I thought it would be interesting to find out more about Wikipedia seeing as that is similar to how we are constructing our Nikis. I found this short and informational video to help.

 

• To find the relationship between culture and technology, first the word ‘culture’ must be defined.
  • Murphie and Pott look at many ways that the word culture is used and defined and ultimately find that it is a ‘difficult word to define’ and decide to discuss the word as an amalgamation of its meanings and connotations.
• Then we must look at the massive impact various technologies have been created and have effected the word throughout history.

 

We come to the main conclusion that culture cannot be created without technology, even though they are different things and both words come with their own meanings, connotations and implications, in reality the two rely on each other.

 

http://youtu.be/8z81G2dX1Bc

The Chaser’s view on how reliant culture is on technology…

I went and saw Queen’s College production of Sweeny Todd on Wednesday and was blown away! I thought I would give it a plug on here, even though zero people will probably see it… So if you like amazing theatrical musicals, go to the Union House Theatre at Melbourne Uni tonight or tomorrow to see the performance!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/358065650991454/?fref=ts

 

Shapur 1 the second King of the Sassanid Empire in Iran, he rules from 240/42 – 270/72 CE

This mosaic Perso-Roman floor mosaic was at his palace, He was in heaps of wars including many with the Roman Empire and instructed many things, such as parts of cities, to be built, often refured to as the ‘builder of cities’

 

The two major ideas that I thought needed focusing on in this week’s reading were the 80/20 rule and the power law. I found these videos that helped me understand the concepts on a deeper level…

http://youtu.be/pDcaclreGc4

This one is long and I’m not going to lie, I didn’t watch it all, but even skimming through it helped!

 

The three points from this week’s symposium that suck with me were:

1. The difference between hypertext and narrative discussed in the conversation about whether or not a video game is hypertext or not. There were valid points both for against video games being hypertext and I feel after hearing both opinions that one some level they are, or at least resemble the idea of hypertext, but when it comes to the narrative side of games they are not.
2. The practical side to how you actually write hypertext, making sure that every link stands alone, there can be no assumption that the reader has viewed other link before or will read other ones after was the most interesting aspect for me.
3. Just thinking about ‘life before Google.’ I can’t even imagine life without Google – high school history would  have been a hell of a lot harder, that’s for sure!

I love going through the other networked media blogs and seeing people blogging about fashion. It’s the same with some of my other friend’s blogs. They’re great. And I am so envious. I am what you could call fashion-illiterate I rely heavily on my friend Lizzie telling me what to buy/ wear. Her blog is brilliant. The one rule of fashion I knew NEVER to break was sneans, but this small comfort that I always knew to avoid this look is gone as sneas make a comeback and I have even found myself wearing them a few times.

The two major constraints on entertainment in the physical world that stop things such as Joe Simpson’s book, Touching the Void, in being successful:
ONE: The local aspects of shops and theatres in the physical world put extreme limitations what is revised by the local public. Entertainment that could be popular nation or even worldwide may not sell enough to ‘earn its keep’ in local distributers, therefore certain areas do not have access to certain entertainment. This is like how at home in Hobart we do not have shops such as Gucci or Zimmermann as there is simply not the immediate demand they need to meet.
TWO: The simple limits of space and time. There are only so many slots on a shelf and hours to screen in a day. Local entertainment industries cannot have something stored just in case one person comes in and wants a copy.
This is why networked entertainment, such as YouTube and Spotify are so great. They cater for the individual needs of everyone.

This video is REALLY good to help understand the ‘long tail’ idea 🙂

 

 

Today my Grandma got Facebook.

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘nuff said.

I am still seriously struggling to understnad many of the topics covered in David Weinberger’s book The Cluetrain Manifesto … especially this chapter which refers specifically to our niki.

Chapter 5