Mar 24, 2021
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Just filled out my eigth grade elective form and its likes “you dont gotta take pe if you’ve done it for two years” so thats pog. also i took art 2 and web comunications for the highschool credit :p
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yeehaw mother fucker
Just filled out my eigth grade elective form and its likes “you dont gotta take pe if you’ve done it for two years” so thats pog. also i took art 2 and web comunications for the highschool credit :p
Befristete Stelle als Online-Redakteur (TV-L E13) an der TU München
Befristete Stelle als Online-Redakteur (TV-L E13) an der TU München
Die TU München sucht seit dem 2. April eine neue Kollegin oder Kollegen für das Team Web Communications. Die Vollzeitstelle ist zunächst bis Ende 2015 befristet, wird aber mit TV-L E13 vergütet. Gesucht wird ein Online-Redakteur für “klassische” Webseitenbetreuung: Contentmanagement, SEO, Auswertung / Analyse mittels Piwik, Optimierung von Usability / Barrierefreiheit, etc.
Die Stelle ist…
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Web 101 - Portfolio Week 9 - Your Internet Footprint
This week we learnt that one should very carefully consider what information one makes public online because once published information can remain indefinitely. One should therefore take care to consider how others would view the information e.g. family, employers and also whether it is something that could be used by less than honest persons to access even more personal information, or be used for identity fraud or impersonation.
One of our readings was “Anonymity and Self-Disclosure on Weblogs” by Qian, H and Scott, C. According to them “Visual anonymity refers to the condition where the physical presence of a message source cannot be detected; discursive anonymity, on the other hand, refers to the condition where verbal communication cannot be attributed to a particular source.” They maintain that people can choose to be totally anonymous, pseudonymous or identifiable in their blogs.
By self disclosure they mean the communication of personal information, thoughts, feelings, etc., and that it is more prevalent in blogs and can lead to problems. Self disclosure can be risky as it may lead to the author being rejected or ridiculed, which makes them vulnerable. According to the article people prefer to disclose personal information to strangers rather than to their families and that blogs can serve as emotional outlets for people, in a similar way to that in which diaries used to. Their research in 2007 indicated that personal blogs are generally intended for and shared with people known to the author offline. Even when an author tries to maintain little self-disclosure, there are numerous and unsuspected ways in which a blogger’s identity can be revealed and many bloggers choose not to disclose highly personal details as they are concerned their identity will be discovered by people they know especially family members.
The maintained that “The target audience plays an important role in determining not only how anonymous a blogger feels but also how much personal identification information s/he will provide”.
As usual the iLecture by Dr Tam,a Leaver was interesting and dealt with privacy, visibility and presence online. He cited the views of sociologist Erving Goffman who authored “The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life” in 1959 and maintained that the we convey our “self “ to others as a series of digital performances similar to that in theatre and in which we choose what we show to the target audience.
Dr Leaver also mentioned the theories of self according to contemporary theorist Judith Butler who also maintained all self was a performance and that “everything is discursive and thus constructed” through media and ideas and that there was no way we could construct a “self” without it being viewed in terms of prevalent cultural meanings.
Dr Leaver also referred to Donna Haraway who maintained that contemporary society was already a cyborg because we are all addicted to our online technologies to the point that effect us and how we behave to such an extent that we would be fundamentally different people if we did not have those technologies because they are so much a part of who we are. Our technologies are so important to many of us that they are like extensions of ourselves.
We looked at the ways in which online presences were once just text, which often lead to misunderstandings of meaning because the usual audio and visual cues used in normal communication were lacking. This lack led rise to emoticons like the smiley face etc. to help convey meaning, intent, emotion, etc.
In discussing the conclusions of Z. Papacharissi in “A Networked Self: Identity, Community and Culture on Social Network Sites” Dr leaver described a networked self as “self and identity performed and portrayed across a number of inter-connection platforms and tools online”. The idea that a networked “self” is not a product of one online tool, but rather of a situation where when they are all interconnected and read together a sense of the “self” is achieved – all the individual online information bits add up to build a better picture of the “self”.
