Author Archives: Destiny Modeste

Documentation: Sneaker Decreasing

For this documentation assignment, I watched a video on how to remove creases from sneakers. Presented to youtube by a trusted Sneaker adviser, “DelaKickks” , I learned the complete process for removing creases from sneakers and actually tried the process out. Its actually quite simple, all you have to do is stuff your shoe with newspapers, then wet the desired area (just a little bit), place a wet clothe of some kind on the desired area and then iron it out in the direction you would like to decrease. While doing this, I was surprised at how easy it was and how well my sneakers turned out. I felt that it was documented thoroughly and was easy enough for any one to understand. The link to the video is place below.

 

http://youtu.be/PenYPNDwjLM

-Destiny Modeste

 

 

HW: Response to “Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight”

While reading the article, “Hot Type: A Modern Scholar’s Ailments: Link Rot and Footnote Flight” by Jennifer Howard, I noticed a lot of familiar things. One being links not working after a certain amount of time. This never really phased me because I never really reused a source after using it once (meaning I never revisited the source), but reading this article increased my concern. As Mr. Bugeja’s said, I too believe that if we don’t figure out a way to preserve links, all the work we have done is somewhat pointless. It can’t be proven fact or fiction if the credible sources are no longer available. I hope they figure out a successful method for preserving citations and sources.

-Destiny Modeste

 

Research Jornal: Advance Internet Searching -Destiny Modeste

 

The topic I choose to research was how do teen users of social networking (Facebook) sites understand and comply with the privacy policies of these sites, and how well they understand will affect their professional and academic future. In order to begin research in this topic, I started using google scholar once again. In the search box, I typed in “teen Facebook privacy.”  Multiple things appeared; including a scholarly source entitled, “Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook.”‘ opposed to using just the normal Google search engine, I found hat scholars gave me a more narrow search in which I prefer. Google Scholars was extremely easy to use and I belief it gives out credible sources. 

-Destiny Modeste

Complexity Behind Search Engines – Destiny Modeste

While readings Liddy’s “How a Search Emgine Works”  I learned alot about the complexity behind search engines. I knew it was a lot of work because I had spoken to an employee of Google before and she had somewhat explained how it worked.  Search engines always give us the easiest and more simple answers when we searched something and I always felt it left with a lot more work to do opposed to helping me out (in terms of doing more work lol). I do appreciate the great amount of work that goes behind creating a search engine and I understand that I too, have to put in more work in searching through all those pages to find more information that will better my papers or what ever I’m looking up in the long run.

-Destiny Modeste

Copyright – Destiny Modeste

The three videos were absolutely informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking. I loved the use of all the various Disney movies in “A Fair(y) Use Tale” by Eric Faden, it kept me interested throughout the entire thing and explained the idea of copyrighting. As for how long someone can copyright something, I believe that it is absolutely preposterous to a certain extent. While watching, “Copyright: Forever Less One Day” by Lessig, I noticed that the longevity of the copyright keeps the originality of these great works. Everyone always says the first one is always the best, so why mess with them; possibly changing the original writer’s idea. Copyright does prevent others creativity but also keeps the originality of the work.

-Destiny Modeste

Plagiarism – HW#7 Destiny Modeste

I wasn’t able to read “Plagiarism: A Lie of the Mind” but I was able to read “The Plagiarist’s Tales” by Lizzi Widdicombe.  This article was very interesting, all the various aspects of the situation of the author. It was like reading a soap opera somewhat as he compared his addiction to plagiarism to someone’s addictions to drugs. One thing that stood out to me was how Widdicombe explained the importance of originality in literature.  “As writers from T. S. Eliot to Harold Bloom have pointed out, ideas are doomed to be rehashed,” stated Widdicombe in the 9th paragraph of the article. I have always thought about this when the topic of plagiarism came up in classes or regular conversation. People are bound to think the same way, recreating the same ideas; it’s inevitable as new generations walk this earth. I understand what Rowan did was completely unacceptable though and I’m happy that he is writing his own book in his own words.

– Destiny Modeste

Increasing Dislike for Facebook – HW# 6 Destiny Modeste

Being a user of Facebook, I’ve noticed all the changes discussed in “Facebook Privacy Trainwreck” by Danah Boyd. I too, have become unsatisfied with the constant changes they make to the site. The other day I was trying to figure out how to prevent people from commenting on photos or statuses because I have friends that do say inappropriate things and unnecessary comments, and noticed that facebook had taken that feature off earlier this year. I believe that is one of the worst things that have come with the update. I also hate timeline. In the article, Boyd discusses about a queer group and how people couldn’t notice if you joined or left it; timeline now allows people to know everything you do and when you do it, on which day or year. Facebook has become the ultimate site for stalkers and the youth who are using it are just letting them know everything they want to see/hear. Facebook privacy is bad but you agree to those terms when you first click “Sign Up.”

-Destiny Modeste

Wiki History – Destiny Modeste

“Wikipedia is just an incredible thing,” stated Nicholson Baker in the first sentence of “The Charms of Wikipedia.” After reading this article I agree with Mr. Baker. It’s a complex online database that I feel we take advantage of. Even though we shouldn’t use it for educational purposes because some articles get vandalized by wiki-users who may or may not have a dislike for the topic or just to want to mess with people, it still holds a lot of information for personal use. This article made me want to actually browse through some recently made pages and see some of the remarks people put just for a laugh, but I don’t think I’d find any because of the “algorithmicized helper bots.” This vandalizing act has a positive and negative side.  Being able to add inaccurate information is obviously the negative but being able to discuss a topic of interest with others is the positive. So, it all depends on how we use it.

-Destiny Modeste

ZINES – Destiny Modeste

It’s interesting, while living on this earth for 17 years I never thought about where these objects we use for informative entertainment evolved from. They’ve just been handed or advertised to me, giving me no real interest to question it. The reading explained the different characteristics of zines and what we need to know in order to make one. Prior to the assigned reading I had already heard about zines but never payed much attention to them. Zines come from magazines, which explains the many similarities they have. Zines remind me of online blogs, being that they can “be about whatever subject its creator decides upon, or it may contain a variety of subjects and writing styles within the same issue”, according to “Zine 101-A Quick Guide to Zines.” Zines do not seem to be that relevant in these times because there are online blogs and sites in which there is free publication accessible to anyone who needs it, as previously discussed in Blog Post 2. These hard copies are quickly dying, being replaced by blogs, and authors of zines should probably find and online web space available to make their own.

Producers of Digital Media – Homework #3

The World Wide Web. Open publication to whatever you please.  All the things we use as a source of information such as; books, audio, video content, and pictures are mostly found on the web.  It hasn’t always been like this though. Let us take a trip back in time. According to Pavlik, newspapers were only local, books were primarily national, and magazines were mainly regional but sometimes national. Now, all of these can be easily found on the World Wide Web within the click of a couple of buttons, opposed to rummaging through thousands of old pages looking for the first article on JFK’s assassination, or 9/11. I think this is absolutely remarkable because it shows how far this world has come and how quickly things are changing. It makes you think about what’s going to happen in the next 20 years. Will the web even be relevant anymore? Or will there be a new way to find information quickly.

-Destiny Modeste