12 Reasons Why You Should Start a Blog : The Blog Herald

WOW!!  How true!  Blogging is done more today then simple web design.  That is why I moved my website that I created in my web design class to a blog.  What we knew of web design is a thing of the past.  Content Management (CMS) has everything to do with the concept of blogging and a whole lot more.

The big issue with doing websites the old fashion way was that it was difficult to do even with the seasoned web designer compared to how easy it is with blogging and CMS.  Today, no one hardly uses HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).  The strength with CMS is that if you have a page that is a part of a department and those people do not know anything about web design, less alone HTML, then they can still design and keep up to date with their web page.

Just everyone knows how to use a word processor.  That is about how easy it is to design a web page using CMS.  Blogging is a form of CMS on a personal level.  All that writer of a blog has to do be concern with the content of the message.  If there are more then one blogger for a certain blog, then it is very easy to type in a message and post it.  With HTML, one has to make sure that the right tag and commands are entered to show up properly.  Another big pain is that the web master has to make sure that all browsers shows the same thing in the way it was meant to be shown.

With blogging and CMS, one deals with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which makes things look more uniform and professional.   Even though CSS can be using with HTML, blogging and CMS are still a lot better.

 

Blessed Be,

Brandon

 

12 Reasons Why You Should Start a Blog : The Blog Herald

Slashdot | Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too)

With the fast growing of technology, I think it will put the ones that we hate like Microsoft will be left behind.  I strongly believe that the PCs will be replaced with something even better.  I also believe that the Internet itself will be replaced that will allow the users, and not the big companies to run things.  We are already using the Internet more then the software or even the hard drives we use to store our personal information.

With Microsoft Windows, one nearly has to either restore their computer from scratch or do a restore from backup just about every few months.  That can enable loss of data and lost of time.  The Internet is much easier these day to store our personal information then then on our own PCs.

As I have said, PCs are just too old to handle today's technology.  It is way to costly to have to update one's computer ever few years just to do simple every day things on a PC.  I believe that someone will create a hardware device that will be used to not only better our experience online, but be able to hold out for a long time.

Surly a replacement will be needed, but not as often as you would on a IBM PC or Apple MAC.  Right now, the major advancements are on external devices for our computers and not the computer itself.  MS Windows is still built around the MS Windows 3.xx.  The IBM PC is still built around the PC AT (Advanced Technology) since 1984.  Even though our hard drives holds more, it is still the same technology.  The Video card and the CPU is about the only thing that changes that we need about every year in order to keep up.

I believe that if someone can come up with a device that can have parts added to it that would not cause major issues like the PC does today, then things can be done more with it.  If one knows what they are doing they can replace the CPU and the video card without a fuss.  That is the point, most do not, and most do not realize that they mother board must be able to handle any new hardware either internal or external.  With MS Windows, if you end up changing too much, the operating system might not work anymore for your computer.

There are too many conflicts for the personal computer.  I have just stated a few, and it has very little to do with Microsoft.  What most do not realize is if the ROM BIOS cannot recognize the hardware, then that hardware will not work on your computer.  Since Apple computers are way to closed architecture,  they can be more of a pain in the butt.  With the fast growing technology that is constantly growing, all the frustration of the personal computer cannot keep up.  There has to be a better way to use the Internet and everything else.

 

Blessed Be,

Brandon

 

Slashdot | Someday You'll Hate Apple (And Google Too)

Yahoo, Google, MySpace form non-profit OpenSocial Foundation | The Social - CNET News.com

It is great to see major corporations coming together to support open-source ideas.  The Internet today is all about  "Open Socializations."   Just about every new things that pop up online has something to do with communication on a global scale.

That was what the Internet was all about, communicating will all.  Now everyone that is on the Internet can be a giant part of that communication concept in just any manner thinkable.  Even in the early stages of the Internet, we had Bulletin Boards (BBS).  Now we have all sorts of means to communicate.  What will be next?

Since these three great Internet services are working together on this "Open Socialization," I say it will be great!!  I cannot wait to see the outcome in years to come.  I strongly believe that some sort of virtual reality will be a big aspect of the future of this Internet communication.  Even though SecondLife has its issues, I still think that VR has a big place yet online.

I also strongly believe that when virtual reality comes into play, it will replace Personal Computers as we know it today.  If you have to get a new computer system every 3 years or even sooner, then personal computers are way to slow for today's very fast technologies.  It is about time something does replace them.  PCs has been around since the early 70s.  It is not 2008.  After over 40 years, I would think something would be replacing that old technology.

Believe it or not folks, the IBM PC is still build around the PC AT (Advanced Technology)  since 1984.  Yes the hard drives are faster and hold more, the CPU is faster and does more, we have USB ports, etc., but the core of what makes all the PC other then the MACs are built around very ancient technology.  Hopefully this new "OpenSocial Foundation" will help replace this ancient technology and very soon.

