1. Twitter and Revolutions
The first articles today concern the role of technology has played in the popular uprisings in northern Africa and the Middle East. Please have a quick read of the articles below:
“If two speeches and a social media site is all we needed to spread democracy then why did we invade Iraq, why didn’t we just, I don’t know, poke them,” Jon Stewart quipped on last night’s “Daily Show.”
Could these events have happened without the Internet and mobile phones? Are the events somewhat generational, driven by the younger people in the countries? Please leave a comment with your thoughts.
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2. Yasi
Have a look at these satelitte videos of Yasi:
Have a look at this article about some of the implications of Yasi:
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3. Professor Teaches HTML
Please continue with the Professor teaches HTML program and complete up to the end of Chapter Three entitled "Formatting Text". We will then do a quick quiz to test your knowledge of chapters 2 and.
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3. Quiz
Finally, we will do a quick quiz to test your knowledge of chapters 2 and 3.
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4. Most Important Differences
Between XHTML and HTML
Between XHTML and HTML
There are two primary parts to XHTML:
- HTML 4
HTML 4 is a markup language used for displaying text and documents across different platforms and machines. It was originally intended for a very specific audience, and has expanded to include hypertext, multimedia, as well as the style of the documents displayed.
- XML
XML is an extensible markup language that was developed to retain the flexibility and power of HTML while reducing most of the complexity.
For specifics check this page:
http://www.w3schools.com/XHTML/xhtml_html.aspThe Most Important Differences:
- XHTML elements must be properly nested
- XHTML elements must always be closed
- XHTML elements must be in lowercase
- XHTML documents must have one root element
11 comments:
Twitter has proven itself to be an effective means of communication by people in what are to be considered 3rd world countries. It is a quick and easy way to express your views, and it is interesting to see that, when there is civil unrest, people express their views with others that may not be in a country where the government is corrupted.
First of all, i despise twitter. It's disgusting. I dont care what your doing every 5 seconds. I dont need to know that your "going out your front door." Leave that elsewhere (Maybe in your head for example). I'm not your stupid psychologist .Its kinda like they took all the worst parts of facebook and made it into one site. I can see the practicality of it, however, for revolutions such as the one in Egypt. But, lets face it. They did better without the internet. As Mr. Betts said, it encouraged them to get away from their computers. The revolution was also a very succesful one, with very little violence. I'm really tired of people and celebrities saying "Follow me on twitter" or "follow me on facebook." I don't need 'by-the-second' updates on your life.
Even thought i am not a huge fan of twitter, it did help get people together and decide too take charge.
I think its cool that a website like twitter can help people so much. It may not be your favorite website, but if it helping others, then who cares?
I have to agree with the general opinion on twitter - it can be incredibly redundant at times. Although, saying that, I do believe that Twitter and Facebook definitely did help enforce and encourage the revolutions going on at the moment. Despite the fact that it helped with them, I do also think that it could have happened without the use of these social networking sites.
Egypt and such were due for a revolution, and personally, I'm just glad that it seems to have taken such a non-violent stance.
The quote at the end of the last article posted I think just sums up the entire thing in one.
"Perhaps a people have grown up -- only to discover that their aging government are all children."
never would have though t that twitter and face-book would have had something to do with revolutions. just checked out some of the people on twitter involved in the revolution and they were saying stuff like meeting in front of my house and we will go out and block the street then burn the bus station out front!! never thought this day would come
they have a right to rebel, who can live off of $2 a day?
they have the right to rebel, who can live off of $2 a day?
I completely agree with the Twitter troll
i hate twitter but i find from reading one of the articles that it is a good way to get organized. I find it hard to believe that people can live off $2 a day
I lived in the middle east for four years and it is very quickly that anything get spread out throughout the media. What I believe will happen is that all arab countries will come together against their govenments and take control in just a few months.
Twitter is not a media i am very familiar with becaue i find it ridiculous to tell the worl what i am doing every second of the day but in a situation like Egypt's i would also be using it to trash my governments reputation.
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