- Module 5 - Info Communication Concepts
Our final few questions from Module 5.
How might the metaphor of an ‘ecology’ impact on the way you think about, understand or use the Internet?
Viewing the Internet as an information ecology rather than technology that simply serves us to deliver information via communication is a concept that can broaden a user’s interpretation of [...]
- Nearing the end of Net 11
I checked in today to ensure all of my tasks have been completed successfully and realised I haven’t posted for a while now!
Been so busy with work, a number of sites to build both for Uni clients and freelance clients, lots of training for web editors and a possible contract renewal coming up which has [...]
- Module 4 - Evaluating the Web
We have been asked to provide an annotation for the top source located during our previous search for Module 4 task: Organising Search Information.
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Peter David Mathews. (2004). Music in His Own Image: The Aphex Twin Face. Nebula, 1.1, 65-73.
Retrieved July 20, 2008, from http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/ARTL8.pdf
In this article Mathews investigates the dichotomised identity of [...]
- Module 4 - Searching the Web
Using standard Search engines and meta search combiners to search the Web.
Using Google for basic search: Aphex Twin
3,450,000 results - top result being the Aphex Twin Wikipedia pageSearching Google Scholar produced results that were for the majority focussed on electronic music in general and briefly mentioned Aphex Twin in conjunction with other electronic artists. A [...]
- Module 4 - Downloading Tools/Plug Ins
We were asked to download a selection of tools and plug-ins to assist in our web investigations for Module 4:
1. Adobe’s pdf reader - already installed on all machines
2. Flash/Shockwave Players - already installed on all machines
3. Media Players - Over the year’s I’ve used all of the players listed – my preferred media players [...]
- Conceptual Research & Reflection Project
Conceptual Research & Reflection Project
The invisibility of difference
“The daily practice of electronic communication is shaped by over-familiarity with one’s own computer system, and a tendency to assume that – as with much more established forms of communication – everyone is operating within compatible and similar systems. When in doubt, seek to communicate in ways [...]
- Module 3 - Web 2.0
What applications and services do you feel are Web 2.0 indicative?
Flickr
Google Maps
Social Bookmarking Sites
You Tube
Virb
Facebook
Upcoming
Social Bookmarking Vs. standard HTML page of links
We were were asked to visit two sites and compare the differences in delivery of the similar information the sites offer.
The sites to investigate were: Blinklist social bookmarking site and an HTML based [...]
- Blog reflections
Having been an avid reader of a couple blogs over the past few years, I can honestly state that I have not had any interest whatsoever in maintaining a blog of my own.
The necessity to create one for the Net 11 unit has been interesting and has proven to offer a very convenient way [...]
- Module 3 - Legal Issues
All content within the page created for our hand-coded page task is my own - exceptions are listed below.
All photographs, illustrations etc. are owned by me. I have linked to a free e-book in my document “Free ebook - Time Management for Creative People by Mark McGuinness” and this is offered via a Creative Commons [...]
- Module 3 - HTML tags (elements), FTP & Standards
We were set the task of developing a hand-coded Web page for this exercise.
We were directed to Joe Barta’s ‘So, you wanna make a web page’ tutorial to work through the steps and produce a Web page. My page has been hand-coded using TextWrangler and I’ve uploaded it here (for lack of finding [...]
