Race

  The internet offers a place to hide. But it also lets us embrace ourselves. Those are the first two things that came to my mind when the author first started talking but as the journal article goes on it just her jumping point in explaining the menu driven aspect of the internet.

  

 The article is clearly written in early 2000s or late 1990s because of there being no mentioned of Google and talks about Netscape. The author explore how using Excite and Yahoo define ethincy when you search using the categories. She also mentions that at the time you could only open one at a time versus the ability of opening multiples. On page four she talks about when the internet started that it was believe that the internet could help out with the race inequality. The article goes on to explorer the importance of portals and things about how email is the internet one killer app as well as continue to talk about ethincy. 

While one of the articles focus on being menu driven the other talks about the looks of the graphics of different user interfaces of different programs/software that people uses. The main argument is if the bare bones approach or the eye candy approach is better. Graphics captures the user attention and can be the driving force that brings them back. The article goes back to that age old argument of not judging a book by it's cover because what is inside matters more.

The one thing that the second article got me thinking about is the argument that exist between computer users. The argument of Mac vs. PC. To me Mac took the bare bones approach with making simple, easy to use, and not to flashy. While PC at least with Vista it was flashy. Although at flashy first captures your attention on most thing it could end up being for the worst. Example when I was choosing my computer I wanted the less flashier one because operating the computer with the most ease  was to me the most important aspect. And as was reading the second article this was what I first thought about.