26Oct

(Green power supplier awards) Digital Youth and Online Culture

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By Dag Wood

  Going on 30 years now most of us have a hard time remembering what we did before the Internet. Going online has become as commonplace as eating breakfast in the morning. Sure there are some people who don’t do it, or perhaps only do it occasionally, but for most of us the Internet is part of day to day life. From communicating through email, messaging programs or even video chat, to doing our important shopping, when something needs to be done, most people start out online.

One thing that people like us who are older have a hard time realizing, is that there is now a generation growing up who have never been without the internet. Have you ever heard the expression, “If you need help with your computer ask a 5 year old?” It funny but true. If you have children, they probably know just as much, if not more, about the internet than you do.

So what do kids do online all day? What does their digital world look like. Are they driven to video sites? Media or networking sites? Do any of them use the internet for learning or for education. Kids, and technology are now inextricably intertwined. But is their access to user posted digital content like blogs a good thing. What interests kids when everything is just a click away?

Youth and Digital Media

Several years ago the Berkman center for Internet and Society at Harvard University came up with the term, “digital youth,” to describe this rising generation. Many studies have been done on the effects of passing your formative years connected to the web. In fact researchers at Berkeley University performed a collaborative 3 year study on how children learn with digital media. They logged over 5000 hours of online observation and interviewed 800 youth about their habits.

So what did they find?

It’s no surprise that social networking sites, video-sharing sites and digital games and gadgets are now a ubiquitous fixture in modern youth culture. While the youth’s development still involves the same struggles, identity and autonomy, they have to do so in new and ever changing modes of communication and interaction.

One of the interesting findings of Berkeley’s study of digital youth and media is the disconnect between how parents perceive their children’s media usage and how the children see it. While many parent’s see Facebook and Twitter, Youtube and 4chan as a waste of time, these sites allow the young users to explore normative behavior, develop interaction skills and more.

Contrary to the general opinion that internet interaction cause youth to be less interactive and lazy, this study found out that most youth actually use digital media to continue hanging out with their friends in an always on way.

It has even been determined that children engage in self-directed learning online, based on the interests and knowledge of their peers. If you have ever seen two kids “geek” out about something on a message board or even a social media wall, it is obvious that the knowledge they are sharing was acquired by them on the internet for the very purpose of being able to converse intelligibly.

Where Parents Know More

One thing is certain however, while children may know more about the technical side of the internet, may even be more familiar with internet syntax and slang, trends and sites, they tend to be much less concerned about the possible dangers of online existence. Since everyone’s facebook or twitter page shares a similar format, it is hard to differentiate between adults and kids, friends and possible foes. So there are several things that, as a parent, you need to do to help protect your children.

Here is an article that lists several helpful suggestions for

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06May

(Energy information) How the Chorizo Is Prepared and Eaten in Colombia

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By Lamberto Fresnillo

  What is a Chorizo? :

The chorizo is a type of sausage prepared with pork meat and mince meat spiced, specially using paprika, which is the most distinctive element of a chorizo in comparison with other kind of sausages. Their condition and taste change, in relation with its preparation, its flavor and presentation through the countries and regions where it’s prepared.

The tradition has imposed the particular conditions of the chorizo preparation depending on the different places where this plate is known. In the countries of south America Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia for example,people use this word to name any coarse meat sausage, different from the Spanish-style chorizo that comes from Europe that is also available in this countries.

- How the Chorizo is prepared in Colombia?:

The chorizo in Colombia, a north country of south America, is prepared using a pork sausage, chopped and seasoned. It is called also “chorizo Antioqueo” because “Antioquia” is the region of Colombia where the chorizo is more famous.This region is placed in the north of the country being “Medelln” its capital. Unlike the chorizo in Spain (Europe), there is only a recipe to make a” Chorizo Antioqueo”. However, the proportions of the ingredients and the mix level of the pork, the onions, the bacon, the garlic, the chili, the coriander, the oregano, the salt and the pepper change on every town of the region.

- How the Chorizo is eaten in Colombia. :

In the region of Antioquia, people used to enjoy eating chorizo tasting its different gastronomic texture,depending on the town where it is prepared as we mentioned before. The chorizo is usually eaten along with an “arepa paisa”, another gastronomic plate of the region and a beverage. Spanish chorizo is also available but it distinguished to the chorizo antioqueo.

Videos, VSAT satellite tracking images , visual recipes, reports and further information in http://www.jamondetrujillo.com

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06May

(Energy conservation) How the Chorizo Is Prepared and Eaten in Colombia

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By Lamberto Fresnillo

  What is a Chorizo? :

The chorizo is a type of sausage prepared with pork meat and mince meat spiced, specially using paprika, which is the most distinctive element of a chorizo in comparison with other kind of sausages. Their condition and taste change, in relation with its preparation, its flavor and presentation through the countries and regions where it’s prepared.

The tradition has imposed the particular conditions of the chorizo preparation depending on the different places where this plate is known. In the countries of south America Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia for example,people use this word to name any coarse meat sausage, different from the Spanish-style chorizo that comes from Europe that is also available in this countries.

