In addition to this humble website my work appears elsewhere on the world wide web. For a class project for Information Technology (IT-103 at GMU), the class I was in had to write a work relevant to technological development and then create webpages with said content on it. As with the material on this website, I feel compelled to show my work to the world, at least as long as it is to be posted at the site it is on. In the event that my work is taken down after the semester I shall most happily post it here. Below is a sampling of the essay followed by a link to the webpages where it is located in full.

"Although the Space vacuum that surrounds the earth has been declared the “Final Frontier”, the argument could be made that it is the Internet that truly deserves such a title. Postdating the formation of the galaxies, nothing made by man since the Internet functions almost as a territory unto itself, comprising bandwidth and supercomputers and populated with settlements known as websites, social arenas like chat rooms and message boards, and trading posts that involve the exchange of money and goods. Real-world institutions, governments, museums, and churches have created their own presence online as well, adding to the social structure of this true final frontier, one crafted not by nature but by man."

"Many wonder what specifically could be so fundamentally dangerous about blogs. After all, blogs are just opinion pieces of personal reflection. However, as the following real world examples show, blogs can have an impact upon the world from without the Internet, influencing events in ways that become frightening. Recently, Fairfax Republican Delegate Tim Hugo ran an attack ad against his Democratic opponent Rex Simmons. The source for the vitriol was a blog diary listed on the website www.raisingkaine.com.3 What’s even more interesting is that the source of the quoted blog was a not high-ranking politician but rather a student majoring in government and international politics at George Mason University."

"To truly appreciate the influence of the bloggosphere and the Internet in general in ideological and political disputes, there would have to be a census taken of all the blogs in which the writer all but exclusively serves a political agenda. Only then could the true magnitude of the danger be found. Admittedly it is unlikely that the majority of the active blogs online are politically oriented, but if even 1% of them were, it would be a sizable if not imposing population."

Full essay found at this location.