Losing it on the Web

The Latest Trend in Dieting
Just last week we read and heard about blogging. While I was at the gym, I picked up the March 2007 copy of O Magazine. Why we have magazines that old is beyond me. Inside is an article called “Losing it on the Web” with an image of [...]

Save your memories…on a usb drive?

Usability Testing
In my ICM 503 class, we’ve been covering usability testing for a couple weeks now. It is important to get feedback about a product that is looking to be sold on the market. The feedback should help the designer/company decide whether the item is complete or flawed, and if it’s flawed, how [...]

Almost Famous

While I was watching the debate, Biggest Loser and Tila Tequilla at the gym last night, I picked up the October edition of Family Circle. Usually this is full of good recipes so I check it out. To my surprise, I found an article titled “Almost Famous.”
It’s subtitle: YouTube, MySpace, Facebook–Tweens [...]

Hilliary Clinton has a facebook?!

I haven’t been into the campaigns much yet…but for you Halavais, I looked on Clinton’s & Obama’s sites! I was shocked to see both have myspace and facebook accounts! How cool are they?! Each has nicely done .org sites with large contribute/donate buttons, blogs, videos, lead stories, issues, reasons to vote for them, [...]

Britney’s album overrated, save $20

When I read/saw the ratings for this album as ‘her best so far’ I had to check it out. My friend Chris sent me this link over & I heard for myself first hand: http://music.aol.com/songs/new_releases_full_cds
I felt a little shorted from this week’s readings. I was hoping to read more about the [...]

Have $6500 to spare?

I can’t wait for the day where I see these in office cubicles!
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/devlin/16879

Gaming is for losers

Yea that’s right…I said it…gaming is for losers. Read on.
Ugh
I had trouble getting into Huizinga’s article “Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon.” Bottom line: Play is play…its fun…why philosophize & ruin it?! Ever play…we’re all college kids here…beer pong with a different group of people and their different [...]

Facebook now being watched

My ears perked when I heard about this on the news & decided to seek out more information.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3736561
Basically, Cuomo wants nudity and pornography monitored on facebook. Is this an invasion of privacy? A breech of free speech? Will it keep young teens/adults safe?
One part of me thinks its about time…another [...]

Adgeda

I’ll be meeting with my group this Thursday. Most of our time will be devoted to looking for authors and legitimate sources. danah boyd at the Technology Forum a few weeks ago and I hope to contact her to use as a source. I hope she’ll also point me in the direction [...]

Hunny, share your toys with the others!

What if we all walked around with personalized J Crew shirts?
Is personalization of the Internet a good thing? Will it entice us to learn more about our favorite topics, so long as we can avoid those we don’t care to learn about? By isolating only stories of our interest, we miss out on [...]