Google vs. China media battle

In January 2010, a little over a year from now, Google, the biggest search engine covering the world wide web, decided it would not allow the Chinese government to censor search engine results in order to moderate knowledge. The "Great Firewall of China" is the name given to the method of government interaction between internet users and potential websites or results. Google basically switched users to a site not censored by the national government (by redirecting users to google.cn to Hong Kong). Though this was a year ago, Google and China are still arguing over citizens rights and in the grand scheme, human rights. Is it our right as human beings to be able to surf and search the internet at our disposale? What are the potential consequences that may come from an entity like Google fighting against one of the most, if not the most, influential and strong governments in the world?

Engage Chp 3-6

Through these chapters, Engage helps the reader identify components of the new internet wave that will help improve ones awareness and ones presence on the web. They set aside things like blogs, podcasts, and flicker as important and influential facets of the web. The interesting thing to me is about social bookmarking. I was hesitant on the concept when we first were introduced to it at the beginning of the semester because it seemed unusual and difficult. Well it is the opposite, because it makes searches more relevant towards your interests and needs. Social bookmarking allows users to bookmark over different browsers in order to maintain the online edge. This way you can pull up previously viewed pages or pictures from different browsers. The user is not restricted to only pull up certain information on a certain computer, but opens the options up over the whole web. I've never been an Adobe user, but their examples make complete sense in that it gives a step by step or situational answers that may otherwise be very difficult if not impossible to find.