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How do these great ways in which we communicate help us in our work environment? Where do we learn the most, and why, and what works? 
Is it the idea of everything digital? The fact that if we want to know something we can just use a search engine and, voila, it's right there in front of us. 

Like this video for example....how to write faster and catchier content with 8 simple ideas. This is how we learn now-a-days, more video content, and less reading or researching in the library catalog. Just a quick, catchy, 6 minute video to help you create and write with a better you in mind.

Or maybe it is the idea of being able to chat with someone you are working with over the internet. Like Messenger or Google Hangouts and many other opportunities for conversation on the work frontier.



It's quick, easy, and cuts off the time being used while trying to get ready or fill up for gas on your way to meet up. When you can just sit at your very own computer or use your very on mobile device and talk about what needs to be done on a project, plan, or course of action with work and learning. So simple, and fun.

You also have Skype, a perfect way for communicating and learning. 

     

In all shapes and forms. You can view from around the world, speak and type or send documents for the other person to view. It is a perfect way in which we can talk to others and learn from them in all areas of training for a job, or doing an interview for a write-up, or having a meeting to talk about a project or way of planning an event or happening within the communication work sphere. 

All three are a brilliant way in which we communicate and learn. A quick catchy video to give us inspiration, and an instant message to type out our concerns and ideas in a fun quick way, or through skype where video calling is the next way in which we will do our learning and communicating in regards to work and how we perform.

Love Me Tinder

The world wide web has turned into an actual, web. It has twisted the once innocent ways of love, into a twisted match making matrix, or even a web of lies. Have you ever wondered what your lover, partner, or husband is doing on their Smart Phones? What apps they have and who they are talking to? Or if you will be Catfished on your fifth attempt of a date with yet a new candidate? Sometimes, these apps and these sites for love can make you feel like you have Bats in the Belfry...

The number one reason that I have seen it being used for lately is for love. Browsing apps late at night, soul music jamming in the background, your lying in bed feeling absolutely alone or horny, no other soul around, or there could be many around you and you just feel like your in a pit of doom all on your own, with no one to open up to, and so you think, perhaps I can find someone to tell my troubles to who might actually care about it. Perhaps I can reveal my soul through a white screen and gigabytes, and expect them to completely get me within a weeks time and know it will turn into something meaningful. 

Not only this, but then you have apps that cater to those seeking for someone, just anyone, whether a soul mate, or be it casual sex meet ups, and exciting flings, heck it doesn't matter anymore, you could want your toes licked and I know you could find an app for that even, I know you can on Craigslist, ha ha, no joke.

Social media, the web, whatever you want to call it, has turned love, into a game.

My favorite as of right now, is the app called, Tinder. Swipe right if you're interested and left if you aren't interested. A game based solely on pictures and age, unless you decide to tap and see what lies behind these pictures, but how many actually tap to see? Then, it is an array of chatting and finally the next step, giving out your number, and the meet up if it ever goes that far...? How many of you, us, I include myself in this, have desperately searched through a collage of photos on the web hoping this is the one, or maybe they are great at fucking? Maybe it is sexual, maybe you really do want a relationship? Who knows, only the one they call God, and yourself really know what you are looking for.

Then, it is the presentation...yes, I said the presentation. The same is for guys as it is for girls, the way you look in a picture, perhaps what you are wearing, doing, or even have in the picture also depends on how the person who is looking at that picture will take you. If you have breasts hanging out and cleavage then the guy says, "hey look, this will be fun to play with!", oh but maybe you have glasses and you are well dressed and the guys says, "hmmm this could be wife material?!", nope. The presentation does matter, but in all actuality, it doesn't. Sure you see a girl and think this, but when you meet her, then what? For men, my favorite saying is, "Pussy, don't have a face!", and it is true. Sorry if I offend anyone, but it is so true.

