of the ring in return. So he decided to start an auction online and he created the site "I do...Now I don't" after hearing about other people with the same predicaments. He had no experience with jewelry so he teamed up with a jewelry store. He has been getting a lot of great responses for this website and he believes it will be even better in the future.
This is definitely a great idea in our times right now. The rate of people getting married and having fancy weddings only to throw it all away in the next few years are very high. The internet provides a very safe venue to sell very expensive things if you know what you are doing and he certainly does.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/14/heartbreak.diamonds/index.html
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Monday, February 5, 2007
reading response 1
It seems that as we move closer and closer towards the future, the immense growth of information has given as a sense of uneasiness and discomfort. Terms such as bombardment, overload and flooding of information are being used to suggest information to be feared. The article explains of how we optimistic terms and phrases are not being heard anymore. One person can help cope with this “overload” and that is the librarians who devote their life and time by helping people with information. The library is being used as the key component to an infrastructure which is a structure or a foundation that holds something very big together. The structure that holds the library together could be compared to the information cycle. The information cycle consists of a creator (author) making a product (book) giving it to distributors (vendor) giving it to the decimators (library) and the information is reached to the users.
Studies show that the total number of hours people spend using various media has slightly changed. Original print did not have a major change on the total number of hours being spent. Telephones are being used more because of technology and so has the radio with its significant increase. Many studies were done with television and some of its recent technologies like the satellite and cable. There was also a significant increase with this technology and it studies show that it will keep raising. The database industry has had a steady increase with its usage and it shows from total revenues. Databases on the internet and the very important CD ROM are mostly being used. As the amount of information increases, the number of electronically stored records has increased immensely. The library is one of the most important sources of media dating back to the settlement of America. It is the best way to retain media. The number of libraries keep growing and not decreasing which is very good. Libraries are very eager to influence developments related to the infrastructure.
I believe that the more information that we gain now will help us dramatically towards the future. I don’t think there should be pessimistic terms such as overload and bombardment because it widens every ones intellectual views. I am also glad to see that there has been an increase on all the medias being used as to date because there needs to be a more literate future.
Studies show that the total number of hours people spend using various media has slightly changed. Original print did not have a major change on the total number of hours being spent. Telephones are being used more because of technology and so has the radio with its significant increase. Many studies were done with television and some of its recent technologies like the satellite and cable. There was also a significant increase with this technology and it studies show that it will keep raising. The database industry has had a steady increase with its usage and it shows from total revenues. Databases on the internet and the very important CD ROM are mostly being used. As the amount of information increases, the number of electronically stored records has increased immensely. The library is one of the most important sources of media dating back to the settlement of America. It is the best way to retain media. The number of libraries keep growing and not decreasing which is very good. Libraries are very eager to influence developments related to the infrastructure.
I believe that the more information that we gain now will help us dramatically towards the future. I don’t think there should be pessimistic terms such as overload and bombardment because it widens every ones intellectual views. I am also glad to see that there has been an increase on all the medias being used as to date because there needs to be a more literate future.
Study: More kids exposed to online porn
Numerous survey results show that more and more teens are now being exposed to online pornography during a 12 month span and 66 percent of these teens were not online to sought them out. Many of the teens that took the survey say that is very common to see something like that on the internet. These images online come as pop ups while people view different websites and also in web sharing programs. Many doctors and psychiatrists believe that exposure to these things at such early ages could lead to kids becoming more sexually active.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/05/kids.online.porn.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/05/kids.online.porn.ap/index.html
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