Blog 3

Scavanger Hunt

1. Onel de Guzman who is 24 and a computor student is the creator of the love bug virus


2. Johan Vaaler(Norway) is the creator of the paper clip


3. The ebola virus is named after a river in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo)


4. The largest recorded earthquake was in Chile and registered 9.5 on the richter and was in 1977 in Kanomari.


5. A terrabyte is a thousand billion bytes or just one thousand gigabytes.


6. Inventor of e mail is Ray Tomlinson


7. The storm worm is a spam e mail that infects your computer with the trojan virus usually starts with headlines like 230 dead in Europe.The country of Estonia suffered as it is difficult to detect for anti virus programmes. The creator is said to be in St Petersburg and under government protection.


8. I believe the easiest way to contact the Prime Minister of Australia is go to the home page which is found on any search engine, then e mail through contact us .


9. Proffessor Stephen Stockwell is the keyboardist for the Black Assasins


10. Web 2.0 in my view is the rejuvinated version of the internet after its decrease in 2001 and with the increase of new and exciting pages and things like facebook, it sort of made a comeback. Like mullets !

Resources

• A9 http://www.a9.com/


• yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/


• hotbot http://www.hotbot.com/

Lecture

• The lecture discussed old communication technologies in relation to what walter benjamin argued in his essay on 'the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction'.


• A timeline was shown, it depicts in chronological order:

1. Tribal practices -To tell stories about what was happening in their culture at the time


2. The alphabet- Hieroglyphics 6000-8000 BC, the alphabet dated 1500 BC and was phonetic(sound put with letter)


3. Ancient texts- Writing began to occure all across Asia, India and Europe


4. Print- Gutenburg invents the printing press and prints the first copy of the Bible(1452)


5. Telegraph- Samual morse sends morse code,dots and dashes, across large distance(1837)


6. Telephone- Alexander Grahem Bell invents the first patented telephone. voice projection over a long distance.(1876)


7. Phonograph- Thomas Edison invents technology that leads to play back of sounds, which goes on to become CDs and Records(1876)


8. Radio- Marconni invents the radio device which at first is only used for two way communication but later used to broadcast news (1895)


9. Cinema- By showing images at 1/24th of a second motion is depicted and film is created, 1929 is the first film with synchronized sound.


10. TV- TV is invented in 1926 and spreads through world in the 1930s , reaches AUS in 1956. Invented by John Logie Baird.


11. Video- 1976 video is introduced as VHS and Only replaced in sales by DVD in 2002

Tutorial

Got started on the scavenger hunt without using google or wikipedia. Not that I like google anyway, wikipedia is a bit more fun but yahoo is the one for me..... anyway

discussed

Marshall McLuhan- who essentially beleived that technology is an extension of the body.

George Gerbner and Larry Gross -views on the way violence is portrayed on the tv.

Maxwell Mc Combs and Donald Shaw- observed agenda setting , which indicated by rank what the voter felt was important.

Reading

Firstly i beleive by the response of everyone else in the new comm tech class and the fact that an understanding cant really be reached(i know you have your reasons for torchering us). However i do remember a lot of rambling over the auras of certain technologies and how film and photography affect those who see them. The fact that film and photos are a mass produced medium they should be used for good and not propaganda and indoctrination. He also seems to beleive that through technology people will have more info at their finger tips and should be smarter not dumber because things are easy.... movies like idiocracy (stupid but funny)and korns music video about the deevolution of society oppose this ..... did my head in .....