Group Presentation Synopsis

In my Living and Working in a Virtual World class taught by Andrew Fry , I'll be in the process of doing a group presentation on the book World Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing by Richard Hunter. This book has fourteen chapter and since my group consists of seven people, we decided to each discuss two chapters in the book. The chapters I'll be discussing are Chapter 12 and Chapter 13.

Chapter 12 is titled 'War Without Secrets,' which pretty much discusses how communication in the military and in networks aren't as secure as they should be. It covers a lot more which you'll have to wait until presentation time. Also, Chapter 13, titled 'Digital Pearl Harbor,' talks about the attack on Pearl Harbor and the attack on the World Trade Center and what a 'Digital' Pearl Harbor could do to America.

For more information on this presentation, come and check out my group mate Rebecca's Blog.

Scavenger Hunt Progression

In my TINST 207 class, we have to do an online scavenger hunt with a classmate. So far, we've done all the questions up to this question.

Virtual World

There isn't many places I'd want to go virtually. But one place I can think of is outer space. Journeying to outer space will most likely be an opportunity I won't be able to experience in the real world (unless they happen to invent a plane or jet in the future that can go to any place in the Solar System and come back in a reasonable time).

The feeling of going to another planet in the Solar System would be unforgettable and the trip of a lifetime.

Kevin Freitas & FeedTacoma

So last Monday in my Living in a Virtual World class, we had a guest speaker named Kevin Freitas, who is the creator of a website called FeedTacoma.com which pretty much pulls content around the web relating to Tacoma. His website is pretty innovative in the sense that the website updates constantly looking for sites with Tacoma in its [tags].

The features on this site are amazing. First off, there is a page on the site called 'Shop' which side-shops in Tacoma post items that they have for sale. If you choose to purchase any of the items, you can pick them up in-shop at that particular shop. Secondly, the 'Photo' and 'Video' page are cool as well. As stated in the previous paragraph, the site picks up photos and videos around the web with 'Tacoma' in its [tags] and sorts them into the appropriate page. With all of these cool features this site has, you'd think this site would have raked in so much money. Unfortunately, when Kevin created this site, he had no intention of making it a profitable website and has decided to keep it that way.