CNN Video Coverage (Image from Time.com)
Protesters, journalists, and others are under attack by the military in Burma. Monks seem to be the main target of the military at this point because they are so vast in numbers, and are very well organized. The internet has also been shut down in Burma, from what I understand [...]
Technology
…………………… Sony had an “underground” release of it’s new PSP hand held system today, and when I say underground I mean there was a great deal of confusion about the actual release date (I got 4 different answers from a local gamestop). No one is really quite sure why sony did not try to build [...]
The Web 2.0
The internet revolution is gaining momentum and quick with this rise of the “web 2.0″, in which everything is interactive, social, spawns communities, and is free to use. That mentality does not hold true for all of the sites on the new web, but it does for many of the popular widely [...]
Intel has released a Mashup Maker that is integrated into your browser and allows you to essentially combine two areas of interest and yield a page which displays results concerned with both.
Anyone remember when Tom Cruise freaked out on Oprah? This is a mashup which combines the event with Star Wars, Hulk, and a few other movies I could not recognize.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5qOS4Q39sg
Brokeback to the Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JojoMIZTr44&NR=1
Goonies of the Caribbean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJSp2jNI7Co
Why new technologies emerge
If there is one thing that I took away from reading these three articles, it is that society shapes the future, and the integration of new technologies arises from a desire to better satisfy our own wants and needs. The emerging of new technologies is not some unstoppable naturally occurring force that [...]
The aggregator I chose to use was Google Reader, simply because I love Google and they have not disappointed me yet with anything that they have developed.
http://www.google.com/reader
The three subscriptions I chose are as follows:
http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml – Simply because I am a huge techie and love to stay current on the newest technological breakthrough and inventions in [...]
All of the readings this week dealt with social networking in one way or another, and examined how our society has changed over time due to the availability of new technologies and means for communication. Beniger (http://loc8ed.com/library/beniger-1986.pdf) reviews the history of social networks in this country over [...]
Apparently M rated games have the highest sales, even though they only account for 10% of the games sold in the US.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6178510.html
As We May Think – Vannevar Bush
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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
I found this article to be the most interesting of the three, mostly because Bush seemed so driven and hellbent on predicting the future evolution of several technological devices. The reading really pulled me in because I was personally interested in seeing how accurate this scientist could be in [...]
My name is Derek Varga. I am of Irish, Scottish, Hungarian, Czech, and Italian decent. I was born in New Haven, CT, and raised in Milford, where I currently Reside. I attended Southern Connecticut State University studying Computer Science for four years (undergrad). I am currently enrolled in the ICM program at Quinnipiac University.
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