All over for NET11

Its been a great experience - this return to study after years out and to such a subject. A huge challenge. I have got a massive amount of it in all respects - from how I compose emails to searching to assessing web page design. Its not all a total mystery any more.

Now all I need to do is finish off that essay ...

Concepts & the Internet

Into my essay. It is a broad, huge subject, but once you get into it and decide your angle its a fascinating one. I really need to make some progress on this in the next few days and find one or two more really good references.

The Essay - ass 2

This essay .... well, I'm thinking that if I was truly to reach the
heights of being an advanced user of the internet, I should almost be
able to predict the next big changes, or almost intuitively know what
tool or software was going to 'get up' and what isn't.

Knowing this would be a big help as then you would use the technology in
the way that allows you to reach your audience most effectively. So, a
conceptual understanding of the 'Net as opposed to a purely techno one,
would help. History is always relevant for understanding the present and
seeing into the future ...

Hopefully I can find a way of explaining this more clearly in my essay
with examples and articles. Back to my learning log for inspiration I
think. Not that my blog is at all inspiring ....

Comment on Capurro

Capurro's article "Towards an Information Ecology" is incredibly difficult to read. Why do academics and authors on subjects like these have to be so obscure and jargonistic in the way they write? Do they want to appear really smart? Make us all think we 're stupid? It seems ironic to me we are discussing communication here and this author has failed miserably - with me anyway. Idiot. And it really annoys me that he can't spell.
On the other hand, Stalder is straight forward ... mostly.

Great sites for webdesign

Not that I'm ever going to be a web designer, but I need all the info I can get to help me thru this course. The other guys doing this course have passed on some great sites.

http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com

Module 5 - Information ecologies, literacy and more

Just finished reading the first two articles. Have had a huge amount of work to do in the past fortnight, and no time for this unit. But the reading has been great. What I really like about both Purdue's (portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol 3, No. 4 (2003) pp 653-662. Copyright 2003 by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 21218) article and Nardi's (http://www.firstmonday.org.issue4_5/nardi_chapter4.html) , is the idea of information literacy, and information ecologies, or environments as dynamic, growing, interactive spaces. That research, and the gathering of information is a journey and should be inspiring as well as instructive - like our old stories.

One down two to go.

So Assignment 1 is in. This will be interesting. Now on to Module 5 - concepts and th einternet. Great - I like this stuff. Wish I had more time to really get into it.