TechTalk Roundtable

Music Media

Hello Everyone!

My topic will be on Music Media.
Here are a few pointers that I will discuss or go over
during my presentation/briefing:

• difference between old music media and new music media
  
• regular CD's vs. new CD's
  
• replacement of the CD with flash drives and/or improved disks
• mp3 players
  

• fan sites becomes a social networking foreground for artist
  
• virtual sites replacing 2-dimension sites so fans
  
• sharing their music files and growing a ntwk of friends worldwide
  

I plan to (hopefully) have some sample props to display for the class. If not,
I will try to provide the most relevant visuals for the audience (the class)
to understand my presentation as I talk about it. Since I chose "creative" from the term
project guild lines, I will try my best to make it as enlightening and interesting as possible.

How Sticky Is Facebook?

I thought it was a very intriguing article about social online sites.
After reading the article coincidently I found more similar articles when
I read the NYTimes over the weekend.

It has raised my skepticism more about creating accounts with not only
social sites but regular email and other logins such as job searching.
Not knowing ones' information will be there in the database after he/she has
canceled their membership is an uneasy feeling.

The BusinessWeek article, was more on a positive aspect for Turner and
his ideas for the network of sports and he is doing it the right way
by selling ads to his clients who visit the site(s).

In regards to the Alan Turing article, I thought that was the most
interesting reading of the three since I used to study his work
a couple years back in another college. The debate over can machines think
simulated from theoretical thesis to religious ones all formulating back
to Turing's main point. Computers cannot think because we program
them to do what we want them to do. Computers execute our
mission saving time and diminishing the amount of mistakes with
auto spell check or correction.

Hello Everyone.

I am blogging for the first time on blogger.com

and i would like to say I am looking forward to

this class and the rest of what is ahead for the 2008 year!

Last night I performed with my team for the baruch

students at pep rally. The turnout was good and the

bearcats won both men & women's basketball game.

I am interested to read what the rest of the class has submitted

to their own blogs and what topics will be presented for the final project.

Until next class,

Take care!!!

Ti