This week for lecture 5, Adam took the class. He wore a chocolate brown Zappa shirt. Did you know Frank Zappa named his children Dweezil, Ahmet Rodan, Moon Unit and Diva?
MOON UNIT?!
Moving on, this lecture was about New Media, like virtual communities and idividual identity, and Internet Studies, web 2.0 and "social media"... and ROFLcopters.
The main interesting point came from Adam's experience with the internet. When he first became interested in the technology, it was all about connecting with people from every corner of the globe, being whoever you wanted to be, and being able to express your interests with like minded people. He pointed out that now is more of an "ego-centric social network" where the focus has moved away from connecting with people who have common interests to where you yourself are the common thread.
I think this is probably due to websites like myspace and facebook where the site encourages you to only add people you "know".
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Some questions: uppgift fyra
How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
-They are a few different ways, but Google ranks by how frequently other sites link to another website, not by what the website does or donesn't say, although they do of course use what is on the website to determine whether the page is of relevance.
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?
-Apparently, some websites are buying massive amounts of links so they show up at the top, when in actual fact the website doesn't have much to offer you in regards to what you've searched.
What are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
-I am a Google user through and through, it's never let me down.
Next post: Week four Scavenger Hunt.
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So this week the task was, without using google or wikipedia, find the answer to a set of questions.
So here goes
1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?
A Gas Mask (Lecture Notes)
2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?
1969. UCLA (ucla.com)
3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?
Born on Oct. 28, 1955. He was 13 When he first created and sold his first software. (Off Microsoft.com)
4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?
in Switzerland. (Yahoo! Answers)
5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?
Technology has advanced a thousand fold, so my laptop differs greatly.
6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
8 pounds 6 ounces. (ask)
7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
June 6, 1859. It separates QLD and NSW
8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?
Cyclonic
9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?
He was a leading poet, and commonly known as the "Don Juan De Marko" of Venice, for his romance and antics with women.
10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?
Black Assassins - Stephen Stockwell.
So here goes
1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?
A Gas Mask (Lecture Notes)
2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?
1969. UCLA (ucla.com)
3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?
Born on Oct. 28, 1955. He was 13 When he first created and sold his first software. (Off Microsoft.com)
4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?
in Switzerland. (Yahoo! Answers)
5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?
Technology has advanced a thousand fold, so my laptop differs greatly.
6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?
8 pounds 6 ounces. (ask)
7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
June 6, 1859. It separates QLD and NSW
8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?
Cyclonic
9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?
He was a leading poet, and commonly known as the "Don Juan De Marko" of Venice, for his romance and antics with women.
10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?
Black Assassins - Stephen Stockwell.
"I swear its not swine"
Due to a flu like sickness, in no way related to pigs, I wasn't able to attend week 3 and 4 lectures. Meaning I don't really have much to say.
My Communication Technology history
Technology has played a huge part in my growing up.
I remember being in year seven and all the cool girls were talking about what their MSN addresses were (surfer_babe91, roxygal1, monkey_moo). I pretended to know exactly what they were talking about.
But a year later I was on the band wagon (blonde-as-pie) and chatting to everyone in my grade, from what I remember the conversation was pretty limited:
“Wats ur top 5?” = Who do you find to be the 5 most attracive gentlemen in our cohort? (There was a silent rule that you always put the boy that you fancied third)
“Hav u dun ur English asgmt?”= Apparently it didn’t help them
That’s about it really. I never got into the whole rANd0M C4pt0l l3tt4Rs N nUm83Rs craze.
One major thing about using things like msn, bebo and MySpace so young was that it was how you talked to the opposite sex. It became an easy way for guys to ask out the girl “do u wanna go out wiv me?” and usually, that’s where the relationship stayed-
Boy-“Hey babe”
Girl-“hi cutie”
Boy- “hru?”
Girl- “gud n u?”
Boy- “same. The wave u gave me across da courtyard todai was nice”
Girl-“anything for u :)”
Boy- “luv you”
Girl-“lu2”
Privacy wasn’t really an issue as you only added people you knew and on the odd occasion when a stranger did add you, it was only a matter of time until you blocked them. Someone asking “ASL” repeatedly gets rather tedious.
However I do have one friend whom I have never met in person- Scott lives in New South Wales however, I met him through a real-life friend and I’ve known him so long he doesn’t seem like a stranger at all, more like an old family friend who calls occasionally to check in.
These days I find MSN depresses me, something about sitting at home waiting for old school friends to strike up some standard conversation about what I’m studying and what I did on the weekend just doesn’t seem worth it.
I remember being in year seven and all the cool girls were talking about what their MSN addresses were (surfer_babe91, roxygal1, monkey_moo). I pretended to know exactly what they were talking about.
