Search Engine Society (Halavais, A. (2008). Search Engine Society: Search Engines, Search Divides, Social Search.) begins by mentioning how search engines are now thought of by our society as a kind of a cure all for the common question, and how we are now referring to machines before people when seeking answers. On almost a [...]
Outline
Authors:
Michele Aulenti
Jessica Fine
Derek Varga
Introduction
1. What are the current tribulations and dilemmas in computer mediated dating?
2. What are the positives resulting from online dating?
3. What are the current issues and circumstances in face to face dating?
The Bias of Online Dating
1. One of the major problems in online dating has been predators and [...]
Bibliography
The bibliography is attached to this post bibliography
Blogging = $
The first few chapters of Naked Conversations (Scoble, R. & Israel, S. (2006). Naked Conversations. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 1-62) were well written and fun to read. What made the beginning of the book so enjoyable was the manner in which it was written, which was in the form of a story, focusing [...]
Plato, Daigo, and Wallstreet
“Play is older than older than culture”, a quote which is repeated through out Huizinga’s book ((1950). Nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon ) seems to emphasize how play is a characteristic of many living things, and therefore precedes culture. He spends half of the first 27 pages of his [...]
Proposal
This proposal will focus on a current problem within the relm of sociable media. We’ve chosen to specifically cover the dangers of online dating. Derek Varga, Michele Aulenti and Jessica Fine will be co-authoring the final research paper. In addition, we will conduct research, put together a presentation and author all other documents related to [...]
Research Plan
Research Plan
The Week of October 29th: Individually we will research articles and be ready to collaborate the information we have found to put it in to our Annotated Bibliography on Saturday.
The Week of November 5th: Individually we will work on the outline by assigning each member of the group a section of the outline to [...]
Schedule Document
Thursday, October 18, 2007: We prepared a research plan for how as a group we will collaborate the material found so we can get a head start on our next assignment, the Annotated Bibliography. Each member of our group will be responsible for finding and sorting through research. Finally, we worked on the proposal so [...]
Responsibilities
Individually each of us will research information about our White Paper topic. When we find articles and information, we will collaborate as a group and discuss what we have found to see how it pertains to our topic. Each of us will contact at least one author by e-mail to see if they have any [...]
Agenda
I will be meeting with Jessica and Michelle on Thursday of this week in order to begin planning out the details for our project. This will include going over our individual responsibilities, discussing how we will go about writing the white paper, our presentation, finalizing our proposal, and going over research methods. Durring this time [...]
Second Life….Done Right by Sony!
This fall Sony will be allowing Playstation 3 owners to log on to a massive 3D environment called “Home”. Home will allow users to create a user customized 3D rendering of themselves, own a virtual apartment, interact with other gamers, play games, watch movies live in the environment, display gaming trophies awarded for achievement in [...]
Citizen Journalism
In his article Twenty years of personalization all about the daily me, Walter Bender discusses his work at MIT attempting to construct a way for people to basically customize their daily news, with relevance to their personal interest. He discusses several applications that were put together in order do just this, all of which seemed [...]
Team and Project Management
Conventional Teams
The concept of a team itself presents it’s own inherent challenges since you are expecting a group of people, who may or may not know/worked with each other, to perform together and cooperate in order to produce something or to achieve an end goal. People are not carbon copy machines, and therefore are [...]
!!! Killing in Burma !!!
CNN Video Coverage (Image from Time.com)
Protesters, journalists, and others are under attack by the military in Burma. Monks seem to be the main target of the military at this point because they are so vast in numbers, and are very well organized. The internet has also been shut down in Burma, from what I understand [...]
ありがとう 日本
Technology
…………………… Sony had an “underground” release of it’s new PSP hand held system today, and when I say underground I mean there was a great deal of confusion about the actual release date (I got 4 different answers from a local gamestop). No one is really quite sure why sony did not try to build [...]
I work with strangers
The Web 2.0
The internet revolution is gaining momentum and quick with this rise of the “web 2.0″, in which everything is interactive, social, spawns communities, and is free to use. That mentality does not hold true for all of the sites on the new web, but it does for many of the popular widely [...]
Mashups made easy via Intel
Intel has released a Mashup Maker that is integrated into your browser and allows you to essentially combine two areas of interest and yield a page which displays results concerned with both.
Mashups (Now with Link Love(TM) )
Anyone remember when Tom Cruise freaked out on Oprah? This is a mashup which combines the event with Star Wars, Hulk, and a few other movies I could not recognize.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5qOS4Q39sg
Brokeback to the Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JojoMIZTr44&NR=1
Goonies of the Caribbean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJSp2jNI7Co
We shape the future, technology is a result…
Why new technologies emerge
If there is one thing that I took away from reading these three articles, it is that society shapes the future, and the integration of new technologies arises from a desire to better satisfy our own wants and needs. The emerging of new technologies is not some unstoppable naturally occurring force that [...]
