Blog 1

New communication technology

READINGS
According to the handbook to blogging important issues are
*Privacy is essential when talking about subjects that might offend others - subjects like religion politsics, therfore other names or altar egos can be used
*Some countries ban certain web sites and blog types that make a mocary of the governmant

Important glossary

*Blog- Short for weblog ; is a website containing written material, links and photos by individuals , done on a personal basis
*Post-Items such as writting and photos are posted on
*Comment spam- Like e mail spam but on the blog page spambots appear.
*Blogosphere-All blogs or the blogging community
*Blogware- Software used to create blogs
*Content syndication-How a sites author makes all or parts of its content availible to another site



LECTURE

Is e mail dead . according to class survey
*e mail amoung the new communication tech class is not dead as majority use it daily
*e mail in is less important for teens in America
*e mail futher less important for adults in America

Problems with e mail are:
*Spam- usually unwanted e mails about products ; often things like penis enlargers.
*Phishing- recieving e mails regarding you sending your banking details over the net eg: the nigerian scams and the bank scams with valid letter heads.
*NOTE: NEVER GIVE BANKING DETAILS OVER THE NET.

*Daily show with Jon Stewert and Steven Colbert

As shown on the daily show quesions raised about the bloggers being regared as journalists
*Do journalists have to have ethics ?
*Do bloggers need to utilise certain ethics?
*Are bloggers journalists ?
*Are bloggers sources accurate?

TUTORIAL

Blogs are essentially just personal home pages that are updated as often as you like.
Blogs can be used as diary, political journal or web portals.
Posts on myspace are considered blogs however this class the blog is our site as a whole.

Practiced blogging
*Learnt to set up a web blog @ bloggers.com
*Emphasized Importance on correctly saving work either on the university server or on a flash disk-often work can be lost on the net
*When saving on the server select: save as , student number is shown and allowed ammount in dollars shown.EASY!
*Mention made again of blogging in public with regards to privacy and ethics (of university)

Positives
· Free
· Easy to use
· Automatic saves
Negatives
· Automatic saves (if you have a problem it saves and original not retrieved)

Second life screening

*online world that uses its own currency called linden

*involves doing what you want as its lawless (according to some not for long)

*create a character and dance , sell things , talk to other even have online sex

*large companies invest . small companies too - lady sells virtual dresses, man sex shop , online realter