Niki Assessment: the struggles
So I’m currently working on my Niki assignment, which is due tomorrow, and part of my idea for Google Search is to make a screencast of myself
The Un-Symposium: Week Twelve
I attended today’s lecture, but unfortunately most of my attention was elsewhere. I’ll give summing up the lecture a go, regardless. Today’s lecture was more of a re-cap of the topics covered over the last 11 weeks, so excuse me…
And so it ends, not quite just as it began.
Thought reflecting back on the semester of Networked Media would be a good way to finish the term. Our relationship hasn’t always been as easy and forthcoming as I perhaps would’ve liked it to be, but I have decided that…
The Un-Symposium: Week Eleven
Again, my rough, unedited notes: Carry over questions: Why didn’t Tim Berners-Lee patent the web? Adrian: You freely donate your information to Facebook and they on sell this to other companies and we don’t see a cent – this is…
Tutorial Ruminations: Networks
Week nine tutorial. Networks When you have a network, it’s no longer just an amalgamation of parts – the connections themselves take on life form, and are significant in their own right. Clusters Ubiquitous Complex Assumptions from collective behaviours Individual…
Un-Symposium: Number Ten
These are my rough unedited notes from yesterday’s lecture. The Faces of Facebook Public API’s: Facebook’s approach is the exact opposite to that of traditional heritage media. Conversely, Coles-Myer will never make their database public. Brian’s take-away idea from the 80-20…
Culture & Technology
Murphie & Potts Reading Throughout the industrial and post-industrial periods, technology has become so ubiquitous that it has been said that we now live in technology, surrounded by technological systems and dependent on them. ‘Technology’ has been generalised to the…
The Un-Symposium: Number Nine
Our class’s lasting sentiments: The Russian guy’s ideas on interpretation: how inserting something into a narrative can completely change its meaning Sam’s “heated discussion” with Adrian: difference between infinite capacity (has the capability of stretching on forever) and infinity (the…
The Long Tail
Important points thus far: Touching the Void/Into Thin Air – Amazon recommendations and the way they’ve revolutionised the e-retail industry using preferential algorithms “For too long we’ve been suffering the tyranny of lowest-common denominator fare, subject to brain-dead summer blockbusters…
A bittersweet victory
With Rudd still warm in his grave, I can’t help but feel that Saturday’s Liberal victory was more a of loss than a win – well, for me anyway. The justifiably jubilant celebrations have somewhat caused us to forget that there…
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