Eileen Malick’ Blog

CD-ROM discs, DVD discs, and Blu-ray Discs look the same to the naked eye, but are drastically different when you compare the discs at the sub-microscopic level and explore the laser technologies that read their optical information. When it comes to Optical Storage, there are 3 general types: CD-ROMs (read-only-memory) are commercial grade discs and use [...]

How is the world feeling or reports worldwide in the past few hours? Jonathan Harris gives a talk about Visual Observations of the Web at TED Talks and describes them as “Passive Observations.” The We Feel Fine Project scans the world’s blogs to collect snapshots and blurbs of writers’ feelings. Diameters of dots are correlated [...]

Title: Progression of the Numa Numa YouTubeDescription: Students learn how a simple music video released by a Former-Russian-Province Boy Band can generate a global exchange of ideas in the form of YouTube Videos. 2003 – Eastern European Band O-Zone releases a song titled “Dragostea din Tei” YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdb0B3Ib2gE 2004 – 19 year-old Gary Brolsma [...]

There was thought-provoking article in Wired Magazine July 2008 titled “The End of Science” and discussed how the massive amounts of data is replacing the need for hypothesis, modeling, and testing. Sensors and Web Databases are stored on almost infinite amounts of storage and can be accessed worldwide. Malick View: If you feel that there [...]