Dr Leaver showed an example of how algorithms like that used by MIT are used by advertising agencies to obtains bits of information which are formulated together to add up to a picture of the online “self” in order to discover what products that person is most likely to be interested in and the best ways on which to market them to them.
Delicious.com research
Hi - I am dong web communications at uni and doing an essay (I hope) on delicious.com. If anyone reads this blog, which I seriously doubt they will, and happens to be using delicious.com, I would be very interested to hear your comments, reasons for using it, what you like or don't like about it, what changes they have made to how it works since it began. I'm just trying to get my head around all the ways in which it may be beneficial to people or to researchers. I have found it to be a good platform in which to store public and private links, even though I could not get it to work and store my existing bookmarks. Any help or advice would be most welcome. Cheers.
Web 101 - Portfolio Week 6 - Topic 2.2 Wikis
I don’t know why, but it just hit me this morning that I am not really using Delicious.com in the best way I could – I suddenly realized that it has far more possibilities than I originally thought. I feel I need to completely re-think the way in which I have set up my stacks for a start. Also, it has just occurred to me that I should set up a private stack with all the links I use all the time on my browser, so that they are never lost. I also realized I have not been doing my keywords well enough and they need to be revised on most of what I have already entered but whether I will get time to do this or not, I’m not sure. I can see how used correctly Delicious would be a very valuable research tool and one where users could share their research links. I will make a more determined effort to think intelligently before I save my entries.
Wow, scary stuff – I was on Google+ and trying to figure out how to ad a photo and I clicked on photo option to try and find a link that would let me upload from my compuer files and next thing you know it is accessing a Blogger site I have and pulling up photos from that – all by its little self. Still haven’t figured out how to ad a photo though. I’ve only just finished reading the week 5 Readers, which were intersting.
This week is Wiki week – which would have excited me if I had had any idea what a Wiki was! Finally the penny dropped – it was like Wikipedia.
The talk from 2007 by about Jimmy Wales was interesting, especially when he refers to how many articles they had then and compare it to how many they have now. Equally interesting were the points made by Danah Boyd in the article defending Wikipedia in which she said:
Wikipedia should never be the sole source for information. It will never have the depth of original sources. It will also always contain bias because society is inherently biased, although its efforts towards neutrality are commendable. These are just realizations we must acknowledge and support. But what it does have is a huge repository of information that is the most accessible for most people. Most of the information is more accurate than found in a typical encyclopedia and yet, we value encyclopedias as a initial point of information gathering. It is also more updated, more inclusive and more in-depth. Plus, it’s searchable and in the hands of everyone with digital access (a much larger population than those with encyclopedias in their homes). It also exists in hundreds of languages and is available to populations who can’t even imagine what a library looks like. Yes, it is open. This means that people can contribute what they do know and that others who know something about that area will try to improve it. Over time, articles with a lot of attention begin to be inclusive and approximating neutral. The more people who contribute, the stronger and more valuable the resource. Boycotting Wikipedia doesn’t make it go away, but it doesn’t make it any better either.
I was very concerned at the requirement to edit Widipedia as part of our week 6 activities, as I did not feel I had enough knowledge to do so, however I found a page on wind chimes and as I have made many, many, stoneware windchimes which I sell, I added the words “earthenware and stoneware” to a sentence under the category Wind Chime describing materials wind chimes could be made of and I added the sentence. With clay wind chimes, the higher the final firing temperature required, the higher and more ringing the tone will be. Lower fired earthenware clay produces a duller sound than higher fired stoneware clay. Stoneware wind chimes are also more durable and able to resist stronger winds without suffering chipping or damage.
Our tutor Stew sidetracked me there for a while by putting up the link to the Star Trek wiki (couldn’t help myslef – had to check it out). I actually found the site rather confusing and annoying because of a continually popping up box full of ads. Took part in the discussions on the discussion board as best I could with my limited knowledge of wikis. Don't think I contributed anything earthshatteringly brilliant.
