John Hurrell (Blogs exist)

  Social Media and My Consumption     Social Media has been one of the most popular forms of media within the past 20 years. With this popularity also comes the droves of people who are using these sites during their day to day lives. While some forms of social media attract a younger crowd like TikTok or Instagram, other attract an older audience such as Facebook and Pintrest. When it boils down, people are using these platforms as a way of connecting to other people who have the same interests as they do. That is the main pull of social media, it sucks you in with an addictive algorithm to keep you scrolling or watching. It is the very nature of social media to keep you engaged, get your data, and make some money off you with their personalized ads.     When it comes to my consumption of social media I was unaware of how much time I spend scrolling through my favorite platforms on a day to day basis. In the past week alone, across all the social media sites I ...

  Diffusion Theory and Youtube     Rogers Diffusion of Innovation or Diffusion Theory states that over time a new invention or idea gains popularity or momentum and slowly diffuses itself into society. We have seen many companies and inventions go through this process such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but no company in the past 20 years has had quite the impact then Youtube did back in 2005. The reason I say this is because the video sharing platform mogul holds the largest part of that market and there hasn't been a company trying to rival it. Youtube holds this space with an iron fist and it is incredibly interesting to see how this came to be. It all starts way back in 2005-2006 when Youtube made its first public appearance on the internet.     The reason Youtube caught on and spread as rapidly as it did is because people were finally able to post videos onto a website and hold a subscriber count of people who enjoyed their content. The early ...

  False Flags     False flags by definition  is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of the act as a second party, then blaming that second party. In more simple terms a false flag is a covert operation that is used to blame a person, government, or country for something that you set up. False flags have been prevalent in our world for hundreds of years. False Flags are incredibly common and are most often used to undermine political opponents, during times of war, and is a main tactic in espionage. Larger world powers have used false flags for years and almost every Global Superpower has used them in order to benefit them in their endeavors. The United States is no stranger to using false flags, Operation Northwoods, Operation WASHTUB, The Piazza Fontana Bombing, and Operation PBFortune. And when it comes to other countries the list grows. Other famous false flags include Operation Himmler and and the Gliewitz Incident by Nazi Germany, Op...

  Anti-War     When looking at Antiwar.com I noticed that the site itself seemed unpolished and unfinished. It reminded me of the sites from the early 2000s where everything was in boxes and the screen never seemed to be centered. I was honestly quite shocked by it, I was thinking the website would be a well up-kept site, but then I started to think about why the site might be self built. Anti-War propaganda is not popular within most governments, and those who say they do not wish to go to war can be seen as unpatriotic and will be ostracized by the media. It happened back in 2001 after the terrorist attacks on the pentagon and world trade centers. Since it was an incredibly gruesome attack the government was drumming up support for war in Iraq. The American people were behind it, most of the media was behind it, but those who were not got kicked to the dirt. I can now understand why a website creation company like a squarespace would have no interest in c...

  The Supreme Court           The Supreme Court is made up of nine Chief Justices and the court is one of the strongest allies the people have within the Federal Government. Since it's conception the Supreme Court has slowly gained more and more power, allowing them to choose laws or rulings that they deem unconstitutional. The role of a Supreme Court Justice is incredibly prestigious as there have only been little over one hundred justices in US history. Despite the prestigious role, the job is not easy, the justices get about 200 new cases every week, that is over 7000 in a single year, meaning that the review process that they must go through is long and tedious. The court however does not have to choose every case that lands on their desk, this is thanks to certiorari, it gives the justices the right to choose which cases will be heard, and which ones will not. The court is incredibly open about their process, unlike other corners of government they ann...

  The Rise of Youtube     It's hard to think about Youtube then anything other than the media giant that they are today, but the now billion dollar company started off in a garage, like many others. The idea was born from within the garage of Chad Hurley, Youtube's first CEO. The journey started in 2004, with only a garage to work out the team of just three guys started working. Chad filed for the domain, logo, and trademark in 2005. The platform was originally intended to be a dating website where users could post videos of themselves and people would be able to like and comment on the people they liked. This effectively getting the other user to check out their profile and create traffic to hopefully find love. During the testing phase the users began to get bored of posting dating profiles and just started posting whatever they wanted, wether it just be them at a zoo (The first video on the beta of Youtube), a cat video, or some form of comedic home video. Once th...