Week of 11/13

Last week in class we discussed several different topics concerning how the internet is effecting the world. It was really interesting discussing the deep web and how it can be used by hate groups and terrorists, like the Taliban, to provide information to their followers that is invisible to web users who don't know the URL for their sites. The topic of my article was internet porn. It was shocking to learn that 7 in 10 children have accidentally seen pornography on the internet, and many of those children were searching innocent topics, like water sports. That also brought up a discussion of what role the internet and search engines should play in protecting children from explicit materials.

blog for last week

I can finally post on blogspot again. Yay! I think it wasn't working because my friend was logged into his google account on my computer and I hadn't logged out of it. Last week we talked a lot about crowd sourcing. We played some fun games and learned the benefits and challenges that come with using a large group of people as a source. We also learned about verbosity and some other online games that contribute to a pool of knowledge as you play.

We have also been learning about cloud computing. I think I understand the concept, but I'm still not sure how cloud computing is really different from just about any internet resource.