Presuming that you are a user of MSN, or other IM programs (or have used it before, or at least know about it)...
Besides the obvious differences (such as ActiveWorlds is 3D and MSN isn"t, etc) what are the qualitative differences between the regular IM program and a 3D environment?
DIFFERENCES?
- active world gennerally talks to everyone, msn has a choice for larger conversations or one on one.
- active world does not seem to be for serious conversation.
- a different way to interact with others, possibly communicating more emotion.
- people may choose what they look like, how people see them.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
week 3 me and communication!
how do i use new communication technologies to communicate with my friends and family? im glad you asked!!
basically i only really use social networking sites, im not somuch into blogs or email and rarely go on twitter . the reason i have the last two are centred on assignmetns for uni!
ive been using social networking sites for many years, myspace since 04? a few of my friends had it who i went to school and allthough i was with them constantly at school we still had time to talk on the internet also, it was something to do while waiting for a reply on msn!
at that time, privacy was not an issue really, or at least something we did not think about at that age. Probably had something to do with us all thinking we were tricky and saying we lived in new york and were 21. ( i was 14)
Now my attitude on privacy with social networking is slightly stricter, there is a lack of information pointing my adress, school etec. allthough, google and amazon using the information i input does not bother me at all, i find it more to make my life easer.
I used to know people, when in school only on the internet, however now i prefer to avoid such suitations as i find the conversations become rather boring etc.
now i only use new communicatons to talk to people that i know, and thats the way it will probably stay
!!
basically i only really use social networking sites, im not somuch into blogs or email and rarely go on twitter . the reason i have the last two are centred on assignmetns for uni!
ive been using social networking sites for many years, myspace since 04? a few of my friends had it who i went to school and allthough i was with them constantly at school we still had time to talk on the internet also, it was something to do while waiting for a reply on msn!
at that time, privacy was not an issue really, or at least something we did not think about at that age. Probably had something to do with us all thinking we were tricky and saying we lived in new york and were 21. ( i was 14)
Now my attitude on privacy with social networking is slightly stricter, there is a lack of information pointing my adress, school etec. allthough, google and amazon using the information i input does not bother me at all, i find it more to make my life easer.
I used to know people, when in school only on the internet, however now i prefer to avoid such suitations as i find the conversations become rather boring etc.
now i only use new communicatons to talk to people that i know, and thats the way it will probably stay
!!
week 3 video
such a crazy video on the future of communications, and how it will end up affecting all of us, using filters to show us adds that we will react to etc.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
scavenger hunt!
1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park? a gas mask
http://www.historyarticles.com/enigma.htm
2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?
1965, america UCLA, university of california LA.
(tutorial)
3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software? Bill Gates birthday is the 28th October, 1955 and he sold his first software in 1986, making him
http://www.answers.yahoo.com/
4. Where was the World Wide Web invented? CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), in Switzerland
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedwebwhere.html
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?
depends on the computer now and the computer then, type brand and software.
my dad said so .
6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown? 4lb.
http://www.yahoo.com/
7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
Queensland did not become a separate colony (from new south wales) until 1859, and the tweed river is in new south wales because thats where the border is!
http://home.in.com.au/~anthonyw/main.html (yahoo)
8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice? There is a hotel named after him, he was also a famous poet in the cosmopoliton city.
10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?
The black assasins, steven stockwell.
http://www.historyarticles.com/enigma.htm
2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?
1965, america UCLA, university of california LA.
(tutorial)
3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software? Bill Gates birthday is the 28th October, 1955 and he sold his first software in 1986, making him
http://www.answers.yahoo.com/
4. Where was the World Wide Web invented? CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), in Switzerland
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedwebwhere.html
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?
depends on the computer now and the computer then, type brand and software.
my dad said so .
6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown? 4lb.
http://www.yahoo.com/
7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?
Queensland did not become a separate colony (from new south wales) until 1859, and the tweed river is in new south wales because thats where the border is!
http://home.in.com.au/~anthonyw/main.html (yahoo)
8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice? There is a hotel named after him, he was also a famous poet in the cosmopoliton city.
10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?
The black assasins, steven stockwell.