Dr Leaver’s iLecture was interesting, especial the bit about lack of women contributors to Wikipedia in comparison to men. Decided not to tell my partner there was a World of Warcraft wiki out there in Wiki land. Well that’s week 6 done and dusted, now it is on to week 7 and I still have no idea what platform I am going to do my essay about and the clock is ticking……Live long and prosper. Cheers.
Web 101 - Portfolio Week 5 - Topic 2.1 Blogging
This week I changed my mind and I decided that I would make Twitter one of my 4 extra sites. As I could not use my existing Twitter account I used my other email and created Heatherian02 just for WEB101 use. Although I have had an account for a while I do not really use it a lot or know much about it e.g. what is a subscriber and what is a member, what’s a list etc. I found where to edit profiles etc and have set it up with a bright yellow wallpaper which I thought was cheery. I am still wary of putting my picture on things since facebook cloning etc. so I decided to put up one of my paintings which I felt matched the background and which is suitable for my theme of artwork.
Delicious is up and running but a bit frustrating to use as on Monday I couldn’t access it due to heavy server load. I am going to keep all my research links for both subjects on there and a private stack too. My computer keeps crashing because it is old and overloaded, which is a darned nuisance and I am afraid of losing things. Thank goodness for Apple's Time Machine automatic backing up.
I am unsure if now that I have Twitter set up whether I should keep it only for WEB101 contacts or whether we are supposed to use it like a proper twitter account. While in delicious I tested my twitter account by seeing if it would send a message to twitter OK and it did. I scanned the Assignment 2 essay questions again and nearly fainted in fear.
I am still unsure about setting up a blog yet and I guess I am procrastinating a bit. I finally decided that as my computer Word keep not saving things and messing me around by losing stuff, that I would set up a Tumblr blog just for my Portfolios and stuff relating to WEB101, just so that it doesn't get lost, although I can't really put all my lecture notes on here at least some of the stuff needed for our final exercises will be safe (I hope).
What I Learnt
Apart from the fact that a lot of my fellow students are really a lot smarter than I am, this is what else I learnt this week:
That there are many different types of blogs: personal, corporate, photo, podcast and micro. Funny, but I never even thought of Twitter as being a blog, but apparently it is.
Our first reader was by Rebecca Blood http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html .
According to Rebecca the term Weblogs was coined by John Barger in 1997 and in 1999 there were not many blogs in existence. Cameron Barrett coined the term "blog" and "blogger". Original blogs were link driven sites with short comments by their editors about the link. According to Rebecca
By writing a few lines each day, weblog editors begin to redefine media as a public, participatory endeavor.
In 1999 the first free webtool that allowed a user to build a blog was launched and from then blogging grew rapidly, especiall when sites like Blogger appeared on the scene. After blogger – blogs became more personal, like diaries and blogger conversations were held. Groups of followers formed. Some filterstyle weblogs (which give lots of glimpses to other sites) like Metafilter still allowed very limited data entry = URL, title and short commentary. But Blogger had no content restrictions, so you didn't have to be a literary genius or a journalist to contribute and you could write as much as you wanted. According to Blood, sites like Blogger that have free-form interface combined with absolute ease of use have resulted in change from filter style weblog to journal style blog and the influx of blogs has changed the definition of weblog from "a list of links with commentary and personal asides" to "a website that is updated frequently, with new material posted at the top of the page."
The Journal style blogs differ to filter style blogs in that they allow the author to express themselves share information and interests with others with similar interests and they give a reader a more intimate picture of the writer. I thought her observations that blogging helps people to gain confidence in their ideas, develop writing skills, and aid in expressing themselves offline, was an interesting observation. I thought this comment by Rebecca Bloods was worth recording here:
Traditional weblogs perform a valuable filtering service and provide tools for more critical evaluation of the information available on the web. Free-style blogs are nothing less than an outbreak of self-expression. Each is evidence of a staggering shift from an age of carefully controlled information provided by sanctioned authorities (and artists), to an unprecedented opportunity for individual expression on a worldwide scale. Each kind of weblog empowers individuals on many levels.
Our other reader was: Blogging by Jill Walker Rettberg 2008, ch 3 57-83 Curtin e-reserve.