But a year later I was on the band wagon (blonde-as-pie) and chatting to everyone in my grade, from what I remember the conversation was pretty limited:
“Wats ur top 5?” = Who do you find to be the 5 most attracive gentlemen in our cohort? (There was a silent rule that you always put the boy that you fancied third)
“Hav u dun ur English asgmt?”= Apparently it didn’t help them
That’s about it really. I never got into the whole rANd0M C4pt0l l3tt4Rs N nUm83Rs craze.
One major thing about using things like msn, bebo and MySpace so young was that it was how you talked to the opposite sex. It became an easy way for guys to ask out the girl “do u wanna go out wiv me?” and usually, that’s where the relationship stayed-
Boy-“Hey babe”
Girl-“hi cutie”
Boy- “hru?”
Girl- “gud n u?”
Boy- “same. The wave u gave me across da courtyard todai was nice”
Girl-“anything for u :)”
Boy- “luv you”
Girl-“lu2”
Privacy wasn’t really an issue as you only added people you knew and on the odd occasion when a stranger did add you, it was only a matter of time until you blocked them. Someone asking “ASL” repeatedly gets rather tedious.
However I do have one friend whom I have never met in person- Scott lives in New South Wales however, I met him through a real-life friend and I’ve known him so long he doesn’t seem like a stranger at all, more like an old family friend who calls occasionally to check in.
These days I find MSN depresses me, something about sitting at home waiting for old school friends to strike up some standard conversation about what I’m studying and what I did on the weekend just doesn’t seem worth it.
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So lecture two... fascinating if I do say so myself.
The topic of Professor Steven Stockwell's (PS2) lecture was the "The History of the Computer and the Internet". I know, I know, its a miracle I did not explode with sheer excitement waiting for the lecture to start.
So anyway, PS2 talked for a while, names like Babbage popped up and I read later of a woman known as Lady Lovelace.. how pretty. But anyway, after the industrial revolution was discussed at length, the lecture covered the extreme spike of computer usage starting in the seventies, where computers were then used only by professional geeks with their hair parted in the center, to now where computers are a necessity in society, used by everyone from young hipsters to my best friend's mum.
That's probably the part of this lecture that I found the most interesting (if i had to pick one of course); technology now advances so fast one can hardly keep up- a far cry from Babbages days where developments in technology were massive milestones, that happened slowly and infrequently.
The topic of Professor Steven Stockwell's (PS2) lecture was the "The History of the Computer and the Internet". I know, I know, its a miracle I did not explode with sheer excitement waiting for the lecture to start.
So anyway, PS2 talked for a while, names like Babbage popped up and I read later of a woman known as Lady Lovelace.. how pretty. But anyway, after the industrial revolution was discussed at length, the lecture covered the extreme spike of computer usage starting in the seventies, where computers were then used only by professional geeks with their hair parted in the center, to now where computers are a necessity in society, used by everyone from young hipsters to my best friend's mum.
That's probably the part of this lecture that I found the most interesting (if i had to pick one of course); technology now advances so fast one can hardly keep up- a far cry from Babbages days where developments in technology were massive milestones, that happened slowly and infrequently.
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My names Jessica Shepherd, I'm 18 years old and I'm currently a Bachelor of Communications student at Griffith University. At the moment I'm hoping to do television journalism once I graduate but as I only started my degree this semester, I have a looong way to go. I'm only taking three classes (New and Politics, Intro to Public Relations and New Communications and Technologies) as a way to ease my self back into education after half a year of working at a jewellers in the city.
Now here's some disjointed tid-bits about me-
I'm aesthetically driven. I feel I must purchase new clothes every weekend, I'm terrible at dressing casual and always look really boring at Uni. I buy so many magazines that my news agency has developed a rewards system for me. I love pretty girls and well dressed boys. I often contemplate going brunette but stepping to the dark side daunts me. I danced seriously for 14 years, quit, but still go to class on the odd occasion. I eat strange food and drink peppermint tea. I extinguish the rubbish bin fires in the city because I think it’s stupid when they call the fire brigade, just to hose down some trash; little old men applaud me for it. I’d someday like to have an accent that no one knows because it’s a mishmash of a gazillion different languages. I’m thinking a little English, a little Swedish, a little Swahili.
Now here's some disjointed tid-bits about me-
I'm aesthetically driven. I feel I must purchase new clothes every weekend, I'm terrible at dressing casual and always look really boring at Uni. I buy so many magazines that my news agency has developed a rewards system for me. I love pretty girls and well dressed boys. I often contemplate going brunette but stepping to the dark side daunts me. I danced seriously for 14 years, quit, but still go to class on the odd occasion. I eat strange food and drink peppermint tea. I extinguish the rubbish bin fires in the city because I think it’s stupid when they call the fire brigade, just to hose down some trash; little old men applaud me for it. I’d someday like to have an accent that no one knows because it’s a mishmash of a gazillion different languages. I’m thinking a little English, a little Swedish, a little Swahili.
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