Sunday, January 27, 2008

Week 3 Blog

I have quite a few goals for ten years down the road. Between now and then I would like to finish my Political Science degree here at Clemson and then move on to law school at either UGA or the Charleston School of Law (though I'm still looking for all my options). While at law school I would like to study either corporate or real estate law. Assuming I finish here at Clemson in some sort of a timely manner and don't screw around at law school too much I should finish well within 10 years from now.

After graduating I would like to live in a place like Davidson, NC and work on a law practice but that is not exactly practical right out of law school. More likely, I'll end up going where ever I can find a job which will depend on what type of law I am doing. Hopefully I'll find a job in the south because I don't care when, 10 years or 50 years from now, I refuse to leave the south.

After finding a job and settling down somewhere, I will probably find myself getting married to some girl and possibly thinking about children. That's all way too involved for me right now though, so that's all I can say about that. I'd rather say that I'll probably have a family and live comfortably in a house on a lake with a boat. And also a dog.

So all in all, in 10 years I'd like to see myself settling down with a nice lawyering job, making a fair amount of money, successful, happy, with a boat and a dog (and possibly wife and kids).

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Week 2 Blog

Now, I'd like you to respond. What do you think the title of the video means? How does Web 2.0 affect someone who is ready to enter the workforce? How does it affect people who are already in the workforce? What do you think it means when it says that we will have to rethink everything?

The title of the video, The Machine is Us/ing Us, is interesting because it suggests that we and computers are becoming inseparable. Talking to my parents, I have heard them describe computers when they were in college, when they used punch cards. Information was highly restricted and hard to use. Now, I believe you would be hard pressed to find an office or home without a single computer. Web 2.0 itself affects those entering the workforce because information is readily available. Every picture posted on the web can be found, ever link visited can be monitored. It can be both good and bad. The same idea applies with those already in the workforce. Everything is monitored and can be found so one has to be very careful when posting anything to the web. We will have to rethink everything because of these ideas. A right to privacy is becoming a blurred right at best. Is information on the internet private in any sense? Not just in a negative way though, rethinking will have to be done in the ways people interact. A great example is the use of YouTube videos in the presidential debates. Questions posted by users have been used in the debates giving the question a more personal quality. As always, the future will be interesting.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Introduction

Hey guys, my name is Jason Stuber. This is my introduction post. I'm a junior from Goose Creek, SC. Nice to meet y'all.