Course Summary
New Communication Technologies was well run and had a fair bit of fun content and tasks, which was a very nice change to some of the drier and boring tasks of other subjects.
Though many of the tasks which were potentially fun ended up being annoying and frustrating as they didn’t test your intelligence or what you’ve learnt but your ability to sort through pages of rubbish on Google. The tasks were mostly easy but took up huge amounts of time.
It was great that we could have some fun and customise our blogs, add videos and so on, but everything just took so long to do and didn’t feel like anything was accomplished at the end.
Lecture material was quite interesting and the entertaining video’s helped engage me. I learnt many new terms and concepts about communication technologies, but a lot of the content wasn’t ‘new’ to me or probably anyone born after 1989 because it’s what we grew up with and these ‘New Communication Technologies’ aren’t particularly new or exciting, more just a normal part of life. I would consider this new
I just think internet was considered new 15 years ago.
I would consider new communication technologies to be something to do with electronically transmitted brainwaves to other brainwaves or something ridiculous like that.
More or less I found the tutorial tasks very easy but extremely time consuming and annoying and I would prefer something challenging. The idea of the Blog which ran through the semester is a great idea and I was always happy to add things to it. I enjoyed most of the lecture content and was surprised and impressed with the amount of interesting and amusing content.
Overall it was defiantly one of the better courses I have done!
So thanks!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Week 9 Tut Task
I wasn't able to get over to a library but I found heaps of online articles. Most of which are useless.
My Essay Topic is 1. Marc Prensky's "Emerging online life of the digital native" and David Weinberger's "A New World" chapter 1 from a book called "Small Pieces Loosely Joined".
Both present different views of contemporary internet users.
In light of your own experiences with new technologies do you think they are accurate portrayals?
Discuss why or why not with specific examples.
A Cnet News article 'Technology is Changing the Advertising Business' written in 2001 by a staff writer.
It explores how online advertising is changing the advertising business. So by now has changed it. It shows how advertising technology has made advertising online aware of situations. Depending on what you search more and what pages you visit, different advertisements more likely to interest you will appear.
It contributes to my point that both works are accurate portrayals of new emerging life online, how it is changing to keep up with online society.
"It is sometimes difficult to grasp the vastness of the Internet as it links country with country, culture with culture, buzzing metropolis with distant one-horse town".
Another article which will b useful is "The Dangers of Social Spam" by Chris Wilson, slate.com.
It is an article about online technologies such as emails and websites which use spam to send fake invites from you to others and many of the time catch people off guard. It contributes to my point that it is an experience of new emerging technologies similar to my own and of Marc Prensky and David Weinberger.
"Sites that pose as social networks are the new spammers, and they're a lot harder to sniff out than the traditional penis enlargement and fake Rolex watch crowd".
An article in The Atlantic, the July/August issue 2008 has an interesting article called "Is Google Making Me Stupid" by Nicholas Carr.
The article conveys the idea of how Google has 'reprogrammed' our brains and the ease at which it is to obtain information (he makes references to HAL) Prensky also writes about Google (before it really took off). It will help me show these to articles as accurate portrayals of contemporary internet users.
"Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after".
Haven't really found anything overly useful or different. There are heaps of articles I could use but I want ot find some more interesting things. So I'm just going to keep searching!
My Essay Topic is 1. Marc Prensky's "Emerging online life of the digital native" and David Weinberger's "A New World" chapter 1 from a book called "Small Pieces Loosely Joined".
Both present different views of contemporary internet users.
In light of your own experiences with new technologies do you think they are accurate portrayals?
Discuss why or why not with specific examples.
A Cnet News article 'Technology is Changing the Advertising Business' written in 2001 by a staff writer.
It explores how online advertising is changing the advertising business. So by now has changed it. It shows how advertising technology has made advertising online aware of situations. Depending on what you search more and what pages you visit, different advertisements more likely to interest you will appear.
It contributes to my point that both works are accurate portrayals of new emerging life online, how it is changing to keep up with online society.
"It is sometimes difficult to grasp the vastness of the Internet as it links country with country, culture with culture, buzzing metropolis with distant one-horse town".
Another article which will b useful is "The Dangers of Social Spam" by Chris Wilson, slate.com.
