WE look to the FUTURE...

So in my last blog for the class I am going to talk to you about the future of technology...the Final Frontier!
To me the future of technology rest in the advance ment of chips and operating systems, this should be no shock because it all rest in the betterment of these for products. The size, flexibility and transparency of these are the future of technology. Technology will grow and become even more of a staple of our lives but also I think the appeal of the technology will have to stay high. People will want what they cant wrap their heads around. They will want the technology that science fiction is even scared to dream up. The demand to have the smallest, sleekest, and most powerful technology will drive the market in the future.

The technology of the future will be complex in design but simple in appearance. It will be able to to do the most complicated task and be just a piece of transparent glass.  As below...

I believe that we will see glass phones and transparent bendable tablets. 

Second Life Mobile Phone Concept

Samsung Transparent Tablet Concept

In closing I want to bring everything full circle. Douglas Rushkoff said..

"As we move into an increasingly digital reality, we must learn not just how to use programs but how to make them. In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It’s really that simple: Program, or be programmed."

With the technology of the future quickly approaching the horizon we must remind ourselves of this quote and what impact the new technology will come on us as human beings and our free will to think. Will the technology be smarter then us to the point to that it thinks it's self and grows. Will the technology of the future be programed and ruled by us or will we be left to be played like ponds in technology's chest match for world domination much like world of the Matrix. 

LamdaMoo sounds like a Sorority...And to me thats lame sauce...

Besides the name causing me to gag a little on some bile that came up my throat because of my distate for greek life. However once reading the articles this week and the intro to what LambdaMoo actually is, the need to throw up subsided. LambdaMoo is a wird concept to say the least in a cultural that is driven by the visual stimulation of technology. It is a cyber cultural that is all in text. There are different rooms that you can venture into and people you can convers with all thru text thought not through a cyber avatar or visual representation.

To me this was a draw back but also a unique factor. On of my many loves in life is conversation. For instance the first conversation to me is gold. People dont have a filter and are real and true in their speech. Many times I can tell the personality of a person and if I am compatible with them in the conversation. So to me LambdaMoo relying so much on just conversation and no visual stimulation is refreshing. This was echoed in Kevin Kelly's "What Technology Wants: Technology Trajectories" when he stated that "Our role as humans, at least form the time being, is to coax technology along the paths that it naturally wants to go." This spoke to because technology is developing so rapidly and is so complicated maybe it just wants to be simple and elegant conversation in black and white.

So in review LambdaMoo is a completely text driven world that takes entering codes to move locations. It is a place of conversation and community. So if you are in need of conversation it up LambdaMOO!!!!

I cheated and I liked it ;)

Have you ever been so in love with something

 that the thought of cheating is revolting?

I have this with my current boyfriend however this is not the relationship in which I am referring to. My relationship with Facebook has been along one. We are about to celebrate 6 healthy loving years together. I enjoy our long statuses and the ability of creep on others in stealth.

 However a little tramp has come along recently and has stared to tempt me TO CHEAT. TWITTER is the name of this temptress, which at a fast glance is only a Facebook status bar, sooo original!!! This fact alone is the reason that until recently I have been faithful to my love, Facebook. However after taking Twitter for a ride or two my heart is now conflicted and confused not knowing what to do.

In Julian Dibbell's article, Future of Social Media: Is the Tweet the New Size of a thought?Julian touches on a draw back of twitter. “The most important thing about it isn't the messages themselves — most of them are admittedly banal — but the form of the message: 140 characters or fewer.” Twitter is meant for short burst of thought and expressions. However to me the 140 character max is very restricting and I myself don’t thing in 140 characters or less. To me twitter is a washed down attempt at a social media site. However this changed after I read this article and this particular paragraph.

            “… by forcing users to commit their thinking to the bite-size form of the public tweet, Twitter maybe giving a powerfully productive new life to a hitherto underexploited quantum of thought: The random, fleeting observation.”

This passage sparked an idea in my head to better understand twitter. I now view twitter as a modern day form of poetry, comparable to short poetic prose. These short burst of thought have to be condensed down in a witty and poetic way for followers to understand the tweets.

So as I continue to use both Facebook and Twitter, my heart grows fonder of both. They both offer different and unique options of communication. However this is becoming an affair to remember with both of them sometimes receiving the same love (status update) from me.

So come and watch the fireworks in this affair to remember @ Luke Charbonneau and LCharbie17

WIKI WHAT WIKIPEDIA!

Editing my first Wikipedia page was a truly inspiring experience. To have the power to literally change a historical document was absolutely empowering and also alarming.  Stacy Schiff the author of The New York article entitled “Know It All” talks about the growth of this new source of information at a remarkable speed. She notes that in a 24 hr period that a one line article on a train station was edited and added to over 400 times. Proving that Wikipedia is not you parents static Encyclopedia. Schiff says, Because there are no physical limits on its size, Wikipedia can aspire to be all-inclusive. Wikipedia is sounds like a perfect wealth of knowledge. However it is tricky to believe everything on it.

