My new favourite song
Here’s my new favourite song, although it’s an old old song.
Week 8 wandering around
I found these ideas interesting from 3 of my friends’ blogs: Anna Shang: ” I found the discussion of the neutrality of technologies an interesting angle of thought. Adrian explored different categories of technologies – how they are designed to be used in comparison to how they…
Media in the age of networks: the decay/evolution of advertising models
The Association of Publishing Agencies first International Content Summitwas a great event to attend, as a speaker and a delegate. As well as the many inspiring and useful speakers, it was the ambition and optimism of the industry there that was striking. This is the contract publishing industry,…
Week 6 symposium
This week’s symposium was interesting but challenging at the same time. We tackled the argument whether or not technology is independent from culture and art. I agree with Betty that technology and art/culture have a close relationship with each other. It can be seen in…
Reading week 6 reflection
This week’s main reading is ‘Books without pages-Novels without endings’ written by Douglas. The reading demonstrates a new method of reading books which is called interactive narrative. It is the digitalized version of printed books, created using hyperlink and networked media. What interesting about interactive…
Learning the language of HTML
At first, HTML is something that was so vague to me. By just looking at the HTML code that my tutor, Elliot, wrote on his desktop made me dizzy. ‘How could I even memorize and use those codes?’ I wondered. But then, after an hour…
Fundraisers, you’d better find a cooler way to seek for donations
One day, when I was on the way to my first tutorial of the semester, a strange girl smiled and stopped me when I was passing by. She complimented me on my lip colour, introduced herself and asked for my name. As my university’s campus…
Just a random pic that i draw
I drew this picture 3 or 4 years ago, using window’s painting application. Since switching to Mac, I’m no longer producing this type of drawing due to the lack of painting application. Guess it’s the biggest drawback of Mac. It has so many applications…
This week (week 5) symposium
This week symposium gives out an interesting aspect of network literacy, which refers to the fact whether it should be taught as an academic subject or not. While Jason and Elliot support the argument that network literacy should not be seen as a teaching subject,…
My very first post
Yes, I know, it’s been week 5 already, it’s been a little bit too late to represent my first entry. I just don’t often write. It doesn’t mean that I hate writing, it’s just because i’m not in the mood to translate my thoughts into…