Mod 3 tasks - ftp - fails to pickup!!

I know that's not what it stands for, but I can't connect to the ftp to upload my test web page. However, it looks like others are having the same problem, so i have posted my problem and will wait and see what happens. At least I understand the process much better now and the url for my web page is file:///D:/INT%20STUDIES/Mod%203%20tasks/Mod%203%20work%20area/Volcano/index.html

Mod 3 - The copyright catch

• Have you used images or words on your web page or website that contravene copyright laws?

I don't think so. This is because all the material I have used was supplied by Curtin University for learning purposes only. There is no money being made out of this. Also, at no time is more than 10% of nay article or book published on my volcano web page. But I might put the copyright notice on it anyway just to protect myself because it is now in the public domain - whichis why, I guess we need to move everything into the presentation space.

• Would you be in breach of copyright if you put the Curtin logo at the top of your web page for an assignment?

Absolutely. Unless of course the marketing committee and VC decided it was such high quality that Curtin Uni wanted to put its name to it and pay me copyright!

Virtual communities discussion

Interesting discussion taking place on my CBSM listserv - about listservs and virtual communities, some up to date research and thinking, with clear explanations of various items http://waterwordsthatwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/networkofnetworks1.pdf
Will post it on DB as well.

Mod - Failed validation!

Unsurprisingly, my volcano web page failed its W3C validation test. But what does surprise me is the errors. I don't really understand what is wrong, as the most common point is that the mark up text 'is not closed' see sample paste from validation test. But the tags are closed ... I think these errors are related to useability - as the volc page displays OK. Mmmmmmmmmmm ... 17 errors in one short web page. Eeeek.

1. Error Line 38 column 42: end tag for "I" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this.

        the Earth, over four billion> 

   • You forgot to close a tag, or
   • you used something inside this tag that was not allowed, and the validator is complaining that the tag should be closed before such content can be allowed.

   The next message, "start tag was here" points to the particular instance of the tag in question); the positional indicator points to where the validator expected you to close the tag.

Mod 3 - legal issues

Mod 3 - Optional standards task

Top five requirements for well written web pages - or easy to read/use?

1 best stuff first - perhaps a list
2 no flashy images etc
3 use links that have relevance and won't take your reader away from your point
4 don't break it up too much - you'll lose your reader
5 good short, punchy sentences - web readers scan much more so than readers of hard copy BUT if they really want to read what you have written they will print it - make it easy to print

I think all the articles are interesting and all have some relevance today , but the way we use the internet is always changing and so the way we write for it changes too.

task 2 - don't really have a web page to test this on yet ...

Web design - does it matter?

"Still, the dot-com meltdown has proven that fancy design won't save a bad web site." From course readings. Totally agree - hate those fancy sites but then I'm not a thirty something or twenty something web designer ...
Here's a concept I'd like to explore further: Information & communication are related. People like to develop their own context for the information they are seeking ...

email - the art of it

email is a user interface. Design your messages accordingly, aiming for maximum usability. Makes a lot of sense to me. That subject line is crucial. Much of this is to do with marketing and point of difference - tell people what you do, and what you want them to do in the simplest way possible.

Mod 3 - newsletters (Ass 1 topic?)

As I am constantly writing newsletters in my work, and using e-newsletters more and more I might use this as one of my topics for the resource assignment. Just reading the article on "Lower Literacy users"
This is interesting stuff - just how differently this audience reads websites and newsletters than do high literacy users. I'd like to research this more.

Asynchronous communication

The most important thing about communication is the same with blog and web as it is with written and direct verbal communication: keep it simple. With the internet this also means keeping the tech part of it simple as possible IF you want to reach a broad audience. However, I think that plenty of Internet users have a small equally fanatical audience and they all have the same major systems anyway - its called preaching to the converted.
I am much more interested in how the internet can be used to communicate with and between more disenfranchised sections of the population - such as older or isolated people and communities.

Thoughts on html and web design

I am not sure I will ever really get into actual creation of web pages - but it is very nice to now know how it sort of works. None of it really stumped me, and I am sure it is the sort of thing that becomes like a second language when you get the hang of it. I can see how much fun it must be to be able to design really wicked ones ... but ... it's not for me.

Mod 3 - tasks - Upload!

Finally, I have uploaded my Volcano web page to the presentation space. It is very very basic, but at least now I have something up there that has all the basic html I'll be likely to use. Perhaps as I learn more, I will fancy it up a little. Now ... how do i get my blog in there again????

Anchors aweigh!!!

