Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
Notes on Ch. 4 of "Small Pieces Loosely Joined"
PERFECTION
-Hallmark vs. hippie card company
-perfection is appreciated in real-life, imperfection is liked on the internet
-flute player demo in class
-Saturn dealership example... words like "rest assured", yet online on a blog people will post more honest and not as sugar coated points of views/answers
-example of how standards for perfection are lower on internet
- search engine: #14 is the one you want... great! You found it!
- real-life: 13 wrong ones until you got a right one? Not good.
-question of what is perfection (bunk bed chat)
-constant use of odd metaphors and examples comparing humans to animals and such to emphasize the imperfection of the human race
-Management in the Web versus management of the Hoover Dam-opposites
-Hallmark vs. hippie card company
-perfection is appreciated in real-life, imperfection is liked on the internet
-flute player demo in class
-Saturn dealership example... words like "rest assured", yet online on a blog people will post more honest and not as sugar coated points of views/answers
-example of how standards for perfection are lower on internet
- search engine: #14 is the one you want... great! You found it!
- real-life: 13 wrong ones until you got a right one? Not good.
-question of what is perfection (bunk bed chat)
-constant use of odd metaphors and examples comparing humans to animals and such to emphasize the imperfection of the human race
-Management in the Web versus management of the Hoover Dam-opposites
Notes on Ch. 3 of "Small Pieces Loosely Joined"
TIME
-"We're not even close to getting there"-- maddening idea of holding on to the "Now"-- every moment the "Now" is gone (Spaceballs in class)
-stubborness of people to stick to sequential time, whereas on the Web, time is not sequential, it is just moments.
-is time faster or slower on the web? (7X multiplier theory) whatever you want it to be? you create time just as you create space
-DMV line example: online you get kicked off you can't lose your spot, and on the web you can come back to it at any time that is CONVENIENT FOR YOU
-"threads"-chatroom example of a 60 second chatrrom conversation, only can be followed if you understand it but definitely stretches out time
-comparison of the short explanation on a hard day in teh real world versus a day spent online-so much more done in time because so many things can go on at the same time
-Heraclitus... can't put your foot in the same river twice and everything is always in flux (the fleeting idea of "Now")
-"We're not even close to getting there"-- maddening idea of holding on to the "Now"-- every moment the "Now" is gone (Spaceballs in class)
-stubborness of people to stick to sequential time, whereas on the Web, time is not sequential, it is just moments.
-is time faster or slower on the web? (7X multiplier theory) whatever you want it to be? you create time just as you create space
-DMV line example: online you get kicked off you can't lose your spot, and on the web you can come back to it at any time that is CONVENIENT FOR YOU
-"threads"-chatroom example of a 60 second chatrrom conversation, only can be followed if you understand it but definitely stretches out time
-comparison of the short explanation on a hard day in teh real world versus a day spent online-so much more done in time because so many things can go on at the same time
-Heraclitus... can't put your foot in the same river twice and everything is always in flux (the fleeting idea of "Now")
Notes on Ch. 2 of "Small Pieces Loosely Joined"
SPACE
-"McCollough Effect"-similar to an optical illusion... last for days though. Bill Cheswick (ex-Internet security guru) tricks you and just says type in "Cheswick"- not magical, just the browsers doing their job.
-He showed an image of fireworks or chaotic starbursts-- "This is a map of the Internet"
-the Net organized by clusters of connections, "space freed of geography"
-Tim Bray of Yahoo.. different map of Net
Ches vs. Tim = the global network that enables the Web vs. the Web = hardware vs. Web sites (software)
Is the Web spatial? yes
Is it measuring spacial or living spacial? Measuring in measuring link to link and memory and such. More living though because it is created and embodied by our thoughts and experiences.
-"Am I a Document?"
-3-D
-not a container where space is filled-- space is created-- can get as large as it wants to
-"McCollough Effect"-similar to an optical illusion... last for days though. Bill Cheswick (ex-Internet security guru) tricks you and just says type in "Cheswick"- not magical, just the browsers doing their job.
