Author Archives: Nityah Bhorra

I did a search for my research topic using the CUNY +, I just searched for social media and I got about 3800 records. That’s a lot. Most of the Electronic Resource were not from City Tech, they were from CUNY. But the problem with the CUNY + is that most of the books are not very specific, they are more focused on the society and stuffs like that. I guess that’s because Social Media is a new thing. I ended up with more information when I used an internet search engined. It was clearer and the articles I found was much more interesting and helpful. One more issue with the books is that it’s way too long, it would be a waste of time to read the whole thing. I prefer internet searches better than the Library resource.

How search engines work is not as simple as a lot of us thought it was. It’s a lot of work for those engineers to keep search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing etc.. updated. Some searches are updated every minutes, like the news or sports or something. But when you search something more specific; for example news on a soccer team, the searches are updated not so often. As it was mentioned in the article, 20% of the searches done everyday haven’t been searched for like 3 months so there’s a tough job for the engineers. They have to guess what the people will search every other day and that’s not easy at all. However, I do believe that there must be like a pattern or something which will help them in guessing those searches.

The reading Politics of research was pretty hard to understand. So I did some research on Knowledge and I came across this video Dangerous Knowledge, it is a documentary about four  brilliant Mathematicians who were driven crazy by trying to prove their theories and eventually they all committed suicide. However, this video is just the first part of the documentary and it focuses mostly on Georg Cantor.

I hope you guys like it.

I found the reading of Love For Labels very interesting and I agree with what Serona Elton said about Record Companies. Record Companies are indeed a good thing for artists as they are professionals. They know how to market the singer, band etc.. in the right way, make them  get the attention they really need to get from the fans. Take a look at The Beatles for example, they achieve so much success and that’s all thanks to their Record Companies. If it wasn’t for the Record Companies who did the marketing for them, organizing shows and concerts no one would’ve known about The Beatles today. Can you Imagine the world without The Beatles???

I know some people may disagree with me but in my opinion for any artist the best way to promote himself is by signing for a Record Company.