Week 10, double digits.

Week Ten

We are finally in the double digits, the end must be soon.

I have a joke for you;

A blind guy on a bar stool shouts to the bartender, "Wanna hear a blonde joke?"

In a hushed voice, the guy next to him says, "Before you tell that joke, you should know something."

Our bartender IS blonde, the bouncer is blonde. I'm a 6' tall, 200 lb black belt. The guy sitting next to me is 6'2", weighs 225, and he's a rugby player. The fella to your right is 6'5" pushing 300 and he's a wrestler. Each one of US is blonde. Think about it, Mister. Do you still wanna tell that joke?"

The blind guy says, "Nah, not if I'm gonna have to explain it five times"

(Web master, 2005).

• Back to work, this weeks lecture consisted of how to manage your information correctly.- Atom- based; books, paper, reports. We can see it and we know where it is.

• Bit-based; digital reproductions, electronic content. Easy to edit and easy to copy or steal.

This table helps to explain the different types of file extensions.

You can actually install a desktop search engine; this program will search your documents and find the file you are looking for.

Organizing is important on any PC (personal computer), without organization you find it difficult to find any file or folder. There are many ways to organize your PC but the easiest way would be to create folders

Text - documents - images - WebPages

Bookmarks – presentations – assignments

Citations - References

If you categorize your work you can then save you file in the appropriate folder.

On my PC I have categorized between Units, and then assignments.

Tutorial

http://www.inette.com/aibtinette/favoritesI.html

I already knew how to use favorites on the www. My whole family uses one computer so we all want access your pages quickly and easily.

http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/ch01c01.htm

Negroponte's ideas are still valid in a way, as atoms will still be used but Bit-based files are increasing their popularity due to cost effectiveness. This writer had wisdom to see the future, but hesitated to state the growing in technology. He explained the complications of a hard copy book or atom based files, as they may go out of print. But a digital book would not.

As Atom-based files would need to be taken or sent to its destination, you may find difficulties in time and cost. Transporting these documents would require you to drive the content to the destination or employ a courier to do it for you. A Bit-based document can be easily shared through Email or other networking databases, quickly and cost free.

“That same day, I had been in my hotel room shipping bits back and forth over the Internet, to and from MIT and elsewhere in the world. My bits, unlike PolyGram's atoms, were not caught in customs” (Negroponte, 1996).

In conclusion Negropontes ideas explain and support the new world of Bit-based technology. This process will save time and money, become the future for easy storage, and make the transportation of this data throughout our economy a lot easier.

Weekly readings

‘Grazing the Net’

Grazing the Net talks about students being introduced to the internet and discussing the good or bad aspects of that. The electronic highway is now becoming a priority when researching, and then people ask whether this online world of information is beneficial in any way as it does not increase learning or reading. One thing that an online database will make you do is think around your topic, think about keywords and read a lot around your topic.

Another week finished. Getting closer to the end

References

Negroponte, N. (1996). Being digital. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Online Edition, OBS. Retrieved May 29, 2008, from

http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm

Web master, (2005). Random Food Jokes. Aha Jokes.com. Retrieved May 10, 2008, from

http://www.ahajokes.com/random_food_jokes.shtml