Online Comments soon to end

You read a popular news article and decide to scroll down to unveil the conflicting comments. You know, the recurring sentiments toward the article, and the occasional guests who lack online etiquette.

Major websites have chosen to end the comment forum in order to prevent internet trolling. 

internet trolls are those provoke irrelevant arguements on the online community. 

In August, the Huffington Post decided that commenters would no longer be able to makes position the site anonymously. 

Tech blog, Re/code decided Thursday to remove the comment function on the site. The blog hopes by removing the comment forum, discussion will be developed through social media instead. 

Plainly stated, the comments thread is always my go to whether I watch a video or read an article. I love to know what other people are thinking though they can be off topic.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/21/tech/web/online-comment-sections/index.html

Unity Conference

One of the most popular events National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) hosts is the UNITY Conference.

UNITY: Journalists for Diversity is a national journalism organization for people of color. The organization aims to support  minorities and those in the LGBT community with accurate, yet equal coverage. UNITY also strives to increase the number of minorities in the journalism workplace.

Some of the speakers included  but are not limited to Wesley Lowery, Jaimie Flink, and Craig Cheatham.

The keynote speaker, Wesley Lowery is a reporter from the Washington post who recounted his coverage from Ferguson. He and another coworker were arrested for trespassing after officers said they refused to leave the fast food restaurant. Lowery then explained the affect social media had on his arrest.

He said that minutes before he was actually arrested, he and his coworker, Ryan Reilly tweeted about the SWAT team entering i Mcdonalds. Soon later, those who saw the tweet never got a response from both of the men, so that stirred up some confusion but eventually helped the Washington Post question the situation both men were in.

Lowery aslo discussed the importance of  balanced coverage on social media through the different mediums. While he covered Ferguson, he took an array of photos and videos from the two opposing sides – protestors and officers.

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Aero Future

Rockwell Collins’ Advanced Technology Center may have changed the way we travel in the future.

The current aircraft situation requires pilots to receive commands from an air traffic controller. Commands often take 30 seconds for the pilot to react. Luckily, with this future advancement, engineers have lowered that reaction time by eight seconds.

Pilots would make voice commands and the the system would repeat that command and ask for a confirmation. The pilot would then need to push a button to confirm the command.

I can see where our future will eventually operate with voice recognition. However, that is a very big pill for me to follow simply because Siri isn’t the best at recognizing my voice. The engineers did emphasize that both systems are not comparable because this one is far more sophisticated than Siri.

As a frequent flyer, I would rather a pilot fly my plane rather than a mechanical voice.

Some are pleased with the new technology and support its usability.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/31/travel/future-of-travel-cockpit-technology/index.html

Serious as a heart attack

Since this is a blog, and I’m supposed to talk about multimedia, i have decided to write about something I’m more passionate about.

The popular topic in international news right now is the Ebola virus in West Africa. Frankly, the number of times Ebola has been breaking news made me grow insensitive to the topic. When tragedies occur outside the perimeter of my location, I simply don’t care. Either that or I’m concerned for the duration of the article.

I stumbled upon a New York times article titled, “Braving Ebola”. The article humanizes volunteers and patients at a treatment camp in Liberia.

For everyone serving in Liberia right now, it’s important to remember that they are still part of the human race no matter how far away they are – same goes for the 5,000 people who died.

What ticks me off is when I see people take an epidemic lightly. A perfect example is this Sexy Ebola uniform.

This crosses the line. Ebola should never be the punchline of any joke or mocked.

on the flip side, I was drawn to this article because of its visuals. Black and white portraits are neatly embedded into the article. At the end of the article, are portraits of some volunteers and Ebola survivors as wells as a quote and a small bio.

To see the faces and words of the people trying to combat this epidemic demonstrates the existence of what is occurring in West Africa.