Account info

So, here is a link to my Symbaloo page: http://www.symbaloo.com/profile/tammyneamon  It's kind of bare at the moment...but I will be working on it.

My twitter page: /Users/valuedcustomer/Pictures/twitter.png

And my LinkedIn page: /Users/valuedcustomer/Pictures/linkedin.png

My PLN

I have had a twitter account for quite some time now, but I have never really caught on to how it works.  I have been on it more since this assignment...it's starting to grow on me a little.  My account can be found at https://twitter.com/TNeamon  On my twitter profile is also a link to my Linkedin profile.  I signed up for an igoogle account but it said they were shutting down as of the end of October.  I was having trouble finding blogs to follow because I'm not finding any way to browse or look for different blogs.  You have to have an address to find them.  I just saw other people posting about symbaloo so I am going to check that out next.

Chapter 2

Chapter two had a lot of information that I already knew from being a long time user of Internet Explorer.  However, I did learn a few new things while reading chapter two.  First of all, I like that in the new Internet Explorer version 9 you are able to pin websites to the task bar using the favicon.  The favorites on the task bar is a feature that I enjoy now that I am using a macbook with safari browser.
I also learned about web slices, accelerators, and the RSS feed.  I was always curious what an RSS feed was.  Web slices allows you to look at frequently updated sites such as weather reports.(71)  When you open a page in Explorer there is a green 'add web slices' button that when you click on it subscribes you to new updates and happenings on that page.  Accelerators are what is called an 'add on' to Internet Explorer.  To use it you highlight text and a little box appears with different options of what you can do.  You can do things like find the definition of the selected word, translate the text to a different language, and search with it using it as a keyword.  Pretty nifty tool, in my opinion.  RSS readers can be either a browser plug-in or an e-mail client or it can be built right in, like on Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.  Basically, an RSS reader distributes current news headlines so its user can keep up to date with the news, new blog postings, or whatever the website content is that you have subscribed to.
One of the best things I learned during my reading of chapter two is about the OnGuard Online website.  It is a website that helps the online consumer, like myself, shop safely.  I do a lot of online shopping.  I just love to be able to sit in the comfort of my home and shop.  There are many times the OnGuard website would have been very helpful to me.  Overall I think that chapter two was a lot 'common knowledge' type information for people who are internet experienced, but if you are not overly experienced, things like cookies and browsing privacy and security are definitely things you need to learn.  www.onguardonline.gov

Net Neutrality

After reading a couple of articles on net neutrality, I have to say I am confused.  To be perfectly honest, I had never even heard of net neutrality until now.  There are so many different aspects to this issue that it is almost impossible to know the right way to go with it.  To me, it seems like it should be decided on in more narrow pieces of the ideas.  I certainly don't want my ISP to be able to tell me what I can and cannot search on my own computers, but at the same time, I can understand why they don't want their customers to be able to use their services to undercut them.  I really did not understand the whole idea of classifying different services as 'telecommunications' or 'information services'.  That idea is lost on me because I don't understand why one 'service' can do things that others cannot or how the FCC can regulate certain things with one 'service' that they have no say over on another.  To me, it just seems like it would make more sense, especially with technology advancing as it does, to have a set of rules for internet, phone, tv and have services classified that way.  All the legal stuff aside, what good are all these court proceedings and congress sessions going to do if Google itself is not going to follow their own rules.  Like the Google employees say in their own forum 'it doesn't apply to minecraft servers', and 'they probably won't notice anyway'.  Given that Google itself feels that way, why waste everyones time and money?  At this point though, I'm pretty sure our government has way more important things to worry about!

My first wordle

This was my first wordle.  I love it.  I think I'm going to have fun with these!