S.O.S

I was reading some blogs on Clicz.com and found one that sounded interesting. It was about the S.O.S or Save Our Selves campaing. This global environmental campaign headed by MSN, intends to raise global awareness about environmental issues. The effort will be launced by a 24 hour concert, Live Earth, with preformances on all the 7 continents of the world. MSN teamed up with former vice president Al Gore as well as other clebrities to help promote this global event. The concert even will be brodcast on television as well, and the organizers are hoping to reach billions of people in this way. All proceeds from the event will go to The Alliance for Climate Protection which is chaired by Gore. This event is an amazing opportunity for companies to market their products to billions of people world wide, and its also a great opportunity for companies to connect to a positive movement and build their character. The whole purpose of the event is to introduce people all over the world to the issue of global warming and educate them on what they themselves can do for the world. This concert is inteded to be a kick off for a much larger campaign to focus on these environmental issues.

I believe that this concert has a very nobel cause and I support educating people on environmental issues 100%, however my concern with this whole concert nonsense is the amount of natural resources that will be spent, the amount of waste generated and the amount CO2 that all of this will produce. Yes, its a good cause and people should be educated, but is it really necessary to hold a concert on ALL of the continents? I'm sure the pinguins will enjoy the music on Antarctica however, I think an alternative method will be much more environmentally friendly and that is what the cause is all about in the first place. If they set up a totally internet based campaign and let people do the Blogging (as we have already learned from our Info Tech class) people will get involved and no resources will be wasted. People can link to eachother's bloggs and generate word of mouth buzz and the campaign will reach millions in no time.

But all in all I think that caring about our environment is a very important cause. We have to clean up the mess that humanity has already made so our children can enjoy the world like we have.

Picture by: Christian Mehlführer provided by Wikipedia Commons

New Wikipedia Articles

I have decided to add a few more articles to update on wiped, hysplex and halteres. I am taking a Greek Sports and Recreation class in school and we are learning about a few interesting objects that the ancients use to improve their sports performance.
The one I updated this time was Hysplex which is an elaborate starting mechanism used by the Greeks in horse and foot races.

The Internet

So this week in class we were talking a lot about the internet and how it works. To me it is all such a fascinating concept and I can't imagine how people could ever come up with something so complex. One of the things I was wondering about is how the Internet is it phisically connected, and how is it connected globally? So I decided to search some articles about it.

On Wikipedia I found out that the Internet is a collection of interconected computer networks linked together by copper wires, fiber-optic cables and wireless connections. See Internet
With a DSL connection for example, the information is sent through already existing wiring like the telephone line or cable lines.
Wireless networks send information through a transmition of electromagnetic waves. Another less popular option uses satelite dishes to transmit data from a computer to satelites in outer space that retransmit the information back down to earth. Finaly dial-up modems transform the information ito sounds and the sounds back into data.
Information itself gets transformed into little packages of information called packets and these packets are transmited from one computer to the next. The set of rules for the formulation and reading of packets is called the IP or the internet protocol. This protocal enables computers to understand and interpret the packets of data arriving to their computer. The IP also recognizes any malfunctions in packets and requests that packet to be sent again before it is executed on the receiving computer. The hardware devices that receive the packets read the packet headers, which tell the computere where the data should be sent, are called routers. The information thus travels in packets from router to router. And the Internet is born!

Why Blog?

Now that I have figured out how to make a blog all thats left is posting entries. I'm not a computer person so of course I was not thrilled to take this class...however this does not seem like it will be too difficult. So here we go.
The purpose of this blog is to fulfill the requirements set forward by my Marketing class, the website for that class explains the project in detail. Alex Brown's Blog
We will have to post on blogger once a week for a semester as well as read articles that we subscribed to on bloglines.
We also have to update 4 articles on wikipedia. At first this proved to be a hard choce because the articles that I looked at seemd to be very well written. I did however settle on 4 articles that I think will be fun to update. I chose my high school The Charter School of Wilmington, they also have a very extensive article, but having spent 4 lovely years there I thought I can add something of value. I was born in Hungary, so naturally I thought something from Hungary would be fun to update. I ended up picking my two grandparents' home towns (Gyongyos and Salgotarjan)being that those articles were very sparse. And lastly I picked one of my favorite movies The Right Stuff. Should be interesting to see how my updates end up.

My First Blog Post

This is my first post on my very first Blog! Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...
Here is a link to the University of Delaware website.