This Is What I Think...

Here are the ten blog posts I have chosen to be assessed for my course blog grade:

1. Social Networking
I chose this blog post because it represents my thinking about social networking and what a waste of time it is. There are almost no personal benefits to people and so many detractors that affect society.

2. Saint By Ted Dekker
I chose this post because I think it is a really interesting and insightful look into the book.

3. Ted Dekker's Circle Trilogy
This post is worth being in my top ten because it is a quality book review.

4. Ted Dekker's Showdown
I thought that this was worth posting because of the interesting nature of good vs. evil and because it is an interesting book review.

5. Internet in my Lifetime
I chose this post because it is a nostalgic and interesting blog post about how the internet has changed in my short lifetime.

6. Is the PS3 Worth It?
I chose this post because it is a type of product review and also an interesting note on my thoughts about the PS3.

7. Acer Netbook
I thought this this was a helpful and interesting product review and comparison.

8. Gothic Novels
I chose this post because of the introspective nature and the way that I wrote about what I thought about Gothic Novels.

9. The Web Among Us
This post was chosen because it encompasses what is going on in the journalism world compared with blogging. It also expresses my view of blogging.

10. Ruth
This blog showed my frustration about the novel I was reading. It's an interesting post.

Personally, I don't use any of the online social networking sites. I don't have a facebook, myspace, twitter, or any other type of account whatsoever. I think it is a waste of time. All the people that I want to keep in contact with, I just do it in person, on the phone, and through e-mail. I don't feel any need to extend my "friendships" to anyone that I don't care to associate with often.

I understand why people would want to do this kind of stuff though. For one thing, everyone has a facebook account nowadays and people find it strange if you don't. For lots of people, it is the natural way to follow up on people and contact them easily.

Although I don't see any benefit to society and relationships through the use of these social networking sites, I don't believe that they are changing the society. I think that people cling to these things because it is what they want. If people didn't want this, there would be no myspace. People are changing, and markets change to adhere and make money. Our culture is changing the web, the web and networking sites only exacerbates the problem.

Wooh! What a ride. This book kept me on my toes the entire time.

Intro:
Carl Strople awakes lying on a bed, he and his wife strapped down next to each other. A man comes in, shoots his wife in the leg and tells him he has to kill two people in the next hour to keep his wife and son alive.

And it never becomes less exciting. Ted Dekker has an incredible talent in writing suspense to keep you reading every chapter.

This novel struggles with identity. Carl doesn't know who he is or exactly how he got to where is is. As his struggle to find who he is evolves, the story becomes more and more interesting, insightful, and in-depth.

If you read the first chapter of this book and can decide not to read the rest, I would be extremely taken aback.

I think the most important thing for a website to be appealing is the visual aspect. One thing that always stands out to me is the heading graphic of the website.

Having an interesting and appealing header for the website pulls the browser in and grabs their attention.

The second-most important thing that I think makes a good website is the organization. Nobody likes cluttered links and hard-to-find pages of a website. We've all been to a website in which we know something is there, but we just can't find it.

Also, if website is to long, the reader will never go down to the bottom, so any links or material that is located beneath the initial scroll of the page is pretty much useless.

Simple changes to the website can add a lot to it.

Ted Dekker's novel Showdown was a splendid read. It kept me enthralled the entire time. The exciting dichotomy of good vs. evil is played out in this book. The only thing is, throughout most of the novel, you don't know who is the bad guys are or who the good guys are, or even if there are any good or bad guys.

Evil is delved into with surprising ferocity. Throughout some of the book, the conventional idea of evil is challenged.

Evil is looked at as a possibility of love. In the end, everything becomes clear, but it is very interesting to play the ideas in your head.

Anybody that is interested in good and evil and the power that each side can bring to the table will enjoy this book very much.

I have recently finished Ted Dekker's Circle Trilogy and have been amazed. The plot line that he moves forward quickly is extremely interesting and suspenseful. The characters are extremely well done and it is a page-turner.

Probably the greatest thing about this book is what I learned. It honestly changed the way I think about the world, but mostly changed the way that I think about writing.

The Biblical parallels that he drew were so amazing and so cleverly done that when I finally realized what it was supposed to be, I was amazed that I didn't notice before and pleasantly surprised that I didn't notice before.

I would recommend these books to anyone that enjoys an exciting thriller. This are, in my opinion, the greatest Christian novels that I have ever read.

I definitely think that the internet is making us stupider as a whole. It is absolutely obvious that the internet is a wealth of information that has never been seen before, and it is growing each day. No one can deny that we have more information available at the click of a mouse than we could ever use. The reason that I think that it is making us stupider is because it is definitely making us lazier.

When we can just go look something up on wikipedia, there is no reason to really learn the material, especially if the information needed is only for the short term. It's so easy to get the information that we don't actually have to learn anything. The internet may be getting "smarter" but we humans are not. Learning is pain, and without pain, there can be no learning. Relying upon the internet for quick and easy information makes us less reliant upon our own brain.