Article Blog Post #2

My topic I chose was on China creating a ban on video consoles after 13 years of sales in the country. The title of this article is "China Approves Removal plans for video game console ban after 13 years."


 I got this from Slash Gear.


McGlaun, Shane. "China Approves Removal plans for video game console ban after 13 years." Slashgear. Slashgear, 27 Sept. 2013. Media. 27 Sept. 2013. <http://www.slashgear.com/china-approves-removal-plans-for-video-game-console-ban-after-13-years-27299390/>



Throughout this article it is talking about China wanting to start banning stuff people use everyday. An example is video game consoles, and another would be facebook. They think that if they put the ban and take it away the sales will increase.


When I finished reading this article it really confused me. The reason they are putting a ban is to get more sales. Why would they want that? They already have one of the largest sales in the world. So according to Shane McGlaun, "Analyst are predicting that with the console ban lifted, the game industry could see billions of dollars in additional sales"(McGlaun). To me I think the whole thing is really stupid, and they're kind of being selfish.


This hasn't really affected the world much as it has China. They believe this will get better sales after a while. I think that the people of China will be mad at the fact they're using them. China might eventually get the wrong response then what they accepted. By doing this they might loose their profits on people that actually buy the gaming consoles.  

 

Bi-Weekly Blog Post #2

Dear Readers,
       My past 2 weeks over all have been really good. There has been so much work we have had to do. Mainly projects have what we've been doing.
        One of the new Web 2.0 is called Prezi. All Prezi is, is a interactive PowerPoint presentation. We had to create one on Digital Citizenship explaining what it was. On Prezi you make different types of animations to go from one page to the other. One really cool thing is if you add a pictures from there you search only pictures that are creative commons. 
      A positive aspect of using Prezi is it's easier to make and the pictures you add are searched as creative commons. Which means the author is giving permission to use their stuff without having to ask. Negative aspects are your stuff could get deleted by accident if your computer crashes. 
      We have learned two new terms this week, plagiarism and digital citizenship. Plagiarism is taking somebody else work and coping it and using it as your own.  That's including paraphrasing and direct quotes. Common examples would be using papers from commercial web sites, downloading pictures or music without citations, turning in work you bought or downloaded copy and pasting, and paraphrasing or summarizing without citations. Digital Citizenship is using good ethics online. It's what you should and shouldn't do while online.
Digital literacy component this past 2 weeks is good ethics. The ethics we learned were privacy, identity, culture, and respect. Privacy is saying you shouldn't put anything online private about you or anybody else. Identity is being who you are and not somebody you aren't. Culture is saying you shouldn't ever be a cyber bully. Respect is if you decide to get information from somebody else be sure to give them their credit and make citations.
All of the new information has affected who I am online. Now I know what I should and shouldn't be doing online because when its out there, you can't take it back. I'm now aware of how I should compose myself and what I should do.

Fourie, Danville. "Is this Plagiarism?." Photograph. Libguides. Fourie, 2012. Media. 15 Sept. 2013. <http://libguides.hct.ac.ae/content.php?pid=373114>

The Prezi I created on Digital Citizenship.

Bi-Weekly Blog: Article Post

Dear Readers,

The article topic I chose was about Google and Android phone apps being downloaded and a month after getting deleted right off the phone.The title of the article is "Google Is Waging War on Apps That Attack and Steal From Your Phone." 

This article is from Mashable. 

Mirani, Leo. "Google Is Waging War on Apps That Attack and Steal From Your Phone." Mashable.  Quartz, 5 Sept. 2013. Web.  6 Sept. 2013.<http://mashable.com/2013/09/05/google-changes-play-app-store/ 


Within the article it is discussing how people can download a app from the play store and a month later it disappears off your phone. Now its happen more frequently  on peoples phone its starting to worry all the creators. Throughout a month there has been " 36,000 apps removed from Google Play that Berlin studies show"(Leo Mirani.)

Myself being a Android phone user concerns me if that will start happening to my apps. If my apps are disappearing then I might wondering if my phone is safe to use anymore. Now that I know this is occurring it makes me think if I should stop downloading apps or not. I feel this will start affecting the way I use my phone. I might stop using the Google play until they fix the problem.

This problem is having a negative affect on our technology world. It's causing people to feel unsafe using there own cell phone or electrical device that has play store on it. The largest impact will be on Google play. There's going to be more people not using it. They're most likely going to start switching to a something that's safe and reliable if a change isn't made.