1984.

In the novel 1984 I beleive that it is pretty close to what reality is. It's a very sad and cruel story about Oceania, a fictional environment. Oceania is a place governed by a certain Party that created 4 different ministries. They are the Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Love ,Ministry of Peace, and the Ministry of Plenty. The ministry of Truth controls all past and future documents, entertainment, and education. The ministry of Love deals with miniluv identifying ,arresting, and converting dissidents. The ministry of Peace controls minimax reports OCeania's perpetual war. The ministry of Plenty controls foods and goods.

Winston ,the main character finds himself going against The Party. He remembers his memories,has an affair, and tries what he can to go against the Party. These are things you are not suppose to do because the Party doesn't want you to think for yourself because if you do then you will start to realize whats going on and go against it like winston did. Unfortunately, Winstons failed terribly at going against Big Brother and the Party.

I thought that this book was sad especially since there wasn't an happy ending. One thing that I got from the book was the different foreshadows in every chapter. I think the foreshadow that showed you that Winston wouldn't have a happy ending was when he met O'Brien and he "turned off" the monitor. I knew that those things never really "turn off." After that meeting Winston and his lover Julia were captured. There are so many things that remind me of today with technology. Things like recording cameras that watch everything at all the time. Also people can track you with cell phones. Another thing was about the Newspeak and being able to edit and erase historic documents. This is seen the most in Wikipedia because you can edit and erase whatever you want.Overall this is a good book to read and I refer it to anyone who is interested in technology.

Erik Hanberg

I really thought that this speaker was really good. He talked about something that could be useful for all of us. Let's face it in these days it's very difficult to find any job. We are going to have to look outside the box and do something we've never done before. I know that I was constantly taking notes on how I can create my own business online. I am a full-time college student who is not able to a work full-time job because of school so this business online would really come in handy.

I've always been a writer ,but have never been confident enough to get anything published. From talking to Erik it gave me confidence to try to get my works published. Who knows maybe I could get lucky and get published. This whole presentation really made me start thinking about different ways I can make money and be stable. I'm excited to try out one of these methods.

Scavenger hunt

The scavenger hunt was easy for the most part. My team decided to split the pages up into three different parts. This seemed to really work for us especially when it came to time. We managed to get lots of things done in this short amount of time. It seemed like the different questions were being answered promtly until my team came together on #12. We have all been looking for the ad based on outside of washington about tourists locations for about 10 mins. We continue to search everywhere because we are so very close to being done with the whole hunt. Something spectacular happened in the last 5 minutes....WE FOUND THE AD:)

Convergence???

So I did it.I looked up the term convergence. However there are a lot of different meanings for this word. The first meaning is in math when a matter is approaching a limit such as a line,point, or value. The second meaning was a meeting place. The place of converging. Another example of convergence in the financial dictionary is for two different prices from the past and the present to come together to be the same price. It seems like this convergence is basically for different things to come together within technology.

I guess I ended up a little confused about convergence by looking at all the different definitions. So I did the unthinkable. I went to wikipedia.com!!! Convergence showed up in the telecommunications area. They talked about how convergence goes back to the At&t in 1928. They also speak about how convergence is about crossing multiple industries. This is when I started understanding how convergence related to our class. Maybe I should start going to wikipedia first?

Physical vs. Digital

When it comes to digital and physical documents it seems that things that were once only available as physical document then as are now available as digital. I prefer doing almost anything that I can do online rather than actually having to go and get the documents. The fact that you don't have to send in shopping orders is the best. I love to shop online and only online. It seems to make things easier for me. Other things like titles to cars are something that I would go and actually pick up from the DMV. Some people like that things like this are available now on the computer. When personal documents are involved I think it's a lot saver to get it in the physical form. When it is a documents that aren't too personal I would get it over the web.

The search for B.D.T

I have done searches on myself many times. I never am surprised at what comes up. I'm happy that there aren't any crazy pictures or anything like that when my name is looked up. I know if I was a manager I would do a vanity search on every person who applied to see their character outside of the work area. I think that these searches are good or you to do every once and a while to see what you have out there on the internet.

The first article that came up was a interview I had with a representative of World Vision about distressed teens in the U.S. The second thing that came up was a Poetry Out Loud Contest I was in a couple of years ago. There were many of my friends myspace pages that just had my name on them that came up with the search. Another thing that came up were my different scholarships I received at Pierce College. There were also old post from when I was lobbying for the Sexual health Act. It showed things like me being one out of the 3 meeting with a council member. The one thing that I did think was interesting was finding an old page I had on Black Planet which I have tried to delete a million times. Besides that my search wasn't too exciting.

Mark Briggs

I thought that our conversation with Mark Briggs was good. He talked about a lot of things that would be helpful for our future with newspaper. I think that his book journalism 2.0 would be a good read now that I have heard some of his views. I love how he's so optimistic about the Newspaper companies. He does say that the newspaper companies are simply changing ,but they are not dead.

Serra Media sounds like a really exciting company to be a part of. I can see that in a couple of years maybe even months lots of people are going to build their websites using his different layouts. I think the most interesting layout for me was the Town Luxe because I like to go shopping and if this will help me find places then that would make things easier for me. I like how he created his own website to work out for him. That just shows that if journalism doesn't work out for you then you could make your own website and make the journalism thing work for you!