Vaaaanity!

I guess in some ways I'm pretty lucky that my parents decided to switch up the spelling of my name! When I did my vanity search on google I was the only person that came up which is pretty exciting...haha. Once I got past that though it was pretty weird to realize that all this information was out there on the internet for everyone to see. Like some other bloggers my lovely myspace page showed up, and some other interesting things that I never expected to come up. I did competitive swimming since I was about ten years old so lots of stats on club swim meets and times came up. Also a few stats on swim meets and water polo matches from high school came up. I think that if your in sports your guarenteed to get at least a few hits! The one thing that did surprise me, besides my myspace page coming up, was the fact that I got a link to the Eastern WA University page showing all the kids who made the Deans list from my freshmen year of college. That was in the Spring of 2006 so I didn't expect that to still be around! I guess it just shows that all of that stuff just kind of follows you around for awhile. All of my google links were things that happened at least two years ago. Anyone could look up this information on you, kinda cool and creepy at the same time!

IDentity

Yo....so I had a request to post the website about the ID theft....its pretty interesting, in my opinion its good to be aware about these kinda things so take a look! www.TheNewsTribune.com/news/projects/idtheft

The News Tribune

I had no idea that online newspapers were so popular until Mark Briggs spoke on Thursday! It was really interesting to hear someone speak who virtually did his whole job through the web. Listening to him speak and seeing how popular online papers were these days kinda made me realize that printed newspapers probably will die out very soon. They are definately quickly going downhill popularity wise. There are so many more things that you can see on the online paper versus the regular newspaper. You can interact so much more. If there is one subject that you want to read about all you have to do is type it in and it comes right up, instead of searching through the whole paper just to read one section that interests you. You also get to view videos online which is really neat because its almost like watching the news on TV. The amount of blogs that they have on their website is also incredible because basically anything that you could ever want to read about comes in a blog. One downfall is that people can comment where everyone can see which can kind of be annoying if they are being negative. But thats not to say its not interesting getting to view what people think about an article. One things that really interested me was the online sort of blog about the id theft that came in chapters. That was really cool that they were able to do that and you probably never would be able to dedicate that much of the newspaper to an article like that. When he was talking about it I wrote down the website so I could read it myself and I would definately be interested in viewing more pieces like that because of the fact things like that could happen to anyone. All in all, having Mark Briggs come in and speak was really informative and eye-opening and I'm definately looking forward to future guest speakers!

Another...

Second post about similarities and differences! After I was done I realized I forgot a few :) *Similarities- chain letters, junk mail, forwarding, & ads *Differences- viruses in e-mails, and spam Just to name a few...hopefully I won't think of others after I post this!

Uh oh!

So I am finally posting another blog today because with my luck I couldn't get into my account! I definately have been trying to get into my account for about a week now since I first made it, I thought at first that I had my password wrong so I have been desperately trying to think of every password that I could have possible put into the system. Today I finally realized that when I had typed my e-mail into blogger when I first signed up I had mistyped it, so basically that was the problem. :) So now I am finally posting the similarities and differences between e-mail & mail!!! Yay!! *Some of the similarities that I have come up with have been alot of the things that we talked about in class such as the fact that we use e-mail the same way that we use snail mail, to keep up with friends and relatives, send invites, connect with co-workers and colleagues. Millions of people send e-mail every day just the same as snail mail. There is also a post office just like mail where your e-mails are routed from. You can send pictures, newsletters, and invites. When you send an e-mail it has to pass through many networks to get to you, just the same as mail has to pass through many hands to get to the mailbox you want it to reach. E-mail can also be hacked into just the same as someone could steal your personal mail. There are many ways e-mail and mail are alike but also many differences too, such as the fact that it may take days and days for you to recieve your mail but it only takes a matter of seconds for an e-mail to reach its destination. One thing going for snail mail is,when you write an address incorrectly it can sometimes reach its destination just the same. But with e-mail the address has to be exact or it will never reach where it is meant to go. With mail it also costs for stamps and such while e-mail is virtually free. The main difference between e-mail and mail though is that in this day and age e-mail is so much more convenient to use what with everything being done on a computer. Thats all for now....blog being posted about Mark Briggs coming soon!!

Well today is my first day on board the blogging world! Got to admit...a little intimidating at first but I'll get used to it! It's a little like starting MySpace or Facebook for the first time and I'm addicted to both so I'm sure I'll catch on pretty speedy! I started this blog for my Living and Working in a Virtual World class but I think I'll probably end up keeping it for awhile. I'm studying abroad in Argentina in the Spring and I think this would be a pretty tight way to keep everyone posted on my day to day activities...plus i can also post pics so that's pretty fun! Anywho I'm diggin my Internet class so far because its pretty open to a neverending amount of topics! Well I'm off to din din with the fam but I'll post again tomorrow with my assignment and more on how I'm adjusting to this new bloggin experience! Peace for now!