When I think about any sort of media bias I immediately think of Fox News, with their super slanted news reporting. This is a video I found of a reporter taking a "On the spot" poll, in a diner during the last presidential election. even though the poll completely backfires on him, he still manages to use his slanted reporting training, to shift the results of the poll to "a split." Ohh man, priceless.
Look I know that all news sources tend to have a bias. I hope that even the people who watch fox news know that they are watching only one side of any given story. I just wish that fox news would have their bias and not alter the news, maybe just report the news and then have a conservative reaction to it. not change the results of a diner poll, to make it seem like the republican candidate has a chance at winning.
Glenn Beck is a internet new broadcaster, he tends to not have a bias, and points out main stream media biases. This is an article with his reaction to a group of different reports who left their mics on before an interview with Mitt Romney on the US Embassy attacks. They are all planning questions together, and making sure that no matter who gets called on they all ask the same question. it's outrageous, it shows that no matter what news source you're watching they all seem to be in it together anyway.
“They’re going to continue to play this game and they are going to continue to dismiss and they are going to continue to mock, but they’re done,” Glenn told listeners. “I do this for a living. We have stood against all odds, all odds we've stood. And we keep getting bigger. And there’s going to come a point, there’s a house of cards. When you tell lies, when you engage in propaganda, there are enough people that it will come down like a house of cards.” ~ Glenn Beck
Check this video out. I'm sure all of you guys going into a medical field will find it interesting. using 3-D printing technology to print out human tissue, using actual human cells. I'm having one of those mind blown moments.
I remember reading an interesting article a while back and it was talking about the rate at which we are advancing in medical technology and the effects that will have on our life expectancy ect. ect. the point was that it got to a point that for every year a person was alive their life expectancy increased by two years making everyone immortal, as long as you have access to healthcare and not counting random death, or murder.This is the kind of technology I think they were referring to.
This was a really cool video I found that shows for the first time ever an actual thought being formed in the brain.Think about that, being able to see a thought being formed. I know that this is just the brain of a zebra fish embryo, and that the fish is just reacting to being shown food.but still that is what the electrical impulses in a brain looks like.
Whenever I see something new and ground breaking especially in the field of science. I try to think about what the implications there could be. Remember that movie with Will Smith Wild Wild West?
Oh man, who am I kidding, of course you do!
Well remember that part in the movie they use some machine to project the last few minutes of a guys life so they can see who the murderer is. That's what I think of when I think of how this technology will evolve in the next 10-20 years.
This is also cool because it is a breakthrough in 2 different fields at the same time. This is not only the first time we have witnessed neuron signals firing across the brain, but also the first time we've recorded it. it makes you think back about how far we've come from the Polaroid.
Being able to scour through other blogs has been pretty cool, there are a lot of good blogs out there, but what seems like, just as many not so good blogs too. Here I've compiled a list of three blogs. One I really didn't like that much, one I really did, and the third (spoiler alert) is Google's blog and I don't think they would let themselves post a bad blog.
This is the blog that I didn't like. The blog is written by Dr. Orly Taitz Esquire, she is a leading activist in the fight against president Obama's birth certificate and citizenship status. Her blog is poorly formatted right from the start, and has over stretched images littering the front page. Her blog is filled with un-categorizedblog entries that are mostly just direct quotes from other sites, about information that may or may not be credible.
I think that there is a lot of good that can come from someone using the power of technology, especially the social power that something like a blog gives you. for instance we are still a long way away from solving worlds energy problems. And I think it is sad that there are people out there who will never see the big picture, they will continue to run blogs like this that will ultimately accomplish nothing.
Another reason I am not a fan of the way Dr. Taitz runs her blog is the way that she doesn't really understand the technology he is using and makes that known pretty readily. in one of her most recent blog entries she took the opportunity to ask for technical help with her computer, specifically her email. she was hoping one of her readers could maybe shed some light on why her yahoo emails kept disappearing. Could you imagine the only people who read he blog are older people who, to be honest I'm surprised they have even found her blog.
So this is the blog that I've found that I really like. The Consumerist is just that it is a blog that you can follow to find out all sorts of consumer inside look at how customers are treated by different companies. It may not seem like it but this is going back to the power of social media and technology thing I was talking about. Blogs like this make it a little hard for companies to take as much advantage of it's consumers.
The first blog post I read about was from a lady who had to write into that Soda-stream company, the one that makes the carbonate your own soda machine. well this lady was getting an upset stomach and having a to run to the bathroom every time she made and drank one of her homemade sodas. she consulted her doctor who told her to stop drinking and maybe ask for health information from the company. she did just that. The consumerist took that email conservation she had with the customer service rep and made it public so now we all know how companies treat their customer. In this case we got to see how the company bounced her email around and made fun of the fact that she explained how the soda is giving her diarrhea. somehow the email chain was forwarded back to the customer who didn't really get the solid health answer she was looking for but instead made to feel embarrassed for even asking the question.
And lastly we have Google's Blog. It looks like they power their blog through blogger aswell, so that is pretty cool to think, there is someone out there, maybe a team of people working for Google. making more money then I could even dream of in a year and all they do is post cool video's in the same blog program that I am required to use for my English 102 class. Things like that make me a little sad, but anyway.
Google's blog is really cool, it is interactive, at the very top of the page there is a bunch of circle shapes that move around when you mouse over them. The blog is very well formatted and clean. It has a nice flow from article to article, and unlike Dr. Taitz's blog it isn't trying to shake you down every 5 seconds to donate to it's paypal account.
All of the posts here are all really interesting. In this post, they are talking about enhancing the functionality of google maps and taking it "off road." take a look at the video called, "Exploring the Grand Canyon"
