Cellphone Novels

Are dumb.

So this New York Times article is saying that Cellphone Novels, yes novels written and read by cellphone, are becoming published into actual books and in some cases, into cinematic adventures.

"But I’d like cellphone novels to be recognized as a genre.” - A cellphone novelist would like this, but these novels are derived from an interest that isn't genuine, just instilled from being on a cellphone, as Chiaki Ishihara, and expert in Japanese literature states below.

"This tool called the cellphone instilled in them a desire to write.”

Apparently some cellphone novelists text so much that their bills rise up to or over $1,000. Yeah that's worth it, one thousand dollars spent where you could just write the same words, ridiculous.

The article quotes, "Almost all the authors are young women delving into affairs of the heart, spiritual descendants." With that quote, it can be concluded that the "genre" of cellphone novels are focused and pin pointed around young women talking about love, and the article said that the writing is composed of cellphone abbreviations and choppy sentances, and millions of people are reading this. They are essentially discouraging intellectual reading like legitimate books.

“They don’t read works by professional writers because their sentences are too difficult to understand, their expressions are intentionally wordy, and the stories are not familiar to them,” she said.

“On other hand, I understand how older Japanese don’t want to recognize these as novels. The paragraphs and the sentences are too simple, the stories are too predictable. . ."

A point of reading is to increase your knowledge and vocabulary, if these cellphone novels become such a hit around the world and everybody is reading sentances like, "omg she liked him lol" instead of, "She felt the heartfelt affection every time she saw him.", then there goes a source of advancing your vocabulary.

Second to last sentance says that a cellphone novelist texted too much that her thumb started bleeding, no more words need be spoken.

If so many people seem to enjoy cellphone novels they have every right to enjoy them, and if the stories are enticing enough to be made into actual books and films then they can't be bad 100%.

Midterm Response

Mr. Yang!

Yahoo is currently attempting to revamp it's appeal to audiences, it has been losing audiences to places like Myspace and Facebook. People are social, and Myspace and Facebook are much more socially oriented, Yahoo is a titan in the internet world and no one can deny that, compare it to other smaller sites and it comes out on top, unfortunatley it's domiance is not absolute.



Yahoo's search engine is far inferior to Google, comScore is an internet traffic recording site and apparently Google has many more visitors and that margin is growing more and more. Google is a major threat to Yahoo, it has trimmed the number of visitors it leads by from 22 million to 5 million. The problem with Yahoo, and other similar sites (AOL, MSN) is that they try to grab audiences by showing them an array of information such as weather, news, shopping, etc. But people have recently become accustomed to using search engines like Google to find sites that are focused entirely on what they are looking for. For example if you want to buy something people would probably go to Amazon instead of using Yahoo's inferior shopping site.



The Yahoo Team's plan is to take out certain applications that are highly unsucessful, like Yahoo Photos, Yahoo Premium Music, Yahoo Auctions, and Yahoo 360, which is a social network which is far surpassed by AOL Instant Messenger. Now think about it, if you wanted to buy music, would you go to Yahoo Premium Music or iTunes? I would personally go to iTunes because it's focus is 100% music, while Yahoo has to juggle all of it's areas of entertainment.



Mr Yang, who is a co-founder of Yahoo is part of the team trying to improve Yahoo, and a woman named Ms. Lufkin was brought in to help with it also. Ms. Lufkin's team as created what is known as the "today module" which is something I find to be brilliant. It rotates information every hour based on what the top searches are, basically if the top search is about Baseball, then there will be information or news about baseball. Another feature is the new Yahoo Mail system, Mr. Yang demonstrated this by taking an email from David Filo, another co-founder, suggesting dinner at a certain restaurant, he dragged the email onto a map icon and the restaurant was pin pointed on the map with ratings and reviews, and that seems to be a phenonmenon which I think will be largely successful. I think Yahoo is taking appropriate steps in trying to draw audiences and it seems like they ideas they are coming up with are definitley quality ones.

