Leaving China Out of Wikipedia
This is a pretty important article when it comes to the review of our global Inter Web scheme. The article tells that China is excluded in the Wikipedia environment and even those who are able to get around these barricades using proxies still are subject to the title of vandals. By vandals i mean recognized as proxy using entities, which are turned away if willing to correct a mistake in some area of information.
The article makes a good point exemplifying the fact that China (largest country of people) is unable to put their input into these "global" indexes. Let alone all of the individuals who do not have access to the Inter Web. China or the caregivers of Wikipedia have to do something if they want to have a optimally unified source of global information. If this is accomplished there would many more inclusions in the area of Chinese culture and an increasingly valid website.
As a global community we should work as diligently as we can to support that very title: A Global Community. I do understand that this is certainly a long-shot. But we have to face the facts; if we are to become anywhere near sustainable we have to work together in this finite world to care and respect each other. Or at least be able to do some research on your own culture on Wikipedia for God's sakes.
Monday, March 31, 2008
New Intel
Advancements in Intel
A large part of my posts are about hand-held gadgets. From the one end of the spectrum (getting phone signals through your spine), to the other (the enhancing of many types of new media on a handheld). However, the business Intel is doing it's best to keep up with these new advances and trying to do so appears to be not the easiest thing to do.
This article describes the future of our hand-devices. It claims that Intel has recently come out with new developments on our "personal digital assistants." For example, they have come out with devices that could quite possibly not require any "hunt and pecking," as the article describes. But sensored movements and almost intangible capabilities is what they are after.
On a personal level this is a scary foretelling of some bad circumstances. People keep saying that there needs to be more of and larger leaps and bounds in the media medium. However if people keep making the inanimate machines clever enough to the point where we almost don't have to even move in order to go see a movie, order some food buy new clothes i think this "intelligence," says the article, could put our procrastinating mind sets into an even more prolonged state of inobligation. With respect to getting things done for ourselves. Insted of having my cell phone inside of my head.
A large part of my posts are about hand-held gadgets. From the one end of the spectrum (getting phone signals through your spine), to the other (the enhancing of many types of new media on a handheld). However, the business Intel is doing it's best to keep up with these new advances and trying to do so appears to be not the easiest thing to do.
This article describes the future of our hand-devices. It claims that Intel has recently come out with new developments on our "personal digital assistants." For example, they have come out with devices that could quite possibly not require any "hunt and pecking," as the article describes. But sensored movements and almost intangible capabilities is what they are after.
On a personal level this is a scary foretelling of some bad circumstances. People keep saying that there needs to be more of and larger leaps and bounds in the media medium. However if people keep making the inanimate machines clever enough to the point where we almost don't have to even move in order to go see a movie, order some food buy new clothes i think this "intelligence," says the article, could put our procrastinating mind sets into an even more prolonged state of inobligation. With respect to getting things done for ourselves. Insted of having my cell phone inside of my head.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Google Demographics
The Wrong Way to Demographics
Google really can't help being #1 can they? Apparently Google's new way of advertising just doesn't match up to the traditional demographic aims. However, Google's poor feedback may just be due to site-seer's nonchalant attitude as they wave-off or pass over ads. As an ex-Myspacer i can say first hand that all of those flashy ads and annoying commercials that popped up went in one ear/eye and out the other. I'm quite positive that I'm not alone in this type of behavior as well.
Yet, having specifically targeted demographics that are not just focused on generalities like location, but personal enough to get down to the users themselves just might give Google the edge....i think. Targeting specific qualities like this will certainly give the participant the advantage in the most dramatic way possible. I can say that i have had it up to hear *points to neck* with those annoying ads that barricade my way into my social life, however i can also say that they're quite effective if targeted to qualifications user-to-user. The author said it best it think, "They need to seem less like blaring come-ons and more like social invitations."
Google really can't help being #1 can they? Apparently Google's new way of advertising just doesn't match up to the traditional demographic aims. However, Google's poor feedback may just be due to site-seer's nonchalant attitude as they wave-off or pass over ads. As an ex-Myspacer i can say first hand that all of those flashy ads and annoying commercials that popped up went in one ear/eye and out the other. I'm quite positive that I'm not alone in this type of behavior as well.
Yet, having specifically targeted demographics that are not just focused on generalities like location, but personal enough to get down to the users themselves just might give Google the edge....i think. Targeting specific qualities like this will certainly give the participant the advantage in the most dramatic way possible. I can say that i have had it up to hear *points to neck* with those annoying ads that barricade my way into my social life, however i can also say that they're quite effective if targeted to qualifications user-to-user. The author said it best it think, "They need to seem less like blaring come-ons and more like social invitations."