It is an article about online technologies such as emails and websites which use spam to send fake invites from you to others and many of the time catch people off guard. It contributes to my point that it is an experience of new emerging technologies similar to my own and of Marc Prensky and David Weinberger.
"Sites that pose as social networks are the new spammers, and they're a lot harder to sniff out than the traditional penis enlargement and fake Rolex watch crowd".
An article in The Atlantic, the July/August issue 2008 has an interesting article called "Is Google Making Me Stupid" by Nicholas Carr.
The article conveys the idea of how Google has 'reprogrammed' our brains and the ease at which it is to obtain information (he makes references to HAL) Prensky also writes about Google (before it really took off). It will help me show these to articles as accurate portrayals of contemporary internet users.
"Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the telltale fact or pithy quote I was after".
Haven't really found anything overly useful or different. There are heaps of articles I could use but I want ot find some more interesting things. So I'm just going to keep searching!
Week 9 Lecture Summary
Well unfortunately we were experiencing some rather dusty weather... and I noticed the online lecture notes are a little cheeky...
There wasn't a chance I was taking my baby out of the garage for the drive to uni, The dust would have got sucked (by forced induction) and I would have to buy a new air filter and mine isn't cheap.
Anyway! I saw the title of the lecture was on Cyber-Utopia...
So cyber is defined as... A combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,” used in the formation of compound words (cybertalk; cyberart; cyberspace) and by extension meaning “very modern” (cyberfashion).
and
Untopia is defined as #
1.O ften Utopia An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.
2. A work of fiction describing a utopia.
An impractical, idealistic scheme for social and political reform.
So I'm taking an educated guess that Cyber-Utopia is a perferct world in the future where internet content and download limits are free and the internet is a free world networking scheme.
It probably covers the unlikeliness of this occurrence and probably has an internet hippie pronouncing the internet as a product of the people and we as people need to emancipate from society... Go sit in Starbucks and surf!
Though there is no reason why a larger download quota cost more money... Though I can see why internet speed does because of the research, technology and building the resources to provide it.
There wasn't a chance I was taking my baby out of the garage for the drive to uni, The dust would have got sucked (by forced induction) and I would have to buy a new air filter and mine isn't cheap.
Anyway! I saw the title of the lecture was on Cyber-Utopia...
So cyber is defined as... A combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,” used in the formation of compound words (cybertalk; cyberart; cyberspace) and by extension meaning “very modern” (cyberfashion).
and
Untopia is defined as #
1.O ften Utopia An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.
2. A work of fiction describing a utopia.
An impractical, idealistic scheme for social and political reform.
So I'm taking an educated guess that Cyber-Utopia is a perferct world in the future where internet content and download limits are free and the internet is a free world networking scheme.
It probably covers the unlikeliness of this occurrence and probably has an internet hippie pronouncing the internet as a product of the people and we as people need to emancipate from society... Go sit in Starbucks and surf!
Though there is no reason why a larger download quota cost more money... Though I can see why internet speed does because of the research, technology and building the resources to provide it.
Jurassic Recreational Area with Davo Attenborough
I really could not think of a decent idea for this video... TILL! I was buying Monopoly in Kmart (If your wondering I bought the new Australian version. Anyway I saw a packet of dinosaurs and recalled how much I enjoyed Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth after a few beers.
So....
Here it is!
Enjoy
So....
Here it is!
Enjoy
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Week 7 Lecture
Today was all about Copyright, more so creative commons.
Unfortunatley I missed the lecture, Wednesdays are a bad day as I go to the drifts at archi which kick of at 2!
Anyway I'm since we got the link to that CC search engine, that it's about material we can use that is not copyright! Right?
HA, I think this video explains it well
I wish things like this were copyright and illegal, this is just awful.
Peace
Unfortunatley I missed the lecture, Wednesdays are a bad day as I go to the drifts at archi which kick of at 2!
Anyway I'm since we got the link to that CC search engine, that it's about material we can use that is not copyright! Right?
HA, I think this video explains it well
I wish things like this were copyright and illegal, this is just awful.
Peace
Week 6 Lecture
I think the lecture conveyed the fact that mediums of media have changed a lot. So today we still lap up media like milk in a cats dish, just in different ways! Technology has led to personal and mobile means of soaking up all the media out there.