For instance, a classmate of mine while editing the page she picked on Wikipedia on bicycles threw a short sentence “Chelsea loves bicycling” though it is a true statement it is not relevant at all to the article. It was up for 15 mins before senior editor took it down. However in those 15 mins I wonder how many people read that article and were influenced by her statement. What if this had been a complete and utter lie and not just a simple statement in that 15 min window people could have read and believed a lie. So it’s a possibility that not everything is absolutely factual when you read it.JENNY PACKHAM FALL 2010
However with that aside I edited the article on Modeling. I changed just normal punctuation errors and some sentence wording. The sentence I changed was “The first person described as a fashion model is Paris, Marie Vernet Worth” to “The first person described as a fashion model in Paris was Marie Vernet Worth.” I also hyperlinked Maria Vernet Worth to her husbands Wikipedia page because she didn’t have a page herself. Once I was on his page I realized that she was not listed as his wife in his biography stats section to the right hand side. Therefore I entered her in as his spouse.

This homework was really interesting and insightful. It taught me how to edit for the future when I find an error in a Wikipedia article. I will use this newfound knowledge for editing goodness. Until next time try editing out loud instead of blogging and help Wikipedia become perfect!

MONEY, PROFIT, JOB

Well hello all my faithful readers!!

This week our reading assignment talked about how Google is making us stupid. Haha I mean how crazy is that? I think I better Google that to see if that statement is correct. Just playing with you! The article talked about how students and people in general are using Google as a quick fix to answers and even to spell words. I mean I am guilty of both. However I am not on board that Google is making us stupid. To me having a world of information at my finger tips is electrifying! The one thing that I agree about is that having all this information at our finger tips is dangerous in one aspect...CREDIBILITY! Most people forget/ dont know that the top hits on Google go to the highest bider. So the information found on the internet and Google searches aren't always the most reliable. 

Ever since I was a freshman in high school I have been doing research for classes. I fortunately ( I googled this for spelling...) was taught how to find quality sources in high school. If a teacher could Google your topic and find your source on the first page of results it was discounted. I was forced to dive into research and get my finger tips wet! However for these of you have don't have any training here is a quick tips video to help you identify credible sources. 

 My assignment this week was to pick a topic related to my communication and new media class and do a mini research project on it. However I was limited to using Google, Google Scholar and Loyola University Library Database. Most of you are probably familiar with using Google and a library database but if your like me your asking WTFun is Google Scholar ? It is a search engine directed at scholar research, imagine that just what the name says. I think I was more taken aback that I had never heard of it before! 

Vera Wang Fall 2012

 In class Amy Creyer the author of the Fashion blog Chicago Street Style spoke to us how her blog has grown bigger then she ever imagined and how she came to profit off the blog. This really intrigued me so I decided to do some research on this business venture. I went through several key phrases before I was able to find the best phrase to find the needed information. 

First : Blogging for money...no great leads. 

Second: Blogging for Profit...some great finds. 

Third: Blogging as a Job...resulted in the most credible finds

Google= just resulted in blogs from bloggers blogging about their experiences about getting paid and produced some how to websites.

Google Scholar= Also produced many how to links. And some articles about the success of the blogs. However most of these are books. 

Loyola= The most comprehensive searches because it pulled articles, books, videos and more on the topic. This isn't shocking seeing that loyola's database is more focused to academic articles and resources then Google. 

Source 1

NATION - Blogging for Fun and Profit - Should online journals be a money spinner?

This is a great source cause it is a article found in the Beijing Review. This is a international publication.

Source 2 

Why blog? : Motivations for blogging

This is a great source because it's a book that comparse american and british blogging as it progresses into a monetary industry. 

Source 3

How to Earn Money from Blogging

This is a great source because it is a article by News and World Report. A widely published and recognized leader in journalism. This would be a great article because it would help you understand the process. 

Well I hope you enjoy and can take away something from this post. Check out Amy's Blog it is quite amazing if you love fashion! TALK TO YOU SOON! 

DONT FORGET TO BLOG OUT LOUD!

How Digital Technology Found Utopian Ideology

Here is the link to week two power point done by Luke and Chelsea!
Enjoy!!!
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AesZekJ4ML2EZGhkanh3cmJfMmY2N2ozNnE5

''Sometimes you have to say f**k Myspace cause I need my space and tell Facebook I want my face back!"

When was the last time you remembered a friends birthday without Facebook reminding you? or the last time that you actually chatted with a long distance friend on the phone? or held your best friends summer picture album in your hand? To some these questions dont carry the same weight as they do to me. I enjoy Facebook but there comes a point where trying to stay connected and personal just becomes down right impersonal and fake. Its also scary what information one can find on social networking sites such as Facebook. To me it is letting anyone and everyone into your personal lives. The below is a perfect telling of all the scares of the excess of social media.

Shannon makes several really good points about how devices are replacing face to face human communication. However I think that the most important thing that she says is about filling out information and how the government could very easily get ahold of it. Especially with the Patriot Act, who is to stop the government from taking and using our personal information. Im not opposed to the patriot act but the more and more people but personal stuff on the web the more and more it could be used against them. So many things are on the web now a days its scary to think if it every was shut down...not Facebook, online banking, all free information not at our finger tips. If we keep consuming and out putting information and relying on the internet, at the rate we are will be very impersonal place.

The dystopian that could occur, would be ruled by a controlling party that has power over all the personal information therefore enslaving people. However a more scary future to realize is one like that of the Matrix where the machines now control us. This would be a sad ending for this beautiful world.