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This article was interesting to me because it showed how careless people can be when it comes to technology. People seem to forget that computers are machine who do as they are told. They do not have the ability to think rationally so of course a computer that is told to up a price a certain amount depending on other sales and what not would just continue to up the price. Any person who looked at the price would have seen the problem but a computer doesn’t work that way. This article reminds me why people dislike computers. If a computer takes a second too long to load what does the user do? They push the button again, pause, push it again and again. This only confuses the computer and then it tries to open the clicked thing over and over. This would be the equivalent of trying to finish a thought with someone saying, “Tell me now, tell me now, tell me now!” It would not help but hinder the situation. This article was entertaining and goes to show how people are usually at fault not the computers they blame.

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I just wanted to let everyone know that I really enjoyed presentations today. I learned a bunch of new information about publishing and publishing related info. I wanted to point out somethings that I found interesting and I apologize for not knowing everyone’s names so I’m sorry if I got anyone’s names confused. Please feel free to leave a comment to correct me if I put the wrong name to a presentation. I really liked that Melody explained the difference between fantasy and science fiction because I have asked this question multiple times and I get a different answer every time. Melody’s definition was a big help! Hannah’s presentation on travel writing  was interesting. I had never thought of fiction pieces as travel writing pieces because I had never thought or heard of that before but it makes complete sense. Heather’s story about her editing experience was very informative. It gave a new look into how hard editing really is as a job and that it can be just as hard on the editor as the writer. Brett did an awesome job with giving a comprehensive history of e-books, the history of internet, and the combined history of the e-book and internet. Kirsten did an amazing job with showing censorship with a hint of humor which made the presentation that much more engaging. Sam’s presentation on the setup for making a small publishing company was extremely informative. The fact that writers can actually influence the image of a small publishing company was an interesting fact that I hadn’t realized before.

I am breezing through these really fast but I just wanted to give some feedback on the presentations. I thought they were all extremely well written, put together, and delivered. They were informative but entertaining at the same time! Good job all around!