espn.com

look at all the content!

There is no other website on the Internet that I visit more than ESPN.com. Not only do I have my fantasy teams to check, but I also need up to the minute sports news. ESPN.com has recently added a customizable page to make my life a little easier.

The website is exploding with information. You can find stats to any player on any professional or college in the nation. You can find video highlights. You can find up to the minute score updates. You can find blogs, games, podcasts, web poles, etc. Simply put, ESPN.com has anything that a sports junkie could ask for. The only problem I have with it is....speed.

It takes forever to load every single page. It is maddening. Not to mention that I have an iPhone that is unable to load my favorite website. There has to be a way to simplify ESPN.com with out losing all of the important features, but how?

Go ahead, see for yourself.... http://espn.go.com/

social networking baggage

I remember when I first opened an account on facebook. I was apprehensive about it at first because I felt like people had access to my personal information. This is one of the reasons why myspace was not an option. Anyone in the world would be able to access my myspace page and check out my information. Facebook, on the other hand was limited to college students only... then to high school students... then college grads... then everyone! The one thing that was appealing to facebook initially has been changed. However, there still are privacy options that you can tinker with.

Last Thursday, my Multimedia and the World Wide Web teacher informed us that our identity can be stolen from little things such as our birth date. I have since removed my birthday from the site, and am contemplating closing my account. Is having a facebook account worth the risk of identity theft?

Social networks just might not be my thing.

My first blog.... ever

In order to write my first blog, I had to do a little research on the subject. I have never blogged, and I don't think i have ever read a blog. So I sent out emails to my friends and family and this is what they sent me:

http://niketalk.com/
This is more of a forum. My roommate reads this every single day in order to keep up on this Nike shoes news. Niketalk.com offers an array of different topics that members can post about. It apparently is quite hard to join.

This website is laid out quite simply so it is easy on the eye, especially for first time users. All of the useful links take up the majority of the page, so the user is not distracted by overwhelming advertisements. However, I will say that the first thing I noticed was an advertisement in the middle of the page.

http://chewonthatblog.com/
My cousin, James Smylie, is a hard time blogger. He loves blogging so much that he now gets paid to do it. He was lucky enough to get a job as a food critic on the website. I should also mention that James loves to eat food, so now he gets paid to do both.

This particular website has a little different layout than niketalk.com. When you click on the link, it brings you directly to postings. There are no advertisements in sight, which I like. Then to the right of the postings, there are some links to other pages on the site.