The Reaction to Television in it's Early Days -- 1920-1941

In my English class, I have to write a paper about the reactions to television when it was first introduced, during WWI.  Since I already have to do some research on this subject, I decided I would make a note of my research for my second blog topic for the night.

So... what were the reactions of society when television was first introduced?

I began my research on google's website.  I typed, "reactions to television in its early days" in the search bar.

This yielded me a good 46,000,000 results, plus some.

After going through 5 pages of the Gooooogle results, I decided to revise my search a bit.

My next search read "Televisions introduction and society's reaction"

This didn't help much either, so I thought hard on another way to revise my search.

I tried this search next... "television first introduced and the public reaction"

I did find a timeline of the introduction of television to different countries, but nothing that seemed to come close to answering my question.

Once again, I revised my search.  This time, I tried... "how people reacted to the invention of television"

One link, I found, did give some useful information.

http://www.inventionreaction.com/famous-inventions/Television-Set

I now have a better knowledge of the invention of the television.

This link also gave about an equally good amount of information about the timeline of the invention of the television.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/invention-of-television.html

I decided to tweak the current search I had.  It now says " "reactions" to the invention of television "

I ended up finding a link where someone was given a similar question for an assignment.

http://theordinarywebsite.com/snapshots/html/1900_39.htm

When the student asked their grandmother how she reacted when seeing a television for the first time, this was her response....

She was amazed by it. When she first saw a TV, it was in the front window display of a store. On the screen, there was a green background and fizzy images of people jumping up and down. When she got her first TV, the picture was clearer but it only got about three channels.

This was a good start for the research for my paper.  I at least have one good reaction so far, and a lot of good information gathered about the invention of the television and a timeline of its evolution.

Information Overload

When I was given the topic "Information Overload"  I wasn't quite sure what to think.  What does it mean to have an overload of information.

To find out more about the topic, I typed in the google search bar "information overload".

I went through several links.

But on page 3 of the results, I found this link

http://www.infogineering.net/understanding-information-overload.htm

Not only did this link explain to me what exactly it meant to have an overload of information, it also gave a history of how it came to be.

infogineering.net states:

Information Overload is an increasing problem both in the workplace, and in life in general. Those that learn to deal with it effectively will have a major advantage in the next few years. 

Information Overload is when you are trying to deal with more information than you are able to process to make sensible decisions. The result is either that you either delay making decisions, or that you make the wrong decisions.

We are living in the "Information Age", and sometimes the amount of information that we receive at once can become overwhelming, leading to information overload.  We have to learn to multi-task and use the information given to us in an effective and efficient way.

Dairy Queen

So Dairy Queen just opened back up on March 1st.  I've noticed how incredibly busy they have been since opening for the spring, and I was interested in knowing who founded such a profitable business?

I began my search in good with this question "Who founded Dairy Queen?"

This brought up 754,000 results.
A couple of links down, I found the Dairy Queen Blog.

http://blog.dairyqueen.com/blizzard/operationhappybirthday/

It was nice to look at, but I went back to my results.

I'm always curious to see what wikipedia has, so with it being my very first result, I gave it a click.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Queen

After checking the sources, I decided this site could give me my answer.

Dairy Queen, often abbreviated DQ, is a chain of soft serve and fast food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc, who also owns Orange Julius

The soft serve formula was first developed in 1938 by John Fremont "Grandpa" McCullough (1871‒1963),^[1] his son Alex McCullough, and Ronald Baker.

These guys convinced their friend and customer to offer their product in his store in Illinois.

On the first day of sales, Noble dished out more than 1,600 servings of the new dessert within two hours.^[7] Noble and the McCulloughs went on to open the first Dairy Queen store in 1940 in Joliet, Illinois.

Since 1940, DQ has used a franchise system to expand its operations globally.  DQ was an early pioneer of food franchising, expanding its 10 stores in 1941 to 100 by 1947, 1,446 in 1950, and 2,600 in 1955.  The company became International Dairy Queen, Inc. (IDQ) in 1962. It was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 1998. Dairy Queens were a fixture of social life in small towns of the Midwestern and Southern United States during the 1950s and 1960s.

So Dairy Queen has been successful since the beginning.  And three men together developed the formula and it just progressed from there.  

Digital Privacy vs. Anonymity

Since I don't know much about the topic assigned this week, I just decided to ask the question "What is the difference between Digital Privacy and Anonymity?"

The first thing I did to begin my research was type this search into the google search bar... "difference between digital privacy and anonymity"

The first result sparks my interest so I click on it

http://www.alphapatrol.com/blog/52/anonymity-vs-privacy.html

This blog archive says that each of these are quite different.  This link gives the definition of both items searched.

Definitions say:

Anonymity is a condition in which an individual’s true identity is unknown.

Privacy is the state of not being seen by others.

So the difference is that your anonymous browsing doesn't have to be private.

In other words, anonymity protects your identity but does not protect your private data, if you expose them.

 I clicked on a couple of other links listed none of them gave as much good information.

These were the other links that I explored:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jun/14/guardianweeklytechnologysection

http://www.niksula.hut.fi/~eklund/Opinnot/netsec.html

These links became useless.


So I learn from Alpha Patrol all that I need to answer my question.

so when you you are on the internet communicating anonymously, but you do not encrypt your data on your machine, it can be readable on exit point, and that means that your privacy will be compromised.