 

Yahoo, Google, MySpace form non-profit OpenSocial Foundation | The Social - CNET News.com

FORTUNE: Techland Linden Lab CEO stepping down «

What I think Linden Labs needs to do is create their own hardware as PS3 and other game hard devices.  Let's face it, PCs are too slow for today's technology.  If one has to up date the video card every year, then how can PCs keep up?  Also Operating system are having a hard time keeping up with all the security issues that is out there.

It does not matter who is running the Linden labs.  If Second Labs is going to run on PCs, then it will continue to have issues.  I strongly believe that virtual reality has a strong place in today's technologies, but if Second Life is going to use older technologies for its future, then it will not have a future. How many new video games do you see for the PC?  Not all that many.  The last time I been to a video game store, there was not games fro the PC.

Think about it the Personal Computer has been around since 1980.  A lot has changed since then.  The Internet has been around for commercial use  since the early 1990s.  Dial-up is the thing of the past.  These days one cannot use the Internet without broadband.  If virtual reality is going to be the future of how we communicate online, then what speed will be needed then?  Cable broadband is too slow for the most part in today's virtual reality like Second Life.

I wonder if there will be a hardware device that has an "all in one" system, television, Internet, telephone, etc.  How everything is moving so fast in the technical world, it would not surprise me if something even more spectacular will be there for us all in the near future.

 

FORTUNE: Techland Linden Lab CEO stepping down «

Diferior offers a content management system with a torrent tracker » Hell Yeah Dude » A Web site for young & inspiring minds • Webliography

From the very beginning of the Internet people have always shared things online.  The big issue today is copyrighting. We should always respect others hard work.  We have no right to take away what is not ours.  If we can use P2P, torrent, and other means of sharing things online, then it can be a great thing. I always tell people this, "If we use humility and integrity, then we can do anything we want to."  We can do anything if we work hard enough.  Nothing is free in life.  There is always a price tag. 

 

 

Diferior offers a content management system with a torrent tracker » Hell Yeah Dude » A Web site for young & inspiring minds • Webliography

Dot-com bubble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In all that happened when the dot-coms fell, I wonder if there was more to the fall then just what has been said in this article.  I wonder if it has everything to do with NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).  A lot a people lost their jobs in the USA do to it several years before the dot-coms fell.

Jobs since then has been hard to find.  Government interference has always been an issue.  I hope with Internet now being control not just by anyone, but everyone, things will start to change for the better.  In a lot of ways it has, but the job market is still falling and fast.  Bad government is not the only one that is doing the damage.  WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNTIED STATES, can do a lot that can hurt us in getting a job and keeping it.

That old saying, "What goes around comes around."  What might not seem to be hurting us at the moment can do so later on.  So instead of pointing fingers at who could be responsible, we need to think, "What are we going to do about it?"  The past is gone.  This now is the most important aspect of our live, because this now will never come again.

 

 

 

Dot-com bubble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine - New York Times

I have pointed several times before that virtual reality is out there, but needs to be very much to be improved upon.  The ideas that this article has just might be it.  Instead of using the mouse, arrow keys, or whatever, one used their own body to more throughout a virtual reality  If this can be done, then and be used in every aspect of our Internet experience then there will have to be  a new and better hardware device that will be replacing the microcomputer we know today.

Most games today are not being played on the personal computer as it once was.  The PC cannot handle all the complexities of that type of graphical interface.  If PCs are going to be used, then the users will be updating the video card, memory, and just about everything at least twice a year.  Since a mother board can only handle a certain amount of member, it will have to be replaced also.

If the user of a personal computer is going to have to up-date the hardware so much in a short period of time, then it seems to me that the PC is becoming to darn slow for today's technologies.  From the history of all the different types of computers, the microcomputer stood out as the most reliable and faster way of doing things electronically and digitally, but now in the early 21st Century, it seems that this microcomputer is starting to be part of the Smithsonian Institute.

Most science fiction shows that have been on television, movies, and novels are in the far future, but they never have shown what we have today in technology.  We are surpassing all expectations of the human endeavor. Virtual reality is here and ready to take it turn in history.  To say, "What will happen next" is an under statement.  It is happening right now as we speak.  So everyone sit back and enjoy the marvelous wonders of the human endeavor as our technologies continue to grow and amaze all us all.

 

Brandon Bowers

 

Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine - New York Times

timothygreig.com» Web and Intranet Content Management

This is why I do not like proprietary software, and why I think Content Management Systems (CMS) are the future of doing websites.    This article here explains perfectly how organized and simple doing websites.  In using software like Dreamweaver, you have to train your staff to use it.  The biggest issues with that is that not all are computer savvy.  If you want all departments of your company to be apart of the company's website, then that would make it hard to train.

