Wikis, Blogs & Wombats – Brown Bag Lunch at Emory & Henry – March 20, 2008
\nHarry Baya – 43 MB MP3 file, 36 minutes
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Wikis, Blogs & Wombats – Brown Bag Lunch at Emory & Henry – March 20, 2008<\/p>\n
Harry Baya (hbaya@ehc.edu) – Based on N.I.T.L.E conference at Davis Elkins College, January 25, 2008. – Bryan Alexander<\/p>\n
This is an outline of the topics covered, plus some added notes and web links.<\/p>\n
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Why Wombats !\u00a0\u00a0 Total Whimsy! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[ pouches are backwards. Marsupial brains do not have a corpus calosum ]<\/p>\n
Recommended Applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n Some Additions – On Line Resources<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Media Coverage \u2013 strongly anti-technology, biased exploitation.. \u2013 what sells<\/p>\n Terms in this presentation :If you would like a definition, look them up in wikipedia ( http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/)<\/a><\/p>\n Moore\u2019s Law<\/strong>\u00a0 – [ click here for wikipedia definition<\/a> ]<\/p>\n Computer speeds tend to double every two or three years. This has been so since about 1970 and is expected to continue for at least another ten years. Computers have a “footprint” (size, weight, cost, etc. ). The “footprint” is decreasing by 50% every two to three years.<\/p>\n Two key measures of the power of technology are:<\/p>\n Significant increases in either of these can cause dramatic changes in technology – “changes in kind”. Moore’s law seems to fit both at this time.\u00a0\u00a0The bottom line is that things that had been economically unattractive become attractive. New things start being done. New doors are opened. New opportunities, often unforseen, emerge.<\/p>\n Moore’s Law can be viewed as an engine pumping change into our society. These are not just changes in degree, they become changes in kind. We are witnessing, and will continue to witness for many years, paradigm shifts in our culture due to the rapid increase in the power of computer technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Changes in Kind – Some result in cultural paradigm shifts <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n When anything increases by a multiple of 7 (or 5, or 10, or something around there) it ceases to be “more of the same” and becomes “different in kind”. This is not “true” in any absolute sense, but it does seem to explain some things.<\/p>\n Marx: “When you change something enough it becomes something else.”<\/p>\n “The changes brought about by today’s instances of digital convergence may be changes in degree or in kind; some may be changes in degree that are so significant as to be changes in kind.'”<\/p>\n We are in a period where significant paradigm shifts<\/a> may occur every 2 to 3 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My opinion is that the advent of computer technology will have an impact on culture on the same scale as the advent of writing. My best guess is that it will be more significant than the impact of the industrial revolution. We are at the beginning of a massive change in our culture. This is very difficult to see from within the changing culture – but we are all aware of aspects of it. I think the biggest identifiable impact on culture in history was the advent of language. I don’t know where to rank computer technology vs things like tool making and agriculture, but I think it will have around that general level of impact.<\/p>\n Computer History<\/strong><\/p>\n Earliest modern computers – 1940’s<\/p>\n “Main Frames”<\/p>\n “Time Shared” Computers” (1960’s, 70’s)<\/p>\n Personal computers – major change impacting culture. Main impact started about 1979<\/p>\n The Web\u00a0 – Major change impacting culture Google<\/p>\n Wikipedia<\/p>\n Blogs Podcasts ( audio & video) \u2013term created around 2004 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n itunes\u00a0 (podcast reader)BBC, NPR, anyone – sources of podcasts. \u201cenhanced podcasting” – podcasts with attached files, like a lesson file youtube<\/p>\n Web 2.0<\/strong><\/p>\n Micro-content Meta-data Web 2.0<\/strong><\/em> is a trend in World Wide Web<\/a> technology, and web design<\/a>, a second generation<\/a> of web-based communities and hosted services<\/a> such as social-networking sites<\/a>, wikis<\/a>, blogs<\/a>, and folksonomies<\/a>, which aim to facilitate creativity<\/a>, information sharing, collaboration, and sharing among users. It is almost defined as the new era of the World Wide Web<\/a>. [ Wikipedia]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Social Networking<\/strong><\/p>\n Folksonomic Myspace Folksonomy<\/strong> (also known as collaborative tagging<\/strong>, social classification<\/strong>, social indexing<\/strong>, and social tagging<\/strong>) is the practice and method of collaboratively<\/a> creating and managing tags<\/a> to annotate and categorize<\/a> content<\/a>. In contrast to traditional subject indexing<\/a>, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords<\/a> are used instead of a controlled vocabulary<\/a>.[1]<\/a> [ Wikipedia ]<\/p>\n Crowdsourcing<\/strong> is a neologism<\/a> for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor<\/a>, and outsourcing<\/a> it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task, refine an algorithm or help capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data (see also citizen science<\/a>). [ Wikipedia ]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Project Gutenberg <\/a><\/p>\n Economic Models for web base services \u2013 free or fee ? (Microsoft vs Linux)<\/p>\n Flickr \u2013 personal, searchable, large database of free usable photos, add personal notes, share as desired<\/p>\n Games \u2013Giant Industry – bigger than Movie Industry, World wide, U.S. less than half<\/strong><\/p>\n Expected to be bigger than music industry in 2008 <\/a><\/p>\n\n
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\nEarly versions : Arpanet,\u00a0\u00a0 Compuserve
\nMain impact started about 1994 with wide spread of first graphic browser (Mosaic)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nWikis
\nDiscussion boards
\nList Serves<\/p>\n
\nMake a podcast (audacity, MP3, Need a host\u2026 )
\nTime shifting
\n15 minute modules<\/p>\n
\nRSS Reader\u00a0 (BlogLines – free RSS reader service)
\nRSS Feed site<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nMulti-author –\u00a0 personal vs corporate, any size contributor
\nOpen
\nMashups \u2013 data, media<\/p>\n
\nOpen source is an important component
\nInteraction, sharing, support
\nPersonal resources – like bookmarks, files, address lists, – can be shared as much as desired, or kept private<\/p>\n
\nCrowd sourcing
\nSocial Bookmarking
\nFacebook<\/p>\n
\nSecond Life<\/a>
\n– free low end visit. 3-D interactive non-game environment. Living in cyberspace, learn, share, create, teach<\/p>\n