-He showed an image of fireworks or chaotic starbursts-- "This is a map of the Internet"
-the Net organized by clusters of connections, "space freed of geography"
-Tim Bray of Yahoo.. different map of Net
Ches vs. Tim = the global network that enables the Web vs. the Web = hardware vs. Web sites (software)
Is the Web spatial? yes
Is it measuring spacial or living spacial? Measuring in measuring link to link and memory and such. More living though because it is created and embodied by our thoughts and experiences.
-"Am I a Document?"
-3-D
-not a container where space is filled-- space is created-- can get as large as it wants to
Notes on Ch. 1 of "Small Pieces Loosely Joined"
A NEW WORLD
Michael Ian Campbell-18-from FLA-1999 finished comm. College- “Soup 81” on AOL talking to 16-f-Erin Walton from Colorado (Columbine)- they didn’t know each other... he threatened her to not go to school the next day. She got scared-he went to jail and couldn’t use the Internet for 3 years.
Tells how he is bidding on quilts on Ebay and that whole process. Then explains the disconnects between the Internet and real world:
Space-links not based on contiguity but on human interest-no “near, far”
Time-all based on what suits us
Self- can choose your identity
Knowledge- he learned about quilts through his searches (in “human voice”)
He compares us to settlers and the Internet is our new world
-new world means new people
-not physically moving, but changing
-knowing more people
-learning new aspects to our personalities
therefore, web has not been hyped up enough
1995- Carnegie Mellon gives computers to 93 pittsburgh families… studies written in New York Times show they loose some communication and socialness
later on in the Navy and Xerox ad other places –crackdowns on email abuse
NYU expelled John Paul Dennings after comments of a gun in May 2000- sent to mental institution
New Hampshire state legislature Tom Alciere running in Nov 2000 kicked out for crazy websites about suicide, drinking laws, mandatory school attendance
^not really that rare “anomalies” … look at positives
Mike O’Dell- UUnet- hard hitting in life –easier to chat through email because he didn’t have to be right.
“bytes in flight”
-woman complaining about flood as if life hadn’t held up its part of the contract
Hoover Dam- masterpiece of management and engineering
Compared to Web-unmanaged and therefore successful
Human spirit at ever loosel
Michael Ian Campbell-18-from FLA-1999 finished comm. College- “Soup 81” on AOL talking to 16-f-Erin Walton from Colorado (Columbine)- they didn’t know each other... he threatened her to not go to school the next day. She got scared-he went to jail and couldn’t use the Internet for 3 years.
Tells how he is bidding on quilts on Ebay and that whole process. Then explains the disconnects between the Internet and real world:
Space-links not based on contiguity but on human interest-no “near, far”
Time-all based on what suits us
Self- can choose your identity
Knowledge- he learned about quilts through his searches (in “human voice”)
He compares us to settlers and the Internet is our new world
-new world means new people
-not physically moving, but changing
-knowing more people
-learning new aspects to our personalities
therefore, web has not been hyped up enough
1995- Carnegie Mellon gives computers to 93 pittsburgh families… studies written in New York Times show they loose some communication and socialness
later on in the Navy and Xerox ad other places –crackdowns on email abuse
NYU expelled John Paul Dennings after comments of a gun in May 2000- sent to mental institution
New Hampshire state legislature Tom Alciere running in Nov 2000 kicked out for crazy websites about suicide, drinking laws, mandatory school attendance
^not really that rare “anomalies” … look at positives
Mike O’Dell- UUnet- hard hitting in life –easier to chat through email because he didn’t have to be right.
“bytes in flight”
-woman complaining about flood as if life hadn’t held up its part of the contract
Hoover Dam- masterpiece of management and engineering
Compared to Web-unmanaged and therefore successful
Human spirit at ever loosel
Notes on Preface of "Small Pieces Loosely Joined"
Author worked for a software company:
-One day is shown the new technology coming out in a competitor (Mosaic, soon to be Netscape)
-links that can be taken from anywhere rather than only when someone owns both of the linked sites.
