His primary arguments seemed to be examples of his own difficulties. He states “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy…That’s rarely the case anymore.” He continues to write of how his mind starts to wander after a few pages, and he looks for something else to do; reading has become a struggle. Carr says the culprit is the Internet itself, basing his accusation on how in today’s society we can obtain information after just a few minutes on the Net. The media today has started to give us information in as limited amount of words they can allow, so we as users can skim the information we desire then move onto the next sliver of info. He believes our minds have been altered to expect all information the way the Net hands it out: “in a swiftly stream of moving particles,” as he put it.
Video Case Assignment #2 Questions Questions: 1. a. Some advantages of an online survey of a cross section of Internet households are lower costs, instant results, instant updates, and better responses. The disadvantages are that not all households have Internet access, if the survey is sent via email, it may be considered junk mail. Also, some people just fill out the surveys to get the promotional offer and will just fill out anything. The disadvantages in not being able to reach as many individuals due to lack of internet or lack of email accessibility, provides major negative impacts for research.
TV was able to broadcast news and media, therefore | | |causing the radio stations to lose money and forced them to cutback. People must learn how| | |to keep up with current technology This is the only way they can keep with the times and | | |still keep their audience. If people cannot get the information from one source they are | | |going to turn to another one. The technology term of media convergence has changes a lot
Another participant, Lisa, said “I don’t use chat rooms anymore. They are filled with a vast bastion of people looking for absolutely nothing. They are “players”. . Idealism The authors of this article did a lot of qualitative research on why individuals decide to date online.
Businesses also suffer when massive layoffs occur. When spending by households decreases, incomes decrease for the businesses. Governments are not immune from the effects of massive layoffs of employees either. When households spend less, and businesses are selling less, there is less sales tax to be collected by the government. Also, when employees are laid off there is less income tax to be collected and to make things even worse, former employees can collect unemployment benefits from the government.
This means any user can update information at any time without its credibility being checked before it’s posted. This can be seen as a disadvantage but it does provide the user useful external links for further reading. Wikipedia provided an accurate in-depth article about the history of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the articles timeline of events and information aligned with the information its links provided. The external links that it provided included not only articles but a variety of Medias such as books, videos and blogs. I would use Wikipedia again as an informational tool, although its content in some cases may not be 100% accurate, the external links it provides can save
This leaves a small window for any races. If the venture does gain popularity, there are other publication companies that can use the same idea to compete with Matt’s company. Also, with the internet becoming a large source of information, there really is not a need for something like this with the few races in the area. There are many more factors that can be looked into on this subject, but it seems with every positive there is a negative that goes with it. What
While it is relatively simple to find the links for each separate section and subsection of the site, the demarcation of each page is difficult to recognize. As you navigate from section to section, you consistently see the same banner page and slideshow atop each page with nothing but the sections at the bottom to show that you have landed on a different page. By changing the banner slightly on each secondary page to show what page you are on, and adding content-specific slideshows, the customer will actually feel as though they are navigating through different pages on a site. Kudler’s redesign would be a bit of an undertaking, but nothing an experienced designer couldn’t handle. We feel that these redesign improvements would help to assure that Kudler stays current on web trends and offers its customers the tools required to interact with the site and get the best feel for the products and services Kudler has come to be known for.
Mitchell Heyne Composition 2 January 7, 2014 Unit 3 Assignment 1 Summary Response Paper “Wow, this isn’t a bad article” I said to myself as I was reading “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The point of this article is that people are losing the ability to concentrate for long periods of time, especially if they have no interest in the subject. Some people see this as a mental disorder, however, this is due to people trying to look for a quick fix and not doing the thorough research. I will agree that the way people are thinking is indeed changing, some for the good, but most for the bad as well. Search engines are rerouting our memory. According to one article in Science magazine, we're not necessarily losing our ability to remember things.
This is achieved through asynchronous HTTP calls to the server and dynamic updates of the HTML DOM. The asynchronicity allows this to happen without the user being blocked from using the web page. It cuts down on traffic because typically less data is moved around during an AJAX call since you are not updating the entire page, just a portion of it. • Based on the Keston (2008) article, do you believe that mashups will completely replace the creation of HTML web pages from scratch? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using mashups?