Current Event #2

Twitters Emergency Notifications.

Twitter launches emergency notification service.

Sho Wills. Twitter  launches emergency notification service. CNN. CNN, Sept. 26, 2013. Web. Sept. 27, 2013. <http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/25/tech/twitter-emergency-tweets/index.html>.


Twitter has decided to make an emergency update notifictation service. What this will do is alert people if there is critical situation such as inclement in weather and other things of the type. Anyone who signs up to recieve these notifications will recieve them through either text message or a push notification. It is said that over 60 organizations have signed up to be a part of this new alert system. You can choose what organizations you would like to recieve alerts from, these organizations range from Red Cross to the World Health Organization.


I think that this is a very good resource to have and to be using. The alerts will allow you to be able to know when a critical situation is happening. I feel like this can help change the world in a better way because this will help people who arent't in the house or by a t.v to know that a critical event is underway or will be happenening. This affects me because I will be able to know if there is something unforseen happening or if there will be an inclement in weather.


"Twitter Alerts[...] brings us one step closer to helping users get important and accurate information from credible organizations during emergencies, natural disasters or moments when other communications services aren't accessible,"(Gaby Pena). This statement shows that people really do think that these alerts will impact the world in a good way. I think that they will impact the world by alerting us. If something catastophic ever does happen then people with these notifications will know when and where this is happening in the world. I think that these new alerts will be very helpful in the future.

Bi-Weekly Blog #2

My week so far hasn't been the greatest. My aunt died so I had to go to Ohio for her funeral. I missed Monday and Tuesday of school and I had a lot of make up work to do. Tomorrow and Sunday will be good though, I'm going to Scarowinds and then I'm going to a baseball game.

Snyder,Phil. Baseball field. Photograph.flickrcc.flickr, 24 July, 2009. Media. 16 Sept, 2013.<http://www.flickr.com/photos/37341680@N04/3767567403>. 

New Terms:
Privacy: your own personal things that only you or people that you want to see can see.
Self Expression: The way that you express yourself, the way you dress, your style, etc. Who you are.
Connected Culture: Treating others the way that you would want to be treated.
Respecting creative work: Give credit. Use others' work responsibly.
Ethics: A set of morals about other peoples behavior, it requires respect and honesty.
Ethics: A set of morals about other peoples behavior, it requires respect and honesty applied to online and digital services.
Digital citizenship: Being a good citizen online. Safe, responsible, and ethical approach to the online world.
Publish:To present a finished piece to a public audience.
Trustworthy:Accurate and dependable.
Evaluate:To carefully examine something to determine its value.
Criteria:Standards on which you base your judgement.

The digital literacy that we learned about this week was how to be a good digital citizen. We learned about privacy, self expression, connected culture, and respecting creative work. This means that you should act like you would in person on the computer and treat people how you would want to be treated. This affects me because it shows how to be an even better digital citizen then you already are. An example of this is if someone asks you not to post a picture in the internet and you do it anyway this is invading their personal privacy. You should honor ther request and not post the picture.

One web 2.0 tool that I used this week was Mix-book. It is a really useful tool to know how to use and I like it a lot. It's a creative way to do a project. In Mix-book you make a book type book you can use it to make short stories, scrapbooks, and just a random presentation. Some downfalls of Mix-book are that if you and a partner are working on one together you can't both edit at the same time. Overall I really like Mix-book.  

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Is Apple making people in China work longer then they should have to?

"Apple faces new China labor allegations"

I got this article from technology newsCNN.

Sophia Yan. Apple faces new China labor allegations. CNN. Time Warner Company. 6 Sept, 2013. Web.  6 Sept,2013. http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/technology/apple-china-labor/index.html

Apple is being accused of labor charges, it is said that they are making these people work longer then they should have to. The factory that is said to have done this is owned by Jabil Circuit, his plant works on backs of a less costly iPhone. Apple claims that the workers should work 60 hours a week and only work over time under very rare circumstances however, this seems to not be the case in this factory, according to China Labor Watch "some workers at the plant would stand for more the 11 hours a day, and alleged new employees were forced to sign contracts stating their overtime would be considered voluntary." (CNN and China Labor Watch.).

I think that Apple should not make their workers do overtime if they don't want to, it shouldn't be a forced thing especially considering that Apple has a policy of only 60 hours per week of work anyways. I was very surprised to hear this because Apple is a worldwide company, when you hear something like this coming from such a well kown company it doesn't sound good at all. When I first saw this article I thought maybe the allegations could be false, but as I read on I found that this isn't the first time that Apple has been on the "hot seat" (CNN).  This event affects me because when you see a big time company doing things they shouldn't this can set a bad example. Apple is a worldwide company and moreover shouldn't be setting these kinds of examples.

I think that this event impacts the world because Apple is so well known. This tarnishes not only the company of Apple inc. but also the way the the U.S' companies look as a whole. If we have companies with labor allegations against them what does this say about U.S. companies? Not anything very good. I'm not saying that all U.S companies are going to do things like this but because Apple is one of the U.S' biggest companies this sets an example for what all the other companies could be like.