Creativity
Creative enviorments may inspire certain people to create creative things but not all people are inspired by the same thing. There was this artist I don't know what his name is that thought what is commonly viewed as pornography was art. There was an exibhit awhile ago about it and a lot of people found it rude and obscene, but this guy was inspired by something to create it, I don't think everybody would be inspired to create the same thing

I think the enviorment can provoke inspiritation in people if they stumble upon certain things that just clicks with them. If you're watching television or listening to music you may see something that will spark something inside of you that are the roots of your creative spree.

Personally I believe people are creative on their own, inspired by their own things and what they do personally, there is no universal source of creativity, it is within us.

FTL

FTL
Learning all of these different codes on notepad can get overwhelming. Thankfully we are able to save what we "guess" and use a trial and error type of procedure. At least that is how I do work, son. If i'm faced with an issue of making a table with 2 rows or something I can try or if I'm unsure of which command is appropriate to execute the action I want, and there aren't really any consequences. Unfortunatley in the real world with a job there may be consequences so the trial and error procedure might be inappropriate. But for now the way I do things works well for me and I became satisfied from frustration.

Laura's Website

Laura's Website is epic and does work son

Laura is a 10 year old girl who made a website about making a differenceIt can be found hereShe updates it well enough and she wanted to make a difference. She decided to do something helpful that makes a difference, big or small, for twenty five days. On the website there are links to a list of ideas about making a difference, entailing things that Laura believes will make a difference in your community or household. There is also a tab called 'The Nice List" which is a list of people that have done something that makes a difference in their community or home.There was a badge contest because there was so much support for the site. Laura and her parents asked supporters to come up with a "badge" or "symbol" of the site and cause to publish on personal blogs such as this one. The contest is over and a winner was announced and the badge looks fabulous!Her cause is touching, her grandfather was somebody that she loved very much and looked up to, and he was diagnosed with brain cancer suddenly, although he was very healthy and happy previously. He told him that Laura was a leader and this inspired her to make this site, and make the cause.The things that Laura do are things such as cleaning her fish's bowl and taking dirty laundry downstairs. She also put a letter of gratitude to her cafeteria staff and moniters, and asked her readers to support her cafeteria by voting for their recipe for Machos Nachos. If they win this contest the cafeteria will get a renovated kitchen. Laura does other things similar to this and with the help of her mom she posts details and other things on her website.I support Laura in her cause and am glad to see even a 10 year old girl creating a cause such as this.

Evan Fakely

Evan Trembley is a jerk
Subject: Amber Alert, Hoax?!
Verification: Confirmed
Access Allowed
Target: Evan Trembley
Status: A big jerk
Information Topic: Evan is a lieing jerk.

The hoax of Evan Trembley has been said to be fiction on many sources found off of google.Sources that disprove this Amber Alert that 15 year old Evan Trembley is missing are along the lines of the facts that follow (these facts also made me believe the whole thing was a hoax):-The Yahoo! E-mail address provided with the claim does not exist.-There is no information about what exactly happened to him when he went missing-No services that track and keep logs of missing children have any record of him, so the mother didnt' actually report him missing, stuh-range.-Apparently his father told authorities and the public that Evan did this hoax himself, so if there is truth to that statement then thats all the proof needed.Other sources found across google have similar information to support this attempt at disproving this Amber Alert.When I first read the e-mail about how Evan Trembley was missing and how upset his mother was about it. Apparently his mother sent out e-mails to everyone she knew and asked for them to keep circulating the picture and message so they can find him.That jerk manipulated my feelings and I was sundered and torn up inside, my soul was shattered at the loss his mother had suffered. To find out it was a hoax was blood boiling and rage shot through me and I wanted to lash out at Evan Trembley and tell him what a jerk he is. He is a jerk.Jerk. If I were the police I would shoot him on sight.

And I only shoot to kill.

Search Engines

Google better then Yahoo?
What makes a search engine better then another? The amount of results you get back from a search?Looking up "cars" on Yahoo came up with 803,000,000 results.Looking up "cars" on Google came up with 409,000,000 results.Mr. Fink said that Google was a better search engine then Yahoo, on his post made September 22th, and I wonder what criteria must be met to make a search engine better then another search engine?