My first tweet was an interesting experience. I never realized just how short 140 characters really were. It was hard to condense what I wanted to say in that limited space.
I think that a twitter discussion might be easier since you can easily see what multiple people say at once compared to a BB discussion where you must slowly scroll through every response. Twitter seems a lot more fast paced and convenient.
I do not think twitter can ever replace a a real class discussion since its not as detailed and in order for someone to get their point out might be required to do so in multiple tweets.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Check Out Social Networking Sites
Facebook
Facebook is the one I am most familiar with. The interface is simple and clean so there isn't much confusion to how to get anything done. This originally started as a website mainly to connect college students. They have decent privacy settings to prevent people you don't know from contacting you and disturbing your privacy. There is also a messaging box on the bottom right to talk to anyone that is currently on that you want to. The increasing number of facebook apps make it enjoyable to stay on, longer than you would expect.
Myspace
Myspace is similar to facebook, but it is more about customization and your own personality more so than functions. The amount of customization is alot greater than facebook. It doesn't have the amount of apps that Facbook has. The security options don't seem as secure as Facebook. There are many video/movie clips on myspace to be viewed now.
Friendster
I do not like that before you even get to browse the site that they force you to create an account or login. That is very frustrating to not know what a site has to offer before joining it. So when I created an account, i tried looking for friends and there were none that even used it. It is definitely not as mainstream as facebook or myspace. The search is very inefficient and doesn't make much sense.
LinkedIn
My previous religion teacher invited me to LinkedIn and from what i got from it, it is a purely professional networking site. The interface takes some time to get used to. This provides educational/occupational information of different individuals. I even used the search function to find a professor that went to a different College and it was able to find him. There is a good chance that LinkedIn can be used to recruit/hire/interview talented individuals to work for various companies. There is an "upgrade" that you can pay for that makes you more accessible.
Facebook is the one I am most familiar with. The interface is simple and clean so there isn't much confusion to how to get anything done. This originally started as a website mainly to connect college students. They have decent privacy settings to prevent people you don't know from contacting you and disturbing your privacy. There is also a messaging box on the bottom right to talk to anyone that is currently on that you want to. The increasing number of facebook apps make it enjoyable to stay on, longer than you would expect.
Myspace
Myspace is similar to facebook, but it is more about customization and your own personality more so than functions. The amount of customization is alot greater than facebook. It doesn't have the amount of apps that Facbook has. The security options don't seem as secure as Facebook. There are many video/movie clips on myspace to be viewed now.
Friendster
I do not like that before you even get to browse the site that they force you to create an account or login. That is very frustrating to not know what a site has to offer before joining it. So when I created an account, i tried looking for friends and there were none that even used it. It is definitely not as mainstream as facebook or myspace. The search is very inefficient and doesn't make much sense.
My previous religion teacher invited me to LinkedIn and from what i got from it, it is a purely professional networking site. The interface takes some time to get used to. This provides educational/occupational information of different individuals. I even used the search function to find a professor that went to a different College and it was able to find him. There is a good chance that LinkedIn can be used to recruit/hire/interview talented individuals to work for various companies. There is an "upgrade" that you can pay for that makes you more accessible.
Monday, September 27, 2010
BLogs Vs WIkis
Blogs
A blog is an online website in which it is one person's opinion on anything he wants to comment on. It can be about recent news, his different interests, or even about his local community. The one person can update this blog, and it is at his/her pace. You can call a blog an online public diary which other people can post their reactions to your blog post in the form of comments. Although blogging seems great, there are those who post negative comments about other people reveal in an NY Times Op-ed article "Stung by the Perfect Sting". In the Op-ed it stated "Liskula Cohen, a 37-year-old model and Australian Vogue cover girl, was surprised to find herself winning a “Skankiest in NYC” award from an anonymous blogger."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/opinion/26dowd.html?_r=1
Wikis
Wikis are a form of an online database which content is user/community generated. Wikis actually started out as an open source project and now runs purely on donations. Unlike blogs, wikis can be updated often by many different users. Although this may increase the rate at which it is updated, it can also mean that information is incorrect as well. Like the blog, it is open to the public. Wikipedia is not the only place that have wikis, some websites create their own wikis which only have information they wish to provide, maybe about their company or a genre their site follows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wikis at work: Up from the grassroots by Rob Edmonds E.learning Age; Oct 2006; p. 14
Convergence and Collaboration
Today everyone expects things to get done fast and efficient. The convergence of old + new media does just that. Wikis make information accessible and easy to find instead of having to search through books, it has become a one stop shop of information which saves people time. Information is often posted right after reported on many blogs and gets the community involved in sharing their opinions on said topic,issue, or news.
