NOTE: I apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes in this log. It's hard to see what I'm writing, since the typing box is so small!

This song is made to represent the reaction to the time when the secret was revealed that the NSA was spying on americans. (Ironically, the main article I read was about the same topic as my feature article - I'm sure to use this article for my second draft. The drums have been filtered and cut and spliced to become still recognizeable as drums, but still quite confusing. This is like what is was like at the time: everything was chaotic and confusing, and not much was known about how the NSA got their data or how much data they had collected. The synth (tune) is also a bit confusing, only it has a kind of dark/distrustful feel to it. This is to represent the public at the time, suddenly much more untrustful of their government. I didn't see that many signposts in the article (It's an article...) but I did have a personal signpost. I thought that all tech companie had been willingly giving information to the NSA, knowing the whole time that they were doing it. But in the article, I learned that some companies, like Google and Facebook, has been completely taken by surprise by the leaked information. They had been unwillingly and unknowingly giving the NSA information! This is a contrast for me, since I used to think that they knew all along, when it turns out it wasn't so bad after all...sorta.I really liked this article, as it's by Wired, and most articles in Wired are funny and interesting, but also because I'm interested in internet privacy and the issues surrounding the NSA, hence my feature article.

I've been reading the Wired Magazine (A different one than from last week) all around, but the article I did this log on is "How the US Almost Killed the Internet" by Steven Levy. I've read only 4-5 pages of the article, but each page is about 6-7 pages of a book's worth, so my estimated total is 30 pages reading the article, plus 20 or so pages reading small articles.