Not all departments of a company deals with computers.  In school today just about every student can use a word processor, and can use the Internet to some degree.  Just about everyone has a MySpace account, Yahoo IM, or some form or giant communicational aspect of the Internet other then just email.  From what very little experience I have of CMS, I say it is about the same as using blogger.com's online software in writing a blog.  The point it, most if not all are already using some form of CMS online.  There training is already being done in using any form or CMS.

Another good thing about CMS is that they are not have any proprietary issues like using Dreamweaver.  If a company changes their web design software, they nearly have to re design the whole site.  Since I have read that it is important to use blog software, I decided to use it.  Since I am not coder, I really cannot use the WordPress software.  To even set up an account, you have to know a little coding.  Right now I am using Windows Live Writer.  I have posted several postings on all my blogs, and the old postings are not interrupted by me using something different in creating more post within the blogs.

This is how simple CMS can be.  A person that was responsible of doing the website of this church told me that all departments can do their own little page without hardly any work from him.  The only thing he does is links the new pages to the home page.  If less work can be done on a website and still have all the wonders that can be done on a website, then that allows more things to be done in the company that needs to be done.

When I was learning to design websites at a technical school, it can take time to just set up an organized system of how you are wanting to design the whole of the website.  The hard work does not stop there.  To keep it up and up-to-date is not an easy task.  At this time either CMS did not exist or it was not all well know.  I personally did not hear about it until after I graduated from school.

At the time HTML was still an issue even with software like Dreamweaver was very popular.  With CMS, one does not have to know any HTML to design a website. That is how easy it is to design a website.  Blogs are created by the thousands daily without the knowledge or care on knowing HTML or any web based computer language, like JavaScript or Pearl.

These days the computer languages are left in the hands of the computer engineers.  There is where it was started, and now it seems computer engineers are giving back their power as software is becoming obsolete.  I am very happy that it is turning out this way.  I do hate to have to buy a new software every year just the get the latest out of technology.  By having software online, I do not have to worry about operating system compatibilities.

Yes, CMS is the wave of the future for the Internet and web page design.  As I have said, we are already using it without knowing that we are doing so.  The wonders await for what will happen nest.

Brandon Bowers

 

timothygreig.com» Web and Intranet Content Management

Ray Kurzweil on future technologies » Clear Voices Podcast | Earth & Sky

This is the first time I have read or heard of technology helping out the environment.   If solar power is getting cheaper, then I hope that it can be used on cars.  Gas is way to high.  This person also talked about SecondLife.  I personally do not think SecondLife will make it, but I do hope that what I write about SecondLife and all the bugs it has not will motivate Linden Labs, and prove me wrong.

Ray Kurzweil on future technologies » Clear Voices Podcast | Earth & Sky

Defense Tech: Cyber Command Strategic Vision Released

A lot might be fearful of privacy online do to reading this article.  Let me say this, "If it was not for our military, we would not have freedom today.  When our enemies are using the Internet in order to destroy everything that makes up the United States of America, then everyone that is in charge of protecting our freedom needs to do everything in order to defend it.  What we need to do as Americans as individuals and as a whole is to support at least 100% the hard work that is being done on behalf of our freedom.  Freedom is not free.  It comes at a very high cost.

 

 

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Defense Tech: Cyber Command Strategic Vision Released

Design: Iona Radio Cube Means You Physically Flip Through Stations

It never stops to amaze me on the creativity of man.  The only limit man has is his/her imagination.  I would not be surprised that we either find a Stargate in the desert or where ever and use it to travel throughout the galaxy as in Stargate SG1.  I would not be surprised to be able to even travel beyond our own galaxy.  There will be someone that will not except "No we cannot do that," and end up doing it.  Look what we have today in our technology in all fields of life.

The possibilities are completely and totally endless.  Yes we can say some of our technologies are very frustrating, but the people that are creating them have not closed shop.  They are constantly working on them to improve it what they have created.  Spite all the frustrations, our technologies are still thriving and pushing forward at alarming rates.  it will be to a point that the speed of life will be considered slow.  In nearly 40 years our technologies have constantly changed and improved beyond all that we can hope and dream.

Even though at this time I have not started my career in the computer field do to job losses in the United States of America, I am ever more excited to be able to start when my time comes.  All of our technologies is too exciting not to be a part of it on any level. Check out for your self of the history of technology of mankind.

 

 

Design: Iona Radio Cube Means You Physically Flip Through Stations

Virtual Worlds

I want to state, even though I am not happy with the outcome of how SecondLife is being operated and working out, I strongly believe that a Virtual World can work out.  There are a lot of reasons for why SecondLife is having serious issues:  1) Too many are on the system,  2) SecondLife is still new, 3) Things are growing faster then expected in Second Life and the people that are working on this vast system  cannot keep up, etc.

