Week 11 recap

Week 11: This week went by quickly as I was just waiting for spring break. I almost forgot to post my blog up for this week. Lets see, what happened this week. I recall discussing  filter bubbles and dash cams among many interesting topics. Filter bubbles was an informative brief about how the users search history, location, previous clicks, etc is used to filter the users search and guess what that user wants to see. A bit confusing at first but, for example is I Google search "Tiananmen" in the USA I might get pictures of the protest at Tianamen Square in 1989. If I Google search the same word in China I may get information about touring there but, none about the 1989 protest.  Dash cams brief was entertaining and had a really funny video showing an insurance scammer in Taiwan who got caught by a dash cam. Dash cams though are mostly used for law enforcement reasons and some countries have adopted rules for certain vehicles to be equipped with dash cams. Here's the clip, enjoy!

The video above is hilarious, check it out if you didn't. Spring break is here and I cant wait. My break will be mostly catching up on school work and house chores but, I will manage to have some fun. So far I have been doing steadily well in the class, and I really want an A. An A is definitely in reach as the percentage chart released has me in the upper half of the class. There have been many interesting technology and policy topics discussed, so now my next goal is to get my thesis going and write my paper. I have manged to locate 23 sources and all is left is narrowing it down to 15 sources for my paper.