- How the Chorizo is prepared in Colombia?:

The chorizo in Colombia, a north country of south America, is prepared using a pork sausage, chopped and seasoned. It is called also “chorizo Antioqueo” because “Antioquia” is the region of Colombia where the chorizo is more famous.This region is placed in the north of the country being “Medelln” its capital. Unlike the chorizo in Spain (Europe), there is only a recipe to make a” Chorizo Antioqueo”. However, the proportions of the ingredients and the mix level of the pork, the onions, the bacon, the garlic, the chili, the coriander, the oregano, the salt and the pepper change on every town of the region.

- How the Chorizo is eaten in Colombia. :

In the region of Antioquia, people used to enjoy eating chorizo tasting its different gastronomic texture,depending on the town where it is prepared as we mentioned before. The chorizo is usually eaten along with an “arepa paisa”, another gastronomic plate of the region and a beverage. Spanish chorizo is also available but it distinguished to the chorizo antioqueo.

Videos, VSAT satellite tracking images , visual recipes, reports and further information in http://www.jamondetrujillo.com


Digital Youth and Online Culture

By Dag Wood

  Going on 30 years now most of us have a hard time remembering what we did before the Internet. Going online has become as commonplace as eating breakfast in the morning. Sure there are some people who don’t do it, or perhaps only do it occasionally, but for most of us the Internet is part of day to day life. From communicating through email, messaging programs or even video chat, to doing our important shopping, when something needs to be done, most people start out online.

One thing that people like us who are older have a hard time realizing, is that there is now a generation growing up who have never been without the internet. Have you ever heard the expression, “If you need help with your computer ask a 5 year old?” It funny but true. If you have children, they probably know just as much, if not more, about the internet than you do.

So what do kids do online all day? What does their digital world look like. Are they driven to video sites? Media or networking sites? Do any of them use the internet for learning or for education. Kids, and technology are now inextricably intertwined. But is their access to user posted digital content like blogs a good thing. What interests kids when everything is just a click away?

Youth and Digital Media

Several years ago the Berkman center for Internet and Society at Harvard University came up with the term, “digital youth,” to describe this rising generation. Many studies have been done on the effects of passing your formative years connected to the web. In fact researchers at Berkeley University performed a collaborative 3 year study on how children learn with digital media. They logged over 5000 hours of online observation and interviewed 800 youth about their habits.

So what did they find?

It’s no surprise that social networking sites, video-sharing sites and digital games and gadgets are now a ubiquitous fixture in modern youth culture. While the youth’s development still involves the same struggles, identity and autonomy, they have to do so in new and ever changing modes of communication and interaction.

One of the interesting findings of Berkeley’s study of digital youth and media is the disconnect between how parents perceive their children’s media usage and how the children see it. While many parent’s see Facebook and Twitter, Youtube and 4chan as a waste of time, these sites allow the young users to explore normative behavior, develop interaction skills and more.

Contrary to the general opinion that internet interaction cause youth to be less interactive and lazy, this study found out that most youth actually use digital media to continue hanging out with their friends in an always on way.

It has even been determined that children engage in self-directed learning online, based on the interests and knowledge of their peers. If you have ever seen two kids “geek” out about something on a message board or even a social media wall, it is obvious that the knowledge they are sharing was acquired by them on the internet for the very purpose of being able to converse intelligibly.

Where Parents Know More

One thing is certain however, while children may know more about the technical side of the internet, may even be more familiar with internet syntax and slang, trends and sites, they tend to be much less concerned about the possible dangers of online existence. Since everyone’s facebook or twitter page shares a similar format, it is hard to differentiate between adults and kids, friends and possible foes. So there are several things that, as a parent, you need to do to help protect your children.

Here is an article that lists several helpful suggestions for


Tools To Get It Done With SEO

By Erins Kerissea

  SEO Basics

Where is your website at in the search engines? Can people find it without typing your business name or website in the search box? Very much money can be made from a high ranking website that thousands of people consistently visit.

But the main concern there is how can one improve website ranking by the significant margin required to go from a simple personal website to a small money making company?

It’s all about website ranking. see how a website with 1st page rankings can easily make in fold the profit a non ranked or unpopular website does.

And the same question still remains, how can one improve website ranking? The method to achieve this is called Search Engine Optimization or SEO.

Researching into the words most likely leads you to understanding it more, SEO is a method of optimizing web content and thus the website it belongs to, such that it is placed higher in search engines.

If the logic here escapes you try seeing it this way, what do you do when you’re trying to learn about something new on line and you have no clue where to find it? Exactly, search engines.

So if you can improve website ranking through the efficient use of SEO, you have an easy opportunity of making a huge number of digits pop out the bank statements.

SEO is all about keywords, though at many times these can be keyword phrases.

A particular article or web content to be inserted in a website has to contain a certain number of keyword phrases exactly as required by a search engine to be able gain rank in the search engine results.

You have to think about what keywords you would use.

1st page rankings, get noticed, get more traffic, and have more ability to make money through whatever method you’ve chosen.

All through SEO.

Visit the SEO Consulting Services web page for more info on SEO Consulting Services.

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