High-Speed Materials Discovery

In my Online Experience class, we had to choose from 10 articles about emerging technologies. I chose the high-speed materials discovery because according to this article, they are able to find thousands more possible combinations of materials that can be used to make batteries more efficient, powerful, and smaller. I was surprised when they said that they are able to process 3,000 possible combinations every week, which could easily mean that they could've found several combinations already that would make current batteries better. If that is true, then batteries could constantly be improved and replaced since they could be finding more and more efficient battery combinations. Also, as part of our assignment, we were told to look at the emerging technologies of 2009 to see if any of those technologies were being used today. While reading an article about an intelligent software assistant, they were talking about "Siri" which is an intelligent software program that is currently being used by the Apple iPhone.

Drug and Alcohol Use Survey

Online Experience B Survey

First Impressions

Theodore Roosevelt and The River of Doubt

What I found while researching Theodore Roosevelt's journey, I stumbled upon several things. The first thing was that he began his journey on December 13th, 1913. He originally left for South America to visit his son Kermit Roosevelt. Once there the two Roosevelts left to travel the River of Doubt with a group of other travellers. During their travels, Teddy sliced his leg on a rock and became ill with malaria. Theodore then managed to overcome this illness. Years later, Theodore died and Kermit supposedly commited suicide.

Google

The first difference is that Google can monitor your email, whereas they couldn't before. Google will also remove all irrelevant adds from your screen since they could monitor your searches. Finally they will allow you to tweak your privacy settings.
http://mashable.com/2012/01/25/google-privacy-update/
Personally, I would rather Google stay the same, because I would like to be able to use Google without being watched in everything I do.

Copyright Worlde

eBay v. MercExchange

In the court case between eBay and MercExchange, eBay sued MercExchange for creating a site very similar to eBay despite eBay's patent. Only eBay and MercExchange were involved and eBay won. The site didn't list or say anything about fines or fees about the case.

You can read more at: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/copyright/copyrightcases#perf 

The 15 things i’m thankful for

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Internet Safety

Internet safety is using common sense on the internet. The three most things about being safe on the internet is to never give out information about you, where you live, where you go to school, who your friends are, what you do, etc. The next thing is to ignore e-mails from unknown senders or companies. Third, don't talk to people you don't know since they could be anybody. They could say that they are your age and just like you, but actually be a 57-year-old creeper. Personally, what Deputy Krupp told us was just a refresher to me. But some things that I could do is be more careful about who I accept friend requests from on Facebook.

Feed Readers

Mrs.Lundquist made us compare and contrast Google Reader with either FeedDemon or bloglines.com. I chose to do bloglines and found that it was easy enough to search for sites,it was relatively difficult to find sites that I had interest in. Whereas Google Reader was very simple to navigate AND it had results for anything I put in. If I had to decide which one I had to use, I'd choose Google Reader hands down.

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