Bit confused about the differences between linked and named anchors but will do a few more practices on my practice web page to clear i up. Otherwise my volcano web page is looking good - there is just no way I will ever remember all this. I will need html editors and reference sheets forever!

Mod 3 tasks - it's all relative

Going OK - to lesson 8 but I am not sure I understand what relative links means and why that is so powerful - think this may become clear later - will ask on DB if not. Just answered my own question by reading that lesson again - relative meaning in the same directory ... so I didn't have to change the addresses of the links on my volc work place.
Linking all the URLs is fine - all works OK, but my own web page is looking some what dysfunctional. The 'intriguing websites' I chose as part of Lesson 8 have NOTHING to do with my subject ... or do they????? Anyway more answers may come out of the DB - I have posted the question. I might have missed something.
Note: Cynthia sounded a little cross with us today. Perhaps we are not reading supporting notes closely enough.

Mod 3 tasks - lesson 8 and on!

Slowly building my volc test page - i guess this is what I will upload into student presentations. Lin's looks beautiful. Again, I ask myself - why are these people doing this course??? I guess they learn at a different level but they must have got pretty bored with this exercise... how on earth will I finish all this ...
Anchors now - great, I have always wondered how that works.

Mod 3 Lesson 6

Lists and more lists!
The lists business could get very nasty ... and why does my web page look so ugly compared to the volcano one? uurrghh. Anyway here they are:

Mod 3 - Lesson 5 - style!

Yup - its all about style here - but too much can be a horror to read! Care must be taken ...

and Domain Names is looking stylish too ...

Mod 3 tasks - My own page

I am designing a page on Domain names ... still unsure about actual content ... here it is :

Mod 3 HTML lessons - Volcano Web

Successfully managed to create my first ever web page from scratch.
but not sure how to demonstrate it here. How do I make that web page a gif file? Or something I can bring in. Those posts are SOOOOOO informative - thank god for Sonia and Lin. Here it is ...

Module 3 Tasks - HTML lessons 1-14 Intro

HTML - another new language to be learnt. My first effort:
"This is my first homepage. This text is bold"
file:///D:/INT%20STUDIES/Mod%203%20tasks/mypage.htm - lovely!

Just about to work my way through a whole lot of lessons on HTML. I want to know who the W3C is - and how they got together in the first place. need to look more at their website http://www.w3.org/

"The idea is to make something that the world can view" http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/tut0.html from Mod 3 tasks.
Seems very logical to me... nothing more frustrating than a website that just doesn't work on your browser. I'm not sure why browsers treat HTML differently - sure I will find out. Guess that's why they want HTML4.

Hyper Text Markup Language here I come!!!

Notes on blogs

"To skilled online role players, it's easier to fake a flesh-world personae than to maintain a consistent, long-term online presence. It also happens to give street credibility.

"http://www.intermedia.uio.no/konferanser/skikt-02/docs/Researching_ICTs_in_context-Ch11-Mortensen-Walker.pdf

Now that's an interesting comment. I think blogs are like diaries. except they're public. And I think people always want someone to read their diaries anyway. Why would they write them otherwise?
Who will our Anne Frank be?

The Blog World

This site http://www.brainoff.com/geoblog/ is just great. It really starts to sink in just how totally radical the internet can be - the lights coming on around the world although it's noticeably dark in Africa and parts of Asia .. question of equal access.

Blogosphere & group identity

Great para from the unit's reading:

"Within the blogosphere, a certain variety of language has developed, one that rationalizes the
human need to communicate with the constraints of the medium. These weblogs group into
tight social networks that consist of varying degrees of community. Each community is
anchored around a topic, whether it is job-related, research-related, age, gender, etc. Because
of the closeness of the blogging networks, communicative practices can be standardized,
strengthening further the sense of group identity."

This subject intrigues me.

More on blogspeak

Love this subject. Intriguing - is it spoken, written, a combination, is it as Lin asks asynchronous? Conversations can happen in real time, and others can read those conversations days later. The blogosphere is a bit like a very noisy party I think. if you're in the right place at the right time, you'll hear and/or get into some great conversations. You can also feel very alone and as if you're chatting away to yourself .... want to check out http://blogtalk.net/presentations/wagingpeace.pdf if I can find it . Back to archives.

LOL explained

Now I know what it stands for - laughing out loud - from the Blogspeak section as listed in Mod 3 http://www.eng.umu.se/stephanie/web/LanguageBlogs.pdf . Everyone uses it on their posts in the DBs- I was thinking lots of luck, look out love? . I need a blog/internet language dictionary .... just to be 15 years younger would probably have helped however!

