Topic two

Lecture-
The topic of this lecture was “Is Email dead?” Professor Stockwell first talked to us about email. He mostly centred on Spam, which are mostly scams. These included Nigerian scams, scams that involved pretending to be real banks requesting your bank details, and repetitive emails from organisations such as Facebook.
Then he showed us the results for a survey we did last week. Results that I found most interesting were that Email isn’t dead. About sixty percent of the class agree that email has its place. Nobody in class doesn’t use email at all. Even thirteen percent of people reckon that email is God!

Tutorial-
The tutorial task this week was to create our blog. I am also supposed to write an introductory blog about myself and even my interests. Because we concentrated on writing our blogs in the tutorial, I thought it would be appropriate to write about myself in this section.
My name is Christopher Burns. I love to write fictional stories, most of them being far fetched and involved in fantasy in some way. I am a Christian and have been one for about four years. I had a gap year last year in which I gained work experience. My goal in life is to travel the world and help the poor.

Readings-
This week’s reading is called “Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents.”
It says that a blog is a personal website that contains a lot of news, takes the form of a diary and is usually updated by one person. The content is usually written and can even be commented by the readers. It has two internet addresses, one for the creator of the blog and the other for public access. To create a blog that is quick, easy and simple to make it is best to join a blog community. Good examples of a blog community are Blogger, livejournal and skyblog.