This whole time we have been technologically evolving; we come up with new ways to be creative with polishing tools like photo shop and Microsoft word. But while these tools are now a necessity most every artist and writer starts with paper and something to write with.
People rely too much on their hands and too much on the ease of disposal to want to completely get rid of a tangible thing. People love things the more books you have the more well read you must be, the more art you have to more able people assume you are appreciative of it.
There are websites that one can use in place of a personal library or a library card itself, these websites can let you read Jane Eyre chapter by chapter on the web. But we all know that the blue glow of a computer screen just doesn’t create the warmth a book does, or the ease to close and begin again to morrow with out distraction of e-mail and facebook.
Art on the other hand like print can be emulated on the web, but without going to that exhibit, with out seeing the brush strokes or the ghastly use of color, what can really be appreciated.
Tangible is in, I think the web journalism and print is a tool to help you find the tangible items that you desire in your life.

Your computer getting to know you is not so good. When I go to open documents on my computer I don’t want my documents file I want my school folder to show up, but when my computer gets used to all this then I am doomed to search through my hard drive for my endless documents that are perpetually lost in a sea of “school paper” or Jesspaper.doc.

Also when I go on the Internet, it assumes that since I used to live in Huntington Beach or Maryland and that I want all the information about those two places since I registered zip codes with my e-mail. I could care less that its raining in Maryland or that its sunny in Huntington, but since I now can not remember who I put as by best friend when I was 14 when I created my e-mail I can not change my zip code to Chico. Anyways I am also tired of the limited searches that I get, I would like to have more international WebPages accessed to me I get bombarded with oroiels stats once a year and ravens stats the rest but hey maybe I’d like to hear about how soccer is in England, or the surfing in Australia.
Either way I feel because my compute knows me I feel it will not let me leave the comfort zone it has designated for me.

Not only is the problem of a feeling of absolute truth on the Internet with websites like wikipedia. But the viewer created comment and the advent of image editing software creates a feeling of if you can dream it, it exists.
When I saw the new hologram on CNN when they used many cameras to ‘beam’ in a member of Black Eyed Pease music group to talk in studio on CNN.

We should start using those hover crafts and the pill form foods that are so long coming.
Web inventions and fanciful rumors are now shot through the Internet like a game of elementary school ‘telephone’. If people don’t completely annunciate what they mean, define exactly what they are intending to portray, then a picture of a small child crossing the street can then turn into a gnome on a rampage.

While if it cannot be found on the Internet it must not be true, there’s that lemming process that people follow by lazy dedication and lack of curiosity to see where things come from. This is the problem with television and any informative outlet. The media is the gatekeeper of the information, but we have to remember the social aspect of the human element, people love people and people love to talk and the internet is the best rumor mill is making every little story able to be added to the giant internet soup and lets the people be their own little spoon in it.

My 17-year-old sister volunteered to help people who are illiterate or no longer able to read vote in the election. While she got a great look at what its like to vote and how to do it, she also got to see who everyone voted for.

A die-hard republican, my sister is involved in the ROTC, and naval science program at her school, and made me wonder if she tried to have a last minute effect on how people voted.

These people were either elderly or unable to physically read the ballot, or they had never learned to read at all. In the realization that this program even existed, I could see how there is a huge gap of people who are able to use modern technology and those who cannot.

With our free national public school and our first world country we still had enough people even in my small hometown county to keep my sister busy for eight hours at the poles on election day, assisting people to help decide the next president she has a better understanding of those who are in need in her community.

You know that these people are unable to type, use computers and understand some modern technology just because of these factors. I wonder where their votes counted the most.

The web is keeping people from ever actually finishing anything on the web. The format of a website is not conducive to reading. The ability to click and browse from page to page from site to site is something that kills out attention span.

There is no reason to actually read a whole paragraph any more, time is money and the more you know how to skim and speed read the more you will be able to produce and ‘look’ like   your comprehending.

WebPages make short cuts, lists, and brightly colored links to grab your attention, not to mention you are pretty much looking at bright flat light bulb like frame, which seems to be worse for your vision then television. It’s a clicking induced TV, that can take you to every channel you want and although they are called ‘WebPages’ there more like web pictures or web shots.

Also the internet is putting summaries, online versions, and web forums of classic literature, and classic text that no longer has to be read from cover to cover but rather, just understood well enough by the limited online information. People are expected to have a general understanding of a lot of different subjects, and what better way than to use the web and its easy access format to be a tool to gain more information in less time.

Bloggers and classic journalists can teach each other how to be better journalists by learning from each other. Bloggers and journalists cannot ignore the influence their industries have on the creation and adaptation of their industries.

