The web has advanced so much since it the sixties from it being just for military use to now where according too www.internetworldstats.com 28.7 percent of the population has Internet access, and from the year 2000-2010 Internet users have grown 444.8 percent. After watching Wesch's video, Web 2.0...The Machine is Us/ing us, I looked at another video he had posted and was also very interesting. He talks about the Web 2.0... The Machine is Use/ing us, and talks about how huge the video became. He also talks about You Tube taking the place of what a community use to be, back before the Internet was popular. With all the new technology we have now, we don't need the small communities that people had before, this makes everyday life a lot more impersonal. So Wesch goes on too talk about You Tube and all the people that go on that website just too talk to you and me. He says that this is the new form of community, because we still want that closeness and a relationship with people. An anthropological introduction to You Tube.
That is the link to see the video, just to warn you it is long, its about a 50 minute video. I suggest watching at least the first 20 minutes, if you can't watch the whole thing. He makes very interesting points about all the social networking sites we have now.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
My blogging experience
My blogging experience has been a very interesting one. I have never made a blog before nor have I followed any blogs before, so this was very new for me. Choosing Blogger or Word Press was a very simple decision, Blogger in my opinion is a lot more user friendly, and everything that I would like too do with my blog was available on both sites. I started looking through blogs and asked some friends for recommendations to see what blogging is all about. I have never really understood it, and thought that it was a waste of time, so I was not too excited about this project.
Too my surprise I actually enjoyed some of the blogs, and am actually following a lot of those blogs. It adds a personal touch too the topic that you might not get in a newspaper or magazine. For example fashion is one of my loves and I found a few blogs but one of my favorites was a blog called cupcakes and cashmere. She puts her own twist on the seasons fashions, or shows how too wear something that if you saw in a magazine you would think was just for runway.
After going through all the blogs I looked at the time and realized I had spent almost 6 hours on the computer just experimenting on my blog page and reading other blogs. I had no idea that so much time had gone past, and I had missed my yoga class. I now realize that I need to start looking at the watch more often since I obviously loose track of time on the computer, but it got me thinking about how technology has affected our lifestyles. Everybody knows that technology has changed the world and made things a lot easier, but its contributing to the rise in obesity in the world. I realize that not everybody sits around all day, I have been to yoga every day since the day I missed that class, but after reading some blogs I realized some people do sit around all day and blog, surf the net and play games. As technology advances and things get more computerized, more people will be able to stay at home and do everything on their computers. So does that mean that more and more people are going to be sitting at home spending their lives on the computer?
I guess I'm being like an old person that is going on a rant about how all this new technology is causing all kinds of disease, but it kind of is. I guess they have that Wii fit now, which is actually fun, so maybe in the future their will be an exercise keyboard where every time you type you are actually be working out your arms or creating some kind of cardio.
Too my surprise I actually enjoyed some of the blogs, and am actually following a lot of those blogs. It adds a personal touch too the topic that you might not get in a newspaper or magazine. For example fashion is one of my loves and I found a few blogs but one of my favorites was a blog called cupcakes and cashmere. She puts her own twist on the seasons fashions, or shows how too wear something that if you saw in a magazine you would think was just for runway.
After going through all the blogs I looked at the time and realized I had spent almost 6 hours on the computer just experimenting on my blog page and reading other blogs. I had no idea that so much time had gone past, and I had missed my yoga class. I now realize that I need to start looking at the watch more often since I obviously loose track of time on the computer, but it got me thinking about how technology has affected our lifestyles. Everybody knows that technology has changed the world and made things a lot easier, but its contributing to the rise in obesity in the world. I realize that not everybody sits around all day, I have been to yoga every day since the day I missed that class, but after reading some blogs I realized some people do sit around all day and blog, surf the net and play games. As technology advances and things get more computerized, more people will be able to stay at home and do everything on their computers. So does that mean that more and more people are going to be sitting at home spending their lives on the computer?
I guess I'm being like an old person that is going on a rant about how all this new technology is causing all kinds of disease, but it kind of is. I guess they have that Wii fit now, which is actually fun, so maybe in the future their will be an exercise keyboard where every time you type you are actually be working out your arms or creating some kind of cardio.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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