New uses of Wikis
I cannot think of a new use for wikis at the moment but I did like the idea that one site did. This site is called www.Teamliquid.net and they are a e-sport dedicated website, specializing in starcraft(an RTS). They created their own database of information people new to this area can access and look up information. They call their database a Liquipedia ( http://wiki.teamliquid.net/ ).
A blog is an online website in which it is one person's opinion on anything he wants to comment on. It can be about recent news, his different interests, or even about his local community. The one person can update this blog, and it is at his/her pace. You can call a blog an online public diary which other people can post their reactions to your blog post in the form of comments. Although blogging seems great, there are those who post negative comments about other people reveal in an NY Times Op-ed article "Stung by the Perfect Sting". In the Op-ed it stated "Liskula Cohen, a 37-year-old model and Australian Vogue cover girl, was surprised to find herself winning a “Skankiest in NYC” award from an anonymous blogger."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/opinion/26dowd.html?_r=1
Wikis
Wikis are a form of an online database which content is user/community generated. Wikis actually started out as an open source project and now runs purely on donations. Unlike blogs, wikis can be updated often by many different users. Although this may increase the rate at which it is updated, it can also mean that information is incorrect as well. Like the blog, it is open to the public. Wikipedia is not the only place that have wikis, some websites create their own wikis which only have information they wish to provide, maybe about their company or a genre their site follows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Wikis at work: Up from the grassroots by Rob Edmonds E.learning Age; Oct 2006; p. 14
Convergence and Collaboration
Today everyone expects things to get done fast and efficient. The convergence of old + new media does just that. Wikis make information accessible and easy to find instead of having to search through books, it has become a one stop shop of information which saves people time. Information is often posted right after reported on many blogs and gets the community involved in sharing their opinions on said topic,issue, or news.
New uses of Wikis
I cannot think of a new use for wikis at the moment but I did like the idea that one site did. This site is called www.Teamliquid.net and they are a e-sport dedicated website, specializing in starcraft(an RTS). They created their own database of information people new to this area can access and look up information. They call their database a Liquipedia ( http://wiki.teamliquid.net/ ).
Monday, September 13, 2010
The affect new media has in sports today
The project I am going to write about is the interaction between new media and sports today. How does new media affect sports? That will be the main question I will attempt to answer through my research. With the introduction of new media, many athletes themselves have created their own facebook profiles and fan clubs, and even created their own twitters. The chance to improve the market base or fan base can even be through the use of new media. Many opportunities arise with new media being incorporated. I will research different blogs, wikis, and even facebook pages to see how they use new media. I believe this will help in my understanding of what the affect of new media on sports is. Here are some examples of community and athletes using new media.
http://www.thejetsblog.com/
http://www.metsblog.com/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/OchoCinco?ref=ts
http://www.thejetsblog.com/
http://www.metsblog.com/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/OchoCinco?ref=ts
What is new Media?
New media in our generation is common to people who have grown up with it. Some examples of technologies of new media is smart phones which utilize the use of internet, wiki's which is a user generated website of information, and even facebook which is used to connect people through the web. You can also say that new media is a more modern way of old media. If reading a book is old media, then reading an ebook is new media. The basis of new media is often based off old media.
Citations
http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_oldvnew.htm
http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_whatisnm.htm
Citations
http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_oldvnew.htm
http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_whatisnm.htm
Monday, September 6, 2010
New to blogging - Daniel Wu
This is my very first blog so I really have no clue what to do. I am Daniel Wu.
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