C P A C

CPAC is a conference that is held in downtown DC every year. Oh.... you want to know what the letters stand for. . . Conservative Political Action Conference. Yes I said Conservative.

The conference was great. I went with the College Republicans, yes I said republicans. I was not able to attend the first day but was there for half of Friday and all of Saturday. I got to hear several big conservative leaders talk, as well as panels of conservatives talk about conservative issues. Sure there were some big names there like: Ward Connerly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and so on. However my favorite of all the speakers I listened to (I sat through several panels in between big names to keep good seats) was one of those I had no idea who they were. Their title was not their name; it was The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria. It was done buy a couple from Ireland, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. They made a movie called Not Evil, Just Wrong. They showed us clipsof the video, were commical to listen to, had a view point not just conservative but humanitarian and overall just gave a great presentation.

Further more they have a website, http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/ I would highly recommend checking it out, don't get upset just because they say al gore is wrong but get upset because they have the facts to prove it. You might be amazed by how much you don't know.

End of one, and the beginning of another

So now that MCS 370 is over I am actually planning to keep this blog going. I will just post things that I find interesting that may be of interest to others. It won't be personal like a live journal would be. It may include some adventures, some pictures, and probably a lot of songs and videos.

Oh right I finished my class which means a few weeks later I have a grade for that class. I got an A in MCS370, yea go be jealous. Check back for updates as they will just randomly appear

Interesting Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhY5k_5WPCA

there is a song called iGeneration on youtube, It made me think of iSpy as well as when you posted asking us to name our generation. Thought I'd share.

Facebook for Medicine

So I was sitting flipping channels and finally decided on CSI when I saw a TV ad that caught my attention by saying "Facebook for Medicine". It was for some special they are doing, or news report on CBS about a site where you can log online and and get medical advice. I'll have to see when the show is on to see if I can figure out more about it.

Is a Digital Lifestyle a Dealy One?

Of course I come across yet another article. This one is about the digital lifestyle (yes the lifestyle many of us live). It is interesting to think the lifestyle we live is cutting down the number of year we will live. Though in all honesty there are plenty of things we do outside the digital realm that are cutting down the number of years we will live, it all depends on the person.

Social Networking Sights Article

Now that all my blogs are done, I cam across an interesting article today. I figured I would post the link and if you want to look at it you can. So here it is! It is about social networking sights.

Are you addicted the the US Weekly of your 'friends'?

I decided to google The Psychology of Facebook for my final blog. I’d first like to share that they are soon coming out with a book about this topic, though I am not sure when. However if this class is taught with this title in the future it may be a good book to consider. My original intent in googling this was to find an article to see how facebook was related to the major I am studying. Instead I first found this book and then I found this about the psychology of facebook. In this article they labeled you as one of 3 types of facebook users; the junkie, the daily fix, and the protester. The author then questions why facebook is so popular. The simple answer is that we are all interested in knowing what is going on in everyone’s lives, or voyeurism. Interestingly pointed out is that voyeurism is celebrated through the obsession with reality TV. So all we have done now is take what we were addicted to on the TV and turned it to our friends, acquaintances, teachers, class mates, ex lovers, ex friends, cousins, family and anyone else who can see our profile and whose those we can see. We are addicted to knowing what is going on in others lives, which was first brought to us through the TV but is now available with just a few clicks. The author concludes we are all creeps and compares facebook to be the US Weekly of our friends. I’d have to say this might be the best way to describe facebook, the US Weekly of our ‘friends’.