Week Ten - 5th May

Information Management

Tutorial
We had to complete the the tutorial on using bookmarks and favourites on the following website: http://www.inette.com/aibtinette/favoritesI.html. We were then asked to use the information in the tutorial to set up a favourites list that has 3 folders in it, each with at least two websites marked as favourites and then take a screen shot of it.

Screen Shot of Favourites:


We were then asked to read Negroponte's famous "Being Digital" archive online and pay particular attention to the first part "The DNA of Information".

150 Word Review On:
Considering "Being Digital" was published 13 years ago do you think Negroponte's ideas are still relevant and why.

What Negroponte wrote was published 13 years ago making it less relevant to the current day as alot has happened over the past 13 years to make the information unreliable as it isn't current, he goes on to say that he thought that his laptop computer was worth "Roughly, between one and two million dollars" and it was really only worth $2000 as it's estimated value. The prices of laptops have gone down in the past years as technology has been advanced and they are making new top of the range equipment so it’s not as pricey in the current day. Negroponte doesn’t know as much now as he claimed to have known back then about ‘being digital’ as in 1995 the world wasn’t as digital as it is now days. The use of atoms were used in 13 years ago more than the use of bits as digital wasn’t as advanced as it is in the year 2008.

PROS of using Atoms

• Exists in space, we can see it
• We can know where it is
• Easily concealed
• Easy to protect
• Difficult to change
• Difficult to copy

CONS of using Atoms

• Bulky
• Costly
• Difficult to edit
• Difficult to distribute
• Inflexible
  

PROS of using Bits

• Very flexible
• Cheap
• Easy to edit
• Easy to mass produce and broadcast

CONS of using Bits

• Privacy - Easy to copy and steal
• Authenticity – easy to fake, alter and edit information
• Unsolicited broadcast such as SPAM

Lecture
During the lecture we learnt the following :

• How to manage information
• Different ways of organising
• PROS and CONS of using Bits and Atoms
• Organising bits

Reading 1 'Grazing the Net'
The reading, 'Grazing the Net' explained the value of raising young people to think, explore and make meaning for themselves. Grazing the internet is associated with - speaking one's mind, asking for directions, asking for help and collecting on the run.