13th Day of Class: Search Tools

Today we covered bulletin boards, first search tools, Yahoo (now powered by Bing), Google (pagerank, ads), MSN Search (now Bing), Baidu (in China),

Watched YouTube video "Microsoft Bing #2 Commercial (Cure for Search Overload Syndrome)"

Next assignment will be to put some search terms, Kale will provide, in multiple search engines and report results, ads, etc... differences.

Assignment 10: Delicious

I have created a Delicious account. =)

Flickr.com images ( Search Criteria )
1. A Hawaiian sunrise ( Turtle Bay, Hawaii )
2. A pumpkin bigger than a person ( Giant Pumpkin )
3. Canadian farm? ( Kallie Sophie )

digg.com high score that doesn't deserve it
Title: (307 diggs today) How are you? You know... just hangin
It's a picture of a goat hanging from a telephone wire. It's a crude picture, somewhat strange, which is why it is getting diggs, probably by a lot of kids.

What are some pros and cons of social bookmarking?
Pro's: Easily share websites and interesting information with people who have similar interests.
Con's: There's too many links sometimes and there are times they don't work because a change in a page.

12th Day of Class

Talked about PodCasts (iPod Broadcasting), Audacity (audio editing), Lame (codec for Audacity to convert to mp3), Adobe Premier (video editing, expensive), iTunes, PodBean.com, Podcast.com, and various videos.

11th Day of Class

(Lost the data, will restore later.)

10th Day of Class

Today we're listening to Marika, who is focusing on library use and copyright infringement. She also brought several books in as references or ideas for blogging. She talked about who owns content published on the Internet, intellectual property, copyright, library website at LCC, etc...

Books:
- No One Cares What You Had for Lunch, 100 Ideas for Your Blog
- Blogging for Fame and Fortune
- Clear Blogging
- Pirates of the Digital Millenium
- The Huffington Complete Guide to Blogging
- Unleashing Web 2.0
- How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog

Resources which have a good amount of images you can legally use in your blog:
(see Kale's blog for a list of links to sites where you can use images for free)

9th Day of Class

2045 => technological singularity
wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PPTMASSuseInventionsLogPRINT.jpg

talked about collective intelligence...

ants, birds, bees, fish..

3 common things: maintain personal space (around), alignment, cohesion (certain distance)

5% of ring leaders can control the other 95% of people...

Wikipedia, swarm intelligence... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence)

"group think" - consensus fast but not optimal (not necesarrily good)
example, lemmings jump into the ocean and die...

Leslie White, 5 stages/levels of energy development:
- We use our own muscles, we have to do everything ourselves
- Domesticated animals, use others to assist us.
- Agriculture, we grow food in one place, reduce hunting & build cities
- Natural resources, oil, gas, extracting energy from the Earth
- Nuclear energy,

* Kardashev_scale on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale) for future

development [planet, space(sun), galactic]

* Autonomous cruise control system

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_system)

Books: By Neal Stephenson "Snow Crash" & "The Diamond Age"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson)

Will edit a little more ...

8th Day of Class

Today we talked about Twitter, created accounts for Twitter, watched a Twitter in Plain English video, watched a female comedian video about being a "Twitter Whore", talked about a NYC girl who Tweet'd after a bank robbery... (there might have been more, maybe I'll add it later).