In her book she talks about how decentralized and centralized blogs. The centralized ones are those where the domain host exerts some control over who can or cannot easily access or read the blogs and over how members connect with their fellow bloggers. Examples would be how Facebook operates.
Blogrolls are a list of other blogs that are visited. Rettberg discusses at length issues relating to social networks and social network theory and the way in which blogging networks with bloggers of like interest form. She also referred to Mark Granolvetter's "Theory of Weak Ties", in which he maintained that weak ties between groups are more important than strong ones if you want information to spread quickly as the weak ties act as bridges between the more closed groups and that allows information to pass which may otherwise not have left a more closed group.
She indicates that the main difference between social networks and blogs is that social networks form social activities which may me combined with informative blogs, but that blogging can exist without purely for sharing trends and information only without requiring social interaction.
It was interesting to discover that all blogs have persistence and were not equal within the blogosphere and to find out how search engines "count links not readers" to arrive at where a blog will be ranked in search results.
Apparently social networks appeal to our need to collect things and often to an inability to resist peer pressure, so we all end up engaging in a variety of decentralized conversations with each other.
I also watched the James Surowiecki on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Xm4ufnoxY&feature=player_embedded#!
Surowiecki believes that a solution or conculusion formed by the members of a group is usually better than that formed by the smartest member of the group and that Google uses the "collective intelligence" of the web to find the sites that have the best or most popular information. Each blog may not be what we individually want but collectively the judgement of those people linking can give a valuable picture of what is going on. People who haven’t been able to talk before can have a voice.
Like Rettberg also outlined how quickly information can spread when people came to work together to provide news via their blogs and social networking. He explained how after the Tsunami many individuals and local journalists produced lots of material for no other reason than they want to tell their story, and said that their blogs allowed them to undertake this exercise in voluntary co-operation. He said such co-operation and collaboration can produce "brilliant products" without any exchange of money or expectancy of monetary gain.
His final comments were interesting in that they warned of the dangers of forming small closed networks of like minded people that no longer interacted with outside networks. This lead to an lack of new and independent creativity and thought which ultimately resulted in stagnation of ideas and everyone ending up "going around in circles".
As usual I enjoyed Dr Tama Leaver's iLecture on blogs. The Guardian media ad was clever and amusing. I checked out the blog site of Steven Berlin Johnson and decided to make it one of my RSS feeds on Google Reader.
Discussion Board and Activities
My comments relating to the discussion as to whether TV is on the way out:
I can remember watching the movie Farenheit 451 (probably wrong spelling but I can't be bothered looking it up) and seeing all those huge wall sized TV screens that everone interacted with. TV doesn't seem to be going that way at all - as you point out - more and more people are watching shows on their computers and even automatically scanning and downloading TV shows straight from the US the moment they are aired. One of our friends has absolutely everything linked to his computer - has transferred all his DVD's etc to it as well (huge computer lots of terrabytes (sorry probably wrong spelling again)) and then it's all put up into the clouds as well. We still watch TV, but selectively - everything is recorded and watched later with fast forwarding of ads. It will all be electronic soon - no-one will own stuff - we will just buy it in digital form downloaded to our computers. I think it will only be my generation who like to "see" something for or money that will still want to have a physical hard copy of something like a DVD or a book. In the future everyone will just accept it as normal to pay some money and have nothing physical to show for it. Even I actually picked up and considered purchasing a kindle the other day - something I would not have even thought about a couple of years ago. Having said all that - I still like to veg out on the lounge in front of the TV (give my bum a change contour from the computer chair I seem to be permanently fixed to since starting uni) and watch a movie, rather than on the computer (with a cup of tea of course).
Rettberg talks about blogs facilitating ‘distributed conversations’ and even ‘distributed communities’; what do you understand these terms to mean?
We were asked to say whether or not we though that everyone now could have a voice via a blog as originally envisioned 10 years ago. I think that everyone has the POTENTIAL to have a voice (unless they do not have access to a computer, but even then they can still do something with a mobile phone perhaps) but I do not think that it is something that can be achieved without working at it. We can all have a voice on the web, but whether anyone listens to our voice or not is another thing. Most blogs only have small followings but that does not mean that you cannot increase your following. To do so, the site would have to be interesting, regularly updated and you would have to make sure that you linked to many other blogs and websites, social media etc, to generate traffic to your site so that Google’s search engines would rank it higher. That is the main problem a blogger faces – searches via Google are not equal and are based on what Google considers to be peer endorsements.
