The HTML Expirience

The internet has evolved so much since the days of AOL. Creating a web publication using HTML was comparable to riding in a classic car, or listening to oldies, Except not nearly enjoyable. When I was in middle school ( 1997ish) prior to the social networking explosion that was to come a decade later, my friends and I used to have web pages provided by anglefire.com. The thing was, there were not tools to help you create.......and in order for your page to not be completley lame.... you had to used HTML. I disliked it then, and I dislike to an even greater degree now. I simply do not have the patience. I'd much rather drag & drop, cut & paste, type and delete. As HTML was once a thing I did for fun as a kid (Having the webpage was fun, not making it) You couldn't pay me to do that stuff now. (If you could I would have majored in sofware engineering) Due to the rapid innovation and advances in the internet, people have become sheltered, spoiled to the rigors of computer technology. The sheer content and options available in the form of webtools.....and the effects that can be created from them today, have absolutely killed any possiblilty of the average person wanting to create something using the building blocks of the web. At the present time, because of advances in technology, what it would take the average person to accomplish using HTML, someone could add fifty times the content using a web tool. As many things within the web have evolved from something only a skilled individual within the field is/was able to do, HTML is the perfect example of a technology that has digressed from something the average joe would do to now only those skilled to semi-skilled within the field would attempt. When automobiles were first introduced to people, mechanics did not change the oil, that was a user function. But now, due in part to advances in modern engines, and the evolution of the automobile to become more user friendly.....People rely on the local Jiffy Lube to change thier oil. It is the same way with the interent. All a person needs to know how type, and they too can create a webpage. Why use HTML when you never have to?

Death of the Newspaper (as we know it)

This is something that shouldn't even be up for debate any longer. Newspapers and all forms of printed media for that matter are dying...very fast.... The debate now is when will it be extinct? I say within the next decade, newspapers as a whole will not exist. Even if coupled with online supplementation....... the bottom line is this: they won't be able to afford it, nor compete with the immediate news reporting of online media. An event takes place, and an entire article is written and posted on the internet within minutes. It takes newsprint an entire day to push the same information out. Portability may have been an issue during the turn of the century, but now we are connected everywhere: Cell phones, WLAN/Wi-Fi, Kindle.....you can get news at any time you need it. Advertisers are not going to waste thier money utilizing a medium that no one needs. Therefore, the newspaper will be a novelty item by 2020.

The issue however is this : The realibility of the "immediate" online news we do recieve. Any and everyone has the ability.....and does (twitter, facebook, myspace) to write whatever the heck they want to on the internet. True beat reporters, real journalism, investigative reporting is what the consequence will be with the death of the newspaper. The line between fact, fiction, and opinion will become even more blurred than it already is (scary thought to think that is even possible).

The only way to salvage investigative reporting......real news for that matter..... is to have some sort of regulation on internet media. Hear me out, this is not a complete Nazi idea. Something as simple as a designator for websites, that were once print, that conducts real investigative reporting......to let the consumer know what they are reading is legit. An accredidation of sorts. I never said government regulation per se, but a combined regulating body of news entities that give the thumbs up on certain websites.

Email vs. Snail Mail

Email and traditional mail have many similarities. Both are used to transfer information from one location to another, both utilize central routing stations: mail servers & post offices, and both need a recipeint identified by a unique address. Even with similar core components, there is one huge thing email will never be able to do that traditional mail can do, and that is the transfer of physical matter......mass.....built from atoms.....

Ahhh.....but is email able to do so? Obviously, at this time my mom can't send me her homemade cookies to Blacknwild83@yahoo.com....... but the transfer of a physical object can in fact happen utilizing e-mail/internet. In the same fashion anything else is sent rather it be via snail mail or email, a third party..... a router or a hub of sorts would be needed. Amazon.com or any other online retailer for that matter uses this concept. You place your order online and it is recieved by a central wharehouse where it then distributes goods to waiting consumers.....So in a sense physical objects can in fact be sent via email.

I think a more relevant thought should be more so along the lines of how these two forms of mail are merging, rather than the focus be upon differences and similarities. Traditional mail services, USPS, UPS, FedEx have all already adapted; shifting thier enterprise towards online dependence. If you send a package, you are able to track it's progress in real time until it arrives at it's destination. You can change where physical mail is sent to you online. Neither industry will ever outcompete each other, nor will they completly merge and become as one. Each is dependent upon each other at this point. Online retailers could not be in existence if there were not a way to physically get goods out to the consumer. Now that postal mail is nearly 100% automated in every aspect with the exception of physical delivery, a company could not afford to continue operations without online customer self service such as tracking, postage purchase and address changes.

Hmmmm.....

So....I created a blogger account a while ago.....and set up my blog a while ago.....But I have no clue what email address I used since I don't use gmail (even though it is probably one of the more useful email providers)......therefore......I created a completely new one that is utilizing my yahoo account Blacknwild83@yahoo.com........

Stay posted.......More to Come!!!!