Teleportation
Glitches in Teleporting
This article describes an even deeper delving into the art that is online searching. Google has made it possible to search for a site, and at the same time (hypothetically), search within that site. This is certainly all well-and-good for the everyday, online customer; however there are some adverse side effects that come with this efficiency, as the article explains.
The positive: speedy, precise and concise searches. The negative: the presence of competing sites/agencies. In the detailed visuals the article provides you can see that when searching for a particular item/subject within a site there is the possibility of competing websites to be alternative sources for the same item/subject. This is good for the consumer, having an array of choices at ones disposal. However bad for the intended sites searched, having competition blatantly displayed right next to the targeted search. The author of the article makes an extremely valid point though. To avoid this problem being any more harmful than initially seen, the targeted sites could "optimize" their search capabilities within their sites. Making search in their web sites as user friendly as possible is the only way that these organizations could possibly withstand the negative capabilities of teleporting.
This article describes an even deeper delving into the art that is online searching. Google has made it possible to search for a site, and at the same time (hypothetically), search within that site. This is certainly all well-and-good for the everyday, online customer; however there are some adverse side effects that come with this efficiency, as the article explains.
The positive: speedy, precise and concise searches. The negative: the presence of competing sites/agencies. In the detailed visuals the article provides you can see that when searching for a particular item/subject within a site there is the possibility of competing websites to be alternative sources for the same item/subject. This is good for the consumer, having an array of choices at ones disposal. However bad for the intended sites searched, having competition blatantly displayed right next to the targeted search. The author of the article makes an extremely valid point though. To avoid this problem being any more harmful than initially seen, the targeted sites could "optimize" their search capabilities within their sites. Making search in their web sites as user friendly as possible is the only way that these organizations could possibly withstand the negative capabilities of teleporting.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
WOW
Where are the Boundries?
I have experienced the symptoms and circumstances of playing this online game World of Warcraft. My roomate actually plays quite often, which is apparently what happens to most, and i have had to subside some issues i have had with this game before.
This is actually hard to talk about when you know someone that has found this neccessity with this game. As the article states some psychologists have begun studying this and similar programs and their adverse affects on relationships with these individuals. They say that the endorphins could lead to some psychological dependency. If a particular individual didn't have the best social life and wasn't the best looking in the bunch then this endorphin release mixed with the successful feelings you get when you lead a big group of people into battle and come out on top could cause some deep twisted feelings of accomplishment. It's almost scary to see what these types of simulations can do to actual people when it is ultimately the underlying reason for some parts of personl degredation.
I have experienced the symptoms and circumstances of playing this online game World of Warcraft. My roomate actually plays quite often, which is apparently what happens to most, and i have had to subside some issues i have had with this game before.
This is actually hard to talk about when you know someone that has found this neccessity with this game. As the article states some psychologists have begun studying this and similar programs and their adverse affects on relationships with these individuals. They say that the endorphins could lead to some psychological dependency. If a particular individual didn't have the best social life and wasn't the best looking in the bunch then this endorphin release mixed with the successful feelings you get when you lead a big group of people into battle and come out on top could cause some deep twisted feelings of accomplishment. It's almost scary to see what these types of simulations can do to actual people when it is ultimately the underlying reason for some parts of personl degredation.
Facebook Folk
Facebook/Parents
(Leno Voice) So have you heard of this, parents are now befriending their sons and daughters on the Internet site Facebook? What's next, are parents going to be going to frat party's soon or what...?
I know, not very funny. However iiiiiinteresting. Parents have established, as i quaintly refer to them as, "Kid-Watcher" progarms on and offline now. Now the need for parental supervision has reached the point of no return....unless they delete their profiles. All humor aside it certainly does show the desperation that some parents are willing to go through to keep their kids in line. However, Facebook vets know that there are ways around their parents viewing aaaallll of their after school activities. For example blocking/limiting what they may veiw on their page. But, i would assume, suspision would arise from this. Techno wiz kids have ways around this threat, however this example shows the expansion of technology, even if it is into the clutches of evel hands.
(Leno Voice) So have you heard of this, parents are now befriending their sons and daughters on the Internet site Facebook? What's next, are parents going to be going to frat party's soon or what...?
I know, not very funny. However iiiiiinteresting. Parents have established, as i quaintly refer to them as, "Kid-Watcher" progarms on and offline now. Now the need for parental supervision has reached the point of no return....unless they delete their profiles. All humor aside it certainly does show the desperation that some parents are willing to go through to keep their kids in line. However, Facebook vets know that there are ways around their parents viewing aaaallll of their after school activities. For example blocking/limiting what they may veiw on their page. But, i would assume, suspision would arise from this. Techno wiz kids have ways around this threat, however this example shows the expansion of technology, even if it is into the clutches of evel hands.
