Final Frontier

I went to Clarks online library to articles and databases to this search. I chose 'Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)' as my database to search through. For the search box I put in "The Future of Print" in TI Title and the second result was what I was looking for. There's a PDF of the full text available to download.

I used Gigablast.com for the open web search. In the search I put in: "ewan morrison" AND "Are books dead" I received 26 results with the search. The first link gave me the page I was looking for because it was from the guardians website.

Authority - Ewan Morrison has good credentials as he has written 3 novels and many short stories. He has won many awards. Merril Distad is a co-editor at the University of Alberta. He is an Associate University Libarian, which makes his understanding of books valid in this article.

Sources - Both articles have provided foot notes and cited some sources backing up their points.

Purpose - These were written to inform and educate the public. One article goes about how books are being overtaken by e-books and the other talks about how professional writers will become obsolete. This is directed mainly at readers, which is about everyone.

Evenness - Merril Distads article talks about the good and bad of having a e-book, but favors more towards keeping "tree-books" alive. Ewan Morrisons article talks about how industries are in a financial lost because of digital distribution.

Coverage - This is an expected outcome from society nowadays. People are more seduced with the e-books so then social media will write about it.

Timeliness - The dates of the articles are in 2011 and is just a year old. These topics are still being disgusted with both  types still valuable.

In Merrill Distad's, The Future of Print: The Book, he points out that even though digital media is a growing trend, it will not replace physical books. He tells of examples of how writers have predicted a future of a "paperless society". The writer went on to say that there would be a virtual library with "holographic images of book spines projected on reading room walls". These predictions were not that far off compared to todays technology; we are still working on holograms.

In this articles he makes some good points on why "the tree-book" will not be obsolete. First off he list examples of some past technologies that are still in use today. He pointed out that it was said the "telephone would replace the electric telegraph, like the electric telegraph would replace a semaphore telegraph". Which he stated that it didn't. Another example is that it was said radios would replace telephones and tv's would replace radios, and of course it didn't. However, cell phones act like radios, can stream tv, and have cameras on them.

So with the e-books, they a lot of upside to them for readers. Like being able to download thousands of books to a single device at any time. The virtual library is growing every year and you can get your favorites. They have made the font styles on the e-readers to replicate a physical book. However, not everything is perfect for these e-readers. These are electrical devices and will always need power. Like a cell phone, if you have used it for most the day and aren't near a power outlet, your device will be out of power. So that will make you more cautious of when and how long to read. Another thing is you can't really share an e-reader like a physical book, because all your books will be in that e-reader if you lend it out, so what if you wanted to read something?

There is room for both to co-exist. E-readers will be the wave of the future but it doesn't mean physical books need no longer exist. There is still a need for books for the younger generation. To have kids read at a  young age is ideal for them to have a better life. Even pop up books or coloring books can help them started very young. As the author says, "the future of the printed book rests in the hands of todays children".

These points that Merril Distad makes are why I believe there will still be a future with books. Regardless of how it is published, there will be room for hard copies.

my web page

http://letteraday.org/students/tluu.html

This was a fun activity to do, I enjoyed the coding aspect of it. Starting from scratch to build a final product was rewarding. Creating a webpage is a time consuming project if you want to get things perfect. However, I am sure the more you create then the faster you can create. Its nice to create a web page of your own and send it out to the internet for all to see.You would have to do more maintenance with a web page then a blog. With blogs you can just type whatever you want and post it. With web pages, you have to go through making it look visual pleasing and mess around with the tags. When I see web pages that are full of content like, www.cnn.com, I can imagine all the coding involved in it and it just seems like it would be overwhelming to a novice. I like to learn more about doing html and I will incorporate the searching techniques we received in the class to do it.

4 elements

I have chosen to use http://www.gigablast.com/ for my search engine.

My first attempt was to look for a gov site that was related to my topic. I played around with the key words again, using (mobile OR "cell phones") AND protect suburl:gov

There is no author for this site.
Title website: Department of Accounting and General services. State of Hawaii
Title Article: June 2009 - Securing your Mobile devies
last modified 2009-06-24 07:32
http://hawaii.gov/dags/icsd/cst/newsletters/2009/june09_mobile_devices

This site is a public service site from the State of Hawaii. It gives tips and educates people on cyber security. With technology growing rapidly through the years, this site wants to provide information to help protect people from identity theft and other malicious attacks.


I used Gigablast
"cell phones" AND protect suburl:org

There is no author but it is on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

Title of website: Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

Title of Article: Wireless Communications Voice and Data privacy

Posted Oct. 1994 Revised May 2012

http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs2-wire.htm

Beth Givens is the founder of this site and has written books on privacy issues. She has been interviewed on TV for such issues with NBC, CBS, Good Morning America and other TV news shows. This site was created to help consumers be aware how technology affects personal privacy.

I used Google

"cell phones" AND privacy AND hack* site:edu

From the website: Office of HIPAA Privacy and Security

Title article: A short history of cell phone hacking

Posted Aug 22 2011

http://www.med.miami.edu/hipaa/public/x481.xml

This is from the University of Miami website. They explain how a cell phone can be hacked and how it can be prevented. The coverage and purpose of this site has valuable information on avoiding being a victim of a "hack". 

I used Google

 "cell phones" AND privacy AND hack* site:com

Juliana Gruenwald is a writer for the National Journal. She has been covering tech new for over a decade for credible sites like Interactive Week, BNA and Congressional Quarterly. 

Title website: National Journal

Title Article: Lawmakers Question Cell Phone Privacy in Wake of Hacking Scandal.

Posted July 14 2011

http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2011/07/lawmakers-question-cell-phone.php

This site talks about how congress needs to look more into the security issues of cell phones. It wants the public to know that this issue is becoming big and the government needs to step in. A scandal with a company hacking into politicians phones has brought attention to the issue.

This activity was a bit difficult for me because I had to play around a lot with keywords for the Gigablast search engine. It was good to use the domain specific search, and Gigablast's method was different then googles. I got more hits with the .com and .org searches, but the .edu and .gov were tough to really find much of anything for this topic.

search tools

The first search tool I selected was www.gigablast.com.
Features:
- The boolean operators are pretty much the same as googles. Nothing really new here.
- There is something called the gigablast answers/questions, which is setup to answer questions with short answers.
- Has the ability to discard duplicate web pages.
-URL are indexed in real time to get the most up to date web pages.
- Super recall feature can bring queries that would normally end up as no result, with results

Yippy.com:
- uses other search engines to make searches that are usual harder to find for you.
- Doesn't track your activity when making searches. Good privacy proctection
- Has similar services as Google, mail, documentation, calenders, streaming.
- Prevents most relevant results on the same page.
- Puts  documents into subcategory folders and provides results in an easy-to-view format


Open Directory Project:
- Directory submissions are free
- Biggest categorized directories of websites and pages maintained by volunteers.
- Volunteers review directory not for profit, but it may take a long time to get listed.
- Source of quality content
- gives you more incoming links to your websites so you can get popular.


I would use the first 2 search tools more since Gigablast is new to me and it looks like its easy to use. Yippy is in competition with google so, it has the same features. I would like to use those more.