http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,28383,26062690-10229,00.html
Wisdom of the crowds.. or true illusion?
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wiki
- Edited within web browser
- Intuitive linking (Yay!)
- Wiki text and restricted use of htm
- Thorough logging
The idealised form of ‘participatory culture’:
everyone online can participate but don’t have to.
(Wikis are probably the avatar of ‘Web 2.0’) [lecture ppt]
- Closest form of web2.0 - freedom of information
- Deeply hypertextual - links to refered items... can follow research trail
Collective intelligence -Levy, P.
Network of collective information = limitless information.
not everyone knows everything, but together everyone knows a helluva lot.
Buzz words surrounding wikis, describing what wikis can do "wisdom of crowds" "crowd sourcing" etc
Watchlist - rss/email of changes made to subscribed articles
Rollbacks - roll back changes/vandalisms
Wikipedia works on the passion of the people involved. Interested people will keep articles up to date / clean. Otherwise articles can be left stagnant.
Almost anyone can edit - different levels of protection against changes.
clay shirky - proposed edit - always subject to review - publish then filter.
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Penguin, New York, 2008, pp. 139-40.
wikia... collective wiki host/source
http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/11/collective_intelligence_vs_the.html
edited wikipedia... interesting to think that there is so much information on there that isn't complete... wikipedia has an aura of 'not quite academic, but it has all the answers' so to go and play in it and edit an article... and add an entire section... sort of blows my mind. Just shows that, that particular subject isn't really too popular... but then again that doesn't surprise me.
- Intuitive linking (Yay!)
- Wiki text and restricted use of htm
- Thorough logging
The idealised form of ‘participatory culture’:
everyone online can participate but don’t have to.
(Wikis are probably the avatar of ‘Web 2.0’) [lecture ppt]
- Closest form of web2.0 - freedom of information
- Deeply hypertextual - links to refered items... can follow research trail
Collective intelligence -Levy, P.
Network of collective information = limitless information.
not everyone knows everything, but together everyone knows a helluva lot.
Buzz words surrounding wikis, describing what wikis can do "wisdom of crowds" "crowd sourcing" etc
Watchlist - rss/email of changes made to subscribed articles
Rollbacks - roll back changes/vandalisms
Wikipedia works on the passion of the people involved. Interested people will keep articles up to date / clean. Otherwise articles can be left stagnant.
Almost anyone can edit - different levels of protection against changes.
clay shirky - proposed edit - always subject to review - publish then filter.
Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, Penguin, New York, 2008, pp. 139-40.
wikia... collective wiki host/source
http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/11/collective_intelligence_vs_the.html
edited wikipedia... interesting to think that there is so much information on there that isn't complete... wikipedia has an aura of 'not quite academic, but it has all the answers' so to go and play in it and edit an article... and add an entire section... sort of blows my mind. Just shows that, that particular subject isn't really too popular... but then again that doesn't surprise me.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
TBL
"Hyper-Librarian. Oversees the web of available data, ensuring its coherency. Interface with users, train users. Manages indexes and keyword systems. Manages data provided by the project itself."
Berners-Lee, T., & Cailliau, R. (1990, November 12). WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project. Retrieved August 28, 2009, from http://www.w3.org/Proposal.html.
"Mummy I want to be a HYPER-librarian when i grow up..."
What a job! Back then maybe not... enough to keep one busy and happy i expect but now?! Ugh. I dread the thought of what it would take to do that.
Tim Berners-Lee actually seems quite cool... even if slightly... erm... odd. Has a sense of humour which i guess he'd need.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Net202 - 2 part 2
I know i'm not supposed to write alot... but i'm a writer that's what i do (theoretically).
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The wayback machine http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
LA's Pandora fails in comparison to this... but the again i don't think anyone really thought too hard about Pandora, it was a great idea but really never seemed to have the support (community or government) that it needed to be truly successful at internet preservation and archiving.
http://web.archive.org/web/19961019064223/http://www.nla.gov.au/
- Old school. oh wow. Thankfully it does get better..
Its almost painful to see where we've comes from.. and in such a short space of time. Its almost just as painful to know my html skills are still back at that point.. ouch.
... i just found my old website... f**k. Mind you optus deleted it ages ago which really ticked me off. I spent so much time on that thing and then they just up and got rid of it. but still... thankfully (or sadly) they only got 2 images of it. Not sure whether to be mad or sad.. also not sure whether to search out the other sites i've created also.
Moving on..
Will come back to this link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8
My net is so slow at home i'll watch it elsewhere.