For some reason I didn't really enjoy '280 days later'. It was really well done though.
I have to say I was extremely impressed by "Troops". It was classic!
Though preferably
For some reason I didn't really enjoy '280 days later'. It was really well done though.
I have to say I was extremely impressed by "Troops". It was classic!
Though preferably
Week 8 Tut Task and Lecture!
Today's lecture was about online politics vs censorship vs democracy cyberpunks vs hackers...
More or less there are Cyber-politics who exist on the internet like gaurdians so we'll say Agent Smith. (hope I don't get censored!) Then we have e-politics and e-democracy who are just RL politics online, promoting themselves and so on.
Democracy is all about freedom of speech but these Cyber-Politics censor the internet.
Luckily there are fictional characters called Cyber Punks like Neo who are sticking it to the man.
The lecture also covered computer hackers who believe it is there birthright for free content and no censorship!
I've always wondered why the agent didn't aim the gun just down a little...
* Sign an e-petition.
I signed a petition to get parking at skilled park!
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1266&lIndex=-1
* Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
Had a lil row about potholes!
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26088298-3102,00.html
* What is Barak Obama up to today?
I believe he is in the house of representatives and they just passed a bill for student aid...
* Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
Well local is Andrew Fraser (who I voted for), state would be Anna Bligh. So I guess federal is Kevin Rudd.
* Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.
* Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.
Well I read his speech but I couldn't find how to reply online. Though he does live literally about 500M from me. Don't think I'm gonna go knocking on his door though!
* Read the lecture and the readings, pursue a couple of the topics that you find most interesting and then post your blog with your well-considered thoughts about the theory and practice of politics.
I think the Democracy factor of the internet was interesting. As they want to bring in more censorship to the internet, and censorship has nothing to do with democracy. Though I think censorship is an important thing when it comes to internet.
Yes free speech should never be censored but there are so many messed up things on the internet that have nothing to do with freedom of thoughts and expressions. Obviously every has their own opinion on offensive... Most of the world is far to sensitive... But I guess censorship does have it's place. Though why don't you just not go onto website's with content that will offend you... Censor yourself!
Thank god for the cyberpunks sticking it to the man in over censored societies in future predicting films made in the 90's!
More or less there are Cyber-politics who exist on the internet like gaurdians so we'll say Agent Smith. (hope I don't get censored!) Then we have e-politics and e-democracy who are just RL politics online, promoting themselves and so on.
Democracy is all about freedom of speech but these Cyber-Politics censor the internet.
Luckily there are fictional characters called Cyber Punks like Neo who are sticking it to the man.
The lecture also covered computer hackers who believe it is there birthright for free content and no censorship!
I've always wondered why the agent didn't aim the gun just down a little...
* Sign an e-petition.
I signed a petition to get parking at skilled park!
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1266&lIndex=-1
* Respond to a professional blogger at a major news site.
Had a lil row about potholes!
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26088298-3102,00.html
* What is Barak Obama up to today?
I believe he is in the house of representatives and they just passed a bill for student aid...
* Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.
Well local is Andrew Fraser (who I voted for), state would be Anna Bligh. So I guess federal is Kevin Rudd.
* Look up the Queensland or Australian hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.
* Let your local member know what you think about their last speech.
Well I read his speech but I couldn't find how to reply online. Though he does live literally about 500M from me. Don't think I'm gonna go knocking on his door though!
* Read the lecture and the readings, pursue a couple of the topics that you find most interesting and then post your blog with your well-considered thoughts about the theory and practice of politics.
I think the Democracy factor of the internet was interesting. As they want to bring in more censorship to the internet, and censorship has nothing to do with democracy. Though I think censorship is an important thing when it comes to internet.
Yes free speech should never be censored but there are so many messed up things on the internet that have nothing to do with freedom of thoughts and expressions. Obviously every has their own opinion on offensive... Most of the world is far to sensitive... But I guess censorship does have it's place. Though why don't you just not go onto website's with content that will offend you... Censor yourself!
Thank god for the cyberpunks sticking it to the man in over censored societies in future predicting films made in the 90's!
Monday, September 14, 2009
My Ride and Joy
After much procrastination I decided I would take you up on your suggestion, here is the car I worked on in the holidays!!!
Enjoy!
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