The the other question was about distributed communities and distributed conversations. Because the internet is a distributed network, I take this to mean that blog sites are generally not connected to a central node but instead are connected to each other through the links they have formed between themselves. What generally happens is people with similar interests form their own blogging networks with members distributed throughout the blogosphere. As a general rule, those networks hold conversations and share information on their blog sites and social networks sites, which makes them decentralized – anyone, anywhere can search for a blog they like and contribute to the conversation, unless the blog (or social networking site) is hosted in a more closed site where access is not as freely given to those outside that particular domain e.g. Facebook or some blog sites where it is easy for members to interact but not so easy for outsiders. And if I don't have distributed communities and conversations correctly summed up please tell me. I'm getting a little bogged down (blogged down?) with all of this at present.
- Have you ever been caught between 'colliding networks'? More generally, what did you find most interesting in the Rettberg article?”
Never been caught with a "colliding network" situation thank goodness (but I'm a good girl with nothing to hide and I'm to paranoid about being caught out to bag an employer - boring old me!). I'm so busy online these days I don't get the chance to ineract offline anymore! The thing I found interesting about the article was the way in which google does its searching and ranking of sites based on links. I think she is correct about blogging and social networking in the future being so different as to be something we can't even image right now. I'm waiting to see the arrival of the chip that gets plugged directly into the brain and people starting linking their thoughts and having conversations in their heads with those they have granted access to. Someone will be able to google your noodle. - What do you think about 'publicly articulated relationships' online? How do they challenge/influence our ways of interacting 'offline'?
I think you have to try to give an honest representation of who you are, otherwise you are bound to get caught out, but within some social conventions - it is not necessary to share everything with the world, or even friends and family. I guess that could be a problem if you are the worlds biggest gossip or something. I think too, social media should be approached in the same way face to face contact is - with politeness, courtesy, etc. I do not understand why so many people use really bad language on facebook. I warn anyone I have friended who places comments on my site and uses bad language that I will unfriend them, friend family or whatever. If they don't talk like that to me face to face then don't do it on FB either. I think also there should be boundaries observed as well. If I were an employer I would not dream of looking an employee up on facebook as I think that is an invasion of their privacy and I don't think an employer has the right to try to access any information they want, even if it is public. I guess I am old fashioned in my views and I suppose I can't expect people to act the way I would like them to. How many of us would really care though if we saw photos or information on social media of incidents that had taken place in someone's past e.g. them getting drunk and jumping up and down waving their knickers in the air or something. I think most people really don't care about such stuff as they realize everyone makes indiscretions - it is only the media who like to beat things up and if an employer was "spying" on you on FB, would you want to work for them in that case anyway - I'd be looking for a new job I think. Whatever ones view social media is here to stay and like any fun but possibly hazardous pastime, we all just need to educate ourselves to be careful, and even then, no matter how careful we are, there will always be people trying to do nasty things like identity theft etc. I think the great thing about the fact that anyone can blog to an invisible audience is that the web and blogging etc. has the potential to bring about better human relations. The more we see how other people spend their time, what they do, believe in, live, etc. I think the more people will realize that we are not so different after all and perhaps we will all stop killing each other and become a happy chatting online family of humanity (just a little bit idealistic I know, but I grew up watching Star Trek and I can help it - waiting for that day when we all stop fighting and head for the stars) - just imagine it - the leaders want to fight and the planet starts twittering and blogging and united humanity all blogs "no - we're not going to war" - searchable, replicable, persistent and invisible social media saves the world yaaayyyyy. Mmmm, yes well - I think I better go and watch TV now - I think I might have been at this blogging question a little too long - I'll get off my soap box and retire. Cheers. ps. It does worry me a little though about where it is all kept and what undesirable sorts of governments could to if they were in power and got their hands on to all our information. I've already been cloned on FB and had credit card hacked - image what a bad government could do if they wanted. Look how they tracked down communists in the US when they were all paranoid and that was without computer data to help them - image how it would be in the future, although we could probably all twitter and warn each other.