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The wayback machine http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
LA's Pandora fails in comparison to this... but the again i don't think anyone really thought too hard about Pandora, it was a great idea but really never seemed to have the support (community or government) that it needed to be truly successful at internet preservation and archiving.
http://web.archive.org/web/19961019064223/http://www.nla.gov.au/
- Old school. oh wow. Thankfully it does get better..
Its almost painful to see where we've comes from.. and in such a short space of time. Its almost just as painful to know my html skills are still back at that point.. ouch.
... i just found my old website... f**k. Mind you optus deleted it ages ago which really ticked me off. I spent so much time on that thing and then they just up and got rid of it. but still... thankfully (or sadly) they only got 2 images of it. Not sure whether to be mad or sad.. also not sure whether to search out the other sites i've created also.
Moving on..
Will come back to this link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8
My net is so slow at home i'll watch it elsewhere.
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Net202 - 2 part 1
Week 2 of trying to use this as a reflective tool. *ugh*
So HTML and hypertext.. i'm such a pc snob i'm not going to do the 'hello world' html activity... i've used html extensively (even though it was before i started full time work..) and it really is a bit of a yawn fest for me. What a snob eh? I'm so behind in all this stuff! so moving on...
How WWW and hypertext started was interesting though, being so young back then we never got that introduction to computers, it was all about how to use them for what we needed to do. It was never who, what where or why of the creation of the net. Nowadays more of that stuff is coming out, but i still think there isn't enough of it out there to make kids understand that this wasn't always the reality... that there was life before computers and it wasn't in Grandads era either. All people even older workers probably don't know (and in most cases don't care) the who, whats and whys of all this stuff either but i think it wouldn't hurt for them too, to understand how this all really works... it might even make some of them more enthusiastic about certain changes occuring in the WWW. maybe...
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Next bit involves reading something from George Landow's 1992 book, Hypertext. Which i have to sadly say i found interesting. Very netforce explorers VR/RL kind of theory.
"hypertext as multisequentially read text" (http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/jhup/htanalogue.html) is interesting as no one now would align hypertext with a book. But in truth what he says is true hypertext is present in journals and articles all the time, we often leave the main text and follow the train of thought to an image or footnote or citation. But to think of it as hypertext.. in this day and age is almost painful.
Following on from that it is interesting to think that when you transfer the initial idea into electronic form the sum of the related articles, links, texts, images etc do often make up and are more important than the main text. We do relate better to a text via other items, contexts and experiences... but doing it via the internet... the www... makes a much more full on sensory experience. Netforce explorers eat your heart out... wow.
Readerly text vs writerly text, Roland Barthes makes an incredibly insightful point regarding the value of writerly text... compared to readerly text the limitations are almost stifling. How could one satifactorily go back to the non-involvement of the printed text when you can become so intimately involved with the text. I think that is where social networking sites have found their forte. People want to be involved, we don't like just reading and processing... we want hands on experiences with theories and ideas. Reading a textbook vs using an e-book version with links, videos, a forum... there is almost no doubt which a learner would prefer. But at the same time from a library/supplier/$$$ point of view, we're not there yet. Not in terms of the freedom of information we should really have. e-books currently are almost painful to read, they mostly are just scanned books... there is no interactivity. And in the cases where there is you have to pay for it, even then its not worth it most times. The virtual cosmos of ideas and wondrous freedom of information that comes to mind when i think of what should be makes what we do now pale in comparison. I find it so hard to believe that we can't use those possibilities.. the technology exists, but... its not commercially viable yet. Which is depressing to say the least.
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So HTML and hypertext.. i'm such a pc snob i'm not going to do the 'hello world' html activity... i've used html extensively (even though it was before i started full time work..) and it really is a bit of a yawn fest for me. What a snob eh? I'm so behind in all this stuff! so moving on...
How WWW and hypertext started was interesting though, being so young back then we never got that introduction to computers, it was all about how to use them for what we needed to do. It was never who, what where or why of the creation of the net. Nowadays more of that stuff is coming out, but i still think there isn't enough of it out there to make kids understand that this wasn't always the reality... that there was life before computers and it wasn't in Grandads era either. All people even older workers probably don't know (and in most cases don't care) the who, whats and whys of all this stuff either but i think it wouldn't hurt for them too, to understand how this all really works... it might even make some of them more enthusiastic about certain changes occuring in the WWW. maybe...
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Next bit involves reading something from George Landow's 1992 book, Hypertext. Which i have to sadly say i found interesting. Very netforce explorers VR/RL kind of theory.
