253

253 is an online novel that allows the reader to choose how they move through the story. The reader can move from character to character and car to car and ultimately come to the same end for all of the... the accident that the cars are barreling towards, but even when the reader reaches the accident they can still move back through through the other characters. It is kind of like a never end story, because it can work in a loop that the reader is welcome to venture through until they have read all of them. The narrations of the characters and sequence of events is written in 253 words and they encompass the outside appearance of the character and what the character is doing and what they are thinking.
This style of writing is kind of like choose your own adventure story, but instead of having to flip through several pages to get to your chosen path you can just click a link and get there faster. It also allows for more options than there would be with the limitation of a physical book. This is opening up new options for choose your own adventure novel. It is allowing the reader to move faster through the text as well as have a vaster amount of choices to choose from.

Drafting Poetry

Since the creation of the internet, people have been arguing what the limitations and possibilities of this new technology is. Since the creation of the in internet in the 1950's we are still discovering the endless possibilities of what the internet can do and provide for its users. Brian Nation used the internet to organize his collection of favorite poems and poets. On his website he also included some of his own poems and eventually poetry that his friends wrote. Brian Nation acknowledged that people would not get online and search for Brian Nation, but they would find him through his collection of famous poems and poets. The internet is allowing for users to create their anthologies of new and old poets, of their favorite poems, create  YoutTube videos in tribute to their favorite poets, or create sites that provide help and advice to users who are interested in becoming poets and want help.

Wiki Wiki Wikipedia

Wikipedia in some sense is almost as useful as Google. It is one of those sites that you can go to for quick information. I use it whenever I want to learn about something quickly and don't want to put a lot of time trying to research the topic. It is something that is helpful if you are in a hurry.

What I also like about Wikipedia is that it also provides you with all of their sources. So, if you are reading about something that really interests you and you want to read more, you can use Wikipedia's citation page and discover more about the topic. I think this also makes the site more credible than it has been in the past when individuals would just get on and write whatever about whatever and there was no substantial proof that made what they were saying was credible. Now Wikipedia has its own work cited page as well as individuals that go through, that are called fact checkers, that do exactly what their name implies, they check the information that is being posted on Wikipedia with the source that is being posted and if that source is credible.

This credibility is what is making Wikipedia less Tabu and more acceptable, I believe, in the the academic world. I know when I first started college professors would always state before research assignments: "Don't use Wikipedia", but I no longer get that disclaimer before an assignment. I have many professors now that talk about the different resources that are available in Wikipedia's work cited.

What's So Great About YouTube?

YouTube to me is a site where people can get online and post their movies, post slideshows that they created and anything else they can post with a moving screen with or without noise. It is used for sharing their funny moments or their favorite songs with the world, with their friends and family, etc.
Anything and everything is on YouTube, from your next door neighbor filming his baby's first steps to B.O.B's latest music video to people slipping and falling on ice to commercials and ads as seen on TV. The genres on YouTube are as vast and as broad as any other genre that might be found on the internet or surfing the web.
Anyone and everyone can be on YouTube. Your next door neighbor's crazy aunt that lives across the country who wants to see the kids first steps, to an avid fan of B.O.B, to someone who really just wants to see "someone bust their ass" on the ice, to someone who is working on a journalism project and has to collect ads for a specific company. The audience on YouTube is as large as the genres on YouTube.
The popularity of the videos on YouTube honestly depends on the viewers who are viewing the videos on YouTube. It is hard to say when you post a video on YouTube if you and your close circle of friends will be the only ones that watch it or if a larger audience will find the entertainment or emotional appeal to your movie or clip... or whatever you post up there. It all depends on the viewer. It all depends on the movie. It's YouTube, the possibilities are endless.