Anonymous
Kentucky/Anonymous Bill
This is an interesting story for a couple of reasons. 1) This could be quite devastating to the aspects of the Inter Web where anonymity reigns. The biggest example i could concoct was comments on blogs and similar types of sites. Apperently there is quite a lot of bullying going on on the Internet as the article suggests. I myself am not too keen on the whole virtual bullying situation going on, however i would assume that it is a problem in certain areas. Yet, i haven't been so exposed to it myself. However much a drawback it is to anonymity, as there are to many different aspects of the internet, it is deffinitly a tool to be used to shed different perspectives on an aray of subject matters.
2) Charging someone for others' free opinions on the Web. I reiterate, i have not experienced this bullying myself, but if it is as big a problem as could be then it should be delt with accordingly. But c'mon, freedom os speech man!
This is an interesting story for a couple of reasons. 1) This could be quite devastating to the aspects of the Inter Web where anonymity reigns. The biggest example i could concoct was comments on blogs and similar types of sites. Apperently there is quite a lot of bullying going on on the Internet as the article suggests. I myself am not too keen on the whole virtual bullying situation going on, however i would assume that it is a problem in certain areas. Yet, i haven't been so exposed to it myself. However much a drawback it is to anonymity, as there are to many different aspects of the internet, it is deffinitly a tool to be used to shed different perspectives on an aray of subject matters.
2) Charging someone for others' free opinions on the Web. I reiterate, i have not experienced this bullying myself, but if it is as big a problem as could be then it should be delt with accordingly. But c'mon, freedom os speech man!
Latest From Apple
Apple's Latest
I'm not gonna try to hide the fact that there are certainly many words that appear to be jargon to me in this article. But the thing i do take away from it is that now there are programs which are comprable to the latest editions of web surfing, digital design and programming.
There's mention of many different orginizaitons changing their entire programming databases to house this monumental creation. Which includes some Universities even. One of my proffessors (Dr. Cecil) mentioned that this was one of the only ways that we can change the technological world in a profound way: to be able to apply new improvements to old applications. For example, the iPhone technology has pushed the limits with touch screen and multimotion technology in a handheld device (of course in the most practical way - thanks apple). Now these new capabilities have the potential to rewire entire universities. That's impressive.
I'm not gonna try to hide the fact that there are certainly many words that appear to be jargon to me in this article. But the thing i do take away from it is that now there are programs which are comprable to the latest editions of web surfing, digital design and programming.
There's mention of many different orginizaitons changing their entire programming databases to house this monumental creation. Which includes some Universities even. One of my proffessors (Dr. Cecil) mentioned that this was one of the only ways that we can change the technological world in a profound way: to be able to apply new improvements to old applications. For example, the iPhone technology has pushed the limits with touch screen and multimotion technology in a handheld device (of course in the most practical way - thanks apple). Now these new capabilities have the potential to rewire entire universities. That's impressive.
Internet Revolution
Cell Phone Revolution
This case is quite the interesting one. Apparently some girl had lost her phone in a taxi in NYC. The culprit who had taken the phone out of the taxi had refused to give the phone back after being tracked down. Then the victim publicized her plight on the interweb and received enormous feedback and assistance in pressuring the authorities in NYC to hunt down the phone and assist our victim.
The author of this article makes some interesting (and extravagant) points: "The Internet will transform the world everywhere groups of people come together to accomplish something, which is everywhere." In short this is describing the revolutionary power that the Internet has in response to this case and many potential cases in the future. The author claims that this case shows that people can unintentionally form groups and "organizations" when there is no obvious intention to form these groups. When people come together in this way: across cultures and countries, it is truly a defining moment for the technology that grounded these mass movements. The InterWeb.
"The argument I'm making is that the Internet isn't a decoration to contemporary society -- it's a challenge to it. " This statement is certainly concrete reinforcement for the power of our technology, our global relationships stemming from said technology.
This case is quite the interesting one. Apparently some girl had lost her phone in a taxi in NYC. The culprit who had taken the phone out of the taxi had refused to give the phone back after being tracked down. Then the victim publicized her plight on the interweb and received enormous feedback and assistance in pressuring the authorities in NYC to hunt down the phone and assist our victim.
The author of this article makes some interesting (and extravagant) points: "The Internet will transform the world everywhere groups of people come together to accomplish something, which is everywhere." In short this is describing the revolutionary power that the Internet has in response to this case and many potential cases in the future. The author claims that this case shows that people can unintentionally form groups and "organizations" when there is no obvious intention to form these groups. When people come together in this way: across cultures and countries, it is truly a defining moment for the technology that grounded these mass movements. The InterWeb.
"The argument I'm making is that the Internet isn't a decoration to contemporary society -- it's a challenge to it. " This statement is certainly concrete reinforcement for the power of our technology, our global relationships stemming from said technology.
Friday, March 7, 2008
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