During the week 7 lecture, the long-haired lecturer ventured into freeware, including the differences between legitimate and fake ones, the beauty and uses of freeware, his own online creations and so forth.
Encouraged in tutorials to download some form of freeware and discuss it, I decided to download the always popular Windows Live Messenger. The program is an instant messaging system on which you can add other users and view when they're online, communicating through typed messages sent instantly.
This program allows me to speak to someone I have on my contacts list from anywhere in the world where internet is available. I have several contacts from the UK who I am able to speak to instantly. The program also allows for fellow contacts to be able to see which song I am listening to through media player or iTunes if I choose to enable that function. Emoticons, animations and the infamous 'nudge' can be sent to other users, to grab their attention or perhaps speak a message which could not be said another way.
Another active function of the program is the ability to personalise it, including the use of a display name, a display picture and a coloured frame surrounding the conversation window.
Easily the most prominent instant messaging program on the internet, Windows Live Messenger is a personal favourite of mine.
Thanks.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Week 6 lecture
The week 6 lecture provided an interesting insight into the consumption and production of content by humans, and its relation to new communication technology.
The 'big' screens of life are television, the pc and the cinema. Through these mediums we passively consume content, in large doses often, because they are made quite readily available to us.
The 'small' screens of life are mobiles phones (which are becoming increasingly convergent) and personal music players. These allow for increased involvement of productions, and for identities to be formed during product consumption.
Niche-markets are increasingly targeted, with the production of fan films. Websites promoting and producing this activity are available online as mentioned in the lecture.
News consumption is greatly affected by technology. Mobile phones create yet another social networking frame in which information freely passes at a fantastic speed.
This more or less sums up what I learned in the lecture. Oh yeah.
The 'big' screens of life are television, the pc and the cinema. Through these mediums we passively consume content, in large doses often, because they are made quite readily available to us.
The 'small' screens of life are mobiles phones (which are becoming increasingly convergent) and personal music players. These allow for increased involvement of productions, and for identities to be formed during product consumption.
Niche-markets are increasingly targeted, with the production of fan films. Websites promoting and producing this activity are available online as mentioned in the lecture.
News consumption is greatly affected by technology. Mobile phones create yet another social networking frame in which information freely passes at a fantastic speed.
This more or less sums up what I learned in the lecture. Oh yeah.
Damn dirty Google Map
Here is my ultimate google map, a Jackson Haswell original.
View The Map, The. in a larger map
bone appetit (no typo).
The map seems to display from a very zoomed out point, and thus it could be hard to see where I made the lines, but zoom into surfers paradise and you will see.
View The Map, The. in a larger map
bone appetit (no typo).
The map seems to display from a very zoomed out point, and thus it could be hard to see where I made the lines, but zoom into surfers paradise and you will see.
Week 5 lecture
Not in the right order of weeks obviously, my first attempt I wasn't happy with so I deleted and re-did. Enjoy!
Social networking is an aspect discussed in the lecture material, and displayed on the course blogspot site. It's an activity which seems to have really spanned the past decade or so, and is only growing in popularity, with the likes of myspace being rivaled and surrounded by facebook, twitter, hello world, bebo and so forth.
If you have to have a little part of the web which is there to express your creativity and individuality, perhaps it could be done in a more subtle way. Listing your every like or dislike, sexual preferences, potentially indictable offences and what not on the internet is likely to cause problems for you eventually.
As mentioned on the course blogspot, imagine a potential boss or business client staggering upon some particularly low-brow, drunken photos of yourself from the weekend. It boggles the mind!
This online social networking has become so extensive and frequent, it is a modern journalistic tool for news. Politicians all have twitter pages! They're completely fake of course though, and would only post pre-meditated and approved twitter comments etc.
Who knows how far this online phenomena could go? Perhaps one day everyone will remain in their homes and all communication will be done via facebook? Let's hope not...
Social networking is an aspect discussed in the lecture material, and displayed on the course blogspot site. It's an activity which seems to have really spanned the past decade or so, and is only growing in popularity, with the likes of myspace being rivaled and surrounded by facebook, twitter, hello world, bebo and so forth.
If you have to have a little part of the web which is there to express your creativity and individuality, perhaps it could be done in a more subtle way. Listing your every like or dislike, sexual preferences, potentially indictable offences and what not on the internet is likely to cause problems for you eventually.
As mentioned on the course blogspot, imagine a potential boss or business client staggering upon some particularly low-brow, drunken photos of yourself from the weekend. It boggles the mind!
This online social networking has become so extensive and frequent, it is a modern journalistic tool for news. Politicians all have twitter pages! They're completely fake of course though, and would only post pre-meditated and approved twitter comments etc.
Who knows how far this online phenomena could go? Perhaps one day everyone will remain in their homes and all communication will be done via facebook? Let's hope not...
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