Anderson video

While reading Gross discussion I was intrigued by the comment "But it's not as if it's entirely the writer setting the tone for the comments. Sometimes, it's the comments setting the tone for the writer."  As we have discussed in early class discussion the tone of one’s text may be easily misinterpreted by others.   This is seen all the time in twitter or facebook as bloggers try to express their feelings or emotion through text but sometimes are misread or misinterpreted.  Leading the discussion to a different perspective, then initially intended for.   The writer makes a comment to express themselves and are setting the tone for the piece.   They wouldn’t be writing something if it didn’t affect them in some way.   

  "I honestly believe that if Redfin were stripped absolutely bare for all the world to see, naked and humiliated in the sunlight, more people would do business with us." Follow me, he urged.   As I read that comment from the Thompson article I felt that the truth can set you free in many corporations.  As consumers just want to hear that they were mistreated or lied to from the corporation itself.  Owning up to wrong doing and being honest is the best way to win your consumers trust and business back.

The YouTube video of Asians and the rebuttal in the library is so disturbing to me.  This just shows how sad our culture has become. 

On the Anderson video I love the idea of every individual has the ability to show their talents and what is desirable to them, being able to share to the world with other enthusiast.   I like how he speaks of one of the many things that needs to happen is not being scared to put your ideas out to the world and share it.  While it might not have the biggest impacts but your sharing with others and showing them that they can do it to. 

Pariser article.  I love that technology is so advanced and right at our finger tips but at the same time it makes us lazy.  When I turn on the news at night, I just listen to what they have to say and never look deeper into story’s to find out more information.  As now we can just Google something to find out the information we need to know for a split second and then forget about it after we use it.  We are not learning anything by doing this and in the long run I feel as if we really aren’t going to be able to protein information as individuals have in the past.  

Slavin, as what I just said from the previous article that we are dependent on technology to get through our daily lives.  We believe everything we look up and what is presented to us that it might come to harm us in the future.   

In McCandless video of data and visualization I was amazed at the difference in the numbers as they are shown visually compared to just hearing them.  It makes such a stronger statement to be able to witness something with your eyes and not just hear it. 

In Eric Berlow video I found it really neat at how he was saying stepping back and looking at all the influences helps solve the problem better than just looking at the same question by itself.  It does help when you step back and look at all the fragments that make up one problem because sometimes we just look at things with one point of view and never come up with a sound solution.