They say Web 2.0 is no longer about reading websites, but writing blogs. I guess I am fully engaged in Web 2.0. I am writing this for an assignment at school. The assignment involved writing this on an SUU blog hosted on WordPress. I'm more of a blogger guy myself so I came here. Actually, the link provided is not working. I've tried to complete the task repeatedly for the last 15 minutes but I keep getting the same reply. I'm tired. It is the end of the semester and I don't have any more time to play with this so I am using my personal blog. I suppose I will not get the points that I am hoping for and that is okay. In the end I've done the assignment and I've posted it in my very own blog. Obviously I beleive in this thing they call Web 2.0. Well some of it. I have this here blog and I have a Facebook page, oh I also use gmail, truly I am caught in the Web 2.0. I have my limits though, I don't care to tweet, I've turned down hundreds of invitations to get linked in and there isn't a lot else that I engage in. I do have to say that I like the explanation of how blog came from Web-log. I didn't know that and sometimes wondered about it. Nice to put that to rest. Hey look, a picture. It's a screen shot of the message I keep receiving. I realize that this is a bit extra and not necessarily required in the assignment but I thought I would include it for good measure.
I must say that the digital dossier video that is linked in the first sentence of the previous paragraph is rather eye opening. Wow. There is certainly a lot of information about oneself out there. I suppose we should be careful with what we share. I do find it amusing that when I search for something like sheds for instance, suddenly my Facebook feed becomes cluttered with advertisements for sheds. Pretty amazing that all that just happens. I don't know that I am a big fan of every purchase being tracked and everything else I've done being recorded, not that I have anything to hide, it just seems a bit invasive. And yet here I am typing this on my own blog page where I put things out there for all to see anyway. I guess the difference is that I don't make money off what I post but others seem to profit off my activities. Feel free to spread the wealth. If I am providing all this excellent material I should be getting some sort of a kick back.
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