Traditional journalists have methods of fact checking, editing and comprehensive reporting of a topic. Technique and format in classic journalism create fluidity and ethical standards throughout the industry. These rules are keystones to good journalism which bloggers should take form classic journalists.

Bloggers are able to make the rules in their submissions. The freedom to make your own rules makes these journalists stand out and push the information envelope.

Classic media should be more transparent. In blogs you can see where the information comes from. The immediacy of corrections and the accessability to specific bloggers to help bypass unnecessary information is an important part of blogs. The sense of personality in blogs keeps people’s trust.

Classic media outlets often fear being sued and stay away from certain topics. There’s a cooling effect in sensational news stories in the classic mediums can where there’s more of an edge to blog-based news.

Blogging can be a hobby that you can start and stop as much as you want, where classic journalism is a job you can get hired and fired from. Each industry is based on credibility and is the reason why each avenue is successful. Both mediums are and read by audiences because of perceived credibility.

The advent of new computer and television screens are moving into all other technologies as well. The new blackberry storm is the newest trend in touch screen telecommunication. The iphone and other apple related products mainly use a glass screens that are known to be more durable. The new touch computer screens and touch blackberry use a more malleable material that makes you feel that you are pressing something, and creates sounds to remind you of your decision.

I recently bought a blackberry curve the week the Blackberry storm had begun to be advertised. I immediately felt buyer’s remorse even though I still had my receipt. Verizon is making an effort to compete with worldwide markets by creating many similar products.

I decided against the storm because of my need for real buttons.

The difference between a cell phone and a smart phone is the accessibility to the Internet and to be able to have your phone communicate with your computer. In looking at my choices, I realize that, as I get older the more I will need a device like a Blackberry. Verizon defiantly had a variety of choices but in the end the fact that Blackberry’s rarely get returned and the huge network that blackberry has become a part of and the almost idiot proof piece of technology I am beginning to grasp, the more I get used to having a brick in my pocket.

So as the semester progresses I have realized the importance of a technological education and how it is sporadic in school it is.

From elementary school through college I have always had the advantage of having computers at my disposal. With computers and the internet being a novelty growing up the teachings were very trial and error and the disarray of the internet at first exposed out 5^th grade class to a lot of inappropriate websites through the schools internet.

There was no set basis for using computers. I would go for years having rarely any classes in a computer room and in college, I need my computer for almost every class.

As a child you are forced into gym classes every year of your life even if you play sports after school. While you are not forced to take typing classes of computer classes in school, they are electives and students or teachers do not usually take them seriously.  If you are inactive with technology you will be left behind like if you do not keep active you will not keep up in gym class.

I have grown to realize that being the trial and error Internet generation we have many advantages and disadvantages of seeing a new frontier emerge.

A community is a very general statement that has definitions that are personal and general.  In my experience communities are a sense of self within a person or group.

Online communities like facebook and myspace, that I use to keep in contact with my friends and family from all over the world are something that helps me to feel like no matter where I am I can still connect to someone who knows me.

Other communities that I feel a part of are the eastern shore community where I grew up in Maryland that prides itself on its love of things like lacrosse seafood.

Lacrosse is a community in itself and has a world wide following, the love of the sport has exploded in the past 10 years and the online community has followed.

Also the affection for things that make you feel comfortable and unique can create a community. I grew up with a convenient store called Wa-Wa and the store itself has become a cult love of those who have left the east coast as well as those who can go to it every day. WAWA LOVERS.

The extent of frustrations and confusion that would ensue during a time of no Internet on the whole continental United States would be astronomical.

The most important things to point out would be the most influential on society, such as Medical facilities, communication networks and government originations.

The inability to use a medical database the Pediatric emergency database, that shares information about medical history and information about diseases and transfers between hospitals and doctors about patient information would come to a halt. Being unable to send this information would be untimely and detrimental to the wellbeing of people.

Having the general population being unable to use the Internet would create a lot of chaos and many usable technological devices would become pointless.

The mere inability to use your e-mail would drive people insane. Phone companies would be over run with calls for a variety of reasons and have to set up emergency plans like a natural disaster. When people in other countries need to do business or contact friends and family within the united states and are unable of to peoples minds will run with negative thoughts, and rumors will start.

The possibility of businesses and relationships suffering because people are unable to contact one another would have long and short-term effects.

Also the government, who is extremely dependent on the use of the Internet of information and communication, would put many states towns and regions into a difficult position. Local news and governments would be leaving people uninformed and scared because of the shock to our Internet addicted way of life.