Cinema lecture.
Today, in the lecture Cinema was first introduced as the task for last week.
The lecturer went over a movies story, who, what when, where, why and how was discussed,
how all these questions made up the story line of a movie.
after this, we looked at the rules of cinema, rules being they must be continually used throughout the movie, with variations depending on the effect needed.
The lecturer went over a movies story, who, what when, where, why and how was discussed,
how all these questions made up the story line of a movie.
after this, we looked at the rules of cinema, rules being they must be continually used throughout the movie, with variations depending on the effect needed.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
a short history of computing and the internet.
"every abstract machine is linked to other abstract machines ... because their various types are as intertwined as their operations are convergent mechanosphere."
- Deleuze & guattari - A thousand plateaus.
This introduction from the words of Deleuze and guattari underlines how the DNA of each computer is passed on throughout each new generation, allthough they change in shape and more noticably size, each new computer contains parts of the last.
Charles Babbage, a 19th century inventor is credated with inventing the first computer, allthough it was a mechanical machine rather than a electronic one. The difference engine was designed to calculate and print mathematical tables. the first electronic computer is credited to the gemans, who in the second world war wanted to create uncrackable codes to keep their messages from reaching unwanted eyes. They called their creating enigma, which was only beaten by Bombe, a computer used by the brittish to counteract enigmas codes.
This leads on to after the second world war, where in the 1950's computers were finally being mass produced by IBM, however their price kept them from even the most elitest individuals, only governments, the military and corporate companies could afford them. Price was also, not the only factor keeping computers from the public, size, being that computers could only fit into a large room was another problem.
Fast forwarding 15 years to 1965, Moore predicted that the capacity of micro chips would double every two years, which so far has proved correct.
Another ten years of computers being only readily available to the public in universitys led to the release of the altair in 1975, which allthough was described as allmost useless without programs was widley accepted as a technological revolution, and a rather large unusual paper weight.
Bill Gates saw this gap and created BASIC for the Altair, meaning one could use it for word processing, basic accounting and games, so forth microsoft was created and remains one of the biggest names in computers today.
At the same time ideas for apple were brewing where steve jobs and steve wozniak became friends at a backyard computer catchup. Creating apple, they had the mission of creating computers for not only techices but the general public, who were more interested in software and its possibilities.
This brings us to today, where apple and microsoft continue to fight it out for the top position, and computers are becoming smaller and ever more integrated into our lives.
- Deleuze & guattari - A thousand plateaus.
This introduction from the words of Deleuze and guattari underlines how the DNA of each computer is passed on throughout each new generation, allthough they change in shape and more noticably size, each new computer contains parts of the last.
Charles Babbage, a 19th century inventor is credated with inventing the first computer, allthough it was a mechanical machine rather than a electronic one. The difference engine was designed to calculate and print mathematical tables. the first electronic computer is credited to the gemans, who in the second world war wanted to create uncrackable codes to keep their messages from reaching unwanted eyes. They called their creating enigma, which was only beaten by Bombe, a computer used by the brittish to counteract enigmas codes.
This leads on to after the second world war, where in the 1950's computers were finally being mass produced by IBM, however their price kept them from even the most elitest individuals, only governments, the military and corporate companies could afford them. Price was also, not the only factor keeping computers from the public, size, being that computers could only fit into a large room was another problem.
Fast forwarding 15 years to 1965, Moore predicted that the capacity of micro chips would double every two years, which so far has proved correct.
Another ten years of computers being only readily available to the public in universitys led to the release of the altair in 1975, which allthough was described as allmost useless without programs was widley accepted as a technological revolution, and a rather large unusual paper weight.
Bill Gates saw this gap and created BASIC for the Altair, meaning one could use it for word processing, basic accounting and games, so forth microsoft was created and remains one of the biggest names in computers today.
At the same time ideas for apple were brewing where steve jobs and steve wozniak became friends at a backyard computer catchup. Creating apple, they had the mission of creating computers for not only techices but the general public, who were more interested in software and its possibilities.
This brings us to today, where apple and microsoft continue to fight it out for the top position, and computers are becoming smaller and ever more integrated into our lives.
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