Boyd and Gladwell

Whats the big deal about what Boyd and Gladwell said, and why do we have to base papers off of their ideas? Everyone has a different view on what social networking sites can be used for and how to fix them. Politics technically should be allowed in social media. According to the constitution these are our basic rights. Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, so who is to say that we cannot utilize our facebook page and our tweets for politics. However, if people are looking for a way to increase political action via politics, they still have a lot of research to do on the subject.

Revising Sucks!

I have never been one to revise my papers, or even proof read them if we are being honest. Whoops! I am very characteristic of writing a paper, and handing it in. I will not even take another glance at it. This is probably why I am such a bad revisionist. I hate re-reading the same thing over and over and over. This has been a horrible process for me. I have read three different versions of my paper more times than I can count. Hopefully, I now have a better paper though. If not, I vow to quit revising! 

Does laziness conduce creativity? (Based off of Nicks Blog)

I do not know how to link Nicks blog into here, by writing just his name as he had done, so here is the whole link. You will not understand the majority of this without reading his, but it is interesting. This entry is based entirely off of the thought process acquired from reading his post. 

http://twocycle.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/my-lack-of-progress-leads-to-questions/

 

Sometimes the 45 seconds it takes to wash a lid may be a more productive use of your time in the long run. Which trains my thought to the idea that sometimes, the sole basis of our creativity can come from being a little lazy, no offense. This may not make sense, let me elaborate, as I have been a little jumpy in my thought processes today. You had the problem of your lid being dirty. You proposed the solution that instead of taking a very quick moment to wash it, you came up with a new way to solve the problem. But the reason you decided to be creative was because you did not want to wash the lid. So, in coming up with another way and being creative, you ended up being wrong in a sense, because you made a mess, thus your idea essentially failed. This goes back to Ken Robinson, and one of my favorite quotes by Joseph Chilton Pearce, “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” I was not quite sure where I was getting at with this until now, but, your laziness correlates to the lack of fear you have for being wrong. You obviously had no “fear” that you were going to be “wrong”, so you were lazy and did not wash the lid. I use wrong in the sense of, your idea not working and causing more of a hassle in the long run. This idea is seen a lot in kids now a days and even adults in your case. We live in a time where we are trying to rapidly get things done. It is all about completing a task and moving to the next one, taking no time to solve such a quick and simple problem, such as washing a lid, but rather finding something that can make the process move along more quickly. In a way, the society we live in today is completely conducive to creativity. We look for new ways to quickly complete a task when what we normally need to complete it is not available. Although this is a little example of living a creative life, it is a good one.

 

This reminded me of a time when I went downstairs to do laundry. The picture is what I found. It is just what it seems, two bottles of laundry detergent taped together and then taped to a freezer for support. This would be the creative works of my father. He is a contractor, so he is obviously a highly creative thinker, as it is imperative for him to be. But this example goes back to that of using a makeshift lid that Nick mentioned. What need for this was there? The sole purpose for this was being lazy. Wanting to transfer all the soap to one container,but not wanting to hold it and wait for it. Being too lazy to wait the five minutes for the soap to transfer. Essentially, there was no time saved at all, just like with the lid. With the lid, less time would have been spent washing the lid then the time you spent cleaning up the mess. Here, less time would have been spent holding the container then the time spent finding the tape, taping it together, and figuring out a support system for it, in this case the freezer. 

We do creative things because we are lazy. We come up with these new ideas to solve our problem, because we think it will take less time. Not to say all new creative ideas are a fail and end up taking more time, but a lot of them, yes. So, what truly conduces creativity? Is it our desire to challenge ourselves, or rather the laziness society has imposed on us and our desire to “save time”?

Politics this, Politics that.

First off, I just had an entire post done and this stupid website deleted it. Blogs are stupid if you aren’t into them and figuring out how they work. Sorry, Nick!

Lets try this again…

 

I am not going to state the political party to which I belong. I am not going to show favor to any. This is rather a rant about politics in social media and what politics has come to. Politics is a dirty thing. It is more based on slandering your opponent in as many ways as possible than using the facts to come up ahead of one another. Truthfully, we only know what the government wants us to know. Thus, politics is based more off of the slander placed upon each other than it is on the facts. The introduction of social media has fully encouraged this, in my opinion. Yes, technology is good, and can be helpful in some circumstances such as the foreign examples given to us in a homework article the other night. But I am going to focus on politics in social media in the United States. With the election around the corner, this is a great time for this assignment to come up. Social media has opened a lot more doors to politics than available in previous elections. In the 1920s, we started using radios, in the 1950s, we began watching television, in the 1990s, we began using the internet and in todays age, we use a wide array of social media. This gives way to the availability of information in a much greater capacity than back in the ’20s. But is this really a good thing? We can reach an immense audience with the use of social media, compared to that being reached by radios or television previously. However, this really just means that the slandering of your opponent can be reached by a lot more people than before. With the means of technology for your discriminatory photo to be reached by millions of people, it is much more prominent for the discriminatory photos to be created in higher numbers than ever before. Sorry this is kind of a rant, but the point I am trying to prove is that, politics has always been a rather dirty subject, but with the use of social media and increasing technology, it is just getting worse than it ever has been. Scrolling threw facebook, i see tons of pictures favoring one candidate over the other, putting the other down. Yes, we have freedom of speech, but is incorporating politics into social media going to have a good outcome? These photos are mostly one sided, and can shape peoples views poorly if they do not choose to look into it more, but rather believe what they see more of on their Facebook. Just a thought!

 

*These photos in no way are to show my political views or party of choice, but are rather just a collaboration of ones found via scrolling threw my feed.

 

I Propose that….

I propose that the proposal assignment is taken off the syllabus. HAHA. Sorry, Nick. Even though I know that it is not your syllabus to start. I am just having such a hard time trying to figure out a problem to propose here. I don’t know if everyone else is getting along great, but I am just very bad at this kind of stuff. Not having class this week was not very helpful in this process either. The harder part is that everyone can propose an idea to change their class or educational environment to make it better, but one to foster creativity? That is the biggest struggle I am having is determining what will help foster creativity? hmm. (Can we hashtag these? Do these have to be perfect grammar? If Emily is swearing, I am hash tagging) #UpAllNight #WhoWantsToIncreaseCreativityAnyway? #MoviesInsteadOfHomework