What's good Derek Young?

Thanks for taking your time to come speak to us about what you've done in your professional career. I'm not sure how old you are (you don't look old), but it seems to me that you've been successful at what you've done and been a part of numerous companies, non/profit organizations, projects and what not. The question that caught my attention early on in your presentation was that, how many of us do we plan on sticking with one career job? In other words, how many of us do we plan on having one stable job for our professional career, and not explore other opportunities? Based on what you shared to us, I feel like sticking with one project or job isn't possible. You're always out there in the community, whether sharing your ideas with other companies, or even connecting with pretty much anybody. And I wonder now, if that will be the case for my future and career. Will I be committed to just one project?

Tacoma Runners?
It's amazing how a tweet can send out the message to run. And just like that, you created a running club with over 5000 participants. This comes to mind that with a simple power of social media, anything can happen just like that. Work during the day, run at night. Way to be active!
On Thursdays, you guys meet up, run a couple of miles and go for a drink of beer. So....do you guys run back after the drink or sober up? Haha.

Big Data
It's creepy to now know that anything we do, will be recorded in a system, known as data. I know we didn't talk much about this topic since we ran out of time, but it made me think why do we need records of what we do online and off the web? I can remember living through the technological evolution with changes of technology and all that, but nowadays since that has passed, it's more complicated and it has been implemented in our lives.

Search: Scavenger Hunt!

Hey, hey,

Miley is back again with another post
This time about the scavenger in class.
So far we found the definition of sock puppet, the home valued, three general searches, financial information, the Facebook one, six members from the 1963 movie, we found his sister's surname, match making websites, the URL address for his W3C activity and paper for that and three of Tacoma Chickadee favorite musicians.

- Miley

Erik Hanberg, you did great! Here's a "thumbs up"!

Erik Hanberg, you did a marvelous job in presenting to us last week about self-publishing as well as privacy. Publishing has come a long way to now which is known as online publishing. From books and newspapers, to digital sources as e-books and blogs. Currently, I am self-publishing. This blog post as of now is soon to be published to the world wide web. Just like that, it's as instant to publish anywhere, anytime, no biggie, no problem. That's a benefit to online publishing nowadays. It's portable, it take seconds to do so, and of course it's simple. Compare to the old publishing, it would have to be printed, take a lot longer, etc. For me, online publishing immensely benefits me.

Privacy on the other hand, I honestly think I should reconsider what I do online. Erik made a good point on his opening slide. He quoted, "The amount of privacy we have today is the maximum amount we'll have in our lives." Those are some deep words that made me realize and think, is everything being monitored? Is it safe to do anything online? Hmmm....Well I do have Norton Security Suite which protects me from virus attacks or general computer hackers, but that doesn't make me completely invulnerable. I tend to stay off almost all of social media. My social life consists of texting, emailing, and sometimes Facebook. I do limit my activity on FB, as well as keeping everything in the most protected mode they provide. But I notice that there are more and more hackers everyday. There's a lot of security and data I do not know much about online. Erik sure changed my views on the importance of doing what and not online. I can never know who's watching me....

Is the "machine" really us?

Link to the video below:

The very first time I actually used one of these "machines" was back in elementary school, where we would go to the computer lab on a weekly basis to learn how to type and increasing my typing speed. Now having to think of my first encounter with the computer, I realized that this was a memorable moment in my life that actually began my technical life. This is a moment where I first entered the virtual world. In just of a matter of time, I learned the basics of how to use the computer, and eventually, I was already surfing the web, using multiple softwares at a time, accessing the internet, etc. Did I actually became the machine? Or was the machine really using me?

The video shown above is quite thought provoking. As you can see, Web 2.0. was a lot more different than what you see nowadays. However, what we "do" on the web is still the same. This video gave me the chills and made me rethink my purpose of using it. It allowed me to think about how Web 2.0 engages us and how I'm willing to provide information to the virtual world out there. Is the "machine" really us? No. I think as time goes by and we continue to adapt or improve technology, we will be machines, as in everything we do is based on technology. I noticed that in the video, it shows how text is evolved. And that gave me the idea of digital text. Nowadays, digital text can be shared, changeable, created, duplicated, collaborated, etc. It's basically more flexible than the use of normal book text. I think this applies to a lot of technical stuff we do. Texting, emailing, articles, YouTube videos, and so on, are all being connected on how we share it. We should rethink on why we actually use the Web 2.0. for what purpose.

What does Miley Cyrus want out of TINST207?

Hey!

Technology exists in my life. Are you surprised? If you ask 100 people on campus if technology exists in their everyday life, what are your chances of one saying that it doesn't? Are you now still surprised of that result? As a child, I grew up with the basics of television and certainly the evolution of the internet. I realized this was the peak of time where everybody was starting to adapt to technology. In today's world, I believe technology is existent for everybody. Some may not realize they're not using technology, but they are surrounded by technology.

As a young college student, I certainly have not experienced the best technology innovated here today. In fact, I would like to say I haven't used enough technology to fulfill my life, so therefore the technical future is bright in my mind. I'm a pre-major, and I'm yet to decide what do I want to study for the rest of my life. Entering college, I had slight interest in the field of IT or technology. It is one of the reasons why I'm hovering over the idea of majoring in ITS (Information Technology & Systems), here at the institute of technology. In this course, I would love to learn more about technology and why we use it everyday, as well as gaining the knowledge of technical components that we use and see in everyday life. For me, I would like to know what I'm using, or what's the component that causes this to work, or even what technical difficulties may come between me and the piece of technology before I even get my hands on it. Hopefully my uncertainty of ITS and technology itself can be resolved by the end of this quarter.