Mod 3 - Webspeak

I'm not sure I agree with all the listed written/spoken differences in the way we express ourselves, although there are certainly different forms. Far too often, writing takes on a formality and heaviness that prevents any good communication. Still webspeak is something that really intrigues me - may use it as a concept to investigate further for Ass 1 - are we inventing a new language?

Module 3 - Web History

Researching and reading more, hit the old out of date links. Asked the question on the board and of course got a great response quickly. Have now discovered web archives website .. providing some great messages. The language has changed in step with tech advances eg:

"Your crawler is hitting our servers gtoo hard. Please slow down, it's hurting the service we provide to our customers. Thanks. webmaster@userland.com."

Module 3 - Web History

I had no idea the internet stuff went back such a way or started off that way. And much of it just seems to have evolved rather than with any grand plan - thought as much.

Module 1 Topics for Resource Assignment

Topic One
Human-computer interfaces

Topic Two
Client-server two-way interactions
File transfer protocol remains the best example of how the Internet enables files to be sent to and from clients, at their initiation, thus emphasising the local autonomy of the individual user, and the arrangement of 'cyberspace' into publicly accessible and changeable regions

Module 1 Task - Using the traceroute

Using the site recommended in the task, I recorded 19 hops from the tools site to the Curtin site and 246 as the average time, in milliseconds
I also got the IP address right 134.7.179.10 - I think - although its different from the answers in self test - but everyone else seems to say the same .. unless ... it's not THAT IP.

hop rtt rtt rtt ip address domain name
1 0 0 0 70.84.211.97 61.d3.5446.static.theplanet.com
2 0 0 0 70.84.160.129 vl1.dsr01.dllstx5.theplanet.com
3 0 0 0 70.85.127.105 po51.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com
4 0 0 0 70.87.253.5 et5-1.ibr03.dllstx3.theplanet.com
5 0 0 0 157.238.225.5 xe-4-4.r03.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
6 0 0 0 129.250.3.121 xe-2-1-0.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
7 9 5 6 129.250.4.71 p64-1-0-0.r20.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
8 41 55 41 129.250.4.112 p64-1-3-0.r21.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
9 41 41 41 129.250.3.159 p16-1-0-0.r02.lsanca03.us.bb.gin.ntt.net
10 41 41 41 198.172.90.102 so-2-1-0.a00.lsanca02.us.ce.verio.net
11 197 197 197 202.158.194.153 so-3-2-0.bb1.b.syd.aarnet.net.au
12 209 209 209 202.158.194.33 so-2-0-0.bb1.a.mel.aarnet.net.au
13 218 218 218 202.158.194.17 so-2-0-0.bb1.a.adl.aarnet.net.au
14 245 245 245 202.158.194.5 so-0-1-0.bb1.a.per.aarnet.net.au
15 246 245 245 202.158.198.178 gigabitethernet0.er1.curtin.cpe.aarnet.net.au
16 246 246 246 202.158.198.186 gw1.er1.curtin.cpe.aarnet.net.au
17 246 246 246 134.7.250.18
18 246 246 246 134.7.248.65 te1-1.b309-sr.net.curtin.edu.au
19 246 246 246 134.7.179.10 prodweb1.curtin.edu.au
Trace complete

Open communication - the concept

Information loaded onto the internet may sometimes be misleading, wrong, biased. But, whether you use it is up to you. The thing is, information is public now. I doubt whether Hitler would have succeeded today - his secrets could not have been kept and the people he persecuted might have been able to reach each other. The Amercians and Russians might even have helped each other in the space race .... who knows.

Flashback - Mod 1 tasks

No doubt that Bennahum's area of expertise is more complicated than the internet. My biggest drama was figuring out my email address. Sure it's somewhere in all this stuff. Quite like telnet - reminder of the bad old days with no fancy fonts ... flashing white type ...
Can I keep up???

Telnet tales

My first task - downloading and using telnet - even this I find daunting. I think its just the language - plenty of acronyms and jargon. If ever simple plain English was needed this is it! Its an exclusive environment this one, requiring not only the necessary hardware, but also just IT nouse. Perhaps some are born with it. But if I can understand this anyone can. Now to figure out my client ... thank goodness for http://computer.howstuffworks.com !!

Setting up a blog

This has proved to be an interesting exercise. It seems many of the other students doing this unit have more experience than me so I am reading some base ground material to get oriented.

Today I have read (among other things) http://www.dentedreality.com.au/features/blogs/intro/ which is a link on the unit webCT site. Great easy language and a good general concept given of how and why people blog.