Reflection on Click

I was very surprise when reading this article. I never thought there would be that much steps and processes for a website to go through to be known by people. From time to time, more and more websites got created for different purposes and we, the clients always want to choose what’s best for us. For a website to be popular is just like you trying to make more friends at school. It’s very interesting to find out these facts about how a website got bloom out. I sometimes imagine technology is like a war where you try to get on top of people and to be popular (YouTube try to get on top of Google Videos, Google try to get on top of Yahoo …) I think it’s not only focus on social contact for a website to be popular but also its helpfulness too. How well can this website be compare to others? Social contact is a minor one, what if the things others said about a website to you sound really good, but when you actually visit it, it’s not like what you heard from them. I think this is how and why Google, YouTube, MySpace, etc… got really famous.

E-waste picture in Wikipedia

Electronic waste is still a problem in most of the country today. It causes serious health problems and pollution in the world. The reason why is because the electronic equipment contains some very serious contaminants such as lead, cadmium, beryllium and brominates flame retardants. In the U.S, we estimated that more than 70% of discarded computers and monitors eventually end up in landfills, which may leak lead, mercury, arsenic and other toxics into the ground and cause a big problem. Even if you do not put it outside but inside you house, somewhere safe, it still have indirect impact towards people. I don’t favor the action or the processing of E-waste, I think there’s a possible way to discard those computers but we haven’t figure out yet. Some people just throw the computers away because the mouse and the keyboard is broken, or even because the CPU not turn-on. Instead of doing that, we could fix it and reuse, or throw out anything that cannot be use anymore, but keep the things that we can be reuse again. It might be better.

Google-Digitize Every Book Ever Printed

Google has been the most famous and important source for searching things in life. People used it to search for things they need like school related stuffs, books, movies, vacation, etc… Compare with Amazon and all other sources, I think Google is the best and will be much more successful because of the Digitizing program they just invented. Its helps us looking for books easier. I like how they scan all the books and update it online for us to look at, and even we can download a copy for free too. The scanning of all of these books online helps us gets an idea of how the book looks like, was it good or not? And it’s also giving us details about the book. As Google has mention, their goals is to make more assessable to the content of the books for people around the world.

Reflection of Weaving the Web

Weaving the web is a book written by Tim Berners Lee, an inventor of the World Wide Web. In this book, he described how he got the ideas of creating the program that we used today. I think he is really amazing, the road to success is not that easy but he finally did it by heart. I learned that before you are really try to do something or plan to do something, you always have to been through a lot of experiences. And I like the way he went to the laboratory to research and learn from others before he started to create the World Wide Web.

I am a 16 years old sophomore in Connally High School and I am from Vietnam. In my family, I am a first child and only daughter.Throughout the entire family of both my mom and dad’s side are more than 100 members.I am a very quiet, serious, and nervous person.I like to live with a happy, open and peaceful mind. I don't like anything that involve violent.Right now, I did not sign-up for any organization or after school activities yet this year because I feel like it’s boring. But I’m looking toward joining HOSHA next year.