Jaleesa Powell's Starter - 11/04/2010

I did my starter on Tumblr this morning, which is another blogging site. What makes it relatively unique are its "follow" and "like" capacities which make "tumbleblogging" a lot easier. Information spreads very quickly on this website, and it's extremely easy to find things that you're interested in. Just go to the directory and pick an area of interest or search for entries tagged with something you're interested in, and once you've found one blog on the website that caters to your interests, you've basically entered into a network with lots of information about that particular topic because chances are that blog is composed of various reblogs, and has been commented on and liked by several people with that same interest. All of this information is accessible via the "notes" link on every entry, which takes you to a page that keeps track of who liked the entry, or who reblogged the entry, etc. There are also several widgets that can be added to individual blogs.

I strongly suggest exploring tumblr for yourself to get a better understanding of what it can do. It's a really good resource, especially if you're creative or innovative and need a relatively large steady flow of information. Start following enough people and you'll be amazed at how much there is out there pertaining to your particular interest.

If you want to know more about Tumblr and its origins and where it is all stored, visit this page:

http://www.tumblr.com/about

Or if you just want to visit tumblr to get a better feel for it and explore, the url is:

http://www.tumblr.com

WolfRamAlpha

WolfRamAlpha.com is an online answer engine that computes factual queries rather than just giving a list of documents or pages that may give the answer. The website was released into the public on May 15, 2009 by Stephen Wolfram. It consists about five million lines of Mathematica code and runs on 10,000 cpus. It has not reformed its industry, like it was suppose to, but it has only been out for a year.