What happened to courting? Or dating in other words? What happened to those silly stories parent tell their kids of how they met and who introduced them, or maybe it was a silly incident that brought them together like the movie When Harry Met Sally, but then the reminder that life is not a movie comes flashing forward, and yet again I am left wondering if a Smart Phone is the only way I am able to find someone, and even then, make it actually work or last?

The Effects of Multimedia

Multimedia is a wicked thing, it can do just about anything in the cyber world to make our lives entertaining, informational, insightful, and easy. Multimedia has encouraged both the older generation and the younger generation to bridge the gap and create a world that does not discriminate against age, gender, nationality, or race, and if you have no idea about how things work it is so simple to find out how thanks to YouTube and other video search engine sites to show you a way to do everything you can come up with or even think about trying to do. That, is the beauty of multimedia, the fact that we can search and figure out how to do something so simple within minutes is both mind blowing and inspiring to take it up to the next level and create a cyber world for anyone to collaborate on or share their own techniques and ways to do something.

Thanks to this site, Educational Technology Resources, you can view many different way to figure out how to record your very own pod casting which can then be used to add to a blog, Facebook post, Twitter tweet, and just about anything you want thanks to Garage Band, and you can of course watch the video below just to see what it is about and how to use it, happy singing and instrumental playing guys and gals!

Or, perhaps you are like me and have not heard of a few up and going multimedia programs, like Glogster, well that too can be viewed in just 90 seconds with great banjo background music that is always inspiring which you can see below! 

Oh and one last one, what about movies? Making and creating your own movie is always a great way to spread the word about your own life or your own business if you happen to want to be professional, or perhaps use it in order to do your own business, for example, someone who videos weddings and wants to create a memorable movie out of all the outtakes...well of course it can all be done on iMovie, and here is how...

It does not matter what you decide to do or use, there is usually always a way to find out how to do it if you are unsure or do not know, and thanks to Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and several other Search Engines as well as YouTube, you can now view alternative ways as well as the most popular way to use certain or any multimedia program and outlet!

OH, and another thing, Feliz Dia de los Muertos! 

Analyze This

I have been a Hi-Fructose fan for years. In my early years of college I used to go to the local Barnes and Noble store to pick up the latest issue, which they would release once a month, and pick it apart from cover to cover, as well as hang up many of those images of great surreal contemporary art up on my wall in my dorm room. 

Thanks to Justin Page, an artist and blogger, I am able to keep up with each volume and the take on its contents for that month. For example, his Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine Vol. 33, it allows anyone who is Hi-Fructose overloaded to see a point of view from an artist.


First, lets look at the layout of his blog. It is simple by Justin using a white and green color scheme that does not wash out, or over do the imagery from the art or the context. It is simple and easy to scan, and read through, the examples of the art that he uses have symmetry and are laid out with precision and used appropriately for the viewer to see without straining their eyes. Plus, you have widgets to other social media sites that are easy to locate, as well as tweets, and other popular posts for the week on the right hand side of the blog, and of course advertising which is usually there for exchange of your use of a platform.

Second, what is Laughing Squid? Laughing Squid is a blog host that showcases a daily variety of unique art, culture and technology from around the world. They are a cloud-based web hosting service with a particular focus on WordPress hosting. Laughing Squid was created in 1995 by Scott Beale and as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the blog he has a great crew working with him as bloggers.

Third, Justin Page does a great job of getting the Hi-Fructose nerd something to look forward to by adding word from the Hi-Fructose headquarters about what is coming up in volume 33, as well as giving names of the artists depicted in his blog. Although his blog is short and sweet, it does the effect it is created for, to get you interested and into the magazine Hi-Fructose, as well as give you a behind the scenes scoop that many magazines are unable to dish out to their readers and fans.

The only thing I would change about this blog in particular is the fact that it is so short. I would have tried to have given a more lucrative opinion about the up-and-coming magazine rather than just give a quote from Hi-Fructose and show some great art. Other than that, I think the layout and the insert alone are great and strong pieces to this blog puzzle, because a lot of people just scan over to see what is expected mostly. I appreciate this blog for giving me a heads up on the next great volume of the Hi-Fructose Magazine! 

