Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
The Web has been a work in progress far for more than the 25 years it has actually been in existence. In an effort to put together a coherent timeline of the Web, I’ve added three pieces of information to our class timeline. My first is about the issues that arose as we approached the … Continue reading Timeline Blog Post
My three contributions to the timeline were Myspace, eBay, and the iTunes music store. The iTunes music store has played a significant role because it was the first music store where music and other digital media could be downloaded legally. Before iTunes, websites like Napster were used to obtain digital media, but illegally. iTunes revolutionized […]
As a class we made a timeline consisting of noteworthy events in the development of the computer and what we know the Web as today. You can go check out […]
For the second nugget assignment, a piece that stuck out to me was this section from “25 things you might not know about the web on its 25th birthday“: “Berners-Lee’s original desire was for a web that would enable people not only to publish, but also to modify, web pages, but in the end practical […]
「ナゲットをわって、父ちゃん！」 “Do you know what you were thinking about on a date, like, say September 30, 2005? I will wait. See if you can recall. Are you having trouble> I don’t becaue [sic] I have an outdoor brain — http://cogdogblog.com/2005/09/30/(wow that was a blog heavy day).” This passage really resonated with me–especially the concept […]
Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals. It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services. The group began in 1999 when Jack Ma founded the website Alibaba.com, a business-to-business portal to connect Chinese manufacturers with […]
Recently, our class was instructed to contribute to shared-knowledge timeline, in which everyone had to contribute three items of significant events in the internet’s history. For this assignment, I decided to find some fundamentals of the internet that would have been important to the technology we have today. The three events that I had found […]
When you send someone, or a group, some useful resource, or an idea via email, how many people gain from that? Is that information easily recoverable? Addressable? Email is the black hole of information, it is where ideas go to shrivel up and die. Alan Levine, “The Question Should Be, Why You Are ‘Not’ Blogging”
There where so many things that intrigued me about this article, I would like to share some of them. The idea that not everything on the internet is free or open is very true, but I also think this statement is over exaggerated. Today the biggest web corporations use open source including Google, Facebook and Twitter, … Continue reading →
So, after yesterday’s trivia about the angel Gabriel, I got curious about the expanded angelic lore of Judeo-Christian-Islamic mythology. I’ve skimmed through it a couple of times before and even that experience led to some weird discoveries. This time however, I stumbled across somethings that made my jaw drop several times. I’m sure we’ve all … Continue reading Trivia: Jacob’s Lucky he Didn’t Have to Wrestle any of These Angels →