In 2000 Rebecca Blood predicted 'the power of weblogs to transform both writers and readers from "audience" to "public" and from "consumer" to "creator."' How do these ideas stand up in 2012? I think this idea still stands up in 2012. Anyone today can search for articles or information and can, if they wish agree or disagree with that information in the form of a comment or a blog of their own. They no longer have to passively consume and are free to create and articulate their view in a myriad of different ways due to the prevalent "anyone can use" types of software available. They can chose to use existing domain hosts for their blogs or can do their own thing and have their own domain if they wish. They are more able than ever to write, edit, photograph, video whatever they choose and publish it online. In the past much of this had to be done only by experts, now the new software applications available make us all the "experts". What do you think about the relationship between blogs and journalism? I think these days I would trust blogs written by Joe Blogs and other citizen journalists rather than articles written by journalists employed by media outlets owned by huge multinational organisations with questionable agendas and biased political views and owners who often want to control the media for their own purposes. - What are the effects of blogging upon the mainstream press?
Not sure what you mean by mainstream press - are you meaning online mainstream media or offline like newspapers? I don't think either would be bothered much by citizen bloggers and mainstream media online have huge followings and would know they are going to come out high on google searches. They make use of citizen bloggers often themselves and style their online news often like a blog. - What do you see as the role of the 'citizen journalist'?” I see them as being able to provide on the spot information in times of disaster, war or crisis. I see them as a voice for local communities, minorities of various types, for justice, for equality, for the planet. I see them as being people who try to write about what they honestly feel or believe in (which may or may not always be so noble as those I have outlined above) without being influenced by receiving monetary payment or editors. Having said that I do know that some blogs receive money from advertisements, which could perhaps be viewed as a monetary incentive.
And finally a personal comment from me in response to someone describing most blogs as mundane personal dribble.
Leading as I do a mundane life and as the writer of one of those "personal dribble" blogs full of catchy blog titles like "Umbrellas in Space","A Multitude of Chook Bums", "Trapped by My Computer" , "The Hippos and Me In Water Should Be", I feel the need to point out that often, to both the writer and the blogs followers, sometimes those blogs are important and a source of amusement. I often write a blog for no other reason than I want to make a few of my friends, some of whom are in great pain, have a good belly laugh. Perhaps it is because someone leads a "mundane" life that they seek to write a blog in order to free themselves a little from their mundane existence. A blog doesn't have to be about an earth shattering event to make it of interest to someone out there in the blogosphere and the fact that someone wrote it in the first place actually does gives it a purpose. I think also that any blog has the potential to effect something or someone in some way.
So if anyone is actually awake and reading this out there in the blogosphere. Cheers and goodnight.
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Web 101 - Portfolio Week 4 - Topic 2 - What is Web 2.0?
I did not get a lot achieved this week as had so many other commitments, however did listen to the i-Lecture, which was interesting and I really enjoyed the Clay Shirky Web 2.00 Expos Lecture – his observations about Web 2.0 phenomenon were really quite interesting – you could see the potential for individuals to start getting together to create amazing things in the future. Took quite a while to get my head around how RSS feeds work and what they were. Completed the Delicious.com exercises to a limited degree. I set up a number of stacks but was initially still unclear how to follow people. I can see how this is as useful tool for retaining links you don’t want to use. Eventually I created a number of stacks for art stuff, stacks for WEB 101 links, a stack specifically for the WEB101 blog links. I have been thinking I will make my theme an art one. I completed the exercise and checked out what my fellow Web 101 students had sourced on Web 2.0.
A few things I learnt were:
My unit notes gave a good description "Web 2.0 is a term that seeks to encompass the changes in Internet technologies, approaches to Web development and people's use of the Web that have occurred since around 2003". There was also an excellent quote
"There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one large Machine. Later that Machine may run faster, but there is only one time when it is born.