As with others system in online, they are having their servers being over worked by too many logging into it.  MySpace is a great example of this.  Yahoo 360, and many other giant system and services that experience heavy traffic has to deal with all sorts of things.  How many remember the last time you shopped online during the Christmas Holidays?

Even though SecondLife has been online for a few years, its fairly new system.  There is a lot of things that has been added to SecondLife.  Due to the resent popularity of SecondLife, more and more things are added to it including more and more avatars that are constantly coming to the system.  In all my understanding on the Internet, I have not seen so much of a fast growing aspect of the Internet as SecondLife. MySpace is growing fast, but it is very slow to how fast SecondLife is growing.

In this, Linden labs, the one that is the ones that are responsible for everything that is going on in SecondLife, I am sure cannot keep up with it of this very fast growing virtual world.  Even out own computers are having a hard time keeping up with the fast growing technical world.  What video card we have now, will be obsolete the next year if it is that long.  It is almost tot he point that we have to get a new computer entirely before the computer we have reaches it first year from the time we bought it.  Things are moving way too fast

I wonder if SecondLife will have to have its own hardware like video games today?  Our PCs is not enough for today's video games.  From the first Play Station to the newest one that has came out for all to buy last Christmas, how many years between those two?  If SecondLife will make it through all these frustrating bugs, then how we use our computers will be only by the fantastic virtual world, SecondLife.

I do hope that SecondLife can make it through these difficult times.  I would hate to see what has happened over these very few years of SecondLife go down the tubes because of failure to fix these very serious bugs in the system, whatever they may be.  Before I leave you, I want you to watch this very lengthy video (01:30:14) about Virtual Worlds, and the wonders it has and will bring.

 

 

Amendment:  After watching this video fully, I have to say that is a very controversial one.  As with anything, age culture, believes, etc. makes us think and believe differently.  The Internet is a tool, or I should say many tools.  No tools that we use or can use is not good, bad, or ugly, but it is how we use them at the moment.  For example:  If I use a hammer as a weapon, and I kill someone, does not mean that hammers should not be used anymore.  Any tool that can be used online or any form of technology is not meant to replace anything in our conventional live or real life.  Instead as any tool we use in our lives, it is to enhance our lives.

 

Until next posting,

Brandon Bowers

Problems and Promise in Second Life « Oakleyabner’s Weblog

Problems and Promise in Second Life « Oakleyabner’s Weblog


This article just covers the simplest of the issues that SL has. Before I left SL and canceled all my accounts, which were free accounts, I was fighting with the simplest things like moving around. One can crash by just doing hardly nothing. Even after meeting the minimum requirements to use SecondLife, I still had to fight just to do simple things. The more complex things was even harder to deal with.

When I first signed up in August 17, 2007, everything was working great!! Hardly no issue at all. It was the past few months when things was staring to got to hell for SecondLife. Between these two time periods, everyone was saying great things about it. All you had to do is go to a search engine and type in "Second Life" and you would see numbers of things to read good things about it. Now no one is saying anything.

I hated to leave SL. I had great fun and saw a great future in it. Now all I see is a structure that is dying. When I was on SL, I had a great many friends that I never seen online. Now I can see why. I canceled my account to show to Linden Labs that I was very upset on how things are going on with Second Life. If they did not get the message, they will when they have hardly no one on Second Life anymore.

Since I have taken classes in computers from a technical school, in which I have a certificate and three diplomas, I know that bugs are always going to be in any system, but this is way too far for. I left not just because of the bugs, but then entire system of SL was getting worse and worse. In that I see no future in SecondLife. I do hope things can improve, but I am counting on it. Things now are way to bad.

Brandon Bowers

SecondLife Going Down the Tubes

The Internet in the 21st Century and Beyond.


In all that I have written about SecondLife, I have to say that it is falling apart. At one time SecondLife had a future. Now it does not. It has too many bugs and other issues that makes it very frustrating to use. I do not think that Linden Labs cares to fix these issues. If that is the case, then what do I think of the future of SecondLife? It will be either taken over by corporations use only, or SecondLife will be in the history books. Before I finally left and canceled my free accounts, I know of a good many that was on my friend's list that left before me. I know this because I hardly seen that many on SecondLife.

So it seems that 3-D virtual realities systems are not working out as hoped. Even though SecondLife has a very strong iffy future, the technology world is still growing just as fast as before. I hope that one day that someone will come up with a better 3-d VR that can allow us to soar throughout the Internet. Until then never give up you hopes and dreams. Never know, you could be the one to show us all the next wonders of technology. :D