Showing posts with label web science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web science. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 November 2013
In search of Jabberwocky
The internet took all kinds of shapes in my imagination most of them cloud-like till Simon Fogg pointed me towards this down to earth video from Ted Talks (where else would it be?)
Reflections on 'Could the Web be a Temporary Glitch ?'
In their paper 'Could the Web be a Temporary Glitch?', Carr, Pope and Halford conclude with these words:
'Openness is a
property of the Web architecture and a contributory factor in the success of
its adoption, but it is not an inevitable property of the user experience in
the coming decade.'
This 'inevitable' clearly implies that the current situation is both dynamic and fluid. Everything in web history is about periods of transition. We don't live through periods of transition, as in the past, we live in transition. We see that in the recent past teens have moved and are moving away from facebook towards WhatsApp, WeChat and KakaoTalk. Their reasons appear to be greater privacy, restriction to friendship groups and avoidance of selfies, silly self portraits. Yet we know that despite many protestations to the contrary in the end economics take control as in almost all aspects of life (not creative commons hopefully)...so just maybe we are currently enjoying the Indian Summer of the web. Thanks to Mark Nash for his highly relevant links.
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Reflections on web use and how I deal with the information I find
My perception of my web use is like this.
When I browse I tend to check out many news sites using www.aldaily.com as a good homepage for that. I often look through TED for inspiration and lateral thinking and I use You Tube generally in the same way. For social networking I use facebook and twitter (somewhat reluctantly because of all the question marks against them in my mind) and LinkedIn. For educational networking , google+ educational groups mainly. Email and combined activities are done through google (waldorfy@gmail.com with web science in the subject line please). For music listening I utilize soundcloud, lastFM and musicovery. I subscribe to selected figures like Siemens, Downes and Hart in particular and either bookmark them in firefox or organise them in netvibes. Other information is stored in evernote, pinterest and dropbox (while networking is in progress). As a family we use online banking. I search quite specifically with specialist engines (also the invisible web) and more generally academically with sweetsearch, Google Blog Search and Google Scholar. For general searches I use google or DuckDuckGo
When I browse I tend to check out many news sites using www.aldaily.com as a good homepage for that. I often look through TED for inspiration and lateral thinking and I use You Tube generally in the same way. For social networking I use facebook and twitter (somewhat reluctantly because of all the question marks against them in my mind) and LinkedIn. For educational networking , google+ educational groups mainly. Email and combined activities are done through google (waldorfy@gmail.com with web science in the subject line please). For music listening I utilize soundcloud, lastFM and musicovery. I subscribe to selected figures like Siemens, Downes and Hart in particular and either bookmark them in firefox or organise them in netvibes. Other information is stored in evernote, pinterest and dropbox (while networking is in progress). As a family we use online banking. I search quite specifically with specialist engines (also the invisible web) and more generally academically with sweetsearch, Google Blog Search and Google Scholar. For general searches I use google or DuckDuckGo
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