Something to Ponder...

What would you do if tomorrow that website with all your content was gone?

GET PRETTY ANGRY, and investigate for an hour or so until i give up and go float around the pool with a beer. I honestly suck at investigating!!

What would you do if you found out that glossy magazine had published your photos without asking? Honestly, i'd be surprised and honoured, but then my self consiousness would kick in and I would ring up the magazine.

How would you feel if a newspapers contained writing that came from your blog and you got no credit for it? I would ring the newspaper up straight away and ask why they claimed as there own.

Week 5 Lecture

Week 5 Lecture Notes!

Media? New Media? Social Media?

I didn’t want to explain or interpret some of these, so I’ve copied and pasted them.

Technology – “… is the scientific study of mechanical arts and their application”.

Media – When technology is used for social and cultural communication. TV!!! Yay!!

Virtual Community – “… when people carry on public discussion long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationship”. (H. Rheingold, 1993, The Virtual Community) This can get nasty though…just ask ACA or TT, joking, never EVER ask them about anything.

Individual Identity – “Its virtual reality, we self fashion and self-create”. (Turkle, 1995, Life on the Screen).

Turkle also stated that people often turned to the Internet to meet others with similar interests, as I’ve said in my earlier posts, THIS IS NOT SANE or healthy.

Web 2.0. – Created by Tim O’Reilley and friends after the 2000 crash. They created key technologies to do with the creation of web services with importance on the user’s experience. Its features…

Folksonomy -> “tags” on posts

The idea of user-generated content, e.g. putting photos, videos and text on the Internet

Open API -> sharing data openly between services on the Internet.

The Read-Write Web

So what I’m picking up here is that Community was a big idea and theme running here.

Summarising Social Media, it involves, Web blogs, Social Networking Services, and content Sharing communities.

Makes you wonder who owns the internet, and who owns the pictures that you post up… well I believe if you put it on the net your also giving away your ownership, and you’ll find on websites where you post anything, wither it be text, photo or video, there are terms and conditions in veryyy small print.

What opportunities can you find for political participation via the internet. How many of the following can you achieve while sticking to your political beliefs?

1. Sign an e-petition. DONE- stopping Australian Internet Censorship
2. Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site. DONE - to simon at news.com.au aout 2DayFm
3. What is Barak Obama up to today? DONE - Today Barack Obama turned down no fewer than five requests from Downing Street to hold a bilateral meeting at the United Nations in New York or at the G20 summit starting in Pittsburgh.
4. Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are. NOT DONE - totally gave up
5. Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament. NOT DONE - this is soooo hard
6. Let your local member know what you think about their last speech. NOT DONE- dont even know if they did make one

NCT Week 6! The Break away from Katie Kochanski on Vimeo.

Week 5 -

Presuming that you are a user of MSN, or other IM programs (or have used it before, or at least know about it)...

Besides the obvious differences (such as ActiveWorlds is 3D and MSN isn"t, etc) what are the qualitative differences between the regular IM program and a 3D environment?

WELL, if instant massaging hasn’t already taken the life and reality out of socializing, here comes a 3D environment we can now chat on. Alright, enough is enough, this is just getting sadder and sadder. GET OFF YOUR COMPUTERS AND GET OUTSIDE.

I think its absolutely absurd wither it is good quality or not! I know our world is huge and there are billions of people, but there is no need to talk to them through a 3D world, if you are that desperate to make friends, go join a club, society, club or even a club scouts but not a 3D world.

I understand that it helps and is a great advantage to communicating and meeting people, but msn is a much better idea in my mind. Why? Its keeping it simple people, and its not an overload when it comes to profiles. You can build a completely new different life on 3D sites, if that doesn’t spell out self-consciousness and “needs a social life” I don’t know what does.

I think its ok when you have a goal with these sites (world of warcraft), but when it comes to building a life… going to far.

In conclusion to this question though the quality with 3d, I found it to be slow and annoying, Msn is way faster and far more convenient for me, especially as I only go on to check my facebook and do work.

What is different about the kinds of socializing that happens in these spaces? Does the 3D aspect make much difference? 


