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.