John Buckman of Magnatune

First off podcast is an amazing creation to be able to get your point across or your story out, and in Johns business to get your music out. John created a business so unknowned musicians can get their music out on the internet and heard without having to pay money up front to recording studios.
The recoeding business has gotten so competitive that musicians have to pay up to five thousand dollars to make a record which may never be sold in stores this being they loose money instead of making money.
Magnatune has giving musicians who normally wouldn't get a chance to have their music heard and eventually people in the business will recognize their talents.

Next 5000 days of the internet

The machine as Kevin Kelly calls the web, if his predictions are right as how fast it is growing we may all be in danger. He says that the web as of 2007 has the same amount of synapses and neurons as a human brain and the web in a sense works like a brain, the scary part is our brain doesnt double in power like the web does every two years.

well I had stated in a previous class on how movies and comic books should not be marked as science-fiction, but as the future, we have seen some of these movies or comic books become reality. I remember either reading a book or watching a movie when the world was taking over by machines, is this what our future holds for us is the web or are computers becoming powerful enough to program themselves?

If the web is doubling in power every two years at this rate kevin states that in thirty years this machine will grow to be as powerful as 6 billion human brains, so again are we looking at what the future may have instored for us what man created will it become our master.

Web 2.0

What does Web 2.0 means to me? To start until tonight every time I went online used my yahoo mail or went to Facebook to chat with friends and yes played on Farmville, plus I post pictures so my kids grandparents and their mom can see, I never knew I was computing in the clouds or considered using online as a storage place for my pics. Must say am happy that I have pictures online, a few weeks ago my laptop crashed and I lost everything on it, but lucky for me I was able to go to Facebook and retrieve my pictures from there plus some that I have that was sent to my email on yahoo.
Well to be honest my experience with the web 5 years ago was rather new to me as well as a painful time you see my ex wife met guys online and at that time venture more to soon leave me because of the convenience of getting to know someone before meeting, then eventually feeling comfortable enough to meet them. My feeling is web 2.0 can be an amazing thing, but at the same time be problem some.
The future with web 2.0, I see myself teaching with smart board or maybe even teaching a class room via computer from my home. I also see a new twist with online college course that we all may meet online through group video and chat and be taught on more of a personal way but not in a class room.

Fears and Goals for Multimedia

This is my second Tech class so I feel a little bit better about taking this course, but again my computer expertise is limited, maybe that is why I am taking another tech course. I really believe though in my goal of becoming a teacher it is best to get as much knowledge as possible with computer and technology as the future will be going more and more toward better technology.
I want to learn as much as possible about computers and all aspects of media, plus learn where to find the resource.