Activity 1001[2]: My second literature source evaluation

The article I have chosen is Tseng, B.L. Tatemura, J and Wu, Y. (2006) - Tomographic Clustering: To Visualize Blog Communities as Mountain Views. NEC Labrotories America
Available on-line at http://www.blogpulse.com/papers/2005/tseng.pdf

These three young Japanese males talk about how blogs are a fast growing internet social network. Though, however fast these internet social networks are growing they still tend not to connect blogs to their communties. According to their research they are able to combine blog rankings with each of their social connections in order to provide a simple basis for different communities in various blog spaces. The research is shown in many different forms such graphs, histograms, and other such formats.

 The three boys think that using blogs are vital to get communities to get together but i think that because there are so many other different ways such as MSN Messenger, Facebook, Yahoo Messenger, Skype and so on this doesn’t really make a difference. Communities will automatically then come together. According to the boys “by visualizing the blogspace as a social network of bloggers, various techniques provided by social network research communities can be introduced.” I think that as much as that maybe be true it can also be untrue. My question is what if they didn’t want to get to know each other. They don’t have to want to they might want to get online to meet other people from many other different places around the world.

In conclusion I think the article is okay to look at but nothing too great to look into further detail.

Session 1001(1): My first literature and source evaluation

The article I have chosen is Foust, R.Y. (2007)- Techno- Klutz Meets the Blogs. Library Media Connection 2007, Pages 56- 58.

Available on-line at http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=4&hid=102&sid=3d2401e8-4394-4016-b22a-d7a3a8f1018e%40sessionmgr108.

The blog is written by a lady who is technologically challenged and finds it extremely difficult to use the computer in general. She has no idea what the Internet is and what e-mails are. She asked her colleagued at work for some help to start up with things and this way they introduced her into using a blog. Using this blog she has learnt so many new things especially how to use the world wide web which is essential. A lot of people may think that it is easy to use but for some people in the older generation it maybe a little bit more difficult.

She then begins to define a blog and this is what she came up with ” A blog allows people around the world access to your musings and the ability to add their own. Your musings can become a catalyst to discussion with anyone, anywhere, who has access to a computer.”

 Froust then begins to give some positives and negatives regarding the topic. She closes up by talking about blogs in schools.

Activity 901 (3): My Third Literature Source Evaluation

In my third and final Literatue Source Evaluation  i will consider how web publishing technologies such as blogs might be useful in helping my friends, family and the general public

Strengths and Weaknessess

• Blogs are set to be useful because anywhere at anytime you can right notes in chornological order and it will come up to you in reverse order
• Blogs provide us about various different things ranging from sports commentaries up to news of different subjects
• Blogs can contain many differents things which can be both an advantage and dissavantage. Things such as pictures, profiles, texts, links to other blogs, videos etc..
• Most blogs are written although there are some using pictures, videos and artistic things
• It is reported more then 106million blogs on the World Wide Web
• Blogs first came along in 1994
• In the recent past blogs have become increasingly popular because it is a very simple and easy way to post things on the net and for yourself or anybody else to quickly have a read or a look at it

Refrences

1. The term “e-log” has been used to describe journal entries sent out via e-mail since as early as March 1996.Norman, David (2005-07-13), Users confused by blogs
2. Harmanci, Reyhan (2005) Time to get a life — pioneer blogger Justin Hall bows out at 31
3. The Economist (2006) “It’s the links, stupid“

Activity 901 (1): My first literature source evaluation

In the first one i will consider how web publishing technologies such as facebook, myspace, friendster, twitter and hi5 might be useful in helping learners in general not focusing on one specific age group.

Strengths and Weaknesses

• Facebook, Friendster, Myspace etc can be useful because it allows people to share personal things about themselves.
• They allow the world to connect onto it and meet and add different friends they know or have known in the past to talk to, chat with and find out about each other.
• They have certain security setting which can be breached to those who are more advanced using computers.
• According to Scott Karp who has connected his Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader together using Publishing 2.0 he claims that the same blog post were found in each of the different sources more then once.
• Nearly every blog post on these sources are imported or taken of or copied from somewhere else.
• On top of that Karp states that his email account is now full due to notifications from Facebook and Twitter.
• Karp claims that all these extra applications are meant to make us people more efficient when in reality what they are doing is making us more inefficient.
• A major point that he points out is that all these applications make us look very superficial and really only demonstrate the fact that we can connect with other people rather then enhance the user experience.
• According to Peter Brantley he claims that in an SCI meeting Scholarly Communications Insitute he met up with several grad students young adults and so on. He claims the only way the say in touch is because at the spur of the moment one of them brought up facebook and since then they only claim to keep in contact through a SCI group they had created on the spot

 Resources

1. Scott Karp (2007) Web 2.0 Inefficiency: Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Etc.Web 2.0 Inefficiency: Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Etc. The (r)Evolution of Media
2. Peter Brantley (2007) Working in Facebook O’reilly Radar

Activity 802: Publishing using Blog (WIKI)

Some Aspects of using a Wiki:

• Wiki’s are free
• Wiki’s allocate you with a certain amount of space to publish information over the WWW.
• Setting up is easy
• Due to this allocated space, a limited amount of information can be published.
• Other people can comment on your wiki website as can you on their’s.
• Wiki’s are simple to access, edit and publish because they just require one password for the whole system.
• Privacy settings can be adjusted so that only the individual and his or her friends have access to it.  
• Limited amount of personalization available compared to a website.

Activity 801: Publishing Using a Web Site (You Tube)

Some Aspects of You Tube:

• Shares information using Video Clips to anyone in the world
• Different categories to choose from such as Videos, Live TV Channels and Community Clips
• Information ranges from music videos, tv clips, football vidoes etc
• Allows people who have signed up to add their own clips to the site
• Privacy settings are available and thus some videos are locked
• Whilst signing up detailed aspects are required such as name, address and location
• Provides a search engine for people to search different areas of research

Activity 704: Publishing using a social web site (Facebook)

Facebook is a website in which people from all over the world are using to chat with friends and family. It’s basically a social utility. Over the next couple of sentences I will be mentioning the Advantages and Disadvantages of using Facebook.

 Advantages:

- It allows people from different parts of the world to remain in touch and in contact.

- Very addictive.

- Good for company advertisements.

- One gets to express themselves on a webpage.

Disadvantages

- Allows random people to enter your profile without adding you as a friend.

- Breaches in security codes.

- Facebooks security setting can easily be broken.

Activity 303: Designing CSS using NVU

NVU is a simple and easy way to design websites and webpages. This is the software we have used today in class to design a simple webpage. It’s a simple and fast way to design websites. Another reason it’s good is because you don’t have to spend much time using the actualy HTML part of it because coding is a very boring and difficult aspect of Web Development. Although it is deffinately not a complete way of designing webpages it at least enables you to do the basics.

Activity 302: Learning about CSS

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Styles define many different things in particular how to display HTML elements. Styles are also usually stored in style sheets. You can then add styles to HTML 4.0 to solve the main problem. External style sheets can usually save you a lot of work in the future. Usually, external style sheets are stored in CSS files. Usually multiple style definition cascade into one webpage.

Activity 301: Advantages and Disadvantages of CSS

Advantages:

- Styles define how to display HTML Elements

- CSS gives you the opportunity to be completely consistent with the look and feel of your own webpage.

- Styles sheets define HOW HTML elements are to be displayed, just like the font tag and the color attribute in HTML 3.2.

- Style sheets allow style information to be specified in many ways.

Disadvantages:

- Some popular browsers tend to not handle CSS the way they really should.

- One of the features of CSS is that if the browser does not understand something, it will ignore it.