Week 10

Week 10
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Do you think Negroponte’s ideas are still relevant? Why? (150 words approx.)
b. What are the pros and cons of using ‘atoms’ and ‘bits’?
3. Screen Shots
a. Favorites list (showing 3 folders, each with at least 2 websites)
4. Reading 1 Summary: ‘Grazing the Net’

Lecture Summary -

• Atom-based (books, papers, reports etc)
• Advantage of Atom-based information is that we can see it, we can know where it is, difficult to copy
• Disadvantage of Atom-Based information is its bulky, costly, difficult to edit, difficult to distribute
• Bit-based (digital reproduction, electronic content)
• Advantage of Bit-based information is that its very flexible, very cheap, easy to edit
• Disadvantages are that its easy to copy and steal, easy to fake/alter and spam

Tutorial -

The first activity was to participate in the online tutorial on the following site which i have done and created a screen capture for below.

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

The second activity was to use the information from the online tutorial to set up a favourites list with 3 folders in it, each with at least 2 websites marked as favourites.

My first favourites folder was named email and i had three webites within this folder (Yahoo, Hotmail and ECU Student Email) as the screen capture below shows.

The Second favourites folder was named Homework and contained another three websites which were ecu library, imageshack and the blogger website.

My last favourites folder contained ECU websites such as blackboard,the home page and students centre and was named University.

The next activity was to read Negroponte's famous "Being Digital" archive online which is found at http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm .

The next activity was to review in your own opinion if the ideas from the site are still relevant and why.

The article called the DNA of information showed me that there are atoms and bits with both having pros and cons . I will be providing pros and cons about both atoms and bits via the infromation from the site.

The pros of atoms is that it gets delivered to you so all you have to do is open the mail or package so it is easy access. When given a package it tends to be better quality if you can get it from bits because it would have been manufactured. The cons of atoms are that they can get lost, delivered to the wrong address. It also takes longer to get to the person it is for and you have to send it weeks or days depending on were it was going so it gets their on time or on the right day.

The pros of bits are you can send it to a person easier they will receive it quicker. When you send a letter it want get lost they will receive it. When sending bits they don’t have to go through customs so it will always get they’re soon and wont get delayed. The cons about bits are you have to always have a computer with Internet. With computers and Internets they can get viruses, people can hack into them to reveal your personal details.

This information is still relevant in some aspects such as the pros and cons of both based information but not in the fact that many antivirus programmes are no free to download and provide us wit a sense of security on our computers with less risks of being hacked.