Honestly, I hate blogging. I mean, why sit here and type when the world is so big and there are so many people out there who can lend you a listening ear? Well, perhaps to most bloggers, blogging might leave a greater impact on the people around them. You know what I mean.
However, we cannot deny that some blogs, like our local bloggers’, Xia Xue’s and Mr Brown’s are really entertaining. Their intentions? I do not know. Perhaps just to be famous or maybe to make money out of advertisement? But sometimes it is great to know that the world is made up of different kinds of people, some like me, who find it ridiculous to type out how I feel and share it with everyone, strangers or not, well, I mean who really cares? Also, how do you (whoever is reading this) know exactly how I feel right now while typing this, and how genuine am I?
Enough of how I feel about blogging, back to reality, I have to catch up with technology and do this for COM125. Who knows at the end of this semester I might be addicted to blogging (highly unlikely)?
It took me quite some time, before writing my first entry, to figure out the “blog language”. Blogging is supposed to be relaxing, but Mr Choy, I know you will be reading this, so well, I wrote drafts! This is so much worse than writing academic essays, but trust me, I will get the hang of it in no time. Sometimes, videos do help a little.
COM 125, introduction to the Internet. You must be kidding, some said to me. Why of all modules did you choose such a silly module, trying to find out what you already know? My question to them, you know how to use it, but do you really know what it is and how it works? That is when the knowledge and the theories come in.
What is Internet? This question may seem silly to people who use it almost every day, like us. However, besides knowing HOW to use it, do we really know WHAT is it and WHEN it is created?
The greatest thing about the Internet: NO ONE OWNS IT
Basically, the Internet is a collection of computers connected to form a global networked environment. There are several ways to connect to the Internet. We can do it via the Internet Service Provider (ISP) by modem, Internet ready cable, Digital subscriber line (DSL), or turning on a computer or notebook, which is on a network at work or school connected to the Internet. The Internet connects everyone everywhere!
Web 1.0 VS web 2.0
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
DoubleClick --> Google AdSense
Ofoto --> Flickr
Akamai --> BitTorrent
mp3.com --> Napster
Britannica Online --> Wikipedia
personal websites --> blogging
evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation --> search engine optimization
page views --> cost per click
screen scraping --> web services
publishing --> participation
content management systems --> wikis
directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness --> syndication
Terry Flew’s description of the difference between Web 1.0 and web 2.0:
"move from personal websites to blogs and blog site aggregation, from publishing to participation, from web content as the outcome of large up-front investment to an ongoing and interactive process, and from content management systems to links based on tagging (folksonomy)".
Web 1.0 was the first ten years of the Internet. It consists of websites which contained a one-way flow of information or "read-only" material. Web 2.0’s content, on the other hand, is decentralized, with many users not only being consumers but also contributors and producers of information.
According to Reed Hastings, “Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0”.
Web 3.0, in short, is a "semantic web", where the Internet KNOWS you.
Web 4.0, in short, is when the Internet OWNS you. AVATAR!!!
I shall stop for now and start pondering about my next entry.
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