Hans Rosling and his Presentation

After watching that presentation I am very nervous about how mine is going to turn out. Rosling has a very good understanding of the technology he is using, and he uses it so well. His work with the computer not only makes his presentation visually pleasing, but it actually helps the audience pay attention to what he is saying. I have never learned so much about the population of our world. Every point he made was carefully executed with his use of technology and in the end I was fascinated. The elements of his presentation were not only his slides but how he made the data pop for him when he got to the point he was trying to make. I hope I can apply that to my own presentation. His use of graphs and charts were so good, the only thing I am nervous about is how long that probably took him, and the fact that time really isn't on my side.

The Kindle 2

My first experience with a kindle was this summer when my teenage brother-in-law brought one home from school for the summer, I had never seen one before and could not understand the concept. Where had real books gone? After watching the video of the new Kindle 2 I am amazed with what it is capable of doing, but still I would not fork out the $300, and buy one.

I am caught between the two sides of this whole lawsuit. I can see how both parties are right, and wrong. Audio books are a big part of the reading world, and if the Kindle 2 can do the same thing but not have to pay the royalties why wouldn't the company take advantage of that. And of course the authors are going to disagree with this because they aren't getting their cut. It is hard to say who is right when it comes to this issue, everyone wants their piece of the craze that is the ebook. It's all about the money, not the wonderful books inside these machines.

Obama and Hope

I did not realize an argument over this famous pic even existed. I  feel strangely out of the loop on this issue. I can understand both sides of the issue and sympathize with neither. The picture was on a public website, Fairey got it from Google Images so how was he supposed to know who took the picture in the first place. He isn't the first person to google a topic and use it to his advantage. How many times have I done that? Just last week I did the same thing for an assignment. Though there is a difference, I didn't make thousands of dollars of my flower picture, and he did. I guess that is why AP is in such an uproar, it's all about the money! If the now iconic picture hadn't of made a buck no one would care about who's it is, but since that isn't the case everyone wants a slice. Shouldn't they be worrying about more important things?

Now You Can Paint With Your Phone?

I am new to this topic. I have a simple cell phone where you can make calls, text and take pictures but I wasn't aware of these applications at all. Maybe it's because I have yet to see a real live iPhone. I have only seen them on television, so the idea that an artist can paint a masterpiece with it baffles me. I feel like sometimes I am stuck in the past with my dial up Internet and land line phone. There is so much technology that I have never experienced and this new digital art is cool but completely foreign to me.