Joe Paterno: Staying Alive Through Social Media

On January 22, 2012 Joe Paterno gave up the good fight and decided to move on and coach the angels in a brand new league. 

Joe Paterno, a husband, a father of five, a former football player, and the Coach of Penn Sate. When you think of Joe Paterno what do you think of the most? What will Paterno be remembered for? Paterno was a small man in stature, with a giant resounding personality, and a smile that is only a fragment of a strong and powerful man within that small stature, who changed lives across America through a common ground such as football.

Paterno sat at the dinner table with many on Thanksgiving, as well as opened presence with several around America on Christmas. Through coaching and football as a forever strong and growing past time, Paterno is sure to live on and on thanks to social media and the ability to record games as well as have playbacks of those wonderful plays the Penn State team dished out on the football field.

Along with Penn State fans there is a family who will forever hold the Paterno torch and keep his memory flowing both in the sports world and within their own lives on a day-to-day basis. Some may never understand just how important sports are to America and around the world. 

I know from my point-of-view that my coach during my high school years was a huge inspiration just like Joe Paterno is and will forever be in the lives of the Paterno family and his Penn State players, students, fans, and rivals.

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Joe Paterno will forever be remembered through Social Media. His life will carry on and on in loops played throughout the world in memory of his great coaching techniques but also his giant resounding personality.

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The world will never be the same.

In the 1970's the first email surfaced thanks to computer engineers seeking a way to send data from one computer to another, trying to make life magical and easier, with cyber mail particles traveling through space and landing into your computer database. 

Then in 2002 Social Media was brought to life thanks to Myspace, Facebook (my Facebook), Twitter (my new attempt at Twitter, check it), Pinterest (my attempt at Pinterest), Foursquare and the social media chain goes on and on in the gigabyte world.

Snail mail is no longer seen as the only way to communicate to your sweetheart or sending documents to another client or co-worker to sign and send back. Weeks turn into a few minutes thanks to internet, social media, phone apps, text messaging, e-mails, fax, and my personal favorite Google Docs. 

Along with these massive changes you have technology and devices trying to catch up with the internet, you have Comcast, At&t, Time Warner, Windstream, Bell South, Alltel, and loads of other service providers trying to make a way in the virtual world to create both quick, easy, and accurate access to the net, along with all its many accessories known as mobile apps on mobile devices, video search engines like YouTube, photo sharing sites such as photobucket and flickr, widgets on blogs and other websites to make it quick to get what you want whenever you want it. I could keep going with all the new ideas popping up around every millisecond, but you get the idea.

So, with mobile apps, you have the world at your fingertips that can call, view, scan, copy, take pictures, ask you questions on what to remember and remind you about later, or what to have for diner, and who is hot in the news, as well as something as simple as Doctor on Demand. With Doctor on Demand you can connect within minutes to a real live breathing physician face-to-face to help diagnosis you or answer any questions you may have without even having to leave the comforts of your own home.

The world is ever growing and ever changing and all we can do is try to understand all the possibilities, and we are able to do that through these apps, search engines, and emails and so forth. Widgets to give someone a quick overview of what they can access is seconds, social media by allowing us to view, watch, and follow others with the same interests or quick and instant messaging, and mobile apps for on the go people around the world with on the go attitudes.

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Can a Computer Replace Your Doctor?

We have all seen it, heard of it, thought about it, and wondered if a computer could actually replace those long and drawn out visits to your physician. When we think of how awful we feel, and how bad we look when we are sick, along with those embarrassing questions, we often hope that we could just remedy the situation ourselves or without going into public. Have you ever seen articles like this, asking a question about medical and technology, wondering if this is the solution we have been waiting for all our lives? Have you ever stopped to double check those sources that you are reading about, or if the author is credible and has the ability to question a certain topic, and lets not forget to look at their credentials and background to see if what they are covering really is in their domain of topics to be very knowledgeable about?

