Location and it's importance

There is a lot of hype over location theses days brought on by the accelerating use of smart phones such as the iPhone and Android devices. Everyone's checking into locations, sending out geotagged tweets and uploading geotagged photos to flickr. Some of the content relates to the locations but it seems a majority of it is just metadata attached to the meaningful content. For my final essay, I want to look into what makes location special and what makes it a gimmick. Is communicating location essential for to telling a story or is this just a fancy new piece of data that we can combine with our content?

Schedulings

So, I'm really bad at planning out my day. I've gotten better with last semester by adding my class schedule and important dates to my gCal, which propagates to my mac and iPhone. That's a tremendous step actually. I remember being issued a day planner all throughout high school & middle school and I remember finding them under my bed that following summer break. What I want to do now is plan out my free time. Fill in those gaps between classes and my off days so that I can become more productive. What I replace the empty time with doesn't have to be productive exactly, like 2 hours for a film, but hopefully would make my over all schedule as productive as possible. I really want to start finding new music again so I'm definitely going to add time slots dedicated to browsing music blogs and sifting through last.fm and hypem.com. I guess I'm writing this post to remind myself to make this schedule and what I want to include in it.

hours of operation

• Monday-Friday: 8am-6pm
• Saturday-Sunday: 8am-3pm

activities

• Reading (recreation):
• News
• Music
• Books
• Homework
• Exercise
• Projects
• Feeding the muse

Hopefully this will curb my excessive use of addictive drugs such as hulu and netflix and keep my day focused until after 6 or 7 at night.

Also my laptop memory came in today. Upgrading from 1gb of ram to 4gb. It's an over due upgrade.

Computer-Mediated Communication

Reviving this blog for my CMC class.