English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

My second research blog is going to be over the Blackberry Storm’s hardware and specifications. I got all of my information for this part of my research from the Blackberry website itself at http://www.blackberry.com/blackberrystorm/specifications.shtml. This website was a lot like the website in my previous blog, but I will go through the details anyways.

For this assignment my research is going to be over the hardware and specifications of the iPhone, Blackberry Storm, and the G1. In my first research blog I am going to be going over the specs for the iPhone by Apple. I got all of my information from Apple themselves at the website http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html.

For my second research blog, I decided to cover the information that was contained in an article titled New York Needs Renewable Wind Power, which is available online here. This article was published by Citizens Campaign for the Environment, an 80,000 member not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing strong environmental policies. This article discusses reasons of support for renewable energy and wind power in New York.

My main focus for our white paper project will be focusing on the needs of our audiences. I will be looking for any and all information that each audience needs to know. I will be researching what all the audience will be using in the platform/software and present the relevant data in the document. But before I begin researching for our audiences, I must research SharePoint and the other platforms for myself first.

For my second research blog, I decided to cover the information that was contained in a May 2008 Popular Mechanics article titled Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure. This article is also available online here . Popular Mechanics is a monthly circulating magazine that focuses on current topics in technology and science.

This research blog will summarize the information that is contained in the website http://www.ec.gc.ca/
cleanair-airpur/Pollution_Sources/Electricity_Generation/Coal_and_Oil_Fired_Power-WS36F53482-1_En.htm. This website consists of environmental information related to coal- and oil-fired power. This information was provided by Environment Canada, which is legally incorporated as Canada’s Department of the Environment.

I started to research how beneficial open source solutions would be for a school. I was aimed at looking at some figures. What I discovered was spidertoos.com. Here this website for Linux training experts has an article about the cost savings. With the current economical times and the want to reduce costs this could be a key focus in our white paper as to why to switch to open source. One of the focuses of the article is to use Open Office instead of Microsoft Office.

In this next blog entry, I'd like to focus in on more of the statistical facts that I've collected via research into horizontal closed-loop systems. I think that such data will be pertinent to the usability and immediate credibility of any information that our white paper provides, and that it is completely necessary for us to achieve our desired project outcome. In researching statistics, I planned to gather data that would meet our main objective of informing the primary audience, the contractor, on the appropriate heat pump system for any given scenario.

My research lead me to find an article by Computerworld. This article focuses on some of the differences between Open Office and Microsoft Office. I discovered that Open Office does not have the “Ribbon” that Microsoft Office has. This isn’t a large concern however since the “Ribbon” that they are referring to is they design of Microsoft Office 2007. Since we are focusing on a schools using open source, there is a high chance that schools aren’t using Microsoft 2007. This means that the “Ribbon” isn’t a large concern.

For my last research blog I decided to try and find some of the benefits of using domestic wind turbine technology. This was harder than it seemed because I couldn’t really find a source that did not seem biased towards using wind turbines no matter what. Also most of the sources I found had slightly differing information. I finally settled on a couple of websites that I felt had a decent amount of information.
http://www.awea.org/faq/rsdntqa.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/18/micro.turbine/index.html