You and I are alive at this moment."
and article by Kevin Kelly at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html?pg=5&topic=tech&topic_set=
I also learnt that Web 1 was slow and not interactive and was generally read only often written by experts for passive consumers. That Web 2.0 was the opposite full of standardized, linked and interactive sites where anyone globally can contribute and you don't need to be an expert or know how to code. Basically that Web 2.0 is dynamic (this blog excepted) and much more fun and it is what is allowing me right this minute to to waffle on boring someone silly. I also learn there is a chap called O'Rielly who seems to know and write about everything e.g.
RSS - “RSS allows someone to link not just to a page, but to subscribe to it, with notification every time that page changes. Skrenta calls this "the incremental web." Others call it the "live web". (O’Reilly page 3 http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=3).
Discussion Board and Activities:
We were asked: Thinking about your activities and experiences related to this section like Newsflash and RSS feeds (how does RSS fit in to the Web 2.0 concept?) and Delicious of course, consider how you think web 2.0 may be different from 'Web 1.0'? Do you think Berner-Lee's intentions for the net are being realised through the concept of Web 2.0? If yes or no, why do you feel this way?
I responded with:
I suspect that before too long we will be paying for everything (our capitalist society won't stand for anything else) - God forbid that people should get something worthwhile for nothing. All those companies that have been scathing about the effectiveness of the internet etc. will suddenly realize there's money to be made and I am sure that somewhere, somehow, in the future sites that offer free services will get fewer and fewer and will be forced out when their competitors realize they are getting some of the pie. It will be like the supermarket chains - they force everyone else out using a whole range of carefully planned (and sometimes underhand) tactics, and want the whole 100% - not willing to share. There will always be some free stuff, but the public always follows trends and trends can be manipulated - if the latest , bestest and most fashionable site to log onto starts offering big prizes and rewards to do so, then those that want to be "in" will start to pay in some way. Web 2.0 is still not truly democratic - there are still the "few" manipulating the input of the many.
And an observation later in the week on Delicious.com.:
When I first created it at the beginning of this unit, I really couldn't see the benefit of it. But now I can really see why it is useful. I have created some public stacks and some private ones and I am not using the bookmark option on my computer anymore. I've had to re-think and re-name the stacks a few times and I think I may have to split some up into more defined categories, but overall I have decided I love it. I still haven't got the knack of following and all the sharing aspects and am keeping pretty much to myself for the moment but I will hopefully have it fully mastered before too much longer. will try and follow you if I can. Only problem is that I tried getting into it today and got a "server experiencing a high load" message and I couldn't get into it to try and follow you. I hope that doesn't happen too often as it would be annoying if you are working to a deadline and can't access your data - maybe they are growing faster than they can cope with (too many Curtin WEB101 students all trying to log on last minute to do their referencing for their assignments maybe ha ha)
Is Web 2.0 a buzz world only or not?
I think that Web 2.00 is both a buzz word and but also represents a major shift in how the internet is used by both the average user and by business. In recent years there has been and explosion of computer use due to its ability, I feel, to allow users to interact and set up their own sites. I think the division that exists between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 are that interactive aspect more than anything else. Web 1.0 did not allow someone like me to set up my own free blog or website - most websites had to be programmer written or required more coding knowledge than the average person knew. It was a computer geeks only world and the rest of us sat passively by or paid someone often considerable amounts of money if we wanted to have some sort of web presence. Contact was generally still by telephone or email only. The Web 2.0 applications are so user friendly they have changed all that. Combined with things like Google which actually "learn" your requirements, to a user it is almost like Web 2.0 was just made especially for them. I realize that there were sites before the "arrival" of Web 2.0 that always provided some interactivity but they were more a minority than a majority - now the situation is becoming rapidly reversed and whilst there are still some websites where businesses for instance do now allow interaction, they are becoming fewer are far between. There is nothing more annoying to users now to come across an old fashioned looking sterile site where you cannot interact in any way - I found one the other day which did not even have an email contact option - you have to ring or write to them (could not believe it!). Anyway, I better stop waffling as I've probably gone off the topic a bit.