"hypertext as multisequentially read text" (http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/jhup/htanalogue.html) is interesting as no one now would align hypertext with a book. But in truth what he says is true hypertext is present in journals and articles all the time, we often leave the main text and follow the train of thought to an image or footnote or citation. But to think of it as hypertext.. in this day and age is almost painful.
Following on from that it is interesting to think that when you transfer the initial idea into electronic form the sum of the related articles, links, texts, images etc do often make up and are more important than the main text. We do relate better to a text via other items, contexts and experiences... but doing it via the internet... the www... makes a much more full on sensory experience. Netforce explorers eat your heart out... wow.
Readerly text vs writerly text, Roland Barthes makes an incredibly insightful point regarding the value of writerly text... compared to readerly text the limitations are almost stifling. How could one satifactorily go back to the non-involvement of the printed text when you can become so intimately involved with the text. I think that is where social networking sites have found their forte. People want to be involved, we don't like just reading and processing... we want hands on experiences with theories and ideas. Reading a textbook vs using an e-book version with links, videos, a forum... there is almost no doubt which a learner would prefer. But at the same time from a library/supplier/$$$ point of view, we're not there yet. Not in terms of the freedom of information we should really have. e-books currently are almost painful to read, they mostly are just scanned books... there is no interactivity. And in the cases where there is you have to pay for it, even then its not worth it most times. The virtual cosmos of ideas and wondrous freedom of information that comes to mind when i think of what should be makes what we do now pale in comparison. I find it so hard to believe that we can't use those possibilities.. the technology exists, but... its not commercially viable yet. Which is depressing to say the least.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Blind search engine testing...
Something I'm going to have to play with. Definitely an interesting issue considering how consumerized our lives are now a days... brand vs. quality/content.
Monday, August 10, 2009
'Records Management Today' series
Podcast Series ‘Records Management Today’ – latest episode is available at www.northumbria.ac.uk/records_management_today
Episode 6 (August 2009)
Recorded: Monday 29 June 2009
Spotlight on: The records continuum, in conversation with Joanne Evans (44 mins).
The records continuum model arose from the attempt by Australian academics, archivists and records managers to reformulate the way we think about records and about the recordkeeping. The model has been most famously expounded by Frank Upward of Monash University, Melbourne Australia (See: http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/groups/rcrg/publications/frank-u-rmj-2001.pdf )
In this podcast James Lappin and Joanne Evans discuss the history and significance of the records continuum. Joanne is a recordkeeping researcher at the e-Scholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, and is also associated with Monash University. The podcast is introduced by Julie McLeod.
Participants:
Joanne Evans, Research Fellow, eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne http://www.esrc.unimelb.edu.au
James Lappin, Thinking Records Ltd
AC+erm Project website: www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm
AC+erm Project blog: http://www.acerm.blogspot.com/
AC+erm Project on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Northumbria_RM
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Net202
Interesting lecture, even more interesting ideas... definitions and videos watched. Not sure how this is reflective just yet but as its 10pm I guess this is about as good as it gets.
It does however need to be noted that the concept that the Internet is just a 'path' of networked PCs is something no one really takes into account. The visual proxy trace was a good way to really understand how that works. Dammit why can't we travel that fast?! "Beam me up Scotty!"
No remind me I am studying 2 subjects this semester... not just one mmmkay?
Meaning
refractive
Dictionary: Re·fract·ive
a.
[Cf. F. réfractif. See Refract.]
Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.
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reflection
Dictionary: re·flec·tion (rĭ-flĕk'shən) pronunciation
1. The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
2. Something, such as light, radiant heat, sound, or an image, that is reflected.
3.
1. Mental concentration; careful consideration.
2. A thought or an opinion resulting from such consideration.
4. An indirect expression of censure or discredit: a reflection on his integrity.
5. A manifestation or result: Her achievements are a reflection of her courage.
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The bending of will, thought, sound or image... shaped into my thoughts, ideas and conflagrations of common sense, humour and fact.
Welcome to my world.
Dictionary: Re·fract·ive
a.
[Cf. F. réfractif. See Refract.]
Serving or having power to refract, or turn from a direct course; pertaining to refraction; as, refractive surfaces; refractive powers.
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reflection
Dictionary: re·flec·tion (rĭ-flĕk'shən) pronunciation
1. The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
2. Something, such as light, radiant heat, sound, or an image, that is reflected.
3.
1. Mental concentration; careful consideration.
2. A thought or an opinion resulting from such consideration.
4. An indirect expression of censure or discredit: a reflection on his integrity.
5. A manifestation or result: Her achievements are a reflection of her courage.
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The bending of will, thought, sound or image... shaped into my thoughts, ideas and conflagrations of common sense, humour and fact.
Welcome to my world.
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