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Natural preservatives are usually found in the form of acids, and essential oils (blood) of plants. These forms of preservatives work by releasing antioxidants into formulations and/or by binding to the chemical compounds or minerals within formulations to slow down the rancidity. Although a preservative can be found in natural or organic sources does not mean that the preservative can be any less safe or effective than man-made chemical preservatives. Let's read on:

Citric Acid/Sodium Citrate - Citric acid is a weak organic acid found in citrus fruits. It is a natural preservative and is also used to add an acidic (sour) taste to foods and soft drinks. In biochemistry, it is important as an intermediate in the citric acid cycle and therefore occurs in the metabolism of almost all living things. It also serves as an environmentally benign cleaning agent and acts as an antioxidant. Citric acid exists in a variety of fruits and vegetables, but it is most concentrated in lemons and limes, where it can comprise as much as 8 percent of the dry weight of the fruit. Citric acid is most commonly used in formulations to as an antioxidant or chelating agent. (Source)

Communication log 3

Information overload!

Finding information on the Internet is easy when you understand the rules that people follow to categorize and filter data. On the information overloaded website Pinterest.com, information is categorized in boards through tags, titles created by individual users. For example, using the search word "cats" will result in pinboards that users have tagged, titled or commented about cats.

Clicking on two particular (unrelated) images of cats from different users shows commonalities on things that are shared on each pinboard. Devices both users used to categorize their boards included titling every picture of cats with specific words  such as cats, kittens, meow and purr.

Communication log 2

Examples
Web 1.0. considered the basic form of the web, limited to one-way communication, or communication that is directed/controlled through one person.

The dotcom boom - personal websites were people shared information about them (personal, hobby, business). Popular forms of this in free website hosting sites such as Geocities, Angelfire. Personal sites on these websites communication information controlled by the webmaster, and at this time did not have visitor commenting/discussion technology.

Web 2.0 considered the new interactive form of the web, where people had the chance to communicate directly to multiple uses and form networks not limited to one leader/leaders.

Wiki authors - wiki's allow for multiple users to [re]edit and communicate information without the control of a webmaster (like web 1.0) and integrates a larger form and more "interactive" network. Wikipedia is the more popular example of this.

Commenting systems - Wordpress is the more popular form of web blogging systems (a remixed form of personal websites) that allow webmasters to interactive and broaden networks with viewers of their websites.

Web 3.0 is considered the semantic form of the, where use lifestream or user engagement is further broadened for a rich web-interactive experience.

Widgets - an earlier example of this would be the new form of personalized information trackers implemented on Yahoo! main page when users log in with Yahoo! email. This has now been replaced with a more streamlined Google+.

Personal ads - a more sophisticated way of personalizing the web through user cache, ads are now personalized through optionally obtained user information submitted through web forms (names, ages, emails) and personal web history collected through browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and submitted to respective companies.

Communication log 1

For 48 hours I kept a written log of how often I used my technological modes of communication. On Friday I went to work, there my modes of communication is limited to my employers network. One Saturday, the weekend, I spent more time with my personal technology giving me the freedom to use them as frequently as I wanted, mostly using devices simultaneously.

Comparing my findings to the article, Taylor et al, I have a preference in using my email versus face to face (F2F) interaction when it involves communication with someone deemed as my superior (ex: the article suggests students prefer email communication with professors, and in my log I preferred email communication with my supervisor at work instead of F2F interaction). Compared to the comparison with a classmate, I am more likely to check my email frequently during the day than he was. In our comparison, my use of email (which I use in a formal manner through a desktop/laptop device) was on par with my classmates use of his cellphone (which he used for personal calls and text messages). To conclude we both used our own form technology at the same rate, but for different purposes based on the short log we created. However, I think if we both created our logs at the same day it would be a more interesting comparison because we both followed the same 48 hour duration but applied to different days (my own on a workday and day off [where I mostly rested from work], and his on days off where he was in class or at work).