Lets break down this article from the New York Times written by Elizabeth Rosenthal, a former physician who does have the knowledge to back up her criteria on the topic of whether a computer can in fact replace a doctor (the medical side), the only aspect of it that she is missing is the technological stand point, meaning she has no background in technological architecture. To break down an article and its contents you first have to look into the author for further knowledge and understanding of where they are coming from, their expertise, and their credibility to write on certain topic such as health, medical, and physicians.

Just looking at Rosenthal's background is very impressive and in fact shows that she does have the authority to write about medical views in the media and news, it also shows how wide and varied her research and topics are on the New York Times staff, it shows that she is eligible to write about medical and those who are reading her articles can take her word for it knowing that she is a physician herself along with her journalism awards such as, Asia Society Osborn Elliot Prize, the beat reporting award from the Society for Environmental Journalists, and multiple citations from Newswomens' Club of New York. Rosenthal has also been a Poynter Fellow at Yale and a Ferris Visiting Professor at Princeton, as well as an adjunct professor at Columbia University. It does not stop there, Rosenthal also has schooling behind her craft from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biology, and Cambridge University with an M.A. in English Literature as a Marshall Scholar, along with Harvard Medical School where she got her M.D. and trained at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in international medicine. It is without a doubt that Elizabeth Rosenthal has the credentials to back up her medical articles.

Since Rosenthal has a M.A. in English Literature I am sure that she knows about doing the research to cover a topic along with how to find credible resources and knowing the true need to show those resources to her public readers in the New York Times. On top of this she includes Vivek Wadhwa, an academic, researcher, writer, and entrepreneur in the world of technology as a visionary of what the future can hold when it comes to technology and science in medical. 

Also Rosenthal includes a lot of examples of the technology that can attach to your devices such as the iPhone or computers to show you what you or your children could have when sick. "There was certainly plenty of innovation on display at the conference's rooftop reception, called "Health by Numbers": One device attaches to your iPhone and turns it into an otoscope so you can see if your child has an ear infection; another allows it to check your blood alcohol level. Attendees could check out home cholesterol test kits, and a wearable device to track the "quality" of their breathing." Each example is located on the Health Guide in the New York Times with references from Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults, Semenkovich CF. Disorders of Lipid Metabolism, and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for Screening for Lipid Disorders in Adults, and all of these references are reviewed by David C. Dugdale, III, MD, and David Zieve, MD, MHA.

Rosenthal even includes Steven Van Kuiken, who studies both health care and technology which balances her references and sources when it comes to the technological and medical combined and that makes a huge difference in her article that will absolutely make a difference to the reader of the New York Times who is interested in both health and technology in regards to one day having an in home solution to sickness. 

Rosenthal does well of being objective, although in the beginning her comment of "As a former physician, I shivered a bit when I heard Dr. Vivek Wadhwa say he would rather have an artificial-intelligence doctor than a human one. “I would trust an A.I. over a doctor any day,” he proclaimed at a recent health innovation conference in San Francisco, noting that artificial intelligence provided “perfect knowledge.” When asked to vote, probably a third of those in attendance agreed." Does show a bias view on this question, but later on in her article she even addresses the question of how technology that can help us medically become better appreciated so that they do not become discarded Christmas presents and actually work with regards to the attention span of many hen it comes to technology because they are always upgrading and having new technology every three years therefore what will stick around for the long run both medically and technologically.

The list goes on and on, with all the changes and false myths of health where it is now, it can be a challenge in the health world and in the technology world. It all has to still be tested and Rosenthal shows this in the end, that yes it does sounds like the best idea since sliced bread, but there are still mishaps that need to be fixed, tested, and approved. It all has to be a trial and error type of deal, as it is with everything in our science and virtual world.