Silence Speaks

Hello World

After the Media in America (MIA) lecture today; suddenly I feel small, insignificant.

Putting names to faces:



1. Facebook CEO co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg (Harvard dropout - Computer Science btw) created Facebook during college. Never mind about the harsh critics of it being the ultimate relationship engine, cyberstalking yada yada.



2. Shawn Fanning, creator of Napster (the first media sharing program that revolutionised WWW but due to cpoyrights infringements has closed down) created said program during college.




3. Chad Hurley, affectionately known as the YouTube guy. Never mind that he and his co-founders whom he met at PayPal sold YouTube to Google inc for 1.65b, they created Youtube during their stint in the company. Chad joined PP after graduation from college.



4. Founder of popular website Digg, Kevin Rose, (UNLV dropout - computer science again btw).

Do you see my point? Here I am. Living each day for each day. Attempting to finish each and every tutorial before well, each tutorial. More examples will simply kill what's left of my motivation.

On the bright side, if you wanna be the next YouTube guy or the founder of the next big thing online, it seems computer science is the course to major? Lol or dropping out halfway? Double lol. And contrary to what some say (obviously naive people), those pictures are proofs that social networking sites, and some of the biggest online sites (for lack of better phrasing) are not created by nerds.

Life should be a game of cards.
Win some, lose some.

Here's a cool video by Asst. Prof Wesch regarding Web 2.0, which was shown during MIA lecture. Interesting concept. Rethink us.

posted by wantington-ny @ 7:39 PM