yay for the midterm being over

for my midterm i would create a website that talks about the benefits of smart cards, and their use in todays health care systems.. for anyone who wants to know, a smart card is an electronic storage system that looks like a credit card that would hold all of your medical records and could be carried with a person everywhere. it would be updated able via the internet and at hospital or dr.'s office's

For my midterm, I'd like to analyze a Japanese social networking site, http://www.mixi.jp

I am interested in the differences in culture affecting how the website works, and what kind of similarities in structures exist with sites like myspace or facebook. It's interesting, coming from Japan, because most Japanese students made a facebook after coming to college and keep up with their mixi websites as well.

For my midterm project I want to analyze the site, www.drudgereport.com, a political web site that uses hyperlinks to connect a visitor to large amounts of information from a single page format. Drudge seeks to deliver a general sense of current news without much commentary and using a series of intriguingly titled links to connect one to a more substantive site. The site does not rely solely on its own reporting nor insight, instead using the page as a jumping off point to a multitude of dedicated reporting sites.