Emily outlines the serious issue surrounding male privilege in what is largely still a patriarchal society, using the Santa Barbra Massacre as a basis for her discussion. The post cleverly links each stage of the massacre outlined to an online article related to the specific comments or information. Furthermore, the article seamlessly weaves detailed facts about the massacre with critique of America’s approach to mental health care and the misdirected focus of the media on a “madman” rather than a man who is sexually frustrated to the point where he has manifested his belief in male privilege into a deep hatred for women. She links also to others who have written on the issue and included images of twitter posts regarding the issue, using the hashtag #YesAllWomen. All the content relats to her own standpoint the Santa Barbra massacre was not about a madman who finally lost all control, but a murderer who planned his revenge on women because he felt he had the right to. This piece is extremely well linked to together and flows so that the reader is left with a clear understanding of the issue.

James makes an interesting discussion on Hypertext, its origins and meaning. He makes key references to a reading by Theodore Nelson to explain that the internet would become even from the 1980’s a revolution and the hypertext would be the way we link many many pages at once and view multiple forms of media all at once. I would suggest that James include some links in his text to pages that might explain certain things further. For example, assuming not everyone has read the reading James is referring to, a link to it could be useful. He includes this excellent photo that succinctly explains Hypertext visually. The photo itself is a link to its origin which is very clever but I would suggest it wouldn’t hurt to credit the origin in a written form on the page near the image incase people don’t click on it.

Michael shares some interesting thoughts about our reliance on technology versus a world searching for energy efficiency and “green” methods of power. Could use a little more development but this bit sized food for though piece is packed with ideas.