It was really interesting to read Tim O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0″ . It explained how the web and Internet has been used and changed drastically since 2001. A lot of it has changed due to the change of services and applications we … Continue reading →

It was really interesting to read Tim O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0″ . It explained how the web and Internet has been used and changed drastically since 2001. A lot of it has changed due to the change of services and applications we use to express ourselves and learn everyday on the web. Most people assumed that the phrase Web 2.0 was just a buzzword people threw around. However, it’s the advancing of web services and other programs and servers that better suit us and allow us to be more expressive with less hassle. An example of this change was when Netscape became less popular and now people use Google as their main search engine. On the other hand, Google offers more than just searching, they offer services as well but these services are not forced onto the user. Google is just a network between people and their destination. A bridge that brings the people to what they are looking for. It took a lot of management and upkeep but little patching and software updating.  Many other services began doing what Google has done. But what Google has ultimately done was organize information that was easy to find. And much of Web 2.0 did just that, made services more user friendly by collecting and managing intelligence. Many sites that are part of Web 2.0 are sites like Ebay,  Amazon and Yahoo!. These sites do all of the collecting and managing intelligence that we use to our liking.  Ultimately it got rid of the complex updating and patching....

I don’t know where to begin, so I will begin by elaborating on what I picked up from the video. I was blown away to learn what Gardner Campbell had to say in regards to the disadvantages of Digital Facelifts and the advantages of personal development of cyber infrastructure. I realized how Digital Facelifts were bad for the online community because it would only replicate processes that were created a long time ago such as newspapers and reapplying the same process and format to the online web, with limited to no creativity or progress in development during the transfer. However, what Gardner Campbell is suggesting is that teachers and education alike propose a new way of educating and introducing younger generations into the online world; as creators. Just the same as children are introduced to the real world, children observe and interact with the things around them in hopes to someday create and partake in the same processes and roles that adults use to cultivate our world into what it is today. But now, younger generations will be able to participate and cultivate their talents and what they are good at as well as being in full control by participating in cyber infrastructure. This is just as Gardner Campbell said occurred during the release of a game called Little Big Planet. The game allows you to play and the be the creator of your own levels. The game gives you mostly all the components that the developers used to create each level and allows you to upload them to the server and....

I don’t know where to begin, so I will begin by elaborating on what I picked up from the video. I was blown away to learn what Gardner Campbell had to say in regards to the disadvantages of Digital Facelifts and the advantages … Continue reading →

I found updating and customizing the site pretty easy. I set up the Twitter Tools plugin but i’m not seeing any of my tweets appear on the actual site. Also, to set up Jetpack you need to sign up for … Continue reading →

I found updating and customizing the site pretty easy. I set up the Twitter Tools plugin but i’m not seeing any of my tweets appear on the actual site. Also, to set up Jetpack you need to sign up for a different account with Word Press which i th...