I think the difference is both dramatic and pointless. Although it might be real and you can do countless amounts of new things including build homes, businesses, play games and meet people, you can do all these in a healthy environment. So although this does make IM better, in my mind it’s like a mobile phone with a cheese grater and its only going to lead to all sorts of sickness.

QUESTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
-I’m not to sure about this answer, but I’ve got a feeling they don’t search through every website in existence.

Who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
-Money!

What are some of your favorite search engines? Why do you like one more than others?
www.searchaol.com
www.google.com

What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?
Answer I found – Alan turing is actually very interesting! Broke the German U-boat coade, but he was the one riding a bicycle down the street wearing a gas mask.
Search Engine I Used- www.dogpile.com
Rating of Search Engine - * * *

On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?Answer I found - September 1969 BBN had developed and delivered the first IMP to the Network Measurement Center located at UCLA
Search Engine I Used- www.bing.com
Rating of Search Engine - * * * * 2 minutes

What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?Answer I found – Birthday October 28th 1955, and developed his first computer, 1973 he developed BASIC, and 1975 started working on Microsoft
Search Engine I Used- www.altavista.com
Rating of Search Engine – * * * * 1 minute

Where was the World Wide Web invented?
Answer I found – The Web was created at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1981..
Search Engine I Used- www.yahoo.com
Rating of Search Engine – * * * ½ 3minutes

How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?
Answer I found - For one thing the first computers weighed 24 pounds, the size was huge! Technology now something a whole generation can rely on.
Search Engine I Used- www.ask.com
Rating of Search Engine - * CRAP!

What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
Answer I found – This was the hardest thing to find!! Longest parsnip: Richard Hope (UK) 520.7 cm (17ft 1in), 2003 Heaviest parsnip: Norman Craven (Canada) 5.7 kg (12lb 9oz), 2004
Search Engine I Used- www.Lycos.com
Rating of Search Engine - *** hard seach though! 15minutes

When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
Answer I found – 1859, June 6th. Tweed river is in New south Wales, but why I don’t know, possibly because 85% of nsw suger cane grows on it?
Search Engine I Used- www.metacrawler.com
Rating of Search Engine - **** but I still couldn’t find that answer… 15 minutes

What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?
Answer I found - Tropical Cyclone
Search Engine I Used- www.alltheweb.com
Rating of Search Engine - ** 5 minutes – ended up going to a government search engine

Why is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?
Answer I found -. He proudly claimed to have enjoyed the company of a different woman on 200 consecutive evenings in Venice. Yet between bouts of Venetian libertinism, he managed to write the final cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgramage, the poem Beppo, large parts of his memoirs, sundry other lyrics, some verse drama, dozens and dozens of letters, and the first sections of his masterpiece Don Juan. The most notorious Romantic poet and satirist, Byron created his own cult of personality, the concept of the 'Byronic hero'
Search Engine I Used- www.aolsearch.com
Rating of Search Engine – ***** 2 minutes GREAT!

What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?\
Answer I found - He played vocals/keyboards in the black assassins, and his real name is Stephen Stockwell.
Search Engine I Used- www.search.netscape.com
Rating of Search Engine - ***1/2 10 minutes not toooo bad but annoying

Week 3 Lecture
Unfortunately I missed this week’s lecture, due to the Ekka Wednesday public holiday, something us Queenslanders are proud of. I’m happy to say that I didn’t mind missing the lecture for some Ekka day horse racing, which I enjoyed quite a lot!
What I did happen to miss was an interesting lecture about Cine-Speak, the Language of the Cinema. I was fortunate to understand a lot of this doing around about 8 years of acting.
I did how ever learn how the camera can deliver a message through the position it holds, without words or music backing it up. Example, stressing about the question when to go, the camera can get a shot of the clock into view.

The slides went through camera views answering the possible questions going through an audiences mind, for example, who, what, when, how, why and where. The next interesting thing was the proportions of head room an actor should receive in order to have the correct and suitable head room, and talking room, All of this using proportions in thirds and to the correct degree (e.g.180). The lecture slides finished up with an explanation of inserts and cutaways, and the conclusion that every shot needs to drive the narrating. Without this valuable information, most of the greatly loved films and advertisements would be quite boring.