John Hurrell (Blogs exist)

  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...

       Stable Change is quite possibly the most important theory in todays political climate. After the recent election the Democratic Party now has power over the Presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives which leaves the United States in an incredibly strenuous spot. With no checks and balances between the three of them, the idea of stable change is in dire straits. The power ultimately falling to one side makes it incredibly easy for an agenda to be pushed, which can mean a swift and rapid change to the way things are instead of a moderate and steady change that usually needs to take place. This would be true for either political party, if all power fell to the Republican side, the effect of rapid change would still be a possibility. Imagine if all three were run by the Republican Party, the budget for the United States military would be through the roof, and other sections of government would suffer due the budget cuts that would have to take place...