Small Pieces Loosely Joined:
“people” are small pieces… his theory is like Ms.Elk’s theory on Brontosaurus’
the new internet has loosely joined links with errors coming up but there’s a lot of them now, just not very organized/stable---What the web does--- “what once was tightly bound entities has been ripped into pieces and thrown into the air”
Web is an unnatural world not controlled by factors of nature—he asks what is true to our nature and what is only appearing to be true to our nature because it was all we had?
-One day is shown the new technology coming out in a competitor (Mosaic, soon to be Netscape)
-links that can be taken from anywhere rather than only when someone owns both of the linked sites.
Small Pieces Loosely Joined:
“people” are small pieces… his theory is like Ms.Elk’s theory on Brontosaurus’
the new internet has loosely joined links with errors coming up but there’s a lot of them now, just not very organized/stable---What the web does--- “what once was tightly bound entities has been ripped into pieces and thrown into the air”
Web is an unnatural world not controlled by factors of nature—he asks what is true to our nature and what is only appearing to be true to our nature because it was all we had?
Monday, February 12, 2007
Nevermind my first draft, I'm having a change of mind.
Okay! So after looking at the first paragraph of my draft, I realized my topic was boring and nothing unique. In class we discussed introducing new questions about social networking and creating innovative topics. I continued to research the topic and found some interesting information on girls and social networking sites. Being a teenage girl myself, it was interesting to find out that we are supposedly the most common users of social networking sites such as facebook and myspace. My essay will delve deeper into this discussion to ask why we are the biggest users, and which features appeal more to girls than boys.
These are some of the website I have found in my research:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/business/15drill.html?ex=1326517200&en=6badc3d6bd407b86&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/justine_cassell_online_disempowering_girls_users/
http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/01/08/girls-dominate-the-social-networking-world
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196801997&subSection=
My one question: if I use sites about the psychology of girls and boys to further discuss this topic and speak generally a bit about how girls are socially in comparison to boys, am I straying to far from the "social network" focus?
These are some of the website I have found in my research:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/business/15drill.html?ex=1326517200&en=6badc3d6bd407b86&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/justine_cassell_online_disempowering_girls_users/
http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/01/08/girls-dominate-the-social-networking-world
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196801997&subSection=
My one question: if I use sites about the psychology of girls and boys to further discuss this topic and speak generally a bit about how girls are socially in comparison to boys, am I straying to far from the "social network" focus?
Monday, February 5, 2007
draft
Kasey McLaughlin
Wrt195
First Draft of Introduction
Social Networking sites have taken over the internet. Their popularity within the past few years has increased tremendously. In fact, the top ten social networking sites found in Nielsen/Netratings research have grown from an audience of 46.8 million last year to an impressive 68.8 million in April 2006! Two of the more popular of these rapidly ballooning sites are Facebook and MySpace. For many web surfers, MySpace and Facebook have become the most well known and similar sites, therefore a gateway for comparison. From newspaper articles, to blogs made by highschool teenagers, the question of which site is “better” has become a topic of debate. Where can one find the best safety features? Which layout is easier to navigate? What about their instant messaging system? The answers to these questions depend on the personal opinions of the public as well as the statistics on each sites growth and popularity.
Wrt195
First Draft of Introduction
Social Networking sites have taken over the internet. Their popularity within the past few years has increased tremendously. In fact, the top ten social networking sites found in Nielsen/Netratings research have grown from an audience of 46.8 million last year to an impressive 68.8 million in April 2006! Two of the more popular of these rapidly ballooning sites are Facebook and MySpace. For many web surfers, MySpace and Facebook have become the most well known and similar sites, therefore a gateway for comparison. From newspaper articles, to blogs made by highschool teenagers, the question of which site is “better” has become a topic of debate. Where can one find the best safety features? Which layout is easier to navigate? What about their instant messaging system? The answers to these questions depend on the personal opinions of the public as well as the statistics on each sites growth and popularity.
Brainstorming for my essay...
I've been looking at the sites I found and I think that my topic will be comparing two of the most popular social networking sites out there: Facebook and MySpace. I will be looking for more sites to compare this by every one of their functions. I also found another site I might use for some stats in my essay: http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/pr/pr_060511.pdf
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