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After reading multiple books on Steve Jobs and having watched two movies about his life, I was no stranger to learn from the New Yorker article that Steve Job had a temper. I found it humorous how the article said that "He cries like a small child when he does not get his way." How does someone this impatient and rude, become the genius that he was. Its as simple as he saw a vision, and did not rest until other people's visions aligned with his. Steve Jobs new that his vision in all the technology and programs that he created was truly world changing so it can be understandable his undeniable persistence that he showed toward his co workers, although it surely wasn't pleasant to work with all the time. To me its inspiring how he believed so firmly in his views and would not let others hinder him. I suppose that in my own life I could maybe look back on how persistent he was and apply it towards things that I want to accomplish in my own life. Steve Jobs is an definit...

As I sit here pondering what in the world I could possibly blog about for today regarding collaboration, I am beginning to realize that throughout all the activities that I have partaken in my life, they are generally not ones that have a collaborative aspect to them. At a young age, it seems to me that I was more inclined to partake in sports that relied on solely myself to do well in them. For example, I swam and played tennis. Eventually I quit swimming and played tennis nearly my whole life up until this point. In tennis, I was a singles player so whether I won or lost was dependent upon myself. I enjoyed these more self-reliant activities because if I performed poorly, there was only one person whom I could blame, myself. Some other sports that I took part in and still do to this day are skateboarding and bike riding. Similar to tennis, both of these sports are not team sports, even though they can be (kind of).  However, the older I get, it seems that it ...

As a person whom has never used reddit myself and do to plan on using, I found it interesting to hear that the majority of Reddit users are male. I believe that the video " The Culture of Reddit " states that about 71% of reddit users are male. Why would a website that is so large and based on human curiosity be mostly used by one gender, especially when the world consist of 51% women. The video then discusses it's user bases treatment of women online. According to the video, in many cases, a picture including a woman will turn into a seemingly slandering fest in which users (men) make extremely immature sexual jokes and statements that they would never say to a woman in real life. People whom then condemn these certain people making this atrocious comments are then given the argument that its free speech and that these people can say what they want. To me it seems like reddit is a double edged sword in which is an amazing platform for people to learn and interact from e...

This week in my "Collaborating in Online Communities" class, we were assigned a reading excerpt from the book written by Pierre Levy called "Collective Intelligence". During class we briefly went over a paragraph from this excerpt and it stuck out to me as something worth blogging about. "This new nomadism will not develop within any known geographic territory, institution, or state, but with in an invisible space of understanding, knowledge, and intellectual power, within which new qualities of being and new ways of fashioning a society will flourish and mutate. Not the space of organization charts and business statistics, but the qualitative, dynamic, living space of a humanity in the process of inventing itself through the creation of its world."-Pierre Levy This book was published in 1997 when the internet was in a rather primitive state, yet somehow Levy was able to somewhat forsee the future of how dominant the internet ...