Web 2.0
This video showed me how the web has evolved over the years. We started off with websites being in HTML where content and format were the same. Then it evolved into XML where content and format were separate then the web evolved even more. It allowed people to share content and with each other without having to format websites. This helped people share all kinds of content over the Internet and evolved the Internet into a world brain. Now everything will be changing, such as commerce, privacy, ethics that we will have to become accustomed to.
Do you think with the way the Internet is evolving that we need to add new laws for privacy?
Do you think that we need to educate the world public more about digital literacy to become more aware of these changes?
Clay Shirky
This man is trying to change the shape of the way we do business and make it more creative. He tried it out during a meeting where the companies employees had a question and through support on his web page, it was answered at the end of the meeting. He says as long as people care about products on the Internet then the longevity will be there, and he will accomplish this with his product. The Internet is always changing and I think it is for the better too. The ideas this man has about evolving the internet is very smart, and I am sure that we can only expand and make our lives better with his new ideas.
What other changes do you see coming to the Internet through business decisions, or even the way we buy things on line?
Do it Yourself
The article talks about in the early years how people were handymen around the house. They would go to Home Depot and buy tools and product to renovate their homes or fix up run down places too. This term moved onto bands and how they would give local groups a shot at their concerts to make it big through low cost spending. It finally moved onto political action where companies like Nike would get ridiculed for having child labor. Because of this they began to change because people threaten to buy local products instead of there own. Also with the fuel and global warming problem people began to buy hybrid vehicles too. The only way to change our world into what we want it to be is to do it ourselves.
In your gut feeling, where is the next place “Do it Yourself” will evolve too?
Are you a supporter of buying an electric car and being a pioneer of this new technology?
The Wisdom of Crowds
The author basically goes into a story about how all the people when they are separate aren’t that bright, but when we bring them all together we form a very smart collective of wisdom. This can be with anything is that when you go to a store to buy a drink, there will always be one there because all the workers make sure the store is stocked, unlike if there was one person there then there would be no drink. The crowd knows basically everything because all of the collective minds come together to form an answer on a topic. This can relate to the Internet because the Internet is made up of millions of people. So when someone writes a post on a blog, people can comment on it and analyze it if they don’t think it is right or if they do like it. Google is another example because the amount of pages placed on the internet, there will always be an answer for your question.
Do you think the collective thoughts brought together on the Internet is one of the best ways to learn?
Do you feel better with a project if you are in a group or alone?
The Ignorance of the Crowds
The paper was written and talked about the cathedral and the bazaar. The Cathedral is the old way of doing business and running the World Wide Web. It was built to be private and have only programmers change it, but the new bazaar allows people to change and add what they want when they want. The good things about it is that people can catch viruses quicker, the diversity of people allows it to solve problems quicker too. Some bad things include too many people to do one thing at a time, and not a lot privacy. Overall, it creates a new encyclopedia of information for all of us to use. With todays society, we need things to be open because everyone has something to offer to make a product or a paper better than it originally was before.
Do you like the idea of an open operation system?
Do you think there is any drawbacks to leaving a system open to the public?
Banning Wikipedia as a Research Source
The article talks about what I have been taught my whole life that in High School and College, that encyclopedias are not good sources. Wikipedia is open for anyone to edit and they think that people will vandalize it and make the information false. In this case, we were not allowed to use it even though most of the time it was the most clear way to get information. Other encyclopedias are not up to date information and that’s why we weren’t allowed to use those too. If people are always updating Wikipedia with good information and keeping it truthful and relevant, I don’t know why we cant use it.
Are you for the use of Wikipedia as a source of information?
