Student: Adam McDermott 09005951
Chosen blog: www.Gigaom.com
Chosen post: Can Speech Recognition Find Its Voice in Computing?


My comments on blogs:
Gigaom is a weblog dedicated to giving the reader an up-to-date insight into what is going on right now in the world of digital media, with detailed reports that are both intriguing and entertaining.

It has twelve dedicated bloggers so the reader is constantly being given new information and news that is just been made available. The staff is headed by the Editor-in-Chief Sebastian Rupley.

The topics that are posted about are incredibly varied which prevents the weblog from growing stale. You'll get a post on the world of mobile phones with posts like "Nokia Kills N-Gage. Again", other posts like "Get Congress Out of the Net Neutrality Debate, Please" which challenge the reader to thing about the future of digital media, and other posts like "Verizon: Our Network Can Handle the Droid".
These post occur very regularly, on average the reader will get twelve to eighteen posts a day thanks to the tireless staff.

The target audiance is broad catering to anyone who has a sleight interest in the digital world and is curious about what is happening right now as well as people who are very knowledgeable about the digital world and are just looking for an update.

The language used is vey formal unless the blogger is arguing a point of theirs then they present their argument in a factual tone basing their arguemnt on facts instead of assumptions.

Favourite post: Can Speech Recognition Find Its Voice in Computing?
http://gigaom.com/2009/10/29/can-speech-recognition-find-its-voice-in- computing/#comment-981442

This is my favourite post because after reading that Microsoft had said on their site that “talking to a computer may soon be as natural as using a mouse” in the first few lines.The blogger then lets us know how "The mouse has nearly become an extra appendage for many of us, touchpads and touchscreens are simple and intuitive; and larger screens minimize the need to drill down through menus". Which made me realise how inevitable the next step was and how I didn’t even see the change in computer interface occurring right in my hand, on my iPod. I find the idea of voice-regognition software fascinating and the idea of it becoming part of our every-day lives captivates me. The blogger does have his doubts about just about seeing theis software at the level it needs to be at in the near future "When it comes to usage on desktops and laptops, though, any real uptake is a long way off — if it happens at all". However he does point to how far it has come in the last few years as